Movies Starring Austin Pendleton
Lovely by Surprise
Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Austin Pendleton, Dallas Roberts, Reg Rogers, Kate Burton, Richard Masur, Jimmy Crothswait, Glenn Fitzgerald, Boyd Gaines, Wink Rush, Donald Meyers
DIRECTOR:Kirt Gunn
A writer attempting to finish her first novel seeks the wisdom of her mentor and ex-lover in hopes of overcoming a crippling case of writer's block in writer/director Kurt Gunn's enigmatic thriller. Marian (Carrie Preston) is writing an absurdist novel about a par of brothers living in a landlocked boat when the ideas simply stop coming. Advised that she could overcome her problem by simply killing off the protagonist, Marian discovers that task is easier said than done when the willful character escapes the pages of her book and begins wrecking havoc in her personal life.
Christmas with the Kranks
Their Christmas will turn the town upside down!
Julie Gonzalo, Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth Franz, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin, Jake Busey, Austin Pendleton, Tom Poston, René Lavan, Caroline Rhea, Felicity Huffman, Patrick Breen
DIRECTOR:Allen portrays Luther Krank who, fed up with the commerciality of Christmas, decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.
Finding Nemo
71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. That's a lot of space to find one fish.
Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Vicki Lewis, Joe Ranft, Geoffrey Rush, Elizabeth Perkins, Nicholas Bird, Bob Peterson
DIRECTORS:Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo's first day of school, he's captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office's fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist's niece's new pet.
Uptown Girls
They're about to teach each other how to act their age.
Brittany Murphy, Donald Faison, Austin Pendleton, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Heather Locklear
DIRECTOR:Molly Gunn (Murphy), the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray (Fanning), the oft ignored daughter of a music executive (Locklear) she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
Wishcraft
In this school, when you're marked absent, you won't be coming back.
Michael Weston, Alexandra Holden, Huntley Ritter, Austin Pendleton, A.J. Buckley, Meat Loaf, Gregory Cooke, Sam McMurray, Allyce Beasley, Scott Caudill, Charlie Talbert, Alexandra Breckenridge, Sara Downing, Evan Jones, Zelda Rubinstein
DIRECTOR:Danny Graves
A high school student named Brett Bumpers receives a mysterious package one day. He does not know who gave it to him, but after a while he finds out that the totem within the package can give him 3 wishes. When the most beautiful girl in school, Samantha, invites him to dance on the next day, he knows for sure that his first wish has come true. He uses the second one to make Samantha fall in love with him, but when someone starts killing students in the school, he realizes that it has something to do with the totem. Now it's his responsibility to save their lives.
A Beautiful Mind
He Saw The World In A Way No One Could Have Imagined.
Ed Harris, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany, Anthony Rapp, Judd Hirsch, Adam Goldberg, Josh Lucas, Jason Gray-Stanford, Austin Pendleton, Vivien Cardone, Jill M. Simon, Victor Steinbach, Tanya Clarke
DIRECTOR:A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
Sgt. Bilko
Dan Aykroyd, Daryl Mitchell, Steve Martin, Austin Pendleton, Phil Hartman, Glenne Headly, Max Casella, Eric Edwards, Dan Ferro, John Marshall Jones, Brian Leckner, John Ortiz, Pamela Adlon, Mitchell Whitfield, Chris Rock
DIRECTOR:This movie is a remake of the hit series which starred, Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko. In this movie, Bilko is played by Steve Martin. Bilko tuns the motor pool and has all sorts of scams going on like gambling, renting out military vehicles, and so on, which are all violations. However, his commanding officer, Colonel Hall overlooks them, cause he is more concerned about his future, cause a lot of bases are being closed, and the inspector, Major Thorn was on the verge of doing that. But when he heard that Bilko was on the base, he turned into a mad dog. It seems that Thorn was a "thorn" in Bilko's side many years ago but through a series of misunderstandings, Thorn was accused of carrying out or being the brains behind one of Bilko's schemes, he would be sent to Greenland and his career has not gone as he hoped it would and now wants revenge on Bilko.
My Cousin Vinny
Rambo. Terminator. Indiana Jones. Vinny Gambini.
Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne, Lane Smith, Austin Pendleton, Bruce McGill, Maury Chaykin, Paulene Myers, Raynor Scheine, James Rebhorn, Chris Ellis, Michael Simpson, Lou Walker
DIRECTOR:While heading for college, Bill and Stan are arrested in Alabama when circumstances point to them as having murdered a convenience store clerk. Unable to afford an attorney, they turn to Bill's cousin Vinny, a brash New Yorker who took six tries to pass his bar exam. Worse, until now he's only taken personal injury cases, none of which have gone to trial. Dragging along his even more abrasive fiancee Mona Lisa Vito, Vinny will have to straighten up fast, and keep out of jail himself, if he's going to win the case.
Short Circuit
Something wonderful has happened... Number Five is alive!
Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Ally Sheedy, Austin Pendleton, Brian McNamara
DIRECTOR:Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.
