Biography: Charles Shyer |
Triple-threat writer/director/producer Charles Shyer has managed to maintain a successful career for close to three decades, much of it in collaboration with one-time spouse Nancy Meyers. Born in Los Angeles, CA, on October 11, 1941, Shyer broke... more
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Cast: Uma Thurman
Tags: Family Children's Entertainment
Length: min
Director Charles Shyer collaborates with screenwriters Larry Spencer and Hallie Meyers-Shyer to adapt Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight's popular series of children's books concerning a precocious young girl (newcomer Jordana Beatty) who resides in New...
Cast: Jude Law Susan Sarandon
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners Sex Comedy
Length: 106min
This remake of Lewis Gilbert's 1966 film of the same name features Jude Law filling the shoes Michael Caine once wore in the title role of Alfie. As with the original, Law occasionally speaks directly to the camera while his character talks of the...
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Cast: Adrien Brody Hilary Swank
Tags: Historical Film Drama Period Film Romantic Drama
Length: 120min
A director of contemporary comedies, Charles Shyer makes a genre leap into period costume drama with this lavish epic based on a controversial chapter of French history. Hilary Swank stars as Jeanne de la Motte Valois, a countess whose royal title has...
Cast: Natasha Richardson Dennis Quaid
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy Family Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 127min
The husband-and-wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, who scored with their 1991 remake of the 1950 Father of the Bride, returned for this updating of the 1961 comedy about twins who hope to bring their divorced parents back together. Sheyer...
Cast: Steve Martin Diane Keaton
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 106min
Just as the original 1950 version of Father of the Bride spawned a sequel, so did the 1991 remake; like its counterpart four decades earlier, this story concerns a father who learns that his anxieties are just beginning after his daughter takes the...
Cast: Julia Roberts Robert Loggia Nick Nolte
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Thriller Comedy Thriller Romance
Length: 123min
In the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, I Love Trouble depicts the developing romance of two rival reporters who reluctantly fall for each other while competing for a major scoop. Old hand Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and...
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 105min
Steve Martin stars in this remake of the 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic as shoe executive George Banks, whose happily married existence hits a bump when he greets his daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams), home from a semester studying in Europe. She...
Cast: Harold Ramis Sam Shepard James Spader
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 103min
Management consultant Diane Keaton has no time in her life for anything except her high-profile job. All this changes when she inherits a 14-month-old infant from a pair of recently deceased-and very distant-relatives. Intending to put the child up...
Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
Cast: Drew Barrymore Ryan O'Neal
Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 114min
In this human-scale drama/comedy, a pair of Beverly Hills parents, Albert (Ryan O'Neal) and Lucy (Shelley Long) first come together as a couple interested in writing (she) and teaching (he), but Albert's life takes an upscale turn when he starts both...
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