13 Movies Starring Judge Reinhold

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-09-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (65709 Reviews)

Director:

Amy Heckerling

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Cameron Crowe (screenplay)

Cameron Crowe (book)

Fullplot:

Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-12-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (115663 Reviews)

Director:

Martin Brest

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Petrie Jr. (screenplay)

Danilo Bach (story)

Daniel Petrie Jr. (story)

Fullplot:

Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hills police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood's partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny's help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won't kill any more people.

Ruthless People

Ruthless People

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-06-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (20483 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Dale Launer

O. Henry (story)

Fullplot:

Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was supposed to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn't die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and he tells his girlfriend Carol what he is going to do. He then on his way home to do just that but when he gets there, she's not there. He then receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police, which he does hoping that they do. What Stone doesn't know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made fortune off, are not that lethal, as a matter of fact Barbara's more lethal. And what Stone doesn't know is that Carol, has another boyfriend and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara's body. When her boyfriend, Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there was not Sam but a guy with a hooker, and the guy instructs the hooker to scream her head off, Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara's not dead and that Sam was killing her there, and was so freaked out that he didn't bother to see if it was Sam. And Carol tries to put her plan in operation by sending Sam a copy of the tape, Sam thinks that it's for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he is going to do what was done on the tape to her, she assumes that he is going to kill her. So she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police, and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige cause he is the guy who is on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam was going to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Sam now has to get Barbara, alive, so that he can prove that he didn't kill her. And Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.

Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-05-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (78169 Reviews)

Director:

Tony Scott

Cast:

Writer:

Danilo Bach (characters)

Daniel Petrie Jr. (characters)

Eddie Murphy (story)

Robert D. Wachs (story)

Larry Ferguson (screenplay)

Warren Skaaren (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A series of strange robberies brings Axel Foley back to Beverly Hills to help his two fellow cops solve the case. All the familiar faces of the first film are back...

A Soldier's Tale

A Soldier's Tale

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-07-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

New Zealand

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (163 Reviews)

Director:

Larry Parr

Cast:

Writer:

Grant Hindin-Miller

M.K. Joseph (novel)

Larry Parr

Fullplot:

A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.

Vice Versa

Vice Versa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-03-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (6719 Reviews)

Director:

Brian Gilbert

Cast:

Writer:

F. Anstey (novel)

Dick Clement

Ian La Frenais

Fullplot:

On returning from a buying trip abroad for the department store in which he works, Marshall finds he is in possession of a strange ornamental skull. Marshall is divorced and is looking after his son Charlie for a few days. The skull has special powers, and when Marshall and Charlie simultaneously wish they were each others age, father and son exchange bodies. Now Charlie has to go to work, and Marshall to school. Charlie also has to deal with Marshall's girlfriend. If that weren't enough a pair of smugglers are in pursuit of the skull.

Rosalie Goes Shopping

Rosalie Goes Shopping

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-05-01

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA, West Germany

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(629 Reviews)

Director:

Percy Adlon

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Christopher Doherty

Percy Adlon

Eleonore Adlon

Fullplot:

Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-12-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (154 Reviews)

Director:

Piers Haggard

Fullplot:

Ernest decides to go to Tombstone for opening a eyeglasses store,but soon discovers that nobody trusts him. After helping Wyatt rid the town of Doom Brothers via the shooting,Albright's eyeglasses is really successful.

The Santa Clause

The Santa Clause

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-11-11

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (57430 Reviews)

Director:

John Pasquin

Cast:

Writer:

Leo Benvenuti

Steve Rudnick

Fullplot:

Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?

Beethoven's 3rd

Beethoven's 3rd

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-07-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

3.9 (3121 Reviews)

Director:

David M. Evans

Genres:

FamilyComedy

Cast:

Writer:

John Hughes (characters)

Amy Holden Jones (characters)

Jeff Schechter

Fullplot:

The Newton family from the original Beethoven movies are on vacation in Europe but do plan to join a Newton family reunion and to make sure one of their family members definitely makes it, they ship him to travel to the reunion with George Newton's brother Richard. Guess which family member it was? That's right, Beethoven! The giant mutt follows Richard Newton and his family of a nagging wife and two bratty kids as they hit the road to California in a huge, shiny - and expensive RV, equipped with a DVD player. Following them are two bumbling crooks who have hidden some secret codes on a DVD that they figure no one in the world will buy, but someone does: Richard. So now they've got a DVD holding top secret information and the crooks must get it back...

Thanksgiving Family Reunion

Thanksgiving Family Reunion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-11-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

3.4 (779 Reviews)

Director:

Neal Israel

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

All Mitch Snider wants for his family is a traditional holiday feast with the relatives. The problem is that he doesn't have any. That is until he gets an invitation in the mail from his long-lost cousin Woodrow. What follows is a full-course meal of nonstop laughs when the neurotic suburbanites clash with the hippy hicks from hell in National Lampoon's most outrageous family misadventure yet.

Checking Out

Checking Out

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-12-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (571 Reviews)

Director:

Jeff Hare

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Marcus (screenplay)

Allen Swift (play)

Fullplot:

A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-11-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

4.6 (19043 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Lembeck

Cast:

Writer:

Ed Decter

John J. Strauss

Leo Benvenuti (characters)

Steve Rudnick (characters)

Fullplot:

Now that Santa/Scott Calvin and Mrs. Claus/Carol Calvin have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa!

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