Herbert Ross’s Typical Vibe
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Herbert Ross has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Play It Again, Sam.
Recurring themes

Dil To Pagal Hai
1997
Drama · Romance

Arthur
1981
Comedy · Drama

Author! Author!
1982
Comedy · Drama

Moscow on the Hudson
1984
Comedy · Drama

City Lights
1931
Comedy · Drama

Barefoot
2005
Romance · Comedy

As Good as It Gets
1997
Drama · Comedy

Muriel's Wedding
1994
Comedy · Drama

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack

When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw

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
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper