Search results for "Michael Ritchie"
A Simple Wish (1997)

A Simple Wish (1997)

A Simple Wish (1997)
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86

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her “simple wish” – that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would…

The Fantasticks (1995)

The Fantasticks (1995)

The Fantasticks (1995)
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86

Two rural teens sing and dance their way through a forbidden romance and a dangerous travelling carnival.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Scout (1994)

The Scout (1994)

The Scout (1994)
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101

When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout, Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Cops & Robbersons (1994)

Cops & Robbersons (1994)

Cops & Robbersons (1994)
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93

Hard-as-nails cop Jake Stone moves in with the Robbersons so he can watch a hitman who has moved in next door. The Hitman is one thing, but can you survive…

Diggstown (1992)

Diggstown (1992)

Diggstown (1992)
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98

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Fletch Lives (1989)

Fletch Lives (1989)

Fletch Lives (1989)
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95

Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he’s checking out a tumbledown mansion he’s inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Couch Trip (1988)

The Couch Trip (1988)

The Couch Trip (1988)
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97

The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he’s the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.

Genre: Comedy
The Golden Child (1986)

The Golden Child (1986)

The Golden Child (1986)
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94

After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind’s fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los…

Wildcats (1986)

Wildcats (1986)

Wildcats (1986)
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106

Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach’s position becomes vacant, she applies for…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Fletch (1985)

Fletch (1985)

Fletch (1985)
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98

When investigative reporter Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he’s approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Survivors (1983)

The Survivors (1983)

The Survivors (1983)
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103

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Student Bodies (1981)

Student Bodies (1981)

Student Bodies (1981)
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86

This zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school….

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Divine Madness (1980)

Divine Madness (1980)

Divine Madness (1980)
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95

Divine Madness is a 1980 concert film directed by Michael Ritchie, and featuring Bette Midler during her 1979 concert at Pasadena’s Civic Auditorium. The 94-minute film features Midler’s stand-up comedy…

The Island (1980)

The Island (1980)

The Island (1980)
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114

David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes…

Semi-Tough (1977)

Semi-Tough (1977)

Semi-Tough (1977)
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108

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner’s daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Bad News Bears (1976)

The Bad News Bears (1976)

The Bad News Bears (1976)
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102

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Smile (1975)

Smile (1975)

Smile (1975)
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113

It’s time again for California’s “Young American Miss” beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on…

Genre: Comedy
The Candidate (1972)

The Candidate (1972)

The Candidate (1972)
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110

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Prime Cut (1972)

Prime Cut (1972)

Prime Cut (1972)
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84

A group of Chicago mob ruthless enforcers is sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama