
Now, my favorite movies of all time. Once again, I do not claim this as a list of the best movies of all time. I'm just a regular schlump who likes well-made movies that entertain me. Highbrow, lowbrow, doesn't matter. If I were stranded on a desert island with only a DVD player, an electrical outlet to plug it into, and a stack of movies, these are the ones I'd want. These are listed in alphabetical order, not order of preference.
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Title |
Director |
Writer(s) |
Year |
Stars |
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Adaptation |
Spike Jonze |
Charlie Kaufman |
2002 |
Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton |
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All You Need Is Cash |
Eric Idle & Gary Weis |
Eric Idle |
1978 |
Eric Idle, Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar, John Halsey, Terence Bayler, John Belushi, Michael Palin |
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Almost Famous |
Cameron Crowe |
Cameron Crowe |
2000 |
Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Frances McDormand, Noah Taylor, Zooey Deschanel, Terry Chen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Fedevich, Fairuza Balk, Anna Paquin, Jimmy Fallon, Mark Kozelek, Bijou Phillips |
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Amadeus |
Milos Forman |
Peter Shaffer |
1984 |
Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Jeffrey Jones, Christine Ebersole, Charles Kay |
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American Splendor |
Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini |
Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, based on graphic novels by Harvey Pekar & Joyce Brabner |
2003 |
Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, James Urbaniak, Madylin Sweeten, Harvey Pekar, Earl Billings |
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Anastasia |
Don Bluth & Gary Goldman |
Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White |
1997 |
Voices: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Bernadette Peters, Hank Azaria, Kirsten Dunst, Angela Lansbury |
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Animal House |
John Landis |
Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Harold Ramis |
1978 |
John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst, John Vernon, Mark Metcalf, DeWayne Jessie, Verna Bloom, Cesare Danova, Sarah Holcomb, Peter Riegert, Mary Louise Weller, James Daughton, Bruce McGill, James Widdoes, Kevin Bacon, Donald Sutherland |
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Arsenic and Old Lace |
Frank Capra |
Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, based on the play by Joseph Kesselring |
1944 |
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, John Alexander, Peter Lorre, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, Grant Mitchell |
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Back To The Future |
Robert Zemeckis |
Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale |
1985 |
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Crispin Glover, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, James Tolkan, Harry Waters Jr. |
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Being John Malkovich |
Spike Jonze |
Charlie Kaufman |
1999 |
John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, Ned Bellamy, Charlie Sheen |
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Big Fish |
Tim Burton |
John August, based on the novel by Daniel Wallace |
2003 |
Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew McGrory, Alison Lohman, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Ada Tai, Arlene Tai, David Denman, Loudon Wainwright, Missi Pyle, Deep Roy, Hailey Anne Nelson |
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The Big Lebowski |
Joel Coen |
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen |
1998 |
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, John Turturro, Peter Stormare, Flea, Torsten Voges |
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Blazing Saddles |
Mel Brooks |
Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger |
1974 |
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens, Mel Brooks, John Hillerman, David Huddleston, Alex Karras, George Furth, Liam Dunn, Jack Starrett |
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The Blues Brothers |
John Landis |
Dan Aykroyd & John Landis |
1980 |
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, Murphy Dunne, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Kathleen Freeman, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Henry Gibson, Lou Marini, Carrie Fisher, Charles Napier, Jeff Morris, Twiggy Lawson |
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Boogie Nights |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
1997 |
Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, Don Cheadle, Robert Ridgely, Philip Baker Hall, Alfred Molina |
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Brazil |
Terry Gilliam |
Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Tom Stoppard |
1985 |
Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Robert DeNiro, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist, Jim Broadbent |
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Breakfast At Tiffany's |
Blake Edwards |
George Axelrod, based on the novel by Truman Capote |
1961 |
Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam |
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The Brother From Another Planet |
John Sayles |
John Sayles |
1984 |
Joe Morton, Caroline Aaron, David Babcock, Alvin Alexis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Reggie Rock Bythewood, John Sayles, David Strathairn |
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Caddyshack |
Harold Ramis |
Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney |
1980 |
