Movies directed by Zucker, Jerry

Ruthless People (1986)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: DeVito, Danny | Midler, Bette | Reinhold, Judge | Slater, Helen | Morris, Anita | Pullman, Bill | Schilling, William G. | Evans, Art | Felder, Clarence | Freeman, J. E. | Riley, Gary | Applegate, Phyllis | Bisignano, Jeannine | Bumstead, J.P. | Cutler, Jon
Directors: Abrahams, Jim | Zucker, Jerry | Zucker, David
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Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was suppose to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn’t die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and is on his way home to do just that but when he gets there, she’s not there. He then receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police, which he does hoping that they do. What Stone doesn’t know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made fortune off, are not that lethal, as a matter of fact Barbara’s more lethal. And what Stone doesn’t know is that his girlfriend, Carol, has another boyfriend and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara’s body. When her boyfriend, Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there was not Sam but a guy with a hooker, and the guy instructs the hooker to scream her head off, Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara’s not dead and that Sam was killing her there, and was so freaked out that he didn’t bother to see if it was Sam. And Carol tries to put her plan in operation by sending Sam a copy of the tape, Sam thinks that it’s for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he is going to do what was done on the tape to her, she assumes that he is going to kill her. So she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police, and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige cause he is the guy who is on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam was going to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Sam now has to get Barbara, alive, so that he can prove that he didn’t kill her. And Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.

Top Secret! (1984)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Kilmer, Val | Gutteridge, Lucy | Cushing, Peter | Kemp, Jeremy | Villiers, Christopher | Clarke, Warren | Ditson, Harry | Carter, Jim | Tagoe, Eddie | Sharif, Omar | Jellinek, Tristram | Mitchell, Billy J. | Wiley, Major | Klauber, Gertan | Mayes, Richard
Directors: Abrahams, Jim | Zucker, Jerry | Zucker, David
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This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.

First Knight (1995)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Gere, Richard | Ormond, Julia | Cross, Ben | Cunningham, Liam | Villiers, Christopher | Pelka, Valentine | McCormack, Colin | Ineson, Ralph | Gielgud, John | Bunce, Stuart | Robbins, Jane | Coffey, Jean Marie | Kynman, Paul | Lucy, Tom
Directors: Zucker, Jerry
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Lancelot lives by the sword. In fact, they’re next door neighbours, so teaming up to fight for money comes pretty naturally. Lady Guinevere, on her way to marry King Arthur is ambushed by the evil Sir Malagant. Fortunately Lancelot is lurking nearby and he rescues his future queen. They fall in love, but Guinevere still fancies the idea of wearing a crown, so she honours her promise to Arthur. Can Lady Guinevere remain faithful, or will this Pretty Woman become a lady of the knight?

Ghost (1990)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Swayze, Patrick | Moore, Demi | Goldberg, Whoopi | Goldwyn, Tony | Lawrence, Stanley | Keene, Christopher J. | Breslau, Susan | Deignan, Martina | Kleber, Rick | Foley, Macka | Aviles, Rick | Leeds, Phil | Hugh, John | Tsoutsouvas, Sam | Breslau, Sharon
Directors: Zucker, Jerry
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Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn’t even realise that her powers were real.

Rat Race (2001)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Atkinson, Rowan | Smart, Amy | Meyer, Breckin | Bergere, Jenica | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Diamond, Carrie | Haase, Douglas | Myers, Chris | Frazier, Kevin | Green, Seth | Allred, Gloria | Vieluf, Vince | Lee, Renée | Harney, Corinna | Walsh, Jane C. | Goldberg, Whoopi | Chapman, Lanei
Directors: Zucker, Jerry
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A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very funny sequence. Their antics carry them into a hot air balloon chase that catches a cow with a dangling rope and into a monster truck competition. The second team is an estranged mother (Whoopi Goldberg) reunited with her daughter (Lanai Chapman), who is struggling to start a business. They face an insane squirrel-selling woman (Kathy Bates) and steal a rocket car scheduled for a land speed record attempt. A hated NFL referee (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is stranded in the desert by an irate cabbie (Paul Rodriguez) and hijacks a busload of Lucille Ball look-alikes on the way to a convention. The Jewish family man (Jon Lovitz) on a family vacation joins the race without telling his wife (Kathy Najimy) why they are rushing across the country. When his daughter insists on stopping at a Barbie museum, it is without realization that it is the Klaus Barbie Nazi Museum. The escape from that location involves the theft of Hitler’s personal touring car and culminates with Lovitz having his tongue burned and accidentally crashing into a WWII Veteran’s convention. A narcoleptic Italian (Rowan Atkinson in his best Mr. Bean-like manner) gets a ride with an ambulance driver (Wayne Knight), who is carting a human heart for a transplant. Through various ineptitude, the heart ends up flying out of the truck’s window and the two have to recover it from a playful dog. The final race member (Breckin Meyer) is a straight-laced future lawyer who at first declines to participate in the race, but re-thinks his position after he meets a smart, beautiful woman (Amy Smart) who is flying a helicopter to New Mexico. He quickly finds out that she is unbalanced after she flies over her boy friend’s house and starts an attack on the boy friend when she sees him in the pool with an ex-girl friend. An air pursuit results in the crash of the helicopter. Dave Thomas also appears as Cleese’s humorless attorney.