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  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Little Shop of Horrors review by Idontlikenicknames from Hertfordshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars I never did like Dentists 8 June 2005
    ...Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Jim Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest and Bill Murray plua a plant that likes blood! It can't fail. ...   Read customer review

Vincent Gardenia - filmography


  • Skin Deep (1989)
    Starring: John Ritter,  Vincent Gardenia,  Alyson Reed
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Zach Hutton (John Ritter), celebrated writer, compulsive drinker and womaniser extraordinaire. But after 10 years of marital bliss, his luck's about to run out. His mistress finds him in bed - with his wife's hairdresser. His wife discovers them all - and throws him out... and Zach is about to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 29 members
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  • Moonstruck on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Cher,  Nicolas Cage,  Vincent Gardenia
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) lives. First, Loretta agrees to marry a man she does not love, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), simply because he knows how to propose properly. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,996 members
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  • Little Shop of Horrors on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Rick Moranis,  Ellen Greene,  Steve Martin
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Seymour Krelborn works and lives in a rundown flower shop on Skid Row. While his boss, Gravis Mushnick, struggles to keep the shop open, Seymour seeks a way of bringing the shop--and himself--fame and fortune. He purchases an exotic plant from an oriental street vendor, naming the plant Audrey II, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 8,672 members
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  • Kennedy (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Martin Sheen,  John Shea,  E.G. Marshall
    Director: Jim Goddard,  Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This BAFTA-winning series, tells the story of the JFK presidency in its entirety. From the Bay of Pigs crisis through the social upheaval of the civil rights movement to his untimely death at the hands of an assassin, John F. Kennedy (played by Martin Sheen) could be said to have had the most ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 466 members
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  • Death Wish 2 (1981)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Jill Ireland,  Vincent Gardenia
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Paul Kersey is trying to pick up the pieces of his life in Los Angeles, California. His architectural business is successful, he has a new girlfriend and although his daughter hasn't recovered from the trauma of her assault, she's slowly becoming happier and learning to speak again. But peace is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 824 members
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  • Home Movies (1979)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Keith Gordon,  Nancy Allen
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about a young man making the film.
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 7 members
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  • Heaven Can Wait on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Julie Christie,  James Mason
    Director: Warren Beatty,  Buck Henry
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    When L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) is plucked from Earth too soon by an overzealous angel, he is sent back to Earth in another, older body. He struggles to regain his old spot in the line-up while straightening out his host's tangled affairs. Based not on the 1943 movie of the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,261 member
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  • The Big Racket on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Fabio Testi,  Vincent Gardenia,  Renzo Palmer
    Director: Enzo Castellari
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Enzo Castellari directs this bloody crime drama about a police inspector who delivers his own brand of justice to a town terrorized by a gang of local criminals. Officer Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) is investigating the extortion and violence inflicted upon a sleepy Italian village, where the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 172 members
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  • Lucky Luciano on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Gian Maria Volonte,  Vincent Gardenia,  Silverio Blasi
    Director: Francesco Rosi
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in this sensationalized account of the infamous gangster Charles Lucky Luciano (Gian Maria Volonte). The film examines the life of Luciano after serving nine years of his 50-year ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 138 members
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  • The Front Page (1974)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  Walter Matthau,  Susan Sarandon
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In perhaps the most honest of the remakes, director Billy Wilder satisfies the 1970s craze for nostalgia in this third filming of the Hecht-MacArthur play about wild and woolly Chicago newspapermen in the 1920s. Sparks fly as Walter Matthau plays a ruthless managing editor who learns that his ace ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 39 members
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  • Death Wish on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Hope Lange,  Vincent Gardenia
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This drama about a man who takes the law into his own hands was wildly controversial upon first release, sparking much debate about the perceived pro-vigilante stance of the story, and established Charles Bronson as a major box office draw in the United States. Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,493 member
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  • Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Michael Moriarty,  Vincent Gardenia
    Director: John Hancock
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Robert De Niro stars as Bruce Pearson, a baseball player stricken with Hodgkin's disease. During his illness, he befriends the team's star pitcher Henry Wiggin, who not only helps Bruce hide his illness from the materialist owners, but also emotionally supports his dying friend.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 6 members
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  • Little Murders (1971)
    Starring: Elliott Gould,  Marcia Rodd,  Vincent Gardenia
    Director: Alan Arkin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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Vincent Gardenia facts

5 most recent films

The Super - 3.0 stars
Skin Deep - 3.0 stars
Moonstruck - 3.0 stars
Little Shop of Horrors - 3.5 stars
Kennedy - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Death Wish - 3.5 stars
Little Shop of Horrors - 3.5 stars
Kennedy - 3.5 stars
Heaven Can Wait - 3.0 stars
Moonstruck - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Home Movies - 1.5 stars
Bang The Drum Slowly - 2.5 stars
Skin Deep - 3.0 stars
Greased Lightning - 3.5 stars
The Front Page - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charles Bronson - 3 times - show films
Joseph Maher - 2 times - show films
Christopher Guest - 2 times - show films
Jill Ireland - 2 times - show films
Buck Henry - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Winner - 3 times - show films
Jim Goddard - 2 times - show films
Frank Oz - 2 times - show films
Warren Beatty - 2 times - show films
Buck Henry - 2 times - show films