Michael O'Keefe, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, Cindy Morgan, Sarah Holcomb, Scott Colomby, Dan Resin, Henry Wilcoxon, Brian Doyle-Murray, Thomas A. Carlin |
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Casablanca |
Michael Curtiz |
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch & Casey Robinson, based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison |
1942 |
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Madeleine LeBeau, Joy Page, John Qualen |
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Chaplin |
Richard Attenborough |
William Boyd, Bryan Forbes & William Goldman, based on sources by David Robinson, Charles Chaplin and Diana Hawkins |
1992 |
Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Kline, Moira Kelly, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Hopkins, Milla Jovovich, Diane Lane, Penelope Ann Miller, Marisa Tomei, Paul Rhys, James Woods |
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A Clockwork Orange |
Stanley Kubrick |
Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess |
1971 |
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, Michael Bates, Adrienne Corri, John Clive, James Marcus, Clive Francis, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Miriam Karlin, Sheila Raynor, Philip Stone, Aubrey Morris, Michael Tarn, David Prowse |
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The Commitments |
Alan Parker |
Dick Clement, Ian LeFrenais & Roddy Doyle, based on the novel by Roddy Doyle |
1991 |
Robert Arkins, Johnny Murphy, Michael Aherne, Andrew Strong, Angeline Ball, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey, Colm Meaney, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Kenneth McCluskey, Bronagh Gallagher |
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Conan the Barbarian |
John Milius |
John Milius, Oliver Stone & Edward Summer, based on stories by Robert E. Howard |
1982 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Max von Sydow, Gerry Lopez, Ben Davidson, Mako, William Smith, Valerie Quennessen |
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The Court Jester |
Melvin Frank & Norman Panama |
Melvin Frank & Norman Panama |
1956 |
Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Noel Drayton, John Carradine, Michael Pate, Alan Napier |
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Cyrano de Bergerac |
Michael Gordon |
Carl Foreman, based on the play by Edmond Rostand |
1950 |
Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Ralph Clanton, Morris Carnovsky, Edgar Barrier, Virginia Farmer, Lloyd Corrigan, Elena Verdugo |
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Dark City |
Alex Proyas |
Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs & David S. Goyer |
1998 |
Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson, Bruce Spence, Melissa George |
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Dogma |
Kevin Smith |
Kevin Smith |
1999 |
Linda Fiorentino, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, George Carlin, Bud Cort, Alanis Morissette, Janeane Garofalo, Brian O'Halloran |
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Dr. Strangelove |
Stanley Kubrick |
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George, based on a novel by Peter George |
1964 |
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones |
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Edward Scissorhands |
Tim Burton |
Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson |
1990 |
Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Alan Arkin, O-Lan Jones, Vincent Price |
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Ed Wood |
Tim Burton |
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, based on a book by Rudolph Grey |
1994 |
Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jeffrey Jones, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Lisa Marie, George Steele, G.D. Spradlin |
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Fail Safe |
Sidney Lumet |
Walter Bernstein, based on the novel by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler |
1964 |
Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Dan O'Herlihy, Fritz Weaver, Ed Binns, Frank Overton |
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Fight Club |
David Fincher |
Jim Uhls, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk |
1999 |
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier, George Maguire, David Andrews |
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The Fisher King |
Terry Gilliam |
Richard LaGravenese |
1991 |
Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, David Hyde Pierce |
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Forbidden Planet |
Fred M. Wilcox |
Irving Block and Allen Adler |
1956 |
Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, Earl Holliman, Richard Anderson, George Wallace, Marvin Miller (voice) |
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Forrest Gump |
Robert Zemeckis |
Eric Roth, based on the novel by Winston Groom |
1994 |
Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson |
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Gandhi |
Richard Attenborough |
John Briley |
1982 |
Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, John Mills, Roshan Seth, Alyque Padamsee |
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Ghost World |
Terry Zwigoff |
Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff, based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes |
2001 |
Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson, Ileana Douglas, Brad Renfro, Bob Balaban, Teri Garr, Charles C. Stevenson Jr. |
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The Godfather |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo, based on the novel by Mario Puzo |
1972 |
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, John Cazale, Richard S. Castellano, Abe Vigoda, Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, John Marley, Alex Rocco |
