James Handy’s Typical Vibe
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James Handy has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s.
Recurring themes

Armed and Dangerous
1986
Action · Comedy

Tough Guys
1986
Comedy · Crime

Mad Money
2008
Comedy · Action

Bomber
1982
Action · Comedy

Saving Grace
2000
Crime · Comedy

The Parole Officer
2001
Crime · Comedy

Flashback
1990
Action · Comedy

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
Comedy

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Dir. Frank Marshall · With Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman

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

The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
Dir. Rod Daniel · With Jim Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe

When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Dir. John Herzfeld · With Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer
LAPD detective Mike Dooley and his dog, the German Shepherd Jerry Lee, have been successfully partnered for ten years, but Jerry’s advancing age has Dooley’s superiors suggesting retirement and they are forced to work with a younger K-9 team: female cop Sergeant Welles and her disciplined Doberman Zeus.
Dir. Charles T. Kanganis · With Jim Belushi, Christine Tucci, James Handy
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G.W. Bailey