Biography: Martin Brest |
While attending New York University, Martin Brest directed the award-winning student project Hot Dogs for Gaugin, starring a then-unknown Danny De Vito. Brest went on to produce, direct, write, and edit Hot Tomorrows (1977) for the American Film... more
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Cast: Al Pacino Jennifer Lopez
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Crime Romance
Length: 121min
Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) is a low-level Los Angeles mob enforcer. His volatile boss, Louis (Lenny Venito), hires Gigli to kidnap Brian (newcomer Justin Bartha), the mentally handicapped younger brother of a federal prosecutor who's about to bring...
Cast: Brad Pitt Anthony Hopkins Bo Goldman Marcia Gay Harden
Tags: Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies Fantasy Romantic Fantasy
Length: 180min
The cycle of life on Earth hangs in the balance when Death becomes emotionally involved in this romantic fantasy. William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) is a tremendously wealthy and powerful man who oversees a worldwide multi-media empire. Despite the...
Cast: Chris O'Donnell
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 149min
Driven by an extravagant, tour-de-force performance by Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman is the story of Frank Slade (Pacino), a blind, retired army colonel who hires Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a poor college student on the verge of expulsion, to take...
Cast: Robert De Niro Yaphet Kotto Martin Brest Danny Elfman
Tags: Comedy Action Comedy Odd Couple Film
Length: 125min
Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered 100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to...
Cast: Eddie Murphy Judge Reinhold Damon Wayans John Ashton Ronny Cox
Tags: Action Comedy Action Comedy Police Comedy
Length: 105min
What's that wisecracking young black guy (Eddie Murphy) in that beat-up Chevy Nova doing in lily-white Beverly Hills? He's Axel Foley, a Detroit detective who's been sent on involuntary vacation because he refuses to drop his intention of avenging his...
Cast: George Burns Art Carney
Tags: Crime Caper Buddy Film Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 97min
Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in New York City. They live off social security checks and spend their days sitting on a park bench, reading newspapers, feeding...
Cast: Orson Welles
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy
Length: 73min
Martin Brest was a student filmmaker when he made Hot Tomorrows for 33,000 -- practically nothing even by the standards of 1977. He went on to produce major Hollywood movies, including Beverly Hills Cop. In this film, Michael (Ken Lerner) is a young...
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