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David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American
United States

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 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, arranger and pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
. Grusin has composed many scores
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
 for feature film
Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial Film distributor in Movie theater and being the "main attraction" of the screening ....
s and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work. Although he has worked in many musical styles, Grusin is often thought of as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 or smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
 artist.

in was born in Littleton, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado

Littleton is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Douglas County, Colorado, and Jefferson County, Colorado counties in the U.S....
, the son of Rosabelle (née De Poyster), a pianist, and Henri Grusin, a violinist who immigrated from Riga
Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
, Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
.






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David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, arranger and pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
. Grusin has composed many scores
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
 for feature film
Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial Film distributor in Movie theater and being the "main attraction" of the screening ....
s and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work. Although he has worked in many musical styles, Grusin is often thought of as a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 or smooth jazz
Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a sub-genre of jazz which is influenced stylistically by Rhythm and blues, funk and pop music.Beginning in the early 1970s, it was an evolution into jazz with a modern, electronic sensibility....
 artist.

Biography

Grusin was born in Littleton, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado

Littleton is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Douglas County, Colorado, and Jefferson County, Colorado counties in the U.S....
, the son of Rosabelle (née De Poyster), a pianist, and Henri Grusin, a violinist who immigrated from Riga
Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
, Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
. An alumnus of the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado at Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado. Considered a Public Ivy, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876....
, College of Music who was awarded his bachelor's degree in 1956, Grusin has a filmography of about 100 titles. His many awards include an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War
The Milagro Beanfield War

The Milagro Beanfield War is an United States drama film based on the John Nichols novel of the same name, the first book in a trilogy. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was by Nichols and David S....
, as well as Oscar nominations for The Champ
The Champ

The Champ is a 1931 in film movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor....
, The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 in film film written and directed by Steven Kloves about two brothers who perform a duo piano show together in small Seattle clubs....
, The Firm, Havana
Havana (film)

Havana is an independent 1990 drama starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, and Raul Julia, directed by Sydney Pollack and with music by Dave Grusin....
, Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....
, and On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond (1981 film)

On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
. He also received a best original song nomination for "It Might Be You" from the film Tootsie
Tootsie

Tootsie is a 1982 in film comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job....
. Six of the fourteen cuts on the soundtrack from The Graduate
The Graduate

The Graduate is a Cinema of United States comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating from Williams College....
 are his. Other film scores he has composed include Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is a 1968 United States comedy film directed by Hy Averback. Although it is set in New York City during Northeast Blackout of 1965, in which 25 million people scattered throughout seven Northeastern United States and Ontario, Canada lost Electricity distribution for several hours, the screenplay by...
, Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 in film United States thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr....
, The Goonies
The Goonies

The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
, Tequila Sunrise
Tequila Sunrise (film)

Tequila Sunrise is a 1988 film written and directed by Academy Awards-winner Robert Towne. It stars Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Kurt Russell....
, Hope Floats
Hope Floats

Hope Floats is an 1998 in film Cinema of the United States romance film drama film directed by Forest Whitaker, and starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr....
, Random Hearts
Random Hearts

Random Hearts is a 1984 in literature Warren Adler's Random Hearts by United States author Warren Adler. In 1999 in film, the novel was made into a motion picture directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas....
, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the debut 1940 in literature novel by United States author Carson McCullers. It is about a Deafness man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the U.S....
 and The Firm.

For television, he was the conductor for The Andy Williams Show (1963–1965) and the composer of the theme songs for such series as Dan August (1970), The Sandy Duncan Show
The Sandy Duncan Show

Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show were two short-lived situation comedy aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its 1971-72 United States network television schedule and 1972-73 United States network television schedule, respectively....
 (1971-1972) Maude
Maude (TV series)

Maude is a half-hour United States television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978....
 (1972), Good Times
Good Times

Good Times is a United States Situation comedy that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network....
 (1974), Baretta
Baretta

Baretta is a United States detective fiction television series which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973?74 ABC series, Toma , starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma....
 (1975), and St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
 (1982). He also composed music for individual episodes of each of those shows. His other TV credits include It Takes a Thief, The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West is an United States television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." It was one of the first television...
, and Columbo: Prescription: Murder (1968). He also did the theme song for One Life to Live
One Life to Live

One Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network since July 15, 1968....
 (1968) from 1984–1992.

