Biography: Richard Benjamin |
Throughout his film career, Richard Benjamin trafficked in neurotic, high-strung, self-involved upper-middle-class characterizations. While attending the New York High School of Performing Arts, Benjamin made his first professional stage appearances,... more
Find videos of Richard BenjaminFree Richard Benjamin videosA Little Thing Called Murder (2006)
Cast: Judy Davis
Length: min
This true-crime iopic explores the life of mother-and-son grifters Sante and Kenny Kimes, from Kenny's childhood apprenticeship in early-'80s Honolulu to Sante's murder trial in late-'90s New York City. Fortyish Sante Kimes (Judy Davis) uses her...
Cast: Jeff Daniels
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 135min
The TNT cable network aired this made-for-TV version of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl in January 2004. Jeff Daniels stars as Elliot Garfield, an actor who subleases an apartment in New York City. Unfortunately, the apartment is already occupied by...
Cast: Olympia Dukakis
Tags: Comedy Military Comedy Satire
Length: 103min
Excessive military spending provides the impetus behind this sharp, satirical account of an honest Air Force colonel who is so shocked at government spending in its development of a troop transport vehicle that he decides to launch a personal...
Cast: Richard Benjamin
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance
Length: 92min
Richard Benjamin directs the straight-to-video omantic comedy The Shrink Is In. Courteney Cox plays Samantha Crumb, a travel writer who suffers from a long list of phobias and disorders. When her psychiatrist, Dr. Louise Rosenberg (Carol Kane),...
Cast: Damon Wayans
Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy Comedy of Manners
Length: 73min
Paul Rudnick provides the script for the Scott Rudin-produced comedy Marci X, directed by Richard Benjamin. The new song "Shoot Ya' Teacha" by controversial hardcore rapper Dr. S. (short for Dr. Snatchcatcher, played by Damon Wayans) causes a public...
Laughter On The 23rd Floor (2001)
Cast: Neil Simon
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 102min
Playwright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early '50s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's fabled television series Your Show of Shows, and this comedy (adapted by Simon from his play) takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went...
Tags: Road Movie Adventure Comedy Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 95min
Seeing his family drifting apart, a father announces that he is planning a special vacation that will take them down the same paths followed by his famous ancestor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Woody Allen
Tags: Ensemble Film Comedy of Manners Comedy
Length: 96min
Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, "I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art." So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and...
Cast: Shirley MacLaine
Tags: Romance Comedy of Errors Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 106min
A poor woman is the beneficiary of a case of mistaken identity in this comedy. Luckless Connie (Ricki Lake) leaves home to move to New York, only to find herself stuck with no job, no money, and a louse of a boyfriend (Loren Dean) who gets her...
Cast: Melanie Griffith Ed Harris Malcolm McDowell
Tags: Romantic Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 108min
After befriending a kind-hearted prostitute, a 12-year-old boy attempts to set her up with his widowed father in this family comedy. Young Frank Wheeler (Michael Patrick Carter) first meets working girl V (Melanie Griffith) when he and two friends...
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