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Renée Taylor has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s.
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
2018
Comedy · Drama
After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Dir. Elaine May · With Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn
An aging Latin lover gets dumped by his sugar mama and must fend for himself in a harsh world.
Dir. Ken Marino · With Eugenio Derbez, Salma Hayek Pinault, Raphael Alejandro
Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley, a charismatic billionaire investor who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Although quite resistant at first, eventually Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy and forever altering the course of her life.
Dir. Tyler Perry · With Jurnee Smollett, Lance Gross, Robbie Jones
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.
Dir. Luis Mandoki · With Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Kathy Bates
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
Dir. Todd Solondz · With Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Ally Sheedy
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
Dir. Charles Shyer · With Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps
Siblings Ethan and Hallie O'Fallon plot to get their divorced parents back together in time for Christmas.
Dir. Rob Lieberman · With Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Thora Birch
The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.
Dir. Steven Brill · With Adam Sandler, David Spade, Paula Patton