About 35 Grusin CD titles are currently available including soundtracks, originals, collections, and homages to jazz greats George Gershwin
George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
, Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
, and Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
. Recently he has turned his attention to his own compositions. As in much of his career, these defy easy classification. They can be heard on CD's in collaboration with major artists including Lee Ritenour
Lee Ritenour

Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, recording artist, composer and producer. He began his career at 16 as a session player....
, James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
, and Renee Fleming
Renée Fleming

File:Ren?e Fleming 2008.jpgRen?e Fleming is an accomplished American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming possesses an agile full lyric soprano voice endowed with ringing freedom and apparent ease near the extreme top of its range....
.

Grusin and Larry Rosen
Larry Rosen (producer)

Larry Rosen is a musician, producer, executive producer, and music industry entrepreneur.Mr. Rosen is the producer/executive producer of over 350 albums, of which 80 have been nominated for GRAMMY Awards, as well as numerous film/video productions and Television specials....
 co-founded GRP Records
GRP Records

GRP Records is an United States jazz record company that was founded in New York by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1982....
 in 1982. In 1994, GRP was in charge of MCA
Music Corporation of America

MCA, Inc. was an United States corporation in the music and television businesses. MCA published music, booked acts, ran a record company, and distributed television productions and home videos....
's (soon to be renamed Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
) jazz operations. Founders Grusin and Rosen left in 1995 and were replaced by Tommy LiPuma
Tommy LiPuma

Tommy LiPuma is an United States music producer. In his long career, he has worked with many musicians, including Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole, Claudine Longet, Dave Mason, the Yellowjackets, Michael Franks, Diana Krall, and The Story ....
. In 1997, Grusin and Rosen co-founded N2K Encoded Music (after renamed N-Coded Music
N-Coded Music

N-Coded Music is a New York, New York-based record label specializing in releases from artists in the smooth jazz genre.The label was originally known as N2K Encoded Music, formed in 1997 in music by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen, founders of GRP Records, and legendary producer Phil Ramone....
).

He received honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an enrollment of approximately 4,000 students and a 2008 faculty of approximately 500....
 in 1988 and University of Colorado
University of Colorado System

The University of Colorado System is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of three campuses: University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and University of Colorado Denver.It is governed by an elected, nine-member Regents of the University of Colorado....
, College of Music in 1989.

Dave is the father of music editor Stuart Grusin, music editor and musician Scott Grusin, and aerospace engineer Michael Grusin. He is the stepfather of artist Annie Vought, and elder brother of keyboardist Don Grusin
Don Grusin

Don Grusin , is an American songwriter, producer and keyboardist. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and for a period of his life taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as well as at Foothill College, California before deciding to enter the music business full-time....
 and sister Dee Grusin.

Awards and recognition

  • Academy Award Nominee, 1978 "Best Original Score" for Heaven Can Wait
    Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

    Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....
  • Academy Award Nominee, 1979 "Best Original Score" for The Champ
  • Academy Award Nominee, 1981 "Best Original Score" for On Golden Pond
  • Academy Award Nominee, 1982 "Best Original Song" for "It Might Be You", from Tootsie
  • Golden Globe Nominee, 1988 "Best Original Score" for The Milagro Beanfield War
    The Milagro Beanfield War

    The Milagro Beanfield War is an United States drama film based on the John Nichols novel of the same name, the first book in a trilogy. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was by Nichols and David S....
  • Academy Award Winner, 1988 "Best Original Score" for The Milagro Beanfield War
  • Academy Award Nominee, 1989 "Best Original Score" for The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The Fabulous Baker Boys

