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Aug 17, 1990 · Taking Care of Business: Directed by Arthur Hiller. With Jim Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne DeSalvo, Loryn Locklin. An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a Filofax organizer that mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
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Charles Grodin. Actor: Midnight Run. Deadpan comedian Charles Sydney Grodin (originally Grodinsky) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of Russian/Polish ancestry and raised in a Jewish orthodox home. He attended the University of Miami but dropped out, opting instead for the life of a struggling actor. The movie A Place in the Sun (1951) was said to have steered him towards his chosen ...
Aug 13, 1993 · Heart and Souls: Directed by Ron Underwood. With Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick. An unhappy businessman finds a new sense of purpose after he's tasked with helping a quartet of ghosts fulfill their last wishes before moving on to the afterlife.
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May 19, 2021 · Heaven Can Wait. Grodin serves in a supporting role, but is hilarious in this story involving a quarterback who is accidentally pulled out of his body by an overzealous angel resulting in a bizarre game of soul shifting Tetris. Oh, the great James Mason is in it as well.
Apr 3, 1992 · Beethoven: Directed by Brian Levant. With Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Nicholle Tom. A slobbering St. Bernard becomes the center of attention for a loving family, but must contend with a dog-napping veterinarian and his henchmen.
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Heartbreak Kid, The (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Miami Beach, Here We Come! Joining director Elaine May’s New York Jewish wedding sequence, Charles Grodin as Lenny, the title character and Jeannie Berlin as bride Lila , who has insisted they wait for marriage before having sex, story by Bruce Jay Friedman, script by Neil Simon, early in The Heartbreak Kid, 1972.
In the first feature comedy from Albert Brooks, a spoof of early reality TV programming, Grodin stars as the beleaguered head of a family chosen to be filmed for a year. As documentarian Brooks spends more and more time capturing their every move, their grip on normalcy quickly slips with hilarious and rapidly escalating results.
