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Lainie Kazan has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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The Sure Thing
1985
Comedy · Drama

Baby Boom
1987
Drama · Comedy

The Proposal
2009
Comedy · Romance

Wild Child
2008
Comedy · Drama

100 Girls
2000
Comedy · Drama

View from the Top
2003
Comedy · Romance

I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
Comedy · Drama

Bomber
1982
Action · Comedy

The Journey of Natty Gann
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Disney+ · Included

Beaches
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Prime Video · Included

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Max · Included

The Delta Force
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 66%MGM+ · Included

The Big Hit
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 68%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 71%Peacock · Included

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.
Dir. Jeremy Kagan · With Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Dir. Garry Marshall · With Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Dir. Joel Zwick · With Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan

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

Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this). As you guessed, it isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant.
Dir. William Dear · With John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
Dir. Menahem Golan · With Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam

Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
Dir. Kirk Wong Chi-Keung · With Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate

Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver Gus' journal to his old friends.
Dir. Nia Vardalos · With Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor

The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Dir. Kirk Jones · With Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Elena Kampouris

In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniversary and each pursue the fantasy of new love over one neon-soaked night—he with a free-spirited acrobat, she with a seductive musician. But as illusion and reality blur, both must decide whether passion or devotion truly defines the heart.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Teri Garr, Frederic Forrest, Raúl Juliá
On the night of November 13th, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. took a high powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that 'voices' in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.
Dir. Daniel Farrands · With John Robinson, Diane Franklin, Paul Ben-Victor

An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.
Dir. Dennis Dugan · With Adam Sandler, Emmanuelle Chriqui, John Turturro
Gigli is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor. When plans go awry, Gigli's boss sends in Ricki, a gorgeous free-spirited female gangster who has her own set of orders to assist with the kidnapping. But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a hazard to his occupation.
Dir. Martin Brest · With Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha