Howard Hesseman Movies

In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rainn Wilson

Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley MacLaine

A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Nicholson

B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bo Derek

A Euro-Indigenous American Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tom Laughlin

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yvette Mimieux

A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dan Aykroyd

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Scout Taylor-Compton

After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bradley Cooper

John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Ritter

Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeff C. Smith

A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Affleck

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Roth

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Peter Boyle

A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrea Roth

Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sylvia Kristel

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot."...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Crispin Glover

Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together...

Genre: Action

Cast: Burt Reynolds

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Curry

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Royce D. Applegate

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Beau Bridges

A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deborah Foreman

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Ritter

Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born-again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jennifer Connelly

Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat...

Genre: Family

Cast: Mary Stuart Masterson

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernest Borgnine

A group of misfits who want to find a happier life somewhere out of society decide to leave town on a PBY flying boat. The problem is that their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Fonda

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elliott Gould

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patty Duke

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Phil Proctor

A rock concert awakens the legendary monster, who goes on a rampage. The event's organizer plans to kill the beast and create a tourist attraction...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Barry Williams

Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.

Genre: Family

Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt

In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five...

Genre: Action

Cast: David Carradine

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kate Jackson

In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Shearer

Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Helen Hunt

When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go...

Genre: Action

Cast: Howard Hesseman

This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Hesseman

Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Claude Akins

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Kennedy

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Albertson

The magical Munchie is back, and if he gets in any more trouble it's off to the dullest constellation in the galaxy. Staying out of trouble has never...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Lesley-Anne Down

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ally Sheedy

A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: LL Cool J

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Stapleton

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Marley

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is imprisoned at Quai Dong, on the South China Sea,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jesse Dizon

Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts, who battles boredom and a tyrannical captain to the...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Robert Hays

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mel Brooks

An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Yvette Mimieux

A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr.

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Neil Patrick Harris

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dedee Pfeiffer

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the...

Genre: Action

Cast: William Holden

A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Joseph Bologna

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!

Genre: Animation

Cast: Loni Anderson

A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Van Dyke

There was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as Your Seriousness...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Howie Mandel

A group of eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariette Hartley

"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christopher Guest

Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Abigail Hawk

A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariette Hartley

Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on...

Genre: Music

Cast: Richard Pryor

A former news reporter marries and tries to adjust to the life of a house wife and mother. However, her need for an adrenaline high is overpowering...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Cynthia Gibb

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Patty Duke

When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie-France Pisier

Del Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Murray to Chris Farley to Amy Poehler, many of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Del Close

Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julie Christie

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Joey Cramer

On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren Beatty

Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Elliott Gould

Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves him one step behind a killer.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Mitchum

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Remick

Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Guttenberg

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Martin

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Cast: Peter Bonerz

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valerie Perrine

A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kate Nelligan

Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Marshall

A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joey Cramer

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Cusack

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Hopper

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kris Kristofferson

A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Beau Bridges

The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes'...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arsenio Hall

Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Urbaniak

Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rick Schroder

This short film satirizes French auteur theory. An earnest critic rediscovers washed-up director Seymour Z. Fishko ("Revenge of the 80-Foot...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angela Aames

"Likely Stories" was one Pay-TV's first original comedy programs. The one-hour shows were a mixed-bag of short films, videos, and animation that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Angela Aames