26 Movies Starring Steve Martin

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-01-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (4055 Reviews)

Director:

Herbert Ross

Cast:

Writer:

Dennis Potter (written for the screen: based on original material by)

Fullplot:

In Chicago during the 1930s depression, sheet music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets school teacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.

All of Me

All of Me

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-09-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (12329 Reviews)

Director:

Carl Reiner

Cast:

Writer:

Edwin Davis (novel)

Henry Olek (adaptation)

Phil Alden Robinson (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Roger is called in to change the will of an aging millionairess. She has made arrangements for her soul to be 'captured' and transferred into the body of a younger girl. After an argument about the will, the millionairess dies, but her spirit somehow lands in Rogers body...

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-11-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (82324 Reviews)

Director:

John Hughes

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, shower curtain ring salesman and all-around blabbermouth who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....

Roxanne

Roxanne

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-06-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (30136 Reviews)

Director:

Fred Schepisi

Cast:

Writer:

Edmond Rostand (play)

Steve Martin (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A modernization of Edmond Rostands "Cyrano De Bergerac". C.D. Bales is a fire chief who just happens to have an enormous nose. He hires a new firefighter, Chris, who is handsome and knows his hoses, but is useless when it comes to women. Roxanne is an astronomer who has just arrived in town. She catches the eye of Chris, and he asks C.D. to help him woo her. Little does Chris know that C.D. is mad about Roxanne, but hasn't found the right way to tell her - yet.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-12-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (47252 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Oz

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Dale Launer

Stanley Shapiro

Paul Henning

Fullplot:

Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big enough for the two of them. They agree to a "loser leaves" bet. The bet brings out the best/worse in the two. Interesting twist at the end.

Parenthood

Parenthood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-08-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(33843 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Howard

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Lowell Ganz (story)

Babaloo Mandel (story)

Ron Howard (story)

Lowell Ganz (screenplay)

Babaloo Mandel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-12-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (51743 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Shyer

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Frances Goodrich (screenplay)

Albert Hackett (screenplay)

Nancy Meyers (screenplay)

Charles Shyer (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie. George is a nervous father unready to face the fact that his little girl is now a woman. The preparations for the extravagant wedding provide additional comic moments.

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-01-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

134 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (12219 Reviews)

Director:

Lawrence Kasdan

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Lawrence Kasdan

Meg Kasdan

Fullplot:

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.

A Simple Twist of Fate

A Simple Twist of Fate

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-09-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (3935 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaComedy

Cast:

Writer:

George Eliot (novel)

Steve Martin

Fullplot:

Michael McCann is a man who feels totally betrayed by the world, after his wife revealed to him that their child was not his. A few years after his break-up we find him living alone in a small town. But, everything in his miserable life changes when he adopts a little girl whose mother died outside his house. After several years, the real father returns to claim the girl from Michael, thinking that she will be an advantage for his political career.

Father of the Bride Part II

Father of the Bride Part II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-12-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (24709 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Shyer

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Albert Hackett (screenplay)

Frances Goodrich (screenplay)

Nancy Meyers (screenplay)

Charles Shyer (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In this sequel to "Father of the Bride", George Banks must accept the reality of what his daughter's ascension from daughter to wife, and now, to mother means when placed into perspective against his own stage of life. As the comfortable family unit starts to unravel in his mind, a rapid progression into mid-life crisis is in his future. His journey to regain his youth acts as a catalyst for a kind of "rebirth" of his attitude on life when he and his wife, Nina, find how their lives are about to change as well.

The Spanish Prisoner

The Spanish Prisoner

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-01-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (18023 Reviews)

Director:

David Mamet

Fullplot:

Joe Ross is a rising star. He's designed a process that will make his company millions. He wants a bonus for this work, but fears his boss will stiff him. He meets a wealthy stranger, Jimmy Dell, and they strike up an off-kilter friendship. When the boss seems to set Ross up to get nothing, he seeks Dell's help. Then he learns Dell is not what he seems, so he contacts an FBI agent through his tightly-wound assistant, Susan Ricci. The FBI asks him to help entrap Dell. He accepts, a sting is arranged, but suddenly it's he who's been conned out of the process and framed for murder. Bewildered and desperate, he enlists Susan's aid to prove his innocence.

Fantasia/2000

Fantasia/2000

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-06-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

74 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (25328 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Eric Goldberg (story)

Hans Christian Andersen (story)

Joe Grant (original concept)

Perce Pearce (story)

Carl Fallberg (story)

Gaètan Brizzi (story)

Paul Brizzi (story)

Don Hahn

David Reynolds

Irene Mecchi

Elena Driskill (concept for "Death & Re-birth of the Forest")

Fullplot:

In this update of Disney's masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his pod set to "The Pines of Rome." Next is the humourous story of several lives in 1930's New York City, scored with "Rhapsody in Blue." Following is a musical telling of the fairy tale, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" set to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy Flamingo causes havoc in his flock with his yo-yo to the tune of the finale of "Carnival of the Animals." This is followed by the classic sequence from the original film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" starring Mickey Mouse and followed by "Pomp and Circumstance" starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark. Finally, we see the awesome tale of the life, death and renewal of a forest in a sequence featuring the composition, "The Firebird."

The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-04-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (9813 Reviews)

Director:

Sam Weisman

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Neil Simon (based upon the screenplay by)

Marc Lawrence (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.

Bowfinger

Bowfinger

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-08-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (54353 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Oz

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood's number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he's being filmed.

Bowfinger

Bowfinger

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-08-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (54266 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Oz

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood's number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he's being filmed.

The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-04-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (9811 Reviews)

Director:

Sam Weisman

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Neil Simon (based upon the screenplay by)

Marc Lawrence (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.

