Search results for "Michael Ritchie"
A Simple Wish

A Simple Wish

A Simple Wish
IMDb: 5.3
86

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her “simple wish” – that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would…

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks
IMDb: 5.6
110

Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter Luiss and Ben’s son Matt by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associate, knowing they will resist their…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Scout

The Scout

The Scout
IMDb: 5.4
101

When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm…

Genre: Comedy
Cops & Robbersons

Cops & Robbersons

Cops & Robbersons
IMDb: 5.2
93

Hard-as-nails cop Jake Stone moves in with the Robbersons so he can watch a hitman who has moved in next door. The hitman is one thing, but can he survive…

Diggstown

Diggstown

Diggstown
IMDb: 6.9
98

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Fletch Lives

Fletch Lives

Fletch Lives
IMDb: 6.1
95

Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he’s checking out a tumbledown mansion he’s inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Couch Trip

The Couch Trip

The Couch Trip
IMDb: 5.8
97

The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he’s the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.

Genre: Comedy
Wildcats

Wildcats

Wildcats
IMDb: 6.1
106

Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach’s position becomes vacant, she applies for…

Genre: Comedy
The Golden Child

The Golden Child

The Golden Child
IMDb: 6
94

After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind’s fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los…

Fletch

Fletch

Fletch
IMDb: 6.9
98

When investigative reporter Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he’s approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Survivors

The Survivors

The Survivors
IMDb: 5.8
103

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Island

The Island

The Island
IMDb: 5.3
114

David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and his son arrive…

Divine Madness

Divine Madness

Divine Madness
IMDb: 7
95

Divine Madness is a 1980 concert film directed by Michael Ritchie, and featuring Bette Midler during her 1979 concert at Pasadena’s Civic Auditorium. The 94-minute film features Midler’s stand-up comedy…

Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough
IMDb: 5.9
108

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner’s daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Bad News Bears

The Bad News Bears

The Bad News Bears
IMDb: 7.3
102

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Smile

Smile

Smile
IMDb: 7.1
113

It’s time again for California’s “Young American Miss” beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on…

Genre: Comedy
Prime Cut

Prime Cut

Prime Cut
IMDb: 6.7
84

A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Candidate

The Candidate

The Candidate
IMDb: 7
110

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Downhill Racer

Downhill Racer

Downhill Racer
IMDb: 6.3
101

An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.

Genre: Drama