Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Little Shop of Horrors is based on the long-running off-Broadway musical of 1982 with music from Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman, Produced by David Geffen (who also produced this film), which itself...
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Roxanne (1987)
Steve Martin (The Lonely Guy, The Man with Two Brains) stars and writes this modern adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s most famous play, “Cyrano de Bergerac”, and while it lacks the classic style and level of...
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
One of Steve Martin’s (Sgt. Pepper, The Jerk) funniest films, and one which he would co-write. His third collaboration with writer-director Carl Reiner (The One and Only, Fatal Instinct), The Man with Two Brains casts Martin as renowned...
Shopgirl (2005)
Claire Danes stars as Mirabelle, who has recently moved to Los Angeles from her Vermont upbringing and has secured a job working as a salesperson in the glove department of the chic Saks Fifth...
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Adapted from Bruce Jay Friedman’s guide to help lonely men cope with their miserable existence with a sense of humor, The Lonely Guy is a sometimes uneven mixture of romance, screwball comedy, and self-help satire. ...
Bowfinger (1999)
Bobby Bowfinger (Martin) is a small-time Hollywood producer who becomes enamored of a script a friend of his writes, a schlock alien invasion story called “Chubby Rain”. Thinking this will be the film which takes...
Bringing Down the House (2003)
Bringing Down the House isn’t so much a romantic comedy as it is a buddy movie, with all of the formulaic comic devices that the term has come to be defined as over the...
Novocaine (2001)
After his memorable turn in Little Shop of Horrors playing a dentist, Steve Martin plays another one in Novocaine, an oddly interesting yet ultimately unsatisfying comic-thriller. While the Hitchcockian plot and meandering storyline are too familiar...
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
A hotshot inventor (Scott, Big Night) has found a way to make the corporation he works for millions, but he fears that he will not be fully compensated for all of the good things he brings...