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5.4

♡ 5

28%

Comedy

Ken Finkleman Director

Danny DeVito as Frank Stedman

Jane Seymour as Jane Caldwell

Wallace Shawn as Mike Hoover

Richard Comar as TV Reporter

In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994

7.3

♡ 8

89%

Louis Malle Director

Larry Pine as Dr. Astrov

Brooke Smith as Sonya

Wallace Shawn as Vanya

Julianne Moore as Yelena

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 1899 play "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

New York City Serenade

2007

Dutch

5.1

♡ 1

8%

Frank Whaley Director

Frank Whaley as Les

Johnnie Mae as Lois

Todd Barry as Smark

Wallace Shawn as Wallace Shawn

Two down on their luck childhood friends struggle to figure out their lives. Ray a drummer in a rock and roll band, and Owen an aspiring film maker spend most of their time working menial jobs and drinking. When Owen's fiancé Lynn breaks off their engagement he finds himself spiraling, and allows Ray to come along with him to a two bit film festival he has been invited to in Kansas. There Owen makes several attempts to patch up his relationship, while Ray scams them into a deluxe suite at the local Four Seasons hotel by posing as Wally Shawn's son (who happens to be receiving a lifetime achievement award) and generally causes a major ruckus. By the end, Owen decides to make some changes in their relationship and in his life.

Critical Care

1997

5.9

♡ 9

59%

Sidney Lumet Director

James Spader as Dr. Werner Ernst

Wallace Shawn as Furnaceman

Jackie Richardson as Mrs. Steckler

Helen Mirren as Stella

Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1996

parent child relationship

5.2

♡ 14

36%

school

talk show

Steve Barron Director

Wallace Shawn as Pepe the Cricket

John Sessions as Professor

Peter Locke as Unseen aristocracy

Rob Schneider as Volpe

One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.

Starring Austin Pendleton

6.8

David H. Holmes Director

Ethan Hawke as Self

Wallace Shawn as Self

Natalie Portman as Self

Laurie Metcalf as Self

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

She's Out of Control

1989

5.4

♡ 10

11%

Stan Dragoti Director

Bess Meyer as Cheryl

Wallace Shawn as Dr. Fishbinder

Terry Wills as Flight Captain

Derek McGrath as Jeff Robbins

A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.

Toy Story Toons: Small Fry

2011

7.0

♡ 8

Angus MacLane Director

Danny Mann as Additional Voice Talent

Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head

Wallace Shawn as Rex

Tom Hanks as Woody

A fast food restaurant mini variant of Buzz forcibly switches places with the real Buzz and his friends have to deal with the obnoxious impostor.

Radio Days

1987

7.4

♡ 27

92%

Woody Allen Director

Seth Green as Joe

Wallace Shawn as Masked Avenger

Diane Keaton as New Year's Singer

William H. Macy as Radio Voice

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Happily N'Ever After

2006

4.5

♡ 7

Greg Tiernan Director

Roger Jackson as Additional Voices

Sigourney Weaver as Frieda

Wallace Shawn as Munk

Danny Mann as Various

An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.

A Late Quartet

2012

7.1

♡ 2

77%

Yaron Zilberman Director

Imogen Poots as Alexandra Gelbart

Wallace Shawn as Gideon Rosen

Stephen Payne as Jack

Christopher Walken as Peter Mitchell

When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last — only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.

Rifkin's Festival

2020

6.1

♡ 14

41%

donostia-san sebastian, spain

Comedy

Woody Allen Director

Christoph Waltz as Death

Wallace Shawn as Mort Rifkin

Louis Garrel as Philippe

Gina Gershon as Sue

The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.

Mia and the Migoo

6.6

Jacques-Rémy Girerd Director

Chris Jai Alex as Charlemagne

Pierre Richard as Pedro

Jesse Corti as Pedro / Wilford

Wallace Shawn as The Migoo

One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

Monte Walsh

2003

7.0

♡ 9

74%

Simon Wincer Director

Wallace Shawn as Colonel Wilson

Tom Selleck as Monte Walsh

Joanna Miles as Sairy Brennan

William Sanderson as Skimpy Eagens

Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.

The Princess Bride

1987

8.0

♡ 164

96%

94%

Adventure

Rob Reiner Director

Christopher Guest as Count Tyrone Rugen

Peter Falk as The Grandfather / Narrator

Robin Wright as The Princess Bride

Wallace Shawn as Vizzini

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

The Hotel New Hampshire

1984

5.8

♡ 5

71%

50%

Tony Richardson Director

Seth Green as Egg

Jodie Foster as Frannie

Wallace Shawn as Freud

Timothy Webber as Wrench

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.

Deal of the Century

1983

4.7

♡ 9

10%

19%

arms dealer

William Friedkin Director

Sigourney Weaver as Catherine DeVoto

Wallace Shawn as Harold DeVoto

Richard Herd as Lyle

Richard Libertini as Masaggi

Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.

Manhattan

1979

7.8

♡ 45

93%

92%

adultery

Woody Allen Director

Wallace Shawn as Jeremiah

Meryl Streep as Jill

Diane Keaton as Mary

Karen Allen as Television Actor #2

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Air Buddies

2006