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Arkin uncomfortable with Lively naked scene -
7 December 2009
-Veteran actor Alan Arkin's latest movie features his most difficult scene - with a naked Blake Lively.-
-The Gossip Girl star had to strip for a scene in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, in which she lies naked on top of the Little Miss Sunshine actor - and the 75 y
Alan Arkin - what members say
review by scratlin from Bristol
Stylistically marvellous 9 December 2008
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If I was a girl I'd marry John Cusack (if he'd have me) 14 October 2003
review by A customer from England
One of the best casts ever! 27 March 2006
Alan Arkin - filmography
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Burt Wonderstone
(2013)
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Jim Carrey, Steve Carell
Director: Don Scardino
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After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
 
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Argo
(2012)
Starring: Kyle Chandler, Bryan Cranston, Ben Affleck
Director: Ben Affleck
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"Argo" chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis-the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. ..read more »
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The Change-Up - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman
Director: David Dobkin
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A married father and a swinging single swap bodies after a wild night of drinking, and do their best not to throw each other's lives in complete chaos while scrambling to figure out a way to get back in their own skin. Dave (Jason Bateman) and Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) grew up together. They used to be ..read more »
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The Change-Up
(2011)
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman
Director: David Dobkin
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Growing up together, Mitch and Dave were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they've slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked. To ..read more »
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from 205 members
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Sunshine Cleaning
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
Director: Christine Jeffs
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Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski now finds herself a 30-something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah is still living at home with their dad Joe, a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes. Desperate to get ..read more »
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City Island
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer
Director: Raymond De Felitta
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When prison guard and New York family man, Vince Rizzo, sees a familiar name among the new convicts list, he realizes it belongs to a boy who he fathered 20 years earlier but abandoned. Now married with a new family, Vince takes his long-lost son, Tony Nardella, home with him -- not telling his ..read more »
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Robin Wright Penn, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin
Director: Rebecca Miller
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From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee leads a charmed existence. She is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher 30 years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life ..read more »
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from 6,378 members
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Get Smart
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin
Director: Peter Segal
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Maxwell Smart is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell ..read more »
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Get Smart - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin
Director: Peter Segal
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The spy spoof series gets the big screen treatment with this action comedy starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. Agents 86 (Carell), 99 (Hathaway), and 23 (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) lead Control against the evil entity KAOS.
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Marley And Me - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin
Director: David Frankel
Certificate: 
David Frankel (THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA) delivers another charming comedy. Based on the hit memoir by John Grogan, MARLEY AND ME chronicles the relationship of John (Owen Wilson) and Jen (Jennifer Aniston) as they face the challenges of marriage and work to start a family. By their side is their ..read more »
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Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, Ann-Margret
Director: Michael Lembeck
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Tim Allen reprises his role of Scott Calvin-aka Santa as he juggles a full house of family and the mischievous Jack Frost (Martin Short), whose chilling Santa envy has him trying to take over the "big guy's" holiday. At the risk of giving away its secret location, Scott invites his in-laws, Sylvia ..read more »
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from 5,623 members
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Noel
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker
Director: Chazz Palminteri
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A first-rate cast comes together for this collection of intertwining tales of lonely New Yorkers reaching out to each other on Christmas Eve. Susan Sarandon plays Rose, a widowed editor who spends way too much time at the hospital bed of her Alzheimers-stricken mother. Robin Williams is the ..read more »
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Jakob The Liar
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director: Peter Kassovitz
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Jakob is a poor Jewish cafe owner in Nazi occupied Poland in 1944. He accidentally hears good news about the war on a radio and spreads this to his depressed friends who have heard no news since 1939. Unfortunately the rumour also spreads that Jakob has a radio and this is an offence punishable by ..read more »
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from 1,078 member
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Slums Of Beverly Hills
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Natasha Lyonne
Director: Tamara Jenkins
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This is a coming-of-age comedy about Vivian (Natasha Lyonne, AMERICAN PIE 2) a young jewish girl in 1970's Beverly Hills who must come to terms with her family's constantly changing addresses as well as trying to control her budding sexuality. Marisa Tomei is a cousin who comes to visit (having ..read more »
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Gattaca
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
Director: Andrew Niccol
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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. ..read more »
