Boys On the Side

Herbert Ross

Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Whoopi Goldberg ('Racing Stripes,' 'Ghost'), Golden Globe-winner Drew Barrymore ('50 First Dates,' the 'Charlie's Angels' features) and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Mary-Louise Parker (TV's 'Weeds,' 'Red Dragon') accidentally commit a crime, then end up on the lam in this road comedy.


Nijinsky

Herbert Ross

The story of Vaslav Nijinsky, who is widely believed to be one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. Based on Romola Nijinsky's "Last Years of Nijinski."


The Goodbye Girl

Herbert Ross

Richard Dreyfuss as a struggling actor and Marsha Mason as an even more struggling actress/dancer/mother deliver comedy repartee and bitter-to-best romance in Neil Simon's lustrous charmer featuring Dreyfuss' Academy Award-winning Best Actor performance.


My Blue Heaven

Herbert Ross

Golden Globe-nominee and Emmy Award-winner Steve Martin stars as a charming, silver-tongued mob informant who, when relocated to a small California town under the Federal Witness Protection Program, turns the community upside down, making life difficult not only for the townsfolk, but for the by-the-books FBI agent who must protect him (Emmy Award-winner Rick Moranis). This delightful comedy was directed by Golden Globe-winner Herbert Ross ("Steel Magnolias," "The Turning Point") and written by Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominee Nora Ephron ("Sleepless in Seattle," "When Harry Met Sally...").


Steel Magnolias

Herbert Ross

Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M'Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fear of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life.


The Sunshine Boys (1975)

Herbert Ross

George Burns ("Oh, God!") won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as one of two feuding vaudevillian actors who are reunited for a television comeback. Co-starring Oscar-winner Walter Matthau ("Grumpy Old Men") and Richard Benjamin ("Goodbye Columbus"). Based on award-winning playwright Neil Simon's play. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Matthau received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his performance.


Protocol (1984)

Herbert Ross

Superstar Goldie Hawn ("The First Wives Club," "Private Benjamin") is a spirited DC cocktail waitress who, through a series of comic misadventures, becomes an overnight celebrity as a protocol official for the State Department. But her do-nothing job leads to her being used as a pawn in a covert arms deal. Directed by Herbert Ross ("Steel Magnolias," "Boys on the Side"), this is "a breezy comedy that was made to order for the gifted Goldie Hawn," says The New York Times, and The Washington Post calls it "the kind of corny screwball comedy you thought nobody made any more." Co-starring Academy Award-nominee Chris Sarandon ("The Princess Bride"), Amanda Bearse ("Married: With Children") and Ed Begley, Jr. ("The Accidental Tourist").


Pennies from Heaven

Herbert Ross

All-star musical follows Steve Martin ("Bowfinger," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "Father of the Bride") as a womanizing sheet-music salesman who's married to hapless Jessica Harper ("My Favorite Year") but carries on an affair with a schoolteacher, Tony-winner Bernadette Peters ("Annie"). Set during the Depression, it features lyp-synced songs from the greats of that era, including Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Also stars Oscar-winner Christopher Walken ("The Deer Hunter," "Brainstorm," "The Dead Zone"). Produced and directed by Oscar-nominee Herbert Ross ("The Vanishing Point," "The Sunshine Boys") with stunning black and white cinematography by Oscar-nominee Gordon Willis ("The Godfather," "Annie Hall"). Based on the successful British TV series by Dennis Potter whose adapted script earned an Oscar-nomination.


Dancers

Herbert Ross

World-renowned dance prodigy Mikhail Baryshnikov stars in this romantic drama as Tony Sergoyev, the director of a ballet company in Southern Italy which is in the midst of setting up a performance of “Giselle,” a famous French opera by Adolphe Adam.


The Owl and the Pussycat

Herbert Ross

A nebbish bookstore clerk and a neighborhood hooker meet, fight and fall in love.


Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

Herbert Ross

Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole ("Venus," "Lawrence of Arabia") stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark ("Finian's Rainbow") and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave ("The Lady Vanishes," "The Hill"). Directed by Oscar-nominee Herbert Ross ("The Vanishing Point," "Play it Again, Sam," "The Sunshine Boys").


