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Michael Ritchie
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Michael Ritchie - filmography
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The Scout
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Al Percolo is a baseball talent scout searching for that once-in-a-lifetime find. He travels to Mexico and discovers the talents of Steve Nebraska but soon realises that there is more to Steve than sheer brilliance...
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Cops and Robbersons
(1994)
Starring: Michael Ritchie, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest
Director: Michael Ritchie
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When a dangerous criminal moves into a quiet suburban neighborhood, the police ask grizzled cop Jack Stone (Jack Palance) to set up a stakeout next door. The only catch is that Jack will have to live with the Robbersons, a quirky family led by a bumbling cop wanna-be (Chevy Chase).
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72%
from 4 members
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Midnight Sting
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Director Michael Ritchie turns in another crowd-pleasing sports picture with DIGGSTOWN, featuring James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a con artist who has just been released from prison. Based on a tip by his cellmate, Wolf Forrester (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Caine heads for Diggstown, Georgia, a small town ..read more »
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70%
from 559 members
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The Couch Trip
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Based on the novel by Ken Kolb, Michael Ritchie's comedy THE COUCH TRIP poses the theory that psychiatrists are even more screwed up than their clients. The story concerns Dr. George Maitlin (Charles Grodin), a stuffy, pretentious radio shrink who decides to take a sabbatical after his own mental ..read more »
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61%
from 363 members
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The Golden Child
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Charlotte Lewis, Charles Dance
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Eddie Murphy follows up his hot streak of BEVERLY HILLS COP and TRADING PLACES with this mystical action-comedy directed by Michael Ritchie. Murphy plays Chandler "Chan" Jarrell, a man who tracks down lost children for a living. When the beautiful Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis), a Tibetan priestess, ..read more »
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from 5,370 members
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Wildcats
(1986)
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Teacher Molly McGrath has a dream. She might not have shoulders as wide as a brick wall or thighs like crankshaft, but she wants to teach High School football.
Molly's dream rapidly turns into a nighmare when she gets her chance at Central High. Academically, Central is a nightmare. Crimewise it'..read more »
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67%
from 178 members
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Fletch
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Chevy Chase, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Loosely based on the book by Gregory McDonald, director Michael Ritchie's FLETCH is a laugh-out-loud comedy that features a classic performance by Chevy Chase, who stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a crack investigative journalist who goes undercover for a story about possible connections between ..read more »
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65%
from 3,684 members
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The Survivors
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Michael Ritchie's comedy concerns an unlikely friendship that forms between two down-on-their-luck men who have just recently lost their jobs. Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) was fired by his boss's parrot because his boss couldn't bear to confront Donald with the terrible news. Meanwhile, Sonny ..read more »
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50%
from 289 members
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Semi-Tough
(1977)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh
Director: Michael Ritchie
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SEMI-TOUGH is an easygoing satire about two football stars who contend for the same woman, who just happens to be the coach's daughter. The film contains numerous parodies of the self-improvement craze of the 1970s.
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56%
from 3 members
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Bad News Bears
(1976)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow
Director: Michael Ritchie
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One of director Michael Ritchie's most universally recognised comedies, 'The Bad News Bears' is a film that continues to entertain audiences of all ages. The story concerns a hopeless Little League team that eventually scores big when it acquires a new coach, Morris Buttermaker, a grouchy, beer-..read more »
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52%
from 70 members
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Smile
(1975)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Michael Ritchie’s SMILE is a satirical, behind-the-scenes look at a California teenage beauty pageant, which also exposes American middle-class mores. The competitors (who seem to favor political maneuvering and backstabbing over talent and poise) provide only part of the story, since the members ..read more »
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60%
from 11 members
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An Almost Perfect Affair
to Watch Now
(1979)
Starring: Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 93 minutes
Director Michael Ritchie, well respected for his perceptive satirical jabs at American society in such diverse films as "The Bad News Bears", "Semi-Tough", and "Smile", presents us with a charming love story while he delivers a gentle swipe at his own movie making industry. Set in the midst of the ..read more »
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63%
from 3 members
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Sharp but ultimately affectionate mickey-take 1 June 2005
...us' which ploughed its own laborious way through the same field. In comparison, Michael Ritchie's 'Smile' was a twinkle-toed joy of a movie.
Bruce Dern as ever puts in a ...