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The Godfather, Part II |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo, based on the novel by Mario Puzo |
1974 |
Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, G.D. Spradlin, Richard Bright, Abe Vigoda |
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The Graduate |
Mike Nichols |
Calder Willingham & Buck Henry, based on the novel by Charles Webb |
1967 |
Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Walter Brooke, Elizabeth Wilson |
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Hair |
Milos Forman |
Michael Weller, based on the play by Gerome Ragni & James Rado |
1979 |
John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Don Dacus, Dorsey Wright |
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Heavy Metal |
Gerald Potterton |
Len Blum & Daniel Goldberg, based on stories by Richard Corben, Juan Gimenez, Bernie Wrightson, Angus McKie, Dan O'Bannon, Thomas Warkentin, and Cornelius Cole |
1981 |
Voices: John Candy, Richard Romanus, Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, Al Waxman, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, Zal Yanovsky, Douglas Kenney, Martin Lavut, John Vernon |
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In The Heat Of The Night |
Norman Jewison |
Stirling Silliphant, based on the novel by John Ball |
1967 |
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Larry Gates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, William Schallert |
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The Iron Giant |
Brad Bird |
Brad Bird & Tim McCanlies, based on the story by Ted Hughes |
1999 |
Voices: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, James Gammon, Christopher McDonald |
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
Stanley Kramer |
Tania Rose & William Rose |
1963 |
Jonathan Winters, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Dick Shawn, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Peter Falk, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Jim Backus, Jimmy Durante, William Demarest, Paul Ford, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner |
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Kill Bill (Vols. 1 & 2) |
Quentin Tarantino |
Quentin Tarantino |
2003, 2004 |
Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, Sonny Chiba, Gordon Liu, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Michael Parks, Perla Haney-Jardine |
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Labyrinth |
Jim Henson |
Dennis Lee, Jim Henson, Terry Jones, Elaine May |
1986 |
Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie, Brian Henson (voice), Ron Mueck (voice), Dave Goelz (voice), David Shaughnessy (voice), Frank Oz (voice), Toby Froud |
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The Last Emperor |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
Mark Peploe & Bernardo Bertolucci |
1987 |
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dennis Dun, Lisa Lu, Jade Go, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa |
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Lord of the Dance |
David Mallet |
Michael Flatley (choreographer) |
1997 |
Michael Flatley, Bernadette Flynn, Daire Nolan, Gillian Norris, Helen Egan, Anne Buckley, Mairead Nesbitt, Cora Smyth |
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The Lord of the Rings Part I: The Fellowship of the Ring |
Peter Jackson |
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien |
2001 |
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving |
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The Lord of the Rings Part II: The Two Towers |
Peter Jackson |
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien |
2002 |
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Bernard Hill, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Miranda Otto, Liv Tyler, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lee, David Wenham, Karl Urban, Hugo Weaving |
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The Lord of the Rings Part III: The Return of the King |
Peter Jackson |
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien |
2003 |
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Bernard Hill, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Miranda Otto, Liv Tyler, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan, David Wenham, John Noble, Hugo Weaving |
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Mad Max |
George Miller |
James McCausland and George Miller |
1979 |
Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Joanne Samuel, Roger Ward, Tim Burns, Steve Bisley, Sheila Florance, Max Fairchild, Reg Evans |
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome |
George Miller and George Ogilvie |
Terry Hayes and George Miller |
1985 |
Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Tina Turner, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto, Paul Larsson, Adam Cockburn, Angry Anderson, Justine Clarke, Helen Buday |
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Man On The Moon |
Milos Forman |
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski |
1999 |
Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti, Courtney Love, Vincent Schiavelli, Jerry Lawler, Gerry Robert Byrne, Gerry Becker, Leslie Lyles |
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Manos: The Hands of Fate [Mystery Science Theater 3000 version] |
Hal Warren (movie); Jim Mallon (MST3K segments) |
Hal Warren (movie); Michael J. Nelson, Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Paul Chaplin, Mary Jo Pehl, Kevin Murphy, Bridget Jones (MST3K segments) |
1966/1993 |
Movie: Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Mahree, Hal Warren, Stephanie Nielson, Sherry Proctor, Mary-Robin Redd, Jackey Neyman; MST3K segments: Joel Hodgson, Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Michael J. Nelson |
