Richard Benjamin
Director, Actor
- Westworld (1973)
- Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
- A theme–park where one experiences violent fantasies in perfect safety gradually goes haywire. Inspired idea would strike the big time for…
- House Calls (1978)
- Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney…
- Matthau plays a recent widower who attempts to make up for all the fidelity by womanizing he much as he can, before Glenda Jackson comes along and…
- Last Married Couple in America, The (1980)
- Dir. Gilbert Cates
Feat. George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin…
- A "happily married" Californian couple begin to doubt their 15 year marriage after their friends all divorce and pressure them to do the same.
- My Favourite Year (1982)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Jessica Harper, Mark Linn-Baker…
- An inventive, well–regarded 'backstage–comedy' based on the TV career of comedian Sid Caesar. Standing out among a handful of great…
- Racing with the Moon (1984)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage…
- A well–observed and resonant drama, about the last few days of boyhood for a couple of inductees into the US Marines in 1942. The cast all…
- City Heat (1984)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander…
- Effective self–parody from Eastwood and Reynolds as unlikable cops who team together to clean up gangster–ridden Kansas City in the…
- Money Pit, The (1986)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Tom Hanks, Shelley Long
- An often very funny 80s comedy about couple Tom Hanks’ and Shelley Long’s disastrous purchase of a home in Long Island that conceals a host of…
- Mermaids (1990)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Cher, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci…
- Cher plays the sexpot mom of square daughter Winona Ryder who aspires to be a nun. Slight but affecting tale set in small town '60s America, with Bob…
- Made in America (1993)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson
- Whoopi Goldberg is shocked to discover the 'sperm–donor' father of her daughter is in fact brash, white cowpoke Ted Danson.
- Mrs. Winterbourne (1995)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Ricki Lake
- Ricki Lake shines as a pregnant white–trash waitress who is mistaken for a society widow by hoity matriarch Shirley Maclaine. Short on laughs,…
- Laughter On the 23rd Floor (2000)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Mackenzie Astin, Nathan Lane
- Taken from a semi–autobiographical Neil Simon play, concerning his experiences as a young TV writer working for Sid Caeser, this cranks out…