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Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
featuring Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin

When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and ...

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Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands (1990) more movies like this

directed by Tim Burton
featuring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price, Kathy Baker

Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today's standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a temporary period, he is fitted with long, scissor-like ...

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The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn (1982) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
featuring Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein

Only one of the mythological creatures escapes the evil King Haggard's (voice by Christopher Lee) plan to eliminate all unicorns from the land in Rankin-Bass's (Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) sophisticated production of The Last Unicorn. In hopes of rescuing her exiled breed, the last unicorn (voice by Mia Farrow) teams up ...

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Gattaca

Gattaca (1997) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Niccol
featuring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin, Xander R. Berkeley

New Zealand screenwriter Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) made his feature directorial debut with this science fiction drama, set in a future when one's life is determined by genetic engineering rather than education or experience. The wealthy can choose the genetic makeup of their descendants. People are designed to fit into whatever role is ...

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Grosse Pointe Blank

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) more movies like this

directed by George Armitage
featuring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin, Joan Cusack

Most people have trouble deciding what to say when they're asked what they've been doing with their lives at a High School reunion, but Martin Blank (as played by John Cusack) has a different problem than most -- he has to make his career sound less interesting than it actually is. Martin is a former CIA operative who is now a freelance hit man, ...

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The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer (1991) more movies like this

directed by Joe Johnston
featuring Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino

After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston helmed this action-adventurer, set in 1930s Hollywood and in the spirit of old pulp ...

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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! (1966) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters

Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it any less amusing. The story gets under way when a Soviet submarine accidently gets lodged in a sandbar on the coast of a New England town. In his feature film debut, Alan Arkin plays the sub's second-in-command, who is ...

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The In-Laws

The In-Laws (1979) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Hiller
featuring Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Arlene Golonka, Penny Peyser

Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk). They are practically relatives already, the wedding is so near. Certainly, Sheldon already despises Vince as if he were already a well-known relative. Nontheless, Vince calls on ...

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) more movies like this

directed by James Foley
featuring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Pryce

David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales contest where the losers will be fired. The agents ...

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Four Days in September

Four Days in September (1997) more movies like this

directed by Bruno Barreto
featuring Fernanda Torres, Pedro Cardoso, Alan Arkin

Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ten-year absence to direct this fact-based political thriller that was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Pedro Cardoso stars as Rio de Janeiro journalist Fernando Gabeira, who decides with his friend Cesar (Selton Mello) to take up arms with a radical leftist organization, MR-8, ...

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Catch-22 (1970) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel ...

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Mother Night (1996) more movies like this

directed by Keith Gordon
featuring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Kirsten Dunst

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once summarized the moral of his novel Mother Night like so: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." In Keith Gordon's film adaptation of Vonnegut's book, Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright living in Germany shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. ...

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Noel (2004) more movies like this

directed by Chazz Palminteri
featuring Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Marcus Thomas

A group of disparate characters look for understanding and compassion in the midst of a lonely holiday season in this comedy drama. Rose (Susan Sarandon) is a middle-aged divorcée whose mother is in the hospital with an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease; while Rose wants one more chance to tell her mother that she loves her, the woman doesn't ...

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) more movies like this

directed by Robert Ellis Miller
featuring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann

Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family whose father, Mr. Kelly (Biff McGuire), is unable to ...

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Wait Until Dark (1967) more movies like this

directed by Terence Young
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jack Weston

Wait Until Dark is an innovative, highly entertaining and suspenseful thriller about a blind housewife, Susy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn). Independent and resourceful, Susy is learning to cope with her blindness, which resulted from a recent accident. She is aided by her difficult, slightly unreliable young neighbor Gloria (Julie Herrod) with whom she ...

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Havana (1990) more movies like this

directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian, Raul Julia

A cynical gambler reluctantly comes to the aid of a mysterious beauty in this interpolation of Casablanca and the real-life Cuban revolution. Big-stakes American gambler Jack Weil (Robert Redford) is comfortable in the anything-goes Havana of 1958. But with Fidel Castro out in the wilderness broadcasting revolutionary messages, it seems the good ...

