Wallace Shawn
Actor
- Starting Over (1979)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen…
- James L. Brooks scripted this classic breakup comedy with Burt Reynolds and Jill Clayburgh (fresh off AN UNMARRIED WOMAN) as divorcees trying to get…
- My Dinner with Andre (1981)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory
- An honest exchange of philosophy transpires over dinner between an out–of–work playwright and a theatre director. Remarkably compelling…
- Saigon - Year of the Cat (1983)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, E.G. Marshall…
- Potent romantic drama set during the South Vietnam collapse with Dench as a depressed loan officer who falls into the arms of CIA interrogator…
- Lovesick (1983)
- Dir. Marshall Brickman
Feat. Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness…
- A psychiatrist who falls in love with a patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.
- Catholic Boys (Heaven Help Us) (1985)
- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Mary Stuart Masterson, John Heard, Donald Sutherland…
- Slight, but engaging comedy set around a group of Roman Catholic schoolboys and their misadventures with the opposite sex.
- Bedroom Window, The (1987)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Steve Guttenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Elizabeth McGovern…
- Steve Guttenberg becomes perilously entrapped in Hitchcockian mode.
- Princess Bride, The (1987)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin…
- An elaborate and whimsical fairytale told to a bedridden young boy conjures up images of good versus evil in a world of monsters, giants and…
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Mary Woronov, Ray Sharkey…
- This irreverant poke at Hollywood's upper–class has something to offend everyone, but its camp bad taste is kind of endearing. Jacqueline…
- Linguini Incident, The (1991)
- Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette, Eszter Balint…
- A largely forgotten, but mildly quirky comedy about an odd couple: a waitress (Arquette) who wants to be an escape–artist and a British barman…
- Meteor Man, The (1993)
- Dir. Robert Townsend
Feat. Robert Townsend, James Earl Jones, Bill Cosby…
- Black–American spoof of SUPERMAN doubles as a commentary on their urban crime problem. James Earl Jones, Bill Cosby, Luther Vandross help out…