Movies by Austin Pendleton
As part of the cast:
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Frank Langella …
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Trader Jake (Shia LaBeouf) tries to mend the broken relationship between his fiancée, Winnie (Carey Mulligan), and her father, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), while avenging the fate of…
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77 (2008)
Cast: John Francis Daley, Austin Pendleton, Colleen Camp …
Directed by: Patrick Read Johnson
When future director-screenwriter Patrick Read Johnson (John Francis Daley) tries to see Star Wars in a theater on 5-25-77 -- opening day -- an adventure is set into motion in this…
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Raising Flagg (2007)
Cast: Alan Arkin, Austin Pendleton, Glenne Headly …
Directed by: Neal Miller
When rural handyman and willful curmudgeon Flagg Purdy (Alan Arkin) accuses his friendly rival Gus Falk (Austin Pendleton) of cheating at checkers, the conflict escalates, and Flagg takes Gus…
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Lovely by Surprise (2007)
Cast: Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Austin Pendleton …
Directed by: Kirt Gunn
Suffering from writer's block, novelist Marian Walker (Carrie Preston) turns to her mentor and ex-lover, Jackson (Austin Pendleton). But his advice unexpectedly leads one of her…
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Bad City (2006)
Cast: Lance Reddick, Mike McGlone, Nutsa Kukhianidze …
Directed by: Bruce Terris
Lance Reddick and Mike McGlone star in this ensemble drama about big-city cops on the take whose private side business is made public when a mobster's moll is murdered. In no time, their…
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Piccadilly Jim (2006)
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Frances O'Connor, Tom Wilkinson …
Directed by: John McKay
In this film adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse novel, Sam Rockwell plays a dashing and debauched ex-society column writer who makes life difficult for his social-climbing stepmom by falling…
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The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005)
Cast: Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, Simon Callow …
Directed by: David Beaird
In the wake of a particularly bad break-up, serial chauvinist Max Bright (Patrick Warburton) kicks off a search for the "perfect" mail-order bride. But the Asian wife he imports (Marie…
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Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Cast: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd …
Directed by: Joe Roth
A break from the frenetic activity of Christmas is what Luther Krank and his wife have in mind when they decide to skip the holiday, nixing the tree and the rooftop Frosty. But can they…
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Finding Nemo (2003)
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould …
Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
In this Oscar-winning animated adventure, plucky fish Marlin and Dory search their underwater world for Marlin's missing son, Nemo, who's been scooped up by a scuba diver and dumped…
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Uptown Girls (2003)
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton …
Directed by: Boaz Yakin
Rich girl Molly Gunn has never had to work hard in her life -- until her father dies and her inheritance vanishes into thin air. To pay the bills, she becomes a nanny but finds herself in…
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Finding Nemo (Full-screen) (2003)
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould …
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Pixar has created another amazing animated adventure, this time heading underwater as two plucky fish, Marlin and Dory (voiced by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres), search high and low for…
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Wishcraft (2002)
Cast: Michael Weston, Alexandra Holden, Austin Pendleton …
Directed by: Danny Graves
When Brett receives a mysterious gift that grants the owner three wishes, he discovers that dreams come true … with a vengeance. With a little wish fulfillment, the school's most…
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Manna from Heaven (2001)
Cast: Shirley Jones, Cloris Leachman, Louise Fletcher …
Directed by: Gabrielle Burton, Maria Burton
One day, a New York community receives a mysterious gift: a series of $20 bills that rain down on them from above. Teresa (Hallee Hirsh), whom everyone in the neighborhood views as a saint,…
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Fast Food, Fast Women (2000)
Cast: Anna Levine, Jamie Harris, Louise Lasser …
Directed by: Amos Kollek
Men and women, old and young, search for love in the Big Apple. Bella (Anna Thomson), a waitress turning 35, is set up with a cabbie, Bruno (Jamie Harris), a writer languishing in anonymity.…
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Homicide: The Movie (2000)
Cast: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer …
Directed by: Jean de Segonzac
Former Homicide Shift Commander Al "G" Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now the leading candidate for mayor of Baltimore, is gunned down while presenting a speech. Baltimore Police Department's…
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Joe the King (1999)
Cast: Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Frank Whaley
Surly, 14-year-old Joe Henry (Noah Fleiss) exists in a fog, shell-shocked from a lifetime in a violent household. So, it comes as no shock when Joe resorts to petty -- but escalating --…
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The 4th Floor (1999)
Cast: Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelley Duvall …
Directed by: Josh Klausner
Interior decorator Jane Emelin (Juliette Lewis) can't believe her luck when she finds a rent-controlled apartment on the fourth floor of a New York high-rise. Fear replaces joy, however,…
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Trial & Error (1997)