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Mary Poppins |
Robert Stevenson |
Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on the stories by P.L. Travers |
1964 |
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Ed Wynn, Reta Shaw, Reginald Owen |
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The Matrix |
Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski |
Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski |
1999 |
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano, Gloria Foster, Marcus Chong, Anthony Ray Parker, Matt Doran, Belinda McClory, Julian Arahanga, Paul Goddard, Robert Taylor |
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Men In Black |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
Ed Solomon, based on the comic book by Lowell Cunningham |
1997 |
Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Siobhan Fallon |
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Miracle On 34th Street |
George Seaton |
George Seaton, based on the story by Valentine Davies |
1947 |
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Philip Tonge, Porter Hall, Gene Lockhart, Jerome Cowan, William Frawley, Harry Antrim, Alvin Greenman, James Seay |
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Modern Times |
Charles Chaplin |
Charles Chaplin |
1936 |
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Tiny Sandford, Henry Bergman, Stanley Blystone, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia, Murdock MacQuarrie |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones |
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin |
1975 |
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth, Neil Innes, John Young |
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Much Ado About Nothing |
Kenneth Branagh |
Kenneth Branagh, based on the play by William Shakespeare |
1993 |
Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Briers, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean Leonard, Brian Blessed, Andy Hockley, Ben Elton, Imelda Staunton, Jimmy Yuill |
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Murder By Death |
Robert Moore |
Neil Simon |
1976 |
Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Truman Capote, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, James Coco, James Cromwell, Estelle Winwood, Richard Narita, Nancy Walker |
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The Music Man |
Morton DaCosta |
Marion Hargrove, based on the play by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey |
1962 |
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Paul Ford, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Hermione Gingold, Timmy Everett, Susan Luckey, Ron Howard, Monique Vermont, Harry Hickox |
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A Night At The Opera |
Sam Wood |
James Kevin McGuinness, George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Al Boasberg, Buster Keaton |
1935 |
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones, Sig Ruman, Walter Woolf King |
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Night of the Hunter |
Charles Laughton |
James Agee & Charles Laughton, based on the novel by Davis Grubb |
1955 |
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Evelyn Varden, James Gleason, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castillo |
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Nobody's Fool |
Robert Benton |
Robert Benton, based on the novel by Richard Russo |
1994 |
Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gene Saks, Josef Sommer, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen |
2000 |
George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Charles Durning, Chris Thomas King, Daniel von Bargen, Michael Badalucco, Wayne Duvall, Frank Collison, Quinn Gasaway, Del Pentecost, Lee Weaver, Stephen Root |
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The Odd Couple |
Gene Saks |
Neil Simon |
1968 |
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Herb Edelman, John Fiedler, David Sheiner, Larry Haines, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley |
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On The Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
Budd Schulberg, based on articles by Malcolm Johnson |
1954 |
Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, John Hamilton, James Westerfield, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, Arthur Keegan |
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The Pink Panther |
Blake Edwards |
Maurice Richlin and Blake Edwards |
1963 |
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Brenda De Banzie |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
Gore Verbinski |
Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, based on a story by Elliott, Rossio, Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert |
2003 |
Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Davenport |
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Pleasantville |
Gary Ross |
Gary Ross |
1998 |
Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, Don Knotts, J.T. Walsh, Marley Shelton, Jane Kaczmarek, Paul Walker |
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The Princess Bride |
Rob Reiner |
William Goldman |
1987 |
Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, Chris Sarandon, Andre the Giant, Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Peter Falk, Fred Savage |
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Princess Mononoke |
Hayao Miyazaki |
Hayao Miyzaki and Neil Gaiman (English screenplay) |
1997 |
Voices: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith, Billy Bob Thornton, John DeMita, Keith David |
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The Producers |
Mel Brooks |
Mel Brooks |
1968 |
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Lee Meredith, Christopher Hewett, Dick Shawn, Renee Taylor, Andreas Voutsinas |
