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Steve Martin has 44 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Only Murders in the Building.
1999
Romance · Comedy

Only Murders in the Building
2021 · Series · Actor · Creator
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included

The Jerk
1979 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

Home
2015 · Movie · Voice
Top 25%Netflix · Included

Parenthood
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Netflix · Included

All of Me
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included

Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
Dir. Steve Martin, John Hoffman · With Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for it’s supper.
Dir. Frank Oz · With Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia

The strong bond between two Royal Egyptian brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.
Dir. Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells · With Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer

An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
Dir. John Hughes · With Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
Dir. Frank Oz · With Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams

When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.
Dir. Tim Johnson · With Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd

Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life—just when she thought she had it all figured out.
Dir. Nancy Meyers · With Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Dir. Mick Jackson · With Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant

Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant

George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. His wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony, he becomes slightly insane.
Dir. Charles Shyer · With Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley

In this modern take on Edmond Rostand's classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," C. D. Bales is the witty, intelligent, and brave fire chief of a small Pacific Northwest town who, due to the size of his enormous nose, declines to pursue the girl of his dreams, lovely Roxanne Kowalski. Instead, when his shy underling Chris McConnell becomes smitten with Roxanne, C.D. feeds the handsome young man the words of love to win her heart.
Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich

An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.
Dir. David Mamet · With Steve Martin, Campbell Scott, Ben Gazzara

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
Dir. John Landis · With Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short

Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
Dir. Charles Shyer · With Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey
A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming feature, Home.
Dir. Todd Wilderman · With Steve Martin, Tom McGrath, David Soren

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
Dir. Shawn Levy · With Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn.
Dir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff · With Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack

On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio gofer, he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey -- only without letting Ramsey know he's in the picture.
Dir. Frank Oz · With Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham

Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty home without his knowledge and begins setting up house, posing as his new wife.
Dir. Frank Oz · With Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.
Dir. James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Pixote Hunt, Eric Goldberg, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Don Hahn, Francis Glebas · With Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones

The Baker family, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children.
Dir. Adam Shankman · With Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt

A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.
Dir. David Atkins · With Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan · With Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
Dir. Gillies MacKinnon · With Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney
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