    The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 in film film written and directed by Steven Kloves about two brothers who perform a duo piano show together in small Seattle clubs....
  • Golden Globe Nominee, 1989 "Best Original Score" for The Fabulous Baker Boys
  • Grammy Award Winner, 1989 "Best Album, Original Background Score for a Motion Picture or Television" for The Fabulous Baker Boys
  • Grammy Award Winner, 1989 "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals" for "My Funny Valentine"
  • Academy Award Nominee, 1990 "Best Original Score" for Havana
  • Golden Globe Nominee, 1990 "Best Original Score" for Havana
  • Grammy Award Winner, 1990 "Best Album of Original Instrumental Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television" for The Fabulous Baker Boys
  • Grammy Award Winner, 1990 "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" Suite for The Milagro Beanfield War
  • Grammy Award Winner, 1991 "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" for "Bess You Is My Woman/I Loves You Porgy"
  • Golden Globe Nominee, 1991 "Best Original Score" for For The Boys
    For the Boys

    For the Boys is a 1991 in film feature film which tells the story of an 1940s actress/singer who teams with a famous performer to entertain United States troops....
  • Academy Award Nominee, 1993 "Best Original Score" for The Firm
  • Grammy Award Winner, 1993 "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" for "Mood Indigo"
  • Grammy Award Winner, 1994 "Best Instrumental Arrangement" for "Three Cowboy Songs"
  • Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
    Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music....
    , 2002 for "Mean Old Man", from the album October Road by James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....


Discography

  • Subways are for Sleeping - 1962
  • Piano, Strings, and Moonlight - 1963
  • Kaleidoscope - 1964
  • The Yakuza (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1975
  • One of A Kind - 1977
  • Mountain Dance - 1979
  • The Champ (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1979
  • Dave Grusin Presents GRP All-Stars Live In Japan - 1980
  • Out of the Shadows - 1982
  • Night Lines - 1983
  • NY/LA Dream Band - 1984
  • Harlequin (w/ Lee Ritenour
    Lee Ritenour

    Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, recording artist, composer and producer. He began his career at 16 as a session player....
    ) - 1985
  • Cinemagic - 1987
  • Collection - 1988
  • Little Big Horn (w/ Gerry Mulligan
    Gerry Mulligan

    Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
    ) - 1988; GRP Records
    GRP Records

    GRP Records is an United States jazz record company that was founded in New York by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1982....
  • Sticks and Stones (w/ Don Grusin
    Don Grusin

    Don Grusin , is an American songwriter, producer and keyboardist. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and for a period of his life taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as well as at Foothill College, California before deciding to enter the music business full-time....
    ) - 1988
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1989
  • Migration - 1989
  • Havana (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1990
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1991
  • The Gershwin Connection - 1991
  • The Firm (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1993
  • Dave Grusin and the GRP All-Star Big Band - 1993
  • Homage to Duke - 1993
  • The Orchestral Album - 1994
  • The Cure (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1995
  • Two for the Road - 1996
  • Mulholland Falls (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1996
  • Dave Grusin Presents: West Side Story - 1997
  • Random Hearts (Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1999
  • Two Worlds (w/ Lee Ritenour
    Lee Ritenour

    Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, recording artist, composer and producer. He began his career at 16 as a session player....
    ) - 2000
  • The Very Best of Dave Grusin - 2002
  • Now Playing: Movie Themes - Solo Piano - 2005
  • Amparo (w/ Lee Ritenour
    Lee Ritenour

    Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, recording artist, composer and producer. He began his career at 16 as a session player....
    ) - 2008


Filmography

  • Divorce American Style
    Divorce American Style

    Divorce American Style is a 1967 in film United States satire comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin. The screenplay by Norman Lear is based on a story by Robert Kaufman and focuses on a married couple that opts for divorce when Relationship counseling fails to help them resolve their various problems....
     - 1967
  • The Graduate
    The Graduate

    The Graduate is a Cinema of United States comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote the piece shortly after graduating from Williams College....
     - 1967
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the debut 1940 in literature novel by United States author Carson McCullers. It is about a Deafness man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the U.S....
     - 1968
  • Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
    Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

    Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is a 1968 United States comedy film directed by Hy Averback. Although it is set in New York City during Northeast Blackout of 1965, in which 25 million people scattered throughout seven Northeastern United States and Ontario, Canada lost Electricity distribution for several hours, the screenplay by...
     - 1968
  • Winning
    Winning