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Pulp Fiction |
Quentin Tarantino |
Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary |
1994 |
Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Maria de Medeiros, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Greene, Angela Jones |
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Quidam |
David Mallet |
various |
1999 |
The performers of Cirque du Soleil |
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The Quiet Man |
John Ford |
Frank S. Nugent, based on a story by Maurice Walsh |
1952 |
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, Arthur Shields, Eileen Crowe, Francis Ford, James Lilburn |
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Raiders Of The Lost Ark |
Steven Spielberg |
Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas and Philip Kaufman |
1981 |
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Lacey, Denholm Elliott, Alfred Molina |
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Raising Arizona |
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen |
1987 |
Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Frances McDormand, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Sam McMurray, T.J. Kuhn |
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The Road Warrior |
George Miller |
Terry Hayes, George Miller & Brian Hannant |
1981 |
Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Kjell Nilsson, Max Phipps, Vernon Wells, Emil Minty |
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Scrooge |
Ronald Neame |
Leslie Bricusse & Michael Medwin, based on the story by Charles Dickens |
1970 |
Albert Finney, David Collings, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Michael Medwin, Paddy Stone, Mary Peach, Frances Cuka, Richard Beaumont, Anton Rodgers, Laurence Naismith, Suzanne Neve |
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The Secret of Roan Inish |
John Sayles |
John Sayles, based on the story by Rosalie K. Fry |
1994 |
Jeni Courtney, Dave Duffy, Mick Lally, Eileen Colgan, Richard Sheridan, Fergal McElherron, John Lynch, Brendan Conroy, Cillian Byrne, Susan Lynch |
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The Shawshank Redemption |
Frank Darabont |
Frank Darabont, based on the story by Stephen King |
1994 |
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore |
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The Sixth Sense |
M. Night Shyamalan |
M. Night Shyamalan |
1999 |
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Glenn Fitzgerald, Trevor Morgan, Bruce Norris, Donnie Wahlberg, Olivia Williams, Mischa Barton |
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Sleeping Beauty |
Ken Peterson, Clyde Geronimi |
Milt Banta, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears and Ralph Wright, based on the story by Charles Perrault |
1959 |
Voices: Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley, Taylor Holmes, Bill Thompson |
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Sleepy Hollow |
Tim Burton |
Kevin Yagher & Andrew Kevin Walker, based on the story by Washington Irving |
1999 |
Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Christopher Lee, Ian McDiarmid, Christopher Walken, Richard Griffiths, Marc Pickering, Lisa Marie, Michael Gough, Steve Waddington, Peter Guinness, Martin Landau |
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Some Like It Hot |
Billy Wilder |
Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond, based on a story by Robert Thoeren & M. Logan |
1959 |
Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien |
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The Sound Of Music |
Robert Wise |
Ernest Lehman, based on the play by Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II |
1965 |
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Charmian Carr, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker, Duane Chase, Daniel Truhitte, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Ben Wright, Anna Lee, Norma Varden |
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut |
Trey Parker |
Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Pam Brady |
1999 |
Voices: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home |
Leonard Nimoy |
Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes & Nicholas Meyer |
1986 |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Catherine Hicks, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Mark Lenard, Robin Curtis, Majel Barrett, Jane Wyatt, Robert Ellenstein |
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Star Wars |
George Lucas |
George Lucas |
1977 |
Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, James Earl Jones (voice), David Prowse, Peter Cushing, Phil Brown, Shelagh Fraser |
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Sunset Boulevard |
Billy Wilder |
Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr. and Billy Wilder |
1950 |
Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Jack Webb, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough |
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The Sunshine Boys |
Herbert Ross |
Neil Simon |
1975 |
George Burns, Walter Matthau, Richard Benjamin, Carol DeLuise, Lee Meredith, Rosetta LeNoire, F. Murray Abraham, Howard Hesseman, Ron Rifkin |
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There's Something About Mary |
Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly |
Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly |
1998 |
Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Chris Elliott, Lee Evans, Lin Shaye, Jeffrey Tambor, Markie Post, Keith David, W. Earl Brown, Jonathan Richman |
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This Is Spinal Tap |
Rob Reiner |
Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner & Harry Shearer |
1984 |
Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Tony Hendra, Patrick Macnee, Fran Drescher, Paul Shaffer, Howard Hesseman, Fred Willard, Anjelica Houston, June Chadwick |
