Walter Matthau
Series
Formats
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
Author
Description
Naughty Dennis Mitchell, a mischievous five-year-old rascal, is dedicated to making his forbearing next-door neighbor George Wilson's life miserable, even though he really doesn't mean it. But now that school is out for the summer, he has all the time in the world to channel his overbearingly excessive energy to his beloved pensioner who only wants to be left alone with his garden. Meanwhile, a tattered thief visits the town. Undoubtedly, Dennis only...
Author
Description
Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy back into his life again. However, there is clear disapproval of her from his grown children, especially his eldest son Robert. As Frank and Florence grow closer in their relationship, Robert begins to change his perspective on their commitment and devotion to one another.
5) Plaza Suite
Author
Description
Plaza Suite is a confection of three witty comedic episodes starring one of America's finest comic actors, Walter Matthau. The scene is Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. In the first scene, Matthau's wife (Maureen Stapleton), discovers that he is fooling around with his secretary. In the next episode, Matthau portrays a producer who calls an old flame for a rendezvous - but the lady has more on her mind than romance. In the final sequence,...
Author
Description
Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh star in this dramatic comedy that centers around the appointment of the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is aggressive, witty, magnetic-and an arch-conservative. He is wry, opinionated and roundly liberal. One hundred and one men have preceded the new female justice to seats on the bench of the nation's highest court, but now it's eight men and her. All unanimously accept their new colleague-except Matthau,...
Series
Description
Two stories by Dr. Seuss. In the first story, a the Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise, Christmas comes anyway. In the second story, if Gerlad McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the ordinary animals go and fill the zoo with more unusual beasts from the far corners of the world.
Description
Donald Quinelle, a rising sales executive, is sacked by his boss's pet parrot the same day that Sonny Paluso watches his gas station go up in flames. Drowning their sorrows at a coffee shop, the two New Yorkers disarm a would-be bandit, Jack Locke, and briefly become media heroes--then quickly learn about the price and perils of survival in an insane world. Jack is freed by a bureaucratic slip-up and goes gunning for Sonny and Donald, who discover...
9) I.Q
Series
Description
A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from Einstein and his friends.
Description
Hank Ketcham's popular comic-strip kid manages to create problems for his long-suffering neighbor George Wilson, while at the same time foiling a neighborhood villain.
El niño de la tira cómica popular de Hank Ketcham crea problemas para su vecino sufrido George Wilson, mientras que, al mismo tiempo, frustra a un maleante del vecindario.
Description
Cadillac man: "Cadillac man is a non-stop joy ride of comic lunacy! Joey O'brien's got some serious troubles. A mafioso wantes his hide. The women in his life--an ex-wife, a space cadet girlfriend and someone else's wife--are all trying his patience. Into the showroom walks larry (Tim Robbins), a lunkhead terminator with an axe to grind. Now in a life-or-death situation, Joey is forced to do the one thing he does bes--lie!"--Container insert
Running...
Description
The couch trip (1987, 97 min.): A mental patient sent to jail for computer fraud cons his way into a mental facility for men, where he takes over the psychiatric practice of a million-dollar-a-year shrink who is about to have a breakdown.
Clifford (1991, 99 min.): A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.
19) Ensign Pulver
Series
Description
"Sign on for a lighthearted, seeworthy oceangoing comedic voyage that begins where the classic Mister Roberts left off. Doug Roberts is gone, but feckless Frank Pulver (Robert Walker) remains to battle boredom aboard the World War II-era cargo ship Reluctant. His weapons range from a slingshot to a surgical scalpel. His target is the tyrannical captain (Burl Ives). His cohort is the genial keeper of the joy juice, Doc (Walter Matthau). And his aim...
20) Cactus flower
Description
Julian Winston, an easy-going bachelor dentist whose delicately balanced scheme crumbles under some unexpected circumstances. Winston strings along his dizzy blonde mistress, Toni by telling her that he has a wife and children. He learns that Toni has tried to commit suicide over him, so he promises to marry her. Toni, refusing to be a home-wrecker, insists on first meeting Winston's wife. He convinces his nurse Stephanie to pose as his wife.