Cast: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron …
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Michael Richards (Kramer of TV's "Seinfeld") makes his starring debut as struggling actor Richard Rietti, who gets his big break in an unexpected venue: the courtroom. When his lawyer…
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River Made to Drown In (1997)
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Michael Imperioli, Ute Lemper …
Directed by: James Merendino
When successful lawyer Thaddeus learns he's dying, the news prompts him to visit his struggling artist friend Allen, who grants Thaddeus a last request: He'll try to track down a…
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Trial and Error (1997)
Cast: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron …
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
When a surprise bachelor party leaves lawyer (and groom-to-be) Charlie Tuttle unfit to stand up in court the next day, he gets his best friend -- a not-so-great actor -- to fill in for him in…
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The Associate (1996)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
When Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) learns that her less-smart and sexist protégé, Frank (Tim Daly), is promoted, she quits to start her own company -- only to find out that the…
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall …
Directed by: Barbra Streisand
Middle-aged professor Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) is tired of being single and living with her mother (Lauren Bacall). Thus, when a colleague (Jeff Bridges), proposes, Morgan accepts. But…
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2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Cast: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
The lives of several strange characters intersect in John Herzfeld's quirky crime comedy. A depressed has-been director (Paul Mazursky), an arrogant art dealer and his long-suffering…
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Two Much (1996)
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah …
Directed by: Fernando Trueba
Artist and dealer Art Dodge's (Antonio Banderas) scheme to sell his work flops, and now he's on the run from dissatisfied buyers. And that's not all: His affair with the…
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Guarding Tess (1994)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton …
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Longing for action but feeling more like a heavily armed butler, Doug Chesnic is a serious-minded Secret Service agent assigned to protect the very demanding Tess Carlisle (Golden Globe…
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My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
Cast: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Edward Herrmann …
Directed by: Bob Balaban
Missy (Traci Lind) is the most beautiful girl in school, and Johnny (Andrew Lowery) has been in love with her for years. One night, Johnny's killed trying to win her over, but he soon…
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Mr. Nanny (1993)
Cast: Hulk Hogan, Sherman Hemsley, Austin Pendleton …
Directed by: Michael Gottlieb
In this uproarious comedy, former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan stars as former professional wrestler Sean Armstrong, who is lured out of retirement to serve as a bodyguard for the…
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My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Cast: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio …
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
When teenage buddies Billy (Ralph Macchio) and Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are falsely accused of croaking a convenience-store clerk in a backwoods Southern town, Billy calls on his Noo Yawk…
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The Ballad of the Sad Café (1991)
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert …
Directed by: Simon Callow
Based on Carson McCullers's book, this Southern Gothic tale centers on Miss Amelia (Vanessa Redgrave), the eccentric owner of a small-town café. The domineering matron essentially…
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Cast: Paul Newman, Saundra McClain, Joanne Woodward …
Directed by: James Ivory
The American middle class is the target of this masterful Merchant-Ivory film based on a pair of novels by Evan S. Connell starring real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Oscar nominee…
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Hello Again (1987)
Cast: Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Frank Perry
Lucy (Shelley Long) dies after choking on a piece of chicken, and her plastic-surgeon husband, Jason (Corbin Bernsen), doesn't seem very heartbroken. Everyone quickly moves on, except…
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Short Circuit (1986)
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens …
Directed by: John Badham
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton (Steve Guttenberg), who…
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Starting Over (1979)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen …
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Reluctantly divorced Phil Potter meets romance-wary schoolteacher Marilyn Holmberg. Phil's charms ultimately win Marilyn over, but before he commits himself, his capricious ex-wife…
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The Great Smokey Roadblock (1978)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Robert Englund …
Directed by: John Leone
Elegant John (Henry Fonda) is a soon-to-be-retired trucker who manages to have his precious eighteen-wheeler repossessed just before his very last haul. Already in trouble with the law, he…
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What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn …
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
While two researchers are competing for a grant, one must deal with a strange woman who's devoted her life to confusing and embarrassing him. Meanwhile, a woman's jewels are stolen…