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Movers & Shakers

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Movers & Shakers

A new comedy about a movie that doesn't get made and the people who don't make it.

3.6

1h 20m

1985

“A new comedy about a movie that doesn't get made and the people who don't make it.”

Synopsis

Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.

Director

William Asher

Comedy

Cast & Crew

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

as Joe Mulholland

Charles Grodin

Charles Grodin

as Herb Derman

Vincent Gardenia

Vincent Gardenia

as Saul Gritz

Tyne Daly

Tyne Daly

as Nancy Derman

Bill Macy

Bill Macy

as Sid Spokane

Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner

as Livia Machado

Earl Boen

Earl Boen

as Marshall

Michael Lerner

Michael Lerner

as Arnie

Joe Mantell

Joe Mantell

as Larry

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