Howard Zieff

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

Dir. Howard Zieff · With Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Dir. Howard Zieff · With Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.

Dir. Howard Zieff · With Anna Chlumsky, Austin O'Brien, Dan Aykroyd

A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

Dir. Howard Zieff · With Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante