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Richard Benjamin has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s.
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Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Kirstie Alley

Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Dir. Michael Crichton · With Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn

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

After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin

as Dr. Jeffery Rosenberg / Van Helsing
Dracula and Renfield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may be in love with Cindy too.
Dir. Stan Dragoti · With George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds herself in love with Steve and her new life on Earth, where she experiences true intimacy for the first time. But when she loses sight of her mission, she begins to question where she belongs.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save themselves and their neighborhood.
Dir. Howard R. Cohen · With Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Jeffrey Tambor
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