The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-04-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (9811 Reviews)

Director:

Sam Weisman

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Neil Simon (based upon the screenplay by)

Marc Lawrence (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (28694 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can't figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter's trying to move on, and he's smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he's been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn't refined, isn't Ivy League, and isn't even a lawyer. Instead, it's Charlene, a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client.

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (21834 Reviews)

Director:

Joe Dante

Fullplot:

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are up to their feuding ways again. Tired of playing second fiddle to Bugs, Daffy has decided to leave the Studio for good. He is aided by Warner Bros.' humor impaired Vice President of Comedy, Kate Houghton, who releases him from his contract and instructs WB security guard/aspiring stunt man DJ Drake to capture and "escort" Daffy off the studio lot. Suddenly a sidekick without a hero, the duck decides to ally himself with DJ, whether he likes it or not. Consequently, Daffy is on the scene when DJ discovers that his famous movie star father was Damian Drake, known for playing suave international spies onscreen, is actually a suave international spy in real life--and has been kidnapped by the evil insane nerdy, prancing villain known as Mr. Chairman of the equally nefarious Acme Corporation. It seems that Damian knows the whereabouts of the mysterious magical and powerful Blue Monkey Diamond, and the Chairman will do anything to get his hands on it! With Daffy in tow, DJ hits the road in a desperate attempt to outrace the evil Acme stooges to the diamond and save the world from their evil clutches. Unbeknownst to the two neo-spies, they are also being followed by VP Kate and Bugs--the studio brass has decided that the rabbit needs a comic foil after all, and Kate's job is on the line if she can't get Daffy back to work ASAP.

Shopgirl

Shopgirl

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-11-04

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (20625 Reviews)

Director:

Anand Tucker

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Steve Martin (novel)

Steve Martin (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Twenty-something native Vermonter Mirabelle Buttersfield, having recently graduated from college, is finding her new life in Los Angeles not quite what she was expecting or hoping. An aspiring artist, she is barely eking out a living working as a clerk at the women's evening gloves counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills and thus she can barely make the payments on her massive student loans. She treats her job with a certain distance, often daydreaming as she watches the life of the rich as they shop at the store. She has made no friends, including from among her Saks colleagues, and thus lives a solitary existence, which does not assist in her dealing with her chronic clinical depression. So it is with some surprise that two men with a romantic interest in her enter her life almost simultaneously. The first is poor slacker Jeremy, who works as an amplifier salesman/font designer. Mirabelle continues dating Jeremy as only a relief to her solitary life, as Jeremy doesn't seem to understand how to treat her in the way she wants. Shortly after meeting Jeremy, she meets the second, wealthy fifty-something Ray Porter, who is the antithesis of Jeremy in almost every respect, including the fact that Ray is unwilling or unable to commit to Mirabelle, about which he is up front to her. To Mirabelle, that lack of commitment from Ray seems to be in name only, and as such she increasingly sees Ray as her boyfriend. Mirabelle has to decide if a long term future is either in the cards with Jeremy or Ray, which is made all the more complicated by an action by Jeremy to an off the cuff comment that she makes to him.

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-03-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (28711 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Peter Sanderson is a divorced, straight-laced, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife and can't figure out what he did wrong to make her leave him. However, Peter's trying to move on, and he's smitten with a brainy, bombshell barrister he's been chatting with online. However, when she comes to his house for their first face-to-face, she isn't refined, isn't Ivy League, and isn't even a lawyer. Instead, it's Charlene, a prison escapee who's proclaiming her innocence and wants Peter to help her clear her name. But Peter wants nothing to do with her, prompting the loud and shocking Charlene to turn Peter's perfectly ordered life upside down, jeopardizing his effort to get back with his wife and woo a billion dollar client.

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (69130 Reviews)

Director:

Shawn Levy

Genres:

ComedyFamily

Cast:

Writer:

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. (novel)

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (novel)

Craig Titley (screen story)

Sam Harper (screenplay)

Joel Cohen (screenplay)

Alec Sokolow (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The Bakers, a family of 14, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart.

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-02-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Czech Republic

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (60995 Reviews)

Director:

Shawn Levy

Cast:

Writer:

Len Blum (screenplay)

Steve Martin (screenplay)

Len Blum (story)

Michael Saltzman (story)

Maurice Richlin (characters)

Blake Edwards (characters)

Fullplot:

When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery.

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-12-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (39077 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Cast:

Writer:

Sam Harper

Craig Titley (characters)

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. (novel)

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (novel)

Fullplot:

Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy.

The Pink Panther 2

The Pink Panther 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-02-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (30058 Reviews)

Director:

Harald Zwart

Cast:

Writer:

Scott Neustadter (screenplay)

Michael H. Weber (screenplay)

Steve Martin (screenplay)

Scott Neustadter (story)

Michael H. Weber (story)

Maurice Richlin (characters)

Blake Edwards (characters)

Fullplot:

After having been rewarded for solving the mystery of the Pink Panther Diamond, inspector Jacques Clouseau has been assigned to minor tasks by his boss inspector Dreyfus so as not to have him in his way anymore. Unfortunately, the famous diamond has once again been stolen as have many other artifacts in a series of burglaries around the world. His past success will enable inspector Clouseau to be part of the dream team comprised of the greatest detectives of the affected countries, where he will be able to display his numerous talents across the world.

It's Complicated

It's Complicated

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-12-25

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA, Japan

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (65237 Reviews)

Director:

Nancy Meyers

Fullplot:

During his son's college graduation, Jane hooks up with her ex-husband, Jake, who's married to a younger woman. As if being your ex's mistress isn't tough enough, Jane also finds herself drawn to Adam, a smitten architect.

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