    Winning is a 1969 in film United States motion picture starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. A number of racecar drivers and racing persons appear in the film, including Bobby Unser, Tony Hulman, Bobby Grim, Dan Gurney, Roger McCluskey, and Bruce Walkup....
     - 1969
  • Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a movie released in 1969 written and directed by the once black-listed Abraham Polonsky. Because of his blacklisting, he had not directed a film since Force of Evil 21 years earlier in 1948....
     - 1969
  • Candy
    Candy (1968 film)

    Candy is a 1968 film directed by Christian Marquand. Based on the 1958 Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, it starred Ringo Starr, Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau, and Sugar Ray Robinson....
     - 1971
  • Shoot Out - 1971
  • The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
    The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

    The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is a novel written by Jimmy Breslin. A film of the same name was released in 1971 in film, directed by James Goldstone....
     - 1971
  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle

    The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 in film crime film starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Directed by Peter Yates, the screenplay was adapted from the The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V....
     - 1973
  • The Midnight Man
    The Midnight Man (1974 film)

    The Midnight Man is a 1974 in film detective film starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Clark....
     - 1974
  • Three Days of the Condor
    Three Days of the Condor

    Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 in film United States thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr....
     - 1975
  • Murder by Death
    Murder by Death

    Murder by Death is a comedy movie written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore . The plot is a parody of the traditional country house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans from classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a form also parodied for the stage in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound....
     - 1976
  • The Goodbye Girl
    The Goodbye Girl

    The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
     - 1977
  • Bobby Deerfield
    Bobby Deerfield

    Bobby Deerfield is a 1977 in film film based on the novel "Heaven Has No Favorites" by Erich Maria Remarque, and stars Al Pacino as Deerfield, an emotionally distant race car driver....
     - 1977
  • Heaven Can Wait
    Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

    Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 in film comedy film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. The screenplay by Beatty, Elaine May and an uncredited Robert Towne is adapted from the original stage play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall....
     - 1978
  • The Electric Horseman
    The Electric Horseman

    The Electric Horseman is a 1979 in film adventure film and romance film film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack....
     - 1979
  • …And Justice For All
    ...And Justice for All (film)

    ...And Justice For All is a film directed by Norman Jewison.The movie stars Al Pacino, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T....
     - 1979
  • The Champ
    The Champ (1979 film)

    The Champ is a 1979 in film remake of the 1931 in film Academy Award for Best Picture-winning film of the same name, namely The Champ directed by King Vidor....
     - 1979
  • My Bodyguard
    My Bodyguard

    My Bodyguard is a 1980 in film comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Tony Bill, and written by Alan Ormsby. It stars Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin , Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, and Ruth Gordon....
     - 1980
  • On Golden Pond
    On Golden Pond (1981 film)

    On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
     - 1981
  • Absence of Malice
    Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice is a 1981 film which tells the story of Michael Gallagher , the son of a dead Mafia boss who discovers that he has become a front-page story in the local Miami newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated for a murder he didn't commit....
     - 1981
  • Reds - 1981
  • Tootsie
    Tootsie

    Tootsie is a 1982 in film comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job....
     - 1982
  • Author! Author!
    Author! Author! (film)

    Author! Author! is a 1982 in film film directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Israel Horovitz and is loosely autobiographical. It stars Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon and Tuesday Weld....
     - 1982
  • The Little Drummer Girl
    The Little Drummer Girl

    The Little Drummer Girl is a spy novel by John le Carr?, published in 1983. It does not feature le Carr?'s most famous character George Smiley....
     - 1984
  • Falling in Love
    Falling in love

    "Falling in love" is a mainly Western world term used to describe the process of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards someone to one of love....
     - 1984
  • Racing with the Moon
    Racing with the Moon

    Racing with the Moon is a 1984 in film comedy-drama film starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, and Nicolas Cage. It was directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Steven Kloves....
     - 1984
  • The Goonies
    The Goonies

    The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
     - 1985
  • Lucas
    Lucas (film)

    Lucas is a film directed by David Seltzer and first released on March 28 1986. The film was a tragicomedy geared toward a teen audience. This movie ranked number 16 on Entertainment Weekly list of the ....
     - 1986
  • Ishtar
    Ishtar (film)

