Alan Arkin’s Typical Vibe
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Alan Arkin has 41 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Gattaca.
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Just to Be Sure
2017
Drama · Comedy

My Piece of the Pie
2011
Drama · Comedy

The Winning Season
2009
Comedy · Drama

Frances Ha
2013
Comedy · Drama

Brad's Status
2017
Comedy · Drama

Gloria
2013
Comedy · Drama

Sunny
2011
Drama · Comedy

There's No Place Like Home
2018
Comedy · Drama

Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Netflix · Included

The Last Unicorn
1982 · Movie · Voice
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

Escape from Sobibor
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

Jakob the Liar
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Sunshine Cleaning
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Max · Included

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Dir. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton · With Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.
Dir. Andrew Niccol · With Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Dir. Terence Young · With Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.
Dir. Bruno Barreto · With Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres

A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.
Dir. David Frankel · With Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Tammy Grimes

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Dir. Ben Affleck · With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.
Dir. James Foley · With Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin

Hitman Martin Blank becomes a moving target after he rebuffs a fellow assassin's invitation to form a union. On the advice of his quirky assistant and neurotic psychiatrist, Martin begrudgingly heads out to Grosse Pointe, Michigan for his ten-year high school reunion, where he soon comes across the woman he jilted on prom night.
Dir. George Armitage · With John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Dir. Jack Gold · With Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer

In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
Dir. Peter Kassovitz · With Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
Dir. Christine Jeffs · With Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn

The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.
Dir. Raymond De Felitta · With Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait

Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin

A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.
Dir. Kyle Balda · With Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin

A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
Dir. Jill Sprecher · With Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Billy Crudup

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin

A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
Dir. Joe Johnston · With Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Dir. Zach Braff · With Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Dir. Tamara Jenkins · With Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin

In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.
Dir. Craig Gillespie · With Jon Hamm, Pitobash, Suraj Sharma

When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field agent. He is partnered with veteran and capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil world-domination plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?
Dir. Peter Segal · With Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson

After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in crime, Doc and Hirsch, for a night on the town. As the three men revisit old haunts, reflect on their glory days and try to make up for lost time, one wrestles with a terrible quandary: Doc has orders to kill Val, and time is running out for him to figure out a way out of his dilemma.
Dir. Fisher Stevens · With Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall

Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.
Dir. David Dobkin · With Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Mann

A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Dir. Rebecca Miller · With Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves
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