Ishtar 1987  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Musical
Director: Elaine May
Cast: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston, Tess Harper, Carol Kane, Matt Frewer, Fijad Hageb, David Margulies, Rose Arrick, Julie Garfield, Cristine Rose, Robert V. Girolami, Abe Kroll
Singer-songwriters Lyle Rogers and Chuck Clarke (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) are booked into a cafe in Morocco. On the trip there, they visit Ishtar and get swept into a political overthrow when they become involved with CIA agent Jim Harrison (Charles Grodin) and Shirra Assel (Isabelle Adjani) who are plotting to overthrow the government.
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Mikey and Nicky 1976  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elaine May
Cast: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Carol Grace, Joyce Van Patten, M. Emmet Walsh, Rose Arrick, Sanford Meisner, William Hickey, Sy Travers
Mikey (Peter Falk) and Nicky (John Cassavetes) have been friends since childhood. Now, as adults, they are involved in small-time crimes and are evading the eye of a hit man who has Nicky lined up as his next target.
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A New Leaf 1971 G, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elaine May
Cast: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose, William Redfield, James Coco, Graham Jarvis, Doris Roberts, Rose Arrick, Renee Taylor
Once-wealthy Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) plans to regain financial status by marrying heiress Henrietta Lowell (Elaine May) and then killing her. Plans change when he turns over a new leaf and becomes a loving spouse.
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Over the Brooklyn Bridge 1984  R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Menahem Golan
Cast: Elliott Gould, Margaux Hemingway, Sid Caesar, Burt Young, Shelley Winters, Carol Kane, Jerry Lazarus, Francine Beers, Leo Postrel, Rose Arrick
A class of ethnicities gets in the way of family acceptance of the Catholic girlfriend (Margaux Hemingway) of a Jewish restauranteur (Elliott Gould).
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Those Lips, Those Eyes 1980  R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Pressman
Cast: Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller, Herbert Berghof, Joseph Maher, George Morfogen, Kevin McCarthy, Marshall Colt, Rose Arrick
While interning in Cleveland summer stock in the 1950s, Harry Crystal (Frank Langella) dreams of starring on Broadway in this insightful story about the perils of the thespian world.
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| 1. Ishtar (1987)
2. Mikey and Nicky (1976)
3. A New Leaf (1971)
4. Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)
5. Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
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