Alan Arkin
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In a manner that is direct, down-to-earth, accessible, and articulate, Academy Award-winner (Little Miss Sunshine, Argo, The Kominsky Method) Alan Arkin reveals insights not only about himself (and his audience and students), but also truths for the rest of us about work, relationships, and sense of self.
Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five: "Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed...
Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five: "Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed...
2) Catch-22
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Yossarian, a reluctant bombadier stationed in the Mediterranean in World War II, has come to the utterly sane conclusion that everyone is trying to kill him. The Germans, yes, but also commanding officers supposedly on his own side like Col. Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions his flyers must perform to finish their tours. Everybody seems equally dead-set on his destruction, and Yossarian is just as determined to stay alive. An enormous...
3) People Soup
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Unbeknownst to many fans, Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin, whose movie career was revitalized with his 2006 role in the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine, also had a brief career as a science-fiction writer in the 1950s. People Soup is a charming and somewhat unsettling tale of two boys who inadvertently concoct a magical potion. The story is the inspiration for a short film with the same name that Arkin directed in 1969, starring his
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Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin and horror/fantasy icon Christopher Lee star in this long-unseen 1982 action-comedy that New Times calls "one of the best superhero movies ever made (really)": When archcriminal Mr. Midnight (Lee) plots to take over the world, humanity's only hope is World War II's formerly indestructible 'Legend In Leotards' (Arkin) who is now a burnt-out drunk.
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A thirty-something single mother whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a misguided effort to help her younger sister succeed in life finds the fruits of her labors finally coming together in this dark family comedy. Back in high school, the future looked pretty bright for Rose Lorkowski (Academy-Award®-nominee Amy Adams of The Muppets, The Fighter); not only was she the cheerleading captain, but she...
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Based on a play by Neil Simon, this comedy concerns Barney Cashman (Alan Arkin), the owner of successful seafood restaurant who is stuck in the depths of a mid-life crisis. Barney's marriage is no longer providing him with a sense of romantic adventure, and when he discovers his mother's apartment is empty one day a week, he decides that a series of extra-marital affairs is just what he needs. However, Barney's career as a spoiler of women quickly...
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Scrooge may be alive and well and living in West Virginia in the person of Flagg Purdy. He won't pay the county phone tax, and he won't allow his wife and eleven children to celebrate any holiday. He rules his life, and theirs, by his "principles". But something has just happened to his well-ordered universe. Flagg's favorite daughter has decided to get married and to celebrate a certain winter holiday complete with a tree and presents. Christmas...
11) Fourth Wise Man
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The story of Artaban, the fourth Magi, who spends his life looking for Jesus his King.
12) The Jerky Boys
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The Jerky Boys popular audio tapes of prank phone calls have created a cult following across the country, and prompted the making of their first motion picture. This movie is based on Brennan's and Kamal's sensational album of hilarious crank phone calls, which quickly became a solid gold record when it was released. their second album, debuted at #12 on billboard's top 200 chart, and went gold in only 13 days. Now, the two previously anonymous phone...
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A mild-mannered ex-Marine (Academy Award-winner Alan Arkin-"Little Miss Sunshine," "Slums of Beverly Hills"), now a California Department of Motor Vehicles test driver in Los Angeles, has an unexpected yet adventure-filled ride when he is kidnapped by two young women (Academy Award-nominee Sally Kellerman-"M*A*S*H," "Back to School"; and Mackenzie Phillips-"The Jacket," "American Graffiti") and, at gunpoint, is ordered to drive them to New Orleans......
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For an awkward, self-conscious girl like Kiki (Julia Roberts), being the personal assistant to a beautiful megastar like Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is no bowl of cherries. But when she dutifully accepts the task of helping Gwen and her estranged megastar husband Eddie (John Cusack) make it through one last public appearance masterminded by legendary but neurotic press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal), forever devoted Kiki finds that her job satisfaction...
17) Mother night
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From his jail cell in Israel, an American playwright on trial for war crimes looks back on his life. Living in pre-World War II Berlin he becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.
19) Stand Up Guys
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Academy Award-winners Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin star in this action-comedy about retired gangsters who reunite for one last epic night.