Back to School 1986  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Paxton Whitehead, M. Emmet Walsh, Adrienne Barbeau, Ned Beatty, Severn Darden, Terry Farrell, William Zabka, Sam Kinison, Robert Picado, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The inhibited son of an offensive millionaire is humiliated when his father enrolls in his university in order to help him achieve popularity. Eventually, they gain understanding of each other as their celebrity grows. Rodney Dangerfield, as the father, actually gets respect.
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Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover 1977  TV, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
aka: Las Vegas Undercover
Benny and Barney, The Aristocrats
Director: Ron Satlof
Cast: Terry Kiser, Tim Thomerson, Rodney Dangerfield, George Gobel, Pat Harrington Jr., Hugh O'Brian, Jane Seymour, Bobby Troup, Jack Cassidy, Marty Allen
There are lots of cameo appearances in this comedy-thriller where Benny (Terry Kiser) and Barney (Tim Thomerson) are Las Vegas undercover cops who pose as entertainers to recover a kidnapped singer.
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 Caddyshack 1980 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, Michael O'Keefe, Sarah Holcomb, Scott Colomby, Cindy Morgan, Dan Resin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elaine Aiken, Albert Salmi, Ann Ryerson, Brian Doyle-Murray
Rodney Dangerfield plays a rich, obnoxious, land developer who joins a posh country club in hopes of buying it. Chevy Chase takes on the role of a golf champ/playboy who never keeps his score. Bill Murray plays the groundskeeper who fights a losing battle against gophers, and Ted Knight is great as the scatter-brained club president in this silly, but entertaining, film. Dangerfield steals the show.
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 Casper 1995 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle, Malachi Pearson, Joe Nipote, Joe Alaskey, Brad Garrett, Rodney Dangerfield, Dan Aykroyd
Casper The Friendly Ghost returns after years of reruns on Saturday cartoon shows. This time, the computer-generated ghosts are nearly as real as humans in the movie. A woman inherits a haunted mansion that supposedly has hidden treasure in the environs. Her attempts to rid the mansion of ghosts are unsuccessful, so Casper influences her to bring in a ghost psychiatrist. Overall, it's enough fun that part of the family will enjoy it.
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Casper: A Spirited Beginning 1997 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Sean McNamara
Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael McKean, Brendon Ryan Barrett, Edie McClurg, Richard Moll, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Foley, Pauly Shore
Ten-year-old loner Chris Carson (Brendon Ryan Barrett) meets Casper and introduces him to Stretch, Stinkie, and Fatso in this film that is definitely geared toward young children.
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Easy Money 1983 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Signorelli
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Candice Azzara, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Val Avery, Tom Noonan, Jeffrey Jones, Tom Ewell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeff Altman
Rodney Dangerfield inherits a 10 million dollar department store, but can collect only if he stops gambling, drinking, smoking dope, and other nasty vices. A few funny situations ensue as Dangerfield tries desperately to fulfill the conditions of the will.
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The Godson 1998  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bob Hoge
Cast: Kevin McDonald, Rodney Dangerfield, Dom DeLuise, Fabiana Udenio, Lou Ferrigno, Paul Greenberg, Carol DeLuise, Bob Hoge, Barbara Crampton, Irwin Keyes
The mob family has fallen on hard times, and Oddfather Calzone (Dom DeLuise) decides to step down. But his youngest son, weird Guppy (Kevin McDonald), must take the reins since #1 son has accidentally been buried alive and #2 son has gone off his rocker. Maybe sending Guppy to Mafia University will help. There, Guppy meets the rival mob boss, the Rodfather (Rodney Dangerfield), and his beautiful daughter, Don Na (Fabiana Udenio). There's going to be a war, it seems, in this unfunny comedy disaster.
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Ladybugs 1992  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Jackee, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff, Vinessa Shaw, Tom Parks, Nancy Parsons, Tommy Lasorda
Chester Lee's (Rodney Dangerfield) coaching methods could be questioned as he persuades his fiancee's son (Jonathan Brandis), who just happens to be an ace athlete, to join the lackluster girls' soccer team he coaches.
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 Little Nicky 2000 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Reese Witherspoon, Rodney Dangerfield, Allen Covert, Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz
Satan's (Harvey Keitel) mentally challenged son Nicky (Adam Sandler) heads off to NYC on a mission to bring his brothers–Adrian (Rhys Ifans) and Cassius (Tommy "Tiny" Lister) –back to Hell. It seems that when Adrian and Cassius left, they froze the gates to Hell, and now no new souls can enter. Without a new population supply, Satan literally begins falling apart. Nicky has just one week to retrieve them. Will he succeed?
