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Feb 15, 2022 · At their most memorable, Reitman’s comedies all but erase the line between goofy slapdashery and polished craft. To look back at his movies — many of them more amiable than side-splitting ...
Feb 15, 2022 · From 'Kindergarten Cop' to 'Ghostbusters,' Reitman's comedies weren't perfect and that was partly the point. ... To look back at his movies — many of them more amiable than side-splitting — is ...
Oct 11, 2024 · Reitman's movie plays like a comedy freight train just barely staying on the tracks, complete with crashing light rigs, pouting stars, sudden brawls and even an appearance by Milton Berle's ...
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Oct 18, 2023 · Reitman’s blockbuster streak continued throughout the nineties, including the 1990 action-comedy Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and 1993’s Dave, where Kevin Kline, a goofy presidential lookalike, stands in for the President of the United States. ‘My father had a beautiful way of putting air around a moment to find the magic, and those moments are what pull you in ...
- Father's Day
- Foxy Lady
- Six Days, Seven Nights
- Cannibal Girls
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend
- Evolution
- Junior
- Legal Eagles
- No Strings Attached
- Kindergarten Cop
Robin Williams and Billy Crystal star in Father’s Day, a movie that falls short of its intended genre: comedy. When an old girlfriend asks both Williams and Crystal, playing a hippie and lawyer respectively, to find her missing son, both men work together to determine which of them is the teenager’s real father. Father’s Day is surprisingly intense...
Not much left is known about Foxy Lady, Reitman’s debut feature film. Foxy Lady is a proudly low-budget love story between a poor, but generous man named Hero and a young, wealthy woman named Leader. The film marks the first feature-film appearances of both Andrea Martin and Schitt’s Creek star Eugene Levy, who would go on to star in Reitman’s seco...
Reitman’s Six Days, Seven Nights is one of his most serious films, although comedy still manages to sneak in here and there. This romantic adventure film stars Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) as a pilot who crash lands on a remote island with his passenger, Anne Heche, forcing the two to endure isolation, pirates, and their growing affection for each...
A true example of comedy-horror schlock, Cannibal Girls is a wild, messy, low-budget masterpiece. In the film, three murderous, seductive women prey on civilians of a small town. When two young lovers, played by Eugene Levyand Andrea Martin, find themselves trapped there, their survival will come at a grave cost. Shamelessly violent and exploitativ...
The talents of Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson are the highlights of the super-powered comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Coming two years before the start of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, My Super Ex-Girlfriend exhibits what happens when an average civilian breaks up with an unstable, unstoppable superhero. Though the plot and characters are steeped in s...
Reitman attempted to create a new generation’s Ghostbusters with the sci-fi comedy Evolution. In the film, a group of investigators attempts to contain a rapidly evolving biome of alien life forms before it overwhelms the entire Earth. Starring performances by David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, and Orlando Jones highlight the film’s most hilarious mom...
Loved and hated by audiences and critics alike, Junior is one of Reitman’s most divisive and iconic comedies. After undergoing an experimental pregnancy treatment on himself, a geneticist, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, becomes pregnant. He and his peers, played by Danny DeVito and Emma Thompson, hide this anomaly from a fame-hungry FDA represent...
Robert Redford, Daryl Hannah, and Debra Winger headline Reitman’s Legal Eagles, a thriller, comedy, legal drama, and crime film all in one. Redford and Winger are two attorneys determined to clear a young performance artist, played by Hannah, from accusations over the death of her father and destruction of his art collection. Legal Eagles almost bi...
Star-studded and warmly romantic, No Strings Attached is elevated by Reitman’s direction and Natalie Portman’s lead performance. In the film, a doctor and a production assistant, played by Portman and Ashton Kutcher respectively, struggle to keep their casual relationship from becoming truly romantic. No Strings Attached poises itself as somewhat o...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is at his most loveable in Reitman’s action-comedy Kindergarten Cop. In order to track down the ex-wife of a notorious drug dealer, Schwarzenegger’s detective goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher for her son. Kindergarten Cop features funny scene after scene along with surprisingly enthralling action, but these two qualit...
Saturday Night is a 2024 American biographical comedy-drama film, directed by Jason Reitman, about the night of the 1975 premiere of NBC's Saturday Night, later known as Saturday Night Live. [ 6 ] The script was written by Reitman and Gil Kenan , with both also co-producing it alongside Jason Blumenfeld and Peter Rice .
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