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Steal Big, Steal Little (1995) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Davis
featuring Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin, Joe Pantoliano, Ally Walker

Director Andrew Davis followed up the action blockbuster The Fugitive (1993) with this Capra-esque box office dud that nevertheless featured engaging dual performances by Andy Garcia. Garcia stars as Ruben and Robby, twin brothers who were raised separately and have become total opposites. Ruben has recently inherited a 40,000-acre Santa Barbara ...

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Indian Summer (1993) more movies like this

directed by Mike Binder
featuring Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kimberly Payne Williams, Bill Paxton, Vincent Spano

Mike Binder wrote and directed this reunion story in The Big Chill vein about of group of ex-campers, now in their twenties, who return to their old summer camp to get together again. Alan Arkin plays Uncle Lou, the old camp counselor and resident sage at Canadian summer camp Tamakwa. Leading a group of contemporary youngsters wearing Walkmans on ...

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North (1994) more movies like this

directed by Rob Reiner
featuring Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Matthew McCurley, Alan Arkin, Richard Belzer

A boy divorces his parents in this comic fantasy for the family. North (Elijah Wood) is the sort of kid most parents dream of -- he's bright, well-behaved, a good student, and a great baseball player. But North's Mom and Dad (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander) are so busy with their lives and careers that they barely have time for him. A man ...

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Taking the Heat (1993) more movies like this

directed by Tom Mankiewicz
featuring Lynn Whitfield, Tony Goldwyn, Alan Arkin

Following up the goofy big-screen comedies Dragnet and Delirious, director Tom Mankiewicz delivered this made-for-cable thriller starring Tony Goldwyn and Lynn Whitfield. After witnessing a murder, Goldwyn finds himself pursued by a group of thugs led by mafia boss Alan Arkin. Whitfield stars as the detective assigned to ensure that Goldwyn not ...

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Jakob the Liar (1999) more movies like this

directed by Peter Kassovitz
featuring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Mark Margolis

This remake of the 1975 German film Jakob der Lügner stars Robin Williams in a dramatic role as a man who uses his active imagination to bring a ray of hope where hope was all but unknown. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is the owner of a small café during the Nazi occupation of Poland; he has little money and is struggling to keep body and soul alive ...

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Freebie and the Bean (1974) more movies like this

directed by Richard Rush
featuring Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Jack Kruschen, Mike Kellin

Freebie (James Caan) and the Bean (Alan Arkin) are a pair of San Francisco cops. Red Meyers (Jack Kruschen) is the mobster whom Freebie and the Bean would like to see behind bars -- or, failing that, six feet under. Nothing stands in the way of the cops' pursuit of Meyers, meaning that private property is given quite a going-over in this picture. ...

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Blood Money (1999) more movies like this

directed by Aaron Lipstadt
featuring Alan Arkin, Brian Bloom, Leonard Stone, Rocco Vienhage, Alicia Coppola

Tony Restrelli (Brian Bloom) left his San Diego mobster family after college to "go straight" on Wall Street. Not only did he flourish, but he met the woman of his dreams in Gloria (Alicia Coppola), a beautiful and smart businesswoman. But when Tony's beloved younger brother Primo (Rocco Vienhage) is gunned down, Tony and Gloria return to San ...

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The Seven-Percent Solution (1976) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Laurence Olivier

Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own best-selling novel. As any Baker Street Irregular will tell you, the title refers to the dosage of cocaine taken by Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson). The Great Detective's friend and chronicler Doctor Watson (Robert Duvall), ...

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Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) more movies like this

directed by Dick Richards
featuring Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Alex Rocco, Charles Martin Smith

The "Gold Dust Twins" are two L.A. gals who kidnap a likable-loser type who's a driving instructor (Alan Arkin) and force him to take them from Los Angeles to New Orleans. On the way they run into action of all sorts, and by the time they get to the Bayou state, the three have bonded as buddies. All Movie Guide

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