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Meet Wally Sparks 1997  R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Baldwin
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Burt Reynolds, David Ogden Stiers, Cindy Williams, Debi Mazar, Mark L. Taylor, Tim Allen, Lesley-Anne Down, Jay Leno, Alan Rachins
Wally Sparks is a TV talk show host who is about to lose his advertisers because he is so raunchy. So, to change his image, he crashes the staid governor's mansion for an interview. Then he gets injured so must do the show from there. So then....and then... Well, actually, it's one raunchy joke after another, with Rodney, as Wally, doing his stand-up routines as if there weren't a plot. Some are very good and funny, some are tasteless trash. So, too, the movie.
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Moving 1988 R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Dave Thomas, Dana Carvey, Randy Quaid, Rodney Dangerfield, Stacey Dash, Gordon Jump, Morris Day, Raphael Harris
A family's move from New Jersey to Boise, Idaho is fraught with difficulties in this film featuring Richard Pryor as the hapless dad.
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My 5 Wives 2000 R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay, John Byner, Molly Shannon, Jerry Stiller, John Pinette, Rob deLeeuw, Fred(2) Keating, Jud Tylor, Angelika Libera, Kate Luyben, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Brandy Ledford, Karin Konoval, Anita Brown
Wealthy real-estate developer Peterson (Rodney Dangerfield) wants to buy a ski resort in Utah. But, the property comes with five buxom, sex-crazed wives. There's also crime boss Tony Morano (Andrew Dice Clay) who wants the land.
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 Natural Born Killers 1994 R, 120 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Sizemore, Edie McClurg, Balthazar Getty, Joe Grifasi, Russell Means, Everett Quinton, Jared Harris, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Lanny Flaherty, O-Lan Jones
Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) and his girlfriend Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis) embark on a killing spree. Abused as children, they begin the killings with the murder of Mallory's parents (Rodney Dangerfield and Edie McClurg) and continue as they travel across Route 666 just for the fun of it. Media reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.) covers their story, and they make sure they are credited for their long list of victims. When Mickey and Mallory are finally arrested, they have become folk heroes in this story satirizing television's tabloid journalism.
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Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Being Me 1987 R, 59 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Walter C. Miller
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield
This is no more than a commercial for Rodney Dangerfield's New York nightclub. Although Dangerfield does provide some comic relief, the main focus of this one is to showcase new, and often not very funny, talent.
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 Rover Dangerfield 1991 G, 74 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy
Director: James L. George, Bob Seeley
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Susan Boyd, Ronnie Schell, Ned von Leuck, Shawn Southwick, Dana Hill, Sal Landi, Mel Blanc, Barbara Goodson, Bill Farmer, Tress MacNeille, Danny Mann, Bert Kramer, Lara Cody
Rover (voice of Rodney Dangerfield) is a dog that is also an ex-Las Vegas entertainer. Rover has problems adjusting to life away from the neon lights in this imaginative animated film.
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Rusty: The Great Rescue 1998 G, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
aka: Rusty: A Dog's Tale
Director: Shuki Levy
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Rue McClanahan, Laraine Newman, Charles Fleischer, Blake Foster, Danielle Keaton, Beau Billingslea, Michael J. Pagan, Rodney Dangerfield, Bob Goldthwait, Matthew Lawrence, Suzanne Somers, Patrick Duffy, Doug E. Doug, Vincent Schiavelli
Rusty the dog (voice of Matthew Lawrence) gets help from his friends at the animal shelter, and they set out to protect Rusty's owners from scheming criminals.
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| 1. Back to School (1986)
2. Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover (1977)
aka: Las Vegas Undercover
aka: Benny and Barney, The Aristocrats
3. Caddyshack (1980)
4. Casper (1995)
5. Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
6. Easy Money (1983)
7. The Godson (1998)
8. Ladybugs (1992)
9. Little Nicky (2000)
10. Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
11. Moving (1988)
12. My 5 Wives (2000)
13. Natural Born Killers (1994)
14. The Projectionist (1971)
15. Rodney Dangerfield: It's Not Easy Being Me (1987)
16. Rover Dangerfield (1991)
17. Rusty: The Great Rescue (1998)
aka: Rusty: A Dog's Tale
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