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The film stars Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, and Mary Steenburgen, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was released on September 19, 1980, receiving positive reviews from critics.
Melvin and Howard: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Elizabeth Cheshire, Mary Steenburgen. The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
- (5.4K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Jonathan Demme
- 1980-09-19
95 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1981. Roger Ebert. February 13, 1981. 3 min read. An old picture of Howard (Jason Robards) and Melvin (Paul Le Mat). Melvin Dummar says that what used to happen to Horatio Alger’s heroes really did happen to him: He gave a lift to a doddering old hitchhiker, loaned him a quarter, and was left $156 million in the hitchhiker’s will.
When luckless dreamer Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat) rescues a grizzled, half-dead man (Jason Robards) from the desert, he's skeptical of the man's claim that he's actually reclusive billionaire ...
- (24)
- Jonathan Demme
- R
- Paul Le Mat
When down-on-his-luck blue collar worker Melvin Dummar (Paul le Mat) saves an injured man (Jason Robards) claiming to be Howard Hughes from the desert, he doesn’t think much of it, but a media circus a decade later ensues that puts his life in the spotlight, in Jonathan Demme’s comedy-drama co-starring Mary Steenburgen, Pamela Reed, Michael ...
- (5.8K)
- Universal Pictures
- Jonathan Demme
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Comedy-Drama. 1970s. Synopsis. Jonathan Demme would later become one of America's premiere directors, with an Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs and numerous nominations to his credit, but it was this sublime 1980 comedy that put him on the Hollywood map.
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