Comedy, Crime
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Diary of a Mad Housewife
For Pete's Sake
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Blast of Silence
Glow Ropes: The Rise and Fall of a Bar Mitzvah Emcee
8-Bit Christmas
The Boy Friend
On the Town
God Told Me To
Q & A
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
The Brain
Hit the Ice
Let Them All Talk
The Agent
Parting Glances
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Come Blow Your Horn
Buck Privates Come Home
Whatever You Say
SIMILAR MOVIES
Diary of a Mad Housewife
IMDB 6.3 | Aug , 1970
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.For Pete's Sake
IMDB 5.6 | Jun , 1974
Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market. However, when their stock plummets, she scrambles to find a way to pay the money back.Next Stop, Greenwich Village
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1976
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.Blast of Silence
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1961
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.Glow Ropes: The Rise and Fall of a Bar Mitzvah Emcee
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2008
Enthusiastic emcee Taylor James (Tim Peper) leaves behind his home state of New Jersey when party planner Vanessa Dupree (Judy Reyes) hires him to work the busier New York City bar mitzvah scene. Tutored by slick Manhattan emcee Sebastian (George Valencia), Taylor spices up his wardrobe and becomes a more clever showman. Soon, he's a bar mitzvah celebrity. But when he has a disastrous problem with his glow-in-the-dark props, his career heads in another direction.8-Bit Christmas
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2021
In suburban Chicago during the late 1980s, ten-year-old Jake Doyle embarks on a herculean quest to get the latest and greatest video game system for Christmas.The Boy Friend
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 1971
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.On the Town
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1949
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.God Told Me To
IMDB 5.9 | Oct , 1976
Devout Catholic detective Peter Nicholas investigates a series of murders around New York City, perpetrated by men who claim that God told them to do it. After the police department denies any religious underpinnings to the murders and suspends him, Nicholas begins to connect the murders to a messianic cult figure in town.Q & A
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 1990
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
IMDB 5.3 | Apr , 2005
Ethan Green (Daniel Letterle) has no problem finding guys who want to sleep with him or even date him, but finding someone to settle down with is a different story. Given three choices -- a sexy teenager, a hunky jock, or his ex-boyfriend who is about to get married -- will he find a Mr. Right, or is he destined to an unfabulous existence. Based on a popular gay-themed comic strip.The Brain
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1969
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.Hit the Ice
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1943
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.Let Them All Talk
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 2020
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.The Agent
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2009
It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on the author's resourcefulness.Parting Glances
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 1986
Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.Thoroughly Modern Millie
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 1967
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"Come Blow Your Horn
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 1963
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.Buck Privates Come Home
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 1947
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.Whatever You Say
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 2002
Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show.