Austin Pendleton’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Austin Pendleton has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by My Cousin Vinny.
Recurring themes

Dennis the Menace
1993
Family · Comedy

I.Q.
1994
Comedy · Drama

Maybe... Maybe Not
1994
Comedy · Drama

The Wedding Singer
1998
Romance · Comedy

Housesitter
1992
Comedy · Romance

Nine Months
1995
Romance · Comedy

Overnight Delivery
1998
Comedy · Romance

The Little Rascals
1994
Romance · Comedy

Finding Nemo
2003 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

What's Up, Doc?
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Muppet Movie
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Disney+ · Included

Uptown Girls
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Prime Video · Included

The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Netflix · Included

She's Funny That Way
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 74%Prime Video · Included

Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Dir. Andrew Stanton · With Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
Dir. James Frawley · With Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson

Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
Dir. Boaz Yakin · With Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
Dir. John Badham · With Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
Dir. Barbra Streisand · With Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan

Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Dir. Mary Harron · With Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris

Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
Dir. Donald Petrie · With Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach

as Umbrella Santa / Marty
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever!
Dir. Joe Roth · With Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd

Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.
Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn

The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Sergeant Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman
A struggling Miami art gallerist incurs the wrath of a mobster when he becomes accidentally engaged to his flighty ex-wife, but he falls in love with the woman's sister, so he invents a twin brother and plays both parts to satisfy the women.
Dir. Fernando Trueba · With Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah
A former pro-wrestler is hired to be the bodyguard/nanny for a couple of bratty kids whose inventor father is being stalked by a rival.
Dir. Michael Gottlieb · With Hulk Hogan, David Johansen, Madeline Zima
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