Funny Lady

Herbert Ross

Barbra Steisand is back and she's better than ever as the exuberant Fanny Brice in FUNNY LADY, sequel to acclaimed Academy Award(r) winner, (Barbra Streisand as Best Actress, 1968) Funny Girl. This lively, lavish musical opens a new chapter in Fanny's career and love life. Now divorced from wealthy Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), she teams up with songwriter Billy Rose (James Caan), a brash and unkempt showman who is bursting with enthusiasm and theatrical ambitions. They make an unusual couple, the polished performer and the upstart producer, but a friendship blossoms into love. FUNNY LADY is the poignant story of their show business magic, their unbridled temperaments, and their touching, bittersweet romance. Featuring dazzling production numbers, elegant costuming by Bob Mackie and an electric cast. Streisand is a FUNNY LADY you'll never forget!


California Suite

Herbert Ross

CALIFORNIA SUITE is the story of five couples who have come to the Beverly Hills Hotel for diverse reasons and who must all confront some rather amusing personal dilemmas. Sidney Cochran (Michael Caine) becomes the victim of wife Diana's (Maggie Smith) outrage when she misses winning an Oscar(r). (Smith won a real Oscar(r) for Best Supporting Actress in this role). Marvin Michaels (Walter Matthau) must somehow explain to his wife (Elaine May) how a sexy blonde got in his bed. Wisecracking Hannah Warren (Jane Fonda) is uneasy about her ex-husband's (Alan Alda) new California lifestyle. And Dr. Chauncey Gump (Richard Pryor) must contend with his friend's (Bill Cosby) increasingly imposing manner.Great fun!


Play It Again, Sam

Herbert Ross

Woody Allen's wonderful comedy was his first film with Diane Keaton, a relationship that would eventually bring them both Oscar ("Annie Hall"). Allen plays Allen, a fanatical movie buff with an outrageous recurring hallucination: Humphrey Bogart offering tips on how to make it with the ladies. His married friends Dick and Linda (Tony Roberts and Diane Keaton) fix him up with several eligible young ladies, but his self-confidence is so weak that he's a total failure with them all. Eventually, Allen discovers that there is one woman he's himself with: Linda, his best friend's wife. The final scene is a terrific takeoff on "Casablanca's" classic ending, complete with roaring plane propellers, heavy fog and Bogart-style trench coats.


The Last of Sheila

Herbert Ross

An all-star cast headlines this witty mystery-thriller about a movie producer who invites six friends to a cruise aboard his yacht, the "Sheila," named after his late wife who died in an unsolved hit-and-run accident a year ago that day. As the ship sets sail, those aboard begin to realize that their host has more than innocent parlor games in mind as he pits each against the other, taunting them with the knowledge that his wife's killer is among them. Written by Oscar- and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and lyricist -- and puzzle-fanatic -- Stephen Sondheim ("Dick Tracy," "West Side Story") and actor-writer Anthony Perkins ("Psycho"). Directed by Oscar-nominee Herbert Ross ("Boys on the Side," "Steel Magnolias"), and starring Raquel Welch ("Naked Gun 33 1/3), Oscar-winner James Coburn ("Maverick"), Richard Benjamin ("Goodbye, Columbus"), and Academy Award-nominees Dyan Cannon ("Heaven Can Wait"), Joan Hackett ("Only When I Laugh") and James Mason ("The Verdict").


The Secret of My Success

Herbert Ross

Can a kid from Kansas come to New York to conquer the business world and maneuver his way from the mailroom to the boardroom in a matter of weeks? Michael J. Fox proves it can be done in this very funny lampoon of corporate business life. Fresh out of college, he's determined to climb New York's corporate ladder in record time by masquerading as an up-and-coming executive, even though he's really the new mail boy. However, Fox's plans begin to go awry when the boss's wife falls in love with him and he falls in love with a junior executive, who also happens to be the boss's mistress.


Max Dugan Returns

Herbert Ross

Max Dugan Returns is a Neil Simon comedy starring Jason Robards as ex-con Max Dugan, a man trying to make up with his daughter and impress his grandson by showering them with presents bought with money stolen from the Mob.