Wildcats (1986)
Comedy | Sport
A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively, James Keach, Jan Hooks, Bruce McGill
Director: Michael Ritchie
The Golden Child (1986)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, J.L. Reate, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong, Randall Cobb
Director: Michael Ritchie
Downhill Racer (1969)
Drama | Sport
Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.
Starring: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler, Dabney Coleman, Jim McMullan
Director: Michael Ritchie
The Couch Trip (1988)
Comedy
Dr. George Maitlin, a pompous radio self-help guru, is having his own personal mental breakdown. His lawyer puts in a call to a Cicero, IL, mental facility where the phone is answered by schizophrenic patient John Burns. Thinking Burns is a crony of Maitlin, Burns is offered the job of replacing Maitlin during his recovery. Of course, Burns accepts the job. Immediately jetted to Los Angeles, Burns meets panhandler Donald Becker at the airport. Burns takes to him immediately and they become fast friends. When Burns assumes command of the airwaves in Maitlin's place, his words of wisdom are so obvious and commonsensical that he is an overnight sensation. Meanwhile, in London, where Maitlin is convalescing, he gets wind of Burns' success. With renewed vigor and outrage, Maitlin leaves recovery and heads back to Los Angeles in an effort to recover his radio show.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Richard Romanus, Mary Gross
Director: Michael Ritchie
Fletch Lives (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
The wise-cracking reporter retires to the deep south where he is caught up in a murder plot.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Randall Cobb
Director: Michael Ritchie
Prime Cut (1972)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Marvin is an underworld enforcer sent to Kansas City to collect money from Hackman, a mysterious mobster who has no intention of paying up.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek
Director: Michael Ritchie
Fletch (1985)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
An undercover newspaper columnist with a penchant for donning various diguises and identities to get a story is on the trail of drug ring.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini, Geena Davis
Director: Michael Ritchie
The Island (1980)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs across the band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
Starring: Michael Caine, David Warner
Director: Michael Ritchie
The Scout (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
Al Percolo is a major league baseball scout sent to scout in Mexico as a punishment. However, he eventually stumbles across Steve Nebraska, a young American who can pitch AND hit better than anyone else can do either. He signs Steve and returns home in glory. It soon becomes obvious, though, that Steve is immature and possibly unstable, and Al turns to psychiatrist Doctor H. Aaron, whom he picks for her name, for help.
Starring: Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest, Anne Twomey, Lane Smith
Director: Michael Ritchie
A Simple Wish (1997)
Comedy | Fantasy | Family
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" – that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
Starring: Robert Pastorelli, Ruby Dee, Martin Short, Mara Wilson
Director: Michael Ritchie