    Ishtar is a 1987 in film comedy film, directed by Elaine May and starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as "Rogers and Clarke", a duo of incredibly untalented lounge singers who travel to Morocco looking for work and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff....
     - 1987
  • The Milagro Beanfield War
    The Milagro Beanfield War

    The Milagro Beanfield War is an United States drama film based on the John Nichols novel of the same name, the first book in a trilogy. It was directed by Robert Redford and the screenplay was by Nichols and David S....
     - 1988
  • Tequila Sunrise
    Tequila Sunrise (film)

    Tequila Sunrise is a 1988 film written and directed by Academy Awards-winner Robert Towne. It stars Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Kurt Russell....
     - 1988
  • Clara's Heart
    Clara's Heart

    Clara's Heart is a 1988 movie starring Kathleen Quinlan and Whoopi Goldberg. The movie tells the story of a family in crisis. The mother, Leona , escapes to Jamaica to grieve the loss of her baby daughter....
     - 1988
  • A Dry White Season
    A Dry White Season

    A Dry White Season was created in 1989 in film by Davros Films and Sundance Productions and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Euzhan Palcy and produced by Paula Weinstein, Mary Selway and Tim Hampton....
     - 1989
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The Fabulous Baker Boys

    The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 in film film written and directed by Steven Kloves about two brothers who perform a duo piano show together in small Seattle clubs....
     - 1989
  • Havana
    Havana (film)

    Havana is an independent 1990 drama starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, and Raul Julia, directed by Sydney Pollack and with music by Dave Grusin....
     - 1990
  • Bonfire of the Vanities
    The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)

    The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 in film film adaptation of a novel by Tom Wolfe, also called The Bonfire of the Vanities. The film was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, Bruce Willis as Peter Fallow, Melanie Griffith as Maria Ruskin, and Kim Cattrall as Judy McCoy, Sherman's wife....
     - 1990
  • For the Boys
    For the Boys

    For the Boys is a 1991 in film feature film which tells the story of an 1940s actress/singer who teams with a famous performer to entertain United States troops....
     - 1991
  • The Firm - 1993
  • The Cure
    The Cure (1995 film)

    The Cure is a 1995 in film comedy-drama film starring Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello about two boys searching for the cure of AIDS, from which one of them is suffering....
     - 1995
  • Mulholland Falls
    Mulholland Falls

    Mulholland Falls is an United States neo-noir drama film directed by Lee Tamahori. The drama features Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, among others....
     - 1996
  • In the Gloaming
    In the Gloaming

    In the Gloaming is a 1997 in film HBO film directed by Christopher Reeve based on a story written by Alice Elliott Dark. Starring Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg and Robert Sean Leonard....
     - 1997
  • Selena
    Selena (film)

    Selena is an United States biographical film about the life and career of the late Tejano music singer Selena, a Grammy Award-winning recording artist who was well known in the Mexican-American and Latino communities in the United States and Mexico before her death....
     - 1997
  • Hope Floats
    Hope Floats

    Hope Floats is an 1998 in film Cinema of the United States romance film drama film directed by Forest Whitaker, and starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr....
     - 1998
  • Random Hearts
    Random Hearts

    Random Hearts is a 1984 in literature Warren Adler's Random Hearts by United States author Warren Adler. In 1999 in film, the novel was made into a motion picture directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas....
     - 1999
  • Dinner With Friends
    Dinner with Friends

    Dinner with Friends is a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play written by Donald Margulies. It premiered at the 1998 Humana Festival of New American Plays and opened Off-Broadway in New York on November 4, 1999....
     - 2001
  • Even Money
    Even Money (film)

    Even Money is a crime film about three strangers who become addicted to gambling, and how their lives come to be increasingly intertwined. The film touches on the private lives of those who, in one way or another, ultimately hang their hopes on the outcome of a college basketball game....
     - 2007
  • Recount
    Recount (film)

    Recount is an 60th Primetime Emmy Awards winning 2008 television movie about the United States presidential election, 2000 in the United States....
     - 2008


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  • YouTube
    YouTube

    YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
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