8 Movies Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-11-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (87966 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Charles Addams (characters)

Caroline Thompson

Larry Wilson

Fullplot:

The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?

Addams Family Values

Addams Family Values

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-11-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (51510 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Charles Addams (characters)

Paul Rudnick

Fullplot:

On any day of the week, you could expect a newborn baby to be nurtured and loved by his older sister. Except, of course, if it's Wednesday. Pubert is the latest addition to the Addams family and, to prevent sibling rivalry escalating to fratricide, Wednesday and Pugsley are shipped off to summer camp and a nanny is hired. Debby Jellinsky is great with wrinkling baldies, which makes her the perfect nanny for Pubert and the unlikely wife of Uncle Fester. The question is..."Is she grave-digging or gold-digging?"

Get Shorty

Get Shorty

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-10-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (59811 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Elmore Leonard (novel)

Scott Frank (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.

Men in Black

Men in Black

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-07-02

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (363455 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedySci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Lowell Cunningham (comic)

Ed Solomon (screen story)

Ed Solomon (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based off of the comic book. Unbeknownst to other people, there is a private agency code named MiB. This agency is some kind of extra terrestrial surveillance corporation. Then, one of the agency's finest men only going by the name "K", is recruiting for a new addition to the agency. He has chosen James Edwards of the N.Y.P.D. Then, one day, a flying saucer crashes into Earth. This was an alien a part of the "Bug" race. He takes the body of a farmer and heads to New York. He is searching for a super energy source called "The Galaxy". Now, Agents J and K must stop the bug before it can escape with the galaxy.

Wild Wild West

Wild Wild West

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-06-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.8 (122655 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jim Thomas (story)

John Thomas (story)

S.S. Wilson (screenplay)

Brent Maddock (screenplay)

Jeffrey Price (screenplay)

Peter S. Seaman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington D.C. to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines.

Men in Black II

Men in Black II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-07-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (242445 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Lowell Cunningham (comic book "Malibu Comics")

Robert Gordon (story)

Robert Gordon (screenplay)

Barry Fanaro (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. And now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay-who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the Men In Black, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy-to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

RV

RV

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-04-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Germany, USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (43457 Reviews)

Fullplot:

The executive Bob Munro is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory hired the Stanford's geek Laird to work in their soda's company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie Munro, his teenage daughter Cassie Munro and his young son Carl Munro to spend vacations in Hawaii, but Todd demands him to prepare a presentation and attend a business meeting with the owners of a family company in a merging operation scheduled in the same period. Bob hides the truth to his family, rents a recreational vehicle and tries to convince his dysfunctional family that a road trip to the Colorado Rocky Mountains would be good to bring old values back to their family. After many incidents and while in the trailers parking area, the rookie Bob is helped by the bizarre but friendly Gornicke family. They escape from the Gornickes and initiate a journey of difficulties and leaning, retrieving their forgotten family bonds.

Men in Black 3

Men in Black 3

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (243311 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Etan Cohen

Lowell Cunningham (based on the Malibu comic by)

Fullplot:

After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.

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