Michael Ritchie

Director, Actor

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Downhill Racer (1969): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv; A pre–HOOSIERS Gene Hackman dons the coach's whistle in this Winter Olympics drama, with Robert Redford providing the film’s clash of…
Candidate, The (1972): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Robert Redford; Incisive political satire sees idealist Robert Redford run for the Senate, but finds his good intentions usurped by the system and the needs of…
Prime Cut (1972): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek…; Gritty underworld thriller set in the fields and meat–packhouses of Kansas, where mob enforcer Marvin is sent to collect money from local…
Bad News Bears (1976): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow; Delightfully cynical baseball comedy starring Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex–baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team…
Semi-Tough (1977): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh…; A running back and wide receiver scrimmage over the adorable Jill Clayburgh in this loose–lipped satire of professional sport by way of the…
Island, The (1980): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Michael Caine, David Warner; Underrated high–seas adventure, based on the novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, concerning an investigate reporter and his son who crash land…
Fletch (1985): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson…; Arguably considered his best feature comedy, Chevy Chase plays the titular newspaper reporter with a penchant for changing his identity who stumbles…
Wildcats (1986): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz; Feel–good football flick with Goldie Hawn as the ambitious coach who takes on an unlikely team of misfits from an inner–Chicago school.
Golden Child, The (1986): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance; Hot off BEVERLY HILLS COP, Eddie Murphy plays a private detective specializing in missing children who is charged with finding a special child whom…
Couch Trip, The (1988): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon…; Aykroyd plays a mental patient on the loose in Los Angeles masquerading as a renowned psychiatrist. Agreeably sends up Hollywood's therapy obsessions…
Fletch Lives (1989): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, R. Lee Ermey; Chevy Chase returns as the reckless reporter who resorts to his trademark bag of silly disguises when murder and misadventure follow his inheritance…
Midnight Sting (Diggstown) (1993): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. James Woods, Louis Jr. Gossett, Heather Graham; This crowd–pleaser delivers with Woods in usual form as a smarmy ex–con fraudster who orchestrates a boxing scam with help from boxing…
Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom (1993): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Holly Hunter; Holly Hunter won an Emmy for her portrayal of a woman who would go to any length to ensure her daughter's place on the high school cheerleading team.…
Trial and Error (1997): Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Michael Ritchie, Charlize Theron…; Big city lawyer Jeff Daniels and his actor buddy Michael Ritchie (from TV's Seinfeld) wind up having to swap identities to defend a case against a…
Simple Wish, A (1997): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Mara Wilson, Martin Short, Kathleen Turner; Mara Wilson's (MATILDA) simple wish for a fairy–godmother upturns the blundering Martin Short, who helps/hinders her crusade to rescue her…

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