First Family (1980)
Comedy
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the Presidentmust do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
Starring: Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner, Richard Benjamin, Bob Dishy, Harvey Korman, Austin Pendleton, Rip Torn, Fred Willard
Director: Buck Henry
City Heat (1984)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Kansas City, 1933. Mike Murphy, former cop and now private investigator, must team up again with his ex-partner Lieutenant Speer, even though they can't stand each other, to fight rival crime bosses vying to control the KC underworld.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara
Director: Richard Benjamin
Milk Money (1994)
Comedy | Romance
In MILK MONEY, when 12-year-old Frank Wheeler (Carter) and his two buddies save up their milk money and head into the city in search of a woman who will let them see her naked body, they think they’ve died and gone to heaven when V (Griffith) agrees to disrobe for them. Now stuck in the city and out of their element, the boys seek refuge in V who agrees to drive them back to the suburbs and away from the city’s chaos. But, when V’s car breaks down outside of his house, Frank decides that V would make a good step mom, and proceeds to play matchmaker for his dad, Tom (Harris). Thanks to Frank, Tom thinks that V is a math tutor, while V thinks that Frank knows the truth about her occupation. What ensues is a long, hilarious conversation that revolves around this comical misunderstanding.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Heche, Casey Siemaszko
Director: Richard Benjamin
Downtown (1990)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Police Officer Alex Kearney works in a rich, plush suburb of Philadelphia. When he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed, he is sent to work Downtown, the most dangerous, crime-filled precinct in the city.
Starring: Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Pantoliano, David Clennon, Art Evans
Director: Richard Benjamin
Made in America (1993)
Comedy
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long, Paul Rodríguez, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Richard Benjamin
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Comedy | Crime
Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. So they decide to rob the cash from a contest at a shopping mall.
Starring: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Jessica Lange, Richard Benjamin, Eddie Albert, Dabney Coleman
Director: Robert Scheerer
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
A sexy extra-terrestrial is sent to seduce a sweet, unsuspecting, recently widowed astrophysicist in order to try to her hands on his research, which may hold the key to saving her planet.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green
Director: Richard Benjamin
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser, Miguel Sandoval, Loren Dean
Director: Richard Benjamin
Catch-22 (1970)
Comedy | War
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general.
Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Jon Voight
Director: Mike Nichols
Racing with the Moon (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
Starring: Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen, Rutanya Alda, Kate Williamson, Suzanne Adkinson
Director: Richard Benjamin
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Westworld (1973)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Western
A amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gun-slinger.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
Director: Michael Crichton
