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John Astin has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Frighteners.
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A Christmas Story
1983
Comedy · Family

Moving
1988
Comedy · Family

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
Comedy

Brewster's Millions
1985
Comedy

The Secret of My Success
1987
Comedy

Volunteers
1985
Comedy

Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994
Comedy · Family

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
Comedy · Family

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
Dir. Charles Addams · With Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Dir. Michael Gordon · With Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen

Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of carrying the legacy falls into the hands of Matt Warner, the son of the late Norman Warner who has always lived in the shadow of his father.
Dir. William Dear · With David Paymer, Ryan Reynolds, Kate Vernon

School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life of their daughter/mother for just one day and their wishes come true as a bit of magic puts Annabel in Mrs. Andrews' body and vice versa. They both have a Freaky Friday.
Dir. Gary Nelson · With Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin

The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
Dir. Amy Heckerling · With Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill

The wildest teenager south of the Equator, Taz lives to party. With his insatiable appetite, he tends to eat everything in sight. The oldest child in a family of five, Taz works at a rather bizarre coastal resort, the Hotel Tasmania, as a bellhop, busboy to earn party money.
Dir. Tom Ruegger, Jean MacCurdy · With Jim Cummings, Maurice LaMarche, Miriam Flynn

as Prof. Gangreen
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
Dir. John De Bello · With Anthony Starke, George Clooney, Karen M. Waldron

The Addams Family is an American animated series based on the eponymous comic strip characters and the second Addams Family Cartoon.
Dir. Charles Addams · With John Astin, Nancy Linari, Debi Derryberry
Rookie FBI agent Jo Dee Foster has been assigned to work on the case of the Psycho Killer, a psycho killer who has psycho-killed over 120 people. But to learn more about his target, he's forced to meet Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza, a famous doctor turned cannibal who ate pizzas with human body parts. Meanwhile, Jo's girlfriend, Jane Wine, has just stolen $400,000 in cash from her money-hungry boss, Mr. Laurel, so she and Jo can be happy, but gets lost in a horrible storm and stops at the Cemetery Motel, where the owner, Antonio Motel, is dominated by his insane mother.
Dir. Ezio Greggio · With Ezio Greggio, Dom DeLuise, Billy Zane
Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the same family curse that once turned his cousin into a werewolf. As he transforms into the hairy, fanged, howling monster, he finds both his physical agility and his popularity skyrocketing -- but at what cost?
Dir. Christopher Leitch · With Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin
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