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from 20,701 members
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Four Days in September
(1997)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Fernanda Torres
Director: Bruno Barreto
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A group of Brazilian students kidnap the American ambassador as an act of resistance against their right-wing military government, but the emotional tension soon wears a crack in their starry-eyed idealism. Thoughtful, even-handed direction examines the event from a variety of perspectives. Based ..read more »
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Grosse Pointe Blank
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd
Director: George Armitage
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A nihilistically philosophical hit man (John Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit, coinciding with his 10-year high school reunion in the ritzy suburb of Grosse Point, Michigan. While in town, he tries to patch things up with the girlfriend (Minnie Driver) he abandoned on prom night,..read more »
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from 19,100 members
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Mother Night
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin
Director: Keith Gordon
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Keith Gordon's darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a ..read more »
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from 255 members
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Steal Big, Steal Little
(1996)
Starring: Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin
Director: Andrew Davis
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Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts a battle between brothers that soon leads to ..read more »
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Indian Summer
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Matt Craven, Diane Lane
Director: Mike Binder
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Now in their thirties, a group of friends reunite at Camp Tamakwa. Only a few of the originals show up, but they still have a good time reminiscing. The people share experiences and grow while at the camp. They are dismayed to discover that the camp's owner, Unca Lou, is going to close the camp down.
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Glengarry Glen Ross
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin
Director: James Foley
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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 ..read more »
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from 11,193 members
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Edward Scissorhands
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's ..read more »
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Edward Scissorhands - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
Director: Tim Burton
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In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's ..read more »
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from 2,715 members
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Havana
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin
Director: Sydney Pollack
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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 ..read more »
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from 443 members
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Escape From Sobibor
(1987)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Joanna Pacula
Director: Jack Gold
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During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had been spared from the ovens, knew that they were ..read more »
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from 318 members
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Big Trouble
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: John Cassavetes
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A troubled production history notwithstanding, BIG TROUBLE remains a lighthearted updating of the classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Alan Arkin stars as Leonard Hoffman, an insurance salesman and father of triplets. When it becomes apparent that his dream of sending his three sons to Yale is ..read more »
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from 120 members
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The Last Unicorn
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
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Weary of being alone in the vast forest, unicorn Amalthea (Mia Farrow) begins to wonder if she's the last of her kind. Following a rumour, she joins forces with feeblish wizard Schmendrick (Alan Arkin) and wayward barmaid Molly (Tammy Grimes) to look for the mystical Red Bull, a creature known to ..read more »
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from 1,253 member
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The In-Laws
(1979)
Starring: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Peter Falk and Alan Arkin play the soon-to-be-fathers-in-law in this crazy comedy. Falk is Vincent Ricardo the CIA agent, while Arkin is the mild-mannered dentist Sheldon Kornpett, whose children are getting married in 48 hours. Directed by LOVE STORY's Arthur Hiller this chalk and cheese comedy ..read more »
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from 236 members
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Little Murders
(1971)
Starring: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia
Director: Alan Arkin
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A girl brings home her latest boyfriend to meet her parents. This is done against the background of random shootings that had just begun in NYC at the time the play was written. How the family's failings are magnified by the social confusion of the times is the crux of the plot.
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Catch 22
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Anthony Perkins
Director: Mike Nichols
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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 ..read more »
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from 3,337 members
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Inspector Clouseau
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Patrick Cargill
Director: Bud Yorkin
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Part of the Pink Panther collection in which Alan Arkin plays the part of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau who is sent to London to try to investigate the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery.
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Wait Until Dark
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
Director: Terence Young
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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 ..read more »
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Alan Arkin facts
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...lant and embittered. There's also another excellently downplayed performance by Alan Arkin to enjoy. The film's visual style is beautiful - art deco futurism. Lovely!
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