Biography: Richard Griffiths |
Falstaffian British character actor Richard Griffiths has been popping up in films since 1980. Griffiths played Sir Tom in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Captain Billings in Greystoke (1982) and Phipps in King Ralph (1981). An accomplished... more
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Cast: Adam Sandler Paul Dooley Keri Russell
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Comedy Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 95min
The Pacifier director Adam Shankman helms this children's fantasy concerning a hotel handyman who gradually begins to realize that the imaginative bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew are somehow beginning to manifest themselves in the real...
Tags: Period Film Drama Family Drama
Length: 84min
Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, and Lucy Boynton headline director Sandra Goldbacher's made-for-television adaptation of author Noel Streatfield's classic novel of the same name. The setting is 1930s London. Orphans Pauline (Watson), Petrova (Paige), and...
Tags: Comedy Drama Psychological Drama Ensemble Film Coming-of-Age
Length: 109min
An unruly collection of clever but crass Thatcher-era English high-school students seek to earn the scores needed to enroll in Oxford and Cambridge in director Nicholas Hytner and screenwriter Alan Bennett's screen adaptation of Bennett's Tony-winning...
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg
Tags: Family Holiday Film
Length: min
The Muppets meet mayhem once again after accidentally intercepting three letters en route to the North Pole. Before long, the Muppet gang has put aside their own holiday vacation plans and set off to find Santa Claus in hopes of putting the letters in...
Cast: Jerry Lewis Leslie Caron Lee Evans
Tags: Family Drama Comedy Drama Slapstick
Length: 126min
Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las...
Cast: Ewan McGregor Tom Wilkinson
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy
Length: min
First-time helmer Edward McHenry heads up this U.K. war spoof using stop-motion action figures with voices provided by a top-notch British cast headed by Ewan McGregor and Rosamund Pike. Jackboots on Whitehall explores what would happen if the Battle...
Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: min
Love clashes with duty in director Udayan Prasad's tale of a determined archeologist who chases his father's dream across the globe only to find his life mission thwarted when he discovers the true meaning of love. Eric (Matthew Modine) is an...
Cast: Peter O'Toole Vanessa Redgrave
Tags: Slice of Life Psychological Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 94min
An aging pair of veteran English actors whose success never quite took hold finds their quiet existence suddenly interrupted by the arrival of one of the men's precocious grandnieces in director Roger Michell's affectionate comedy drama. Maurice...
Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
Cast: Dudley Moore
Tags: Farce Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 79min
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that doesn't make the 79-minute Blame It on the Bellboy any funnier. Orton (Dudley Moore) is an ambitious real estate agent. Horton (Richard Griffiths) is a middle-aged married man looking for extracurricular...
Cast: Shirley MacLaine Nicolas Cage Richard Griffiths Hugh Wilson
Tags: Comedy Thriller Odd Couple Film Comedy of Manners Comedy
Length: 95min
A man trained for a life of excitement and danger is given a new and unexpected challenge -- minding a grouchy old woman -- in this comedy. Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage) is a Secret Service agent who takes great pride in his job, performing his duties...
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