3 Movies Directed by Bob Odenkirk

Melvin Goes to Dinner

Melvin Goes to Dinner

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-12-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1931 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Odenkirk

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Blieden (play)

Michael Blieden (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Award-winning comedy about a lonely young man who finds himself at a restaurant with two strangers and his best friend.

The Brothers Solomon

The Brothers Solomon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-09-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (9128 Reviews)

Director:

Bob Odenkirk

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

John and Dean Solomon may have Ph.D.s, but they're socially inept after their widowed father home-schooled them in Antarctica. When their beloved dad falls into a coma, they hatch a plan to revive him using a positive emotional shock - giving him a grandchild. They find a surrogate mom through Craig's list - she's Janine, a penniless local musician, with a large, intimidating boyfriend, James. The pregnancy gives the Solomons nine months to learn to be parents. In a side story, John pursues Tara, a neighbor who takes care of their dad when John and Dean are out; but she has no interest in John. Can the boys keep Janine and James happy, keep dad alive, and learn to be dads?

Movie 43

Movie 43

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-01-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.3 (72753 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Rocky Russo

Jeremy Sosenko

Ricky Blitt

Rocky Russo (screenplay)

Jeremy Sosenko (screenplay)

Bill O'Malley (story)

Will Graham

Jack Kukoda

Rocky Russo

Jeremy Sosenko

Matt Portenoy

Rocky Russo (screenplay)

Jeremy Sosenko (screenplay)

Claes Kjellstrom (story)

Jonas Wittenmark (story)

Tobias Carlson (story)

Will Carlough

Jonathan van Tulleken

Elizabeth Shapiro

Patrik Forsberg

Olle Sarri

Jacob Fleisher

Greg Pritikin

Rocky Russo

Jeremy Sosenko

James Gunn

Fullplot:

Ineffectual, 'has-been' film-maker (Dennis Quaid) swindles his way into an interview with a film executive (Greg Kinnear) in order to pitch an outrageous and controversial comedy manuscript. After pitching the first of his thirteen offbeat fables, the dejected artist forces the rest of his disjointed allegory on the executive at gunpoint. He tells stories of a woman on a blind date with a man who has testicles growing from his neck, in another a smitten woman offers her neck to her boyfriend to 'poop' on -as a sign of commitment and love. In yet another two parents take home-schooling to a whole new level of indecency, striving to give their isolated teenage son all the 'regular' torment and humiliation of puberty by bullying, peer-pressuring and even seducing him themselves. An off-beat, elephant-in-the-room type film.

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