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Unbreakable |
M. Night Shyamalan |
M. Night Shyamalan |
2000 |
Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard |
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Waiting For Guffman |
Christopher Guest |
Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy |
1996 |
Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Eugene Levy, Bob Balaban, David Cross, Linda Kash, Brian Doyle-Murray |
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Wayne's World |
Penelope Spheeris |
Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner & Terry Turner |
1992 |
Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tia Carrere, Rob Lowe, Brian Doyle-Murray, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ed O'Neill |
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West Side Story |
Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise |
Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Ernest Lehman |
1961 |
Richard Beymer, Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno, Susan Oakes, Ned Glass, William Bramley, Simon Oakland, Jose De Vega |
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The Wizard of Oz |
Victor Fleming, Richard Thorpe & King Vidor |
Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf & others, based on the novel by L. Frank Baum |
1939 |
Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Frank Morgan, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, Charley Grapewin, Clara Blandick |
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You Can't Cheat An Honest Man |
George Marshall and Edward F. Cline |
W.C. Fields, Everett Freeman, Richard Mack, George Marion Jr., Henry Johnson, Lew Lipton, Manuel Seff, James Seymour |
1939 |
W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Constance Moore, John Arledge, James Bush, Thurston Hall, Mary Forbes, Edward Brophy, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson |
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Young Frankenstein |
Mel Brooks |
Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks |
1974 |
Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Cloris Leachman, Richard Haydn, Gene Hackman |
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You're Telling Me! |
Erle C. Kenton |
Walter DeLeon, Paul M. Jones & J.P. McEvoy, based on a story by Julian Street |
1934 |
W.C. Fields, Adrienne Ames, Buster Crabbe, Joan Marsh, Louise Carter, Kathleen Howard, Tammany Young |
My favorite actors: John Belushi, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Boyle, Kenneth Branagh, Marlon Brando, Jeff Bridges, George Burns, Steve Buscemi, Bruce Campbell, Jim Carrey, Charlie Chaplin, George Clooney, Chris Cooper, Rodney Dangerfield, Robert DeNiro, Johnny Depp, Danny DeVito, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Peter Falk, Marty Feldman, Jose Ferrer, W.C. Fields, Harrison Ford, Paul Ford, Morgan Freeman, Stephen Fry, Paul Giamatti, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, Christopher Guest, Alec Guinness, Tom Hanks, Phil Hartman, Dustin Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Jeffrey Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Andy Kaufman, Danny Kaye, Buster Keaton, Michael Keaton, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Ted Knight, Martin Landau, Laurel & Hardy, Hugh Laurie, Christopher Lee, Jack Lemmon, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, Karl Malden, John Malkovich, Kenneth Mars, the Marx Brothers, Walter Matthau, Malcolm McDowell, Ewan McGregor, Michael McKean, Ian McKellen, Zero Mostel, Tim Blake Nelson, Rick Moranis, Joe Morton, Bill Murray, Paul Newman, David Niven, Edward Norton, Al Pacino, Mandy Patinkin, Slim Pickens, Brad Pitt, Sidney Poitier, Jonathan Pryce, Alan Rickman, Stephen Root, Tim Roth, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Dick Shawn, Gary Sinise, Bruce Spence, Rod Steiger, Ben Stiller, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Orson Welles, Gene Wilder, Bruce Willis.
My favorite actresses: Gillian Anderson, Lucille Ball, Anne Bancroft, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Claudia Christian, Jennifer Connelly, Beverly D'Angelo, Bette Davis, Geena Davis, Laura Dern, Zooey Deschanel, Kirsten Dunst, Barbara Eden, Sally Field, Linda Fiorentino, Janeane Garofalo, Teri Garr, Heather Graham, Jennifer Grey, Goldie Hawn, Salma Hayek, Audrey Hepburn, Holly Hunter, Scarlett Johansson, Shirley Jones, Madeline Kahn, Carol Kane, Nicole Kidman, Lucy Lawless, Lucy Liu, Sophia Loren, Frances McDormand, Julianne Moore, Bebe Neuwirth, Julie Newmar, Renee O'Connor, Catherine O'Hara, Maureen O'Hara, Bernadette Peters, Parker Posey, Markie Post, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Diana Rigg, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon, Julia Sawalha, Maggie Smith, Barbara Stanwyck, Tilda Swinton, Jessica Tandy, Charlize Theron, Emma Thompson, Lea Thompson, Uma Thurman, Gina Torres, Kathleen Turner, Alexandra Tydings, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon, Sean Young, Catherine Zeta Jones.
My favorite directors: Paul Thomas Anderson, Brad Bird, Don Bluth, Mel Brooks, Tim Burton, Franka Capra, Charlie Chaplin, Joel & Ethan Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Blake Edwards, David Fincher, Milos Forman, Terry Gilliam, Christopher Guest, Jim Henson, Peter Jackson, Spike Jonze, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Alex Proyas, Rob Reiner, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Billy Wilder, Ed Wood, Terry Zwigoff.
My favorite screenwriters: Paul Thomas Anderson, Mel Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Ethan & Joel Coen, Cameron Crowe, Julius & Philip Epstein, Katherine Fugate, Terry Gilliam, William Goldman, Lawrence Kasdan, Charlie Kaufman, George S. Kaufman, S.J. Perelman, Harold Ramis, John Sayles, Neil Simon, Quentin Tarantino, Joss Whedon.