Biography: Dan Aykroyd |

One of the most vibrant comic personalities of the 1970s and '80s, as well as a noted actor and screenwriter, Dan Aykroyd got his professional start in his native Canada. Before working as a standup comedian in various Canadian nightclubs, Aykroyd... more
Find videos of Dan AykroydFree Dan Aykroyd videos
Cast: Ben Kingsley   
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Anti-War Film Political Satire 
Length: 106min
An assassin posing as a trade-show producer fixes his crosshairs on a Middle Eastern oil minister while maintaining his cover by organizing a high-profile wedding in this satirical action comedy starring John Cusack, Hilary Duff, and Marisa Tomei. A...

Cast: Anthony Hopkins Alec Baldwin   
Tags: Message Movie Comedy 
Length: 105min
Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd, and Jennifer Love Hewitt star in this re-imagining of Walter Huston's The Devil and Daniel Webster - this time concerning a struggling writer who sells his soul to Old Scratch (Hewitt) in a...

Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005)
Tags: Science & Technology Unexplained Phenomena 
Length: 81min
Everyone knows that famous SNL alum Dan Aykroyd can keep an audience in stitches, but in this release that teams the former Conehead with renowned author and UFOlogist David Sereda, startling new evidence and intriguing interviews with astronaut...

Cast: Drew Barrymore   
Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy 
Length: 96min
Re-teaming Adam Sandler with Drew Barrymore, his co-star from The Wedding Singer, as well as Peter Segal, his director on Anger Management, Fifty First Dates finds the funnyman playing veterinarian Henry Roth. More than content with a life of...

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)
Cast: Adam Sandler Steve Buscemi Alexander Payne   
Tags: Buddy Film Comedy of Errors Comedy 
Length: 115min
When two testosterone-fueled firemen attempt to register as domestic partners in order to bypass the bureaucratic red tape preventing one of them from naming his own two children as his life-insurance beneficiaries, their low-key ruse turns into...

Tags: Fantasy Comedy Fantasy Comedy Comedy of Errors 
Length: 105min
A luckless gambler finally finds the secret to picking winners at the track -- a head in a jar -- in this comedy. Brendan (Robbie Coltrane) is a janitor at a university who has a fondness for gambling, especially betting on horse races. However, he...

Cast: Theresa Russell   
Tags: Creature Film Horror 
Length: 90min
This film was part of Cinemax's Creature Feature films, which remade classic American-International monster films from the '50s. Quentin Kimmer (Devon Gummersall) believes he will turn himself into his idol, the Arachnid Avenger, when he injects...

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Cast: Woody Allen Helen Hunt Charlize Theron   
Tags: Comedy Detective Film Workplace Comedy 
Length: 102min
Writer and director Woody Allen returns to the Manhattan of the past with this romantic comedy set in 1940, the era of fedora hats and gumshoe detectives. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator whose razor-sharp instincts have just led...

Christmas With the Kranks (2004)
Cast: Tim Allen Joe Roth Jamie Lee Curtis Dan Aykroyd   
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Holiday Film 
Length: 99min
Based on John Grisham's novel -Skipping Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks revolves around Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther Krank's (Tim Allen) decision to put their normally fanatical enthusiasm for the holidays aside for a tropical cruise. With...

Cast: Laura Linney   
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance Period Film 
Length: 143min
Adapted for the screen from Edith Wharton's much-loved novel of the same name, House of Mirth follows the fortunes -- or lack thereof -- of Lily Bart, an ambitious but financially imperiled young woman looking for a rich husband in early 20th century...



Portions of Content Provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.© 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.