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Don Ameche - what members say


  • Homeward Bound
  • Homeward Bound review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5 stars superb 10 April 2007
    ...hany loved this film. the story is about three heroic animals who are voiced by Don Ameche, Michael J Fox, and Sally Field. They don't actually speak ie. moving their mou...  
  • Trading Places
  • Trading Places review by from MANCHESTER
    Rated - 4 stars 8 September 2004
    ...ir comic revenge on the execs, played by the grand old actors Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche.. ...  
  • Things Change
  • Things Change review by A customer from Malvern UK
    Rated - 4 stars A subtle gem 12 November 2006
    ...lates innocence. For me 'Things Change' does the same with a much defter touch. Don Ameche and Joe Montana excel as the leads in this delightful comic drama of mistaken i...  

Don Ameche - filmography


  • Folks! on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tom Selleck,  Don Ameche,  Anne Jackson
    Director: Ted Kotcheff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jon Aldrich, an all around nice guy, inadvertently becomes the target of an FBI sting. But compared to everything else in his life, that doesn't seem so bad.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 85 members
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  • Oscar on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Sylvester Stallone,  Don Ameche,  Tim Curry
    Director: John Landis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sylvester Stallone stars as famed mobster Angelo SnapsProvolone, who promises his dying father (Kirk Douglas) that he will hang up his tommy gun and lead a kinder, gentler life. However, on the day Snaps is to start his legitimate career in banking, he gets derailed by a spate of family emergencies...read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 631 members
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  • Cocoon The Return on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Courteney Cox,  Wilford Brimley
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When the space travellers return to Earth on a special rescue mission, they are reunited with their own families and friends who they left behind when they were offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens. To their delight they soon realise that Earth isn't the worst planet in the galaxy.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,803 member
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  • Things Change (1988)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Joe Mantegna
    Director: David Mamet
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Gino, an elderly, gracious shoeshiner who bears an uncanny resemblance to a mob kingpin, agrees to take a three-year jail rap for him in return for a fishing boat and retiring to the "old country." But his life is turned upside down when his "guard" takes him on a last weekend fling and he's ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 12 members
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  • Cocoon on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Wilford Brimley,  Hume Cronyn
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A group of senior citizens residing in a rest home find their lives turned upside down after they are offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens in Ron Howard's wonderful tribute to the human spirit. Brian Dennehy is Walter, an alien who returns to earth to rescue 20 of his friends now ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,551 members
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  • Trading Places - HD DVD Version (1983)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Jamie Lee Curtis,  Don Ameche
    Director: John Landis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As the result of a bet between two wealthy commodities traders, the lifestyles of a street hustler (Eddie Murphy) and a successful stockbroker (Dan Akroyd) are reversed. The innocent victims of the bet scramble to make it in their new foreign environments, with hysterical results. Once they ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 79% from 77 members
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  • Moon Over Miami (1941)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Betty Grable,  Robert Cummings
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Don Ameche and Betty Grable star in this musical remake of the play THREE BLIND MICE. When an inheritance turns out to be worth a fraction of its initial value after taxes, Kay Latimer (Grable) convinces her sister, Barbara (Carole Landis), and her aunt, Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), to spend the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 2 members
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  • In Old Chicago on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Alice Faye,  Don Ameche
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A huge-budget drama released by Fox Studios in 1937 in response to MGM's historical-disaster film SAN FRANCISCO, IN OLD CHICAGO is a fictionalised account of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871. Mrs. O'Leary's (Alice Brady, MY MAN GODFREY) two sons couldn't be more different: Jack (Don Ameche, HEAVEN CAN ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 71 members
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Don Ameche facts

5 most recent films

Corrina, Corrina - 3.5 stars
Homeward Bound - 3.5 stars
Folks! - 2.5 stars
Oscar - 3.0 stars
Cocoon The Return - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Trading Places - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Trading Places - 3.5 stars
Homeward Bound - 3.5 stars
Corrina, Corrina - 3.5 stars
Cocoon - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Moon Over Miami - 2.0 stars
Things Change - 2.5 stars
That Night In Rio - 3.0 stars
Folks! - 2.5 stars
Down Argentine Way - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Betty Grable - 2 times - show films
Carmen Miranda - 2 times - show films
Gwen Verdon - 2 times - show films
Tyrone Power - 2 times - show films
Ralph Bellamy - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Landis - 3 times - show films
Irving Cummings - 2 times - show films
Duwayne Dunham - 1 times - show films
Ernst Lubitsch - 1 times - show films
Walter Lang - 1 times - show films


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