Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.

Mafia!

1998

English

5.6

♡ 15

Jim Abrahams Director

Jay Mohr as Anthony 'Tony' Cortino

Don Bovingloh as Funeral Priest

Billy Burke as Joey Cortino

Frank Welker as Special Vocal Effects

After growing up poor in Salmonella, Vincenzo Cortino installs himself as the preeminent, if bumbling, Mafia don of the New World. But now he must pass on power to one of his two sons: either level-headed veteran Anthony or vituperative loose cannon Joey.

Big Business

1988

English

6.4

♡ 20

52%

shakespeare in modern dress

teacher

twins

wealth

Jim Abrahams Director

Roy Brocksmith as Dr. Parker

Seth Green as Jason

Ritch Brinkley as Mayor Bill Finker

Lewis Arquette as Mr. Stokes

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.

Top Secret!

1984

English

7.2

♡ 46

77%

Jim Abrahams Director

Aileen Lewis as Ballet Audience

Burton Zucker as Chef

Michelle Martin as Der Pizzahaus Girl

Harry Fielder as German Guard

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Hot Shots!

1991

English

6.7

♡ 72

83%

Jim Abrahams Director

Jon Cryer as Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach

Marc Shaiman as Piano Player

Valeria Golino as Ramada Thompson / Scarlett O'Hara / Lois Lane

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Wilson

The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only inspired laughs with his personal life. He plays Topper Harley, a fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. He gets involved in a relationship with Valeria Golino, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. But his mission is to avenge his father. Lloyd Bridges, late in his career, revealed an aptitude for this kind of silliness, here as a commander who is both incredibly dim and delightfully accident prone. Directed by Jim Abrahams, the film makes fun of a variety of other films as well, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys. It was so successful that they all returned in the sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux.

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

1990

English

5.9

♡ 20

50%

Jim Abrahams Director

Robby Kiger as Beannie Billings

Winona Ryder as Dinky Bossetti

Frances Fisher as Rochelle Bossetti

Carla Gugino as Young Roxy

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

...First Do No Harm

1997

English

6.7

♡ 3

66%

Drama

Jim Abrahams Director

Philip Akin as

Lynne Griffin as Clinic Receptionist

Allison Janney as Dr. Melanie Abbasac

Meryl Streep as Lori Reimuller

When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments. When she decides to try an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic Diet, devised long ago by a doctor from Johns Hopkins, she is met with narrow-minded resistance from Robbie's doctor, who is prepared to take legal action to prevent Lori from removing him from the hospital.

Hot Shots! Part Deux

1993

English

6.6

♡ 72

59%

63%

Action

Comedy

liberation of hostage

Jim Abrahams Director

Rowan Atkinson as Dexter Hayman

James Lew as Kick Boxer Opponent

Valeria Golino as Ramada Rodham Hayman

Stewart Skelton as Secret Service Agent

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.