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Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and...
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1941
1941 is a period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by friends Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and premiered in December 1979. The film is a comedy about a panic in the Los Angeles area that...
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The Rutles
All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious British rock group called The Rutles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to The Beatles is ...
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Antz
Antz is a 1998 CGI film produced by DreamWorks. It is the first animated film, as well as the first CGI-animated film, by DreamWorks Animation and the second American computer-animated film after Toy Story. It features the voices of well-known...
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Blues Brothers 2000
Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 musical/comedy film and sequel to the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Directed by John Landis, the film featured Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameos by many musicians.
Blues Brothers 2000 picks up 18 years after The...
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Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians...
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Caddyshack II
Caddyshack II is a 1988 sequel to the 1980 golf comedy film Caddyshack. The film stars Jackie Mason, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Chevy Chase, Jonathan Silverman and Jessica Lundy.
The original Caddyshack was rated R, but the sequel was...
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Celtic Pride
Celtic Pride (1996) is a comedy film written by Judd Apatow and Colin Quinn and directed by Tom DeCerchio. It features Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd as Mike O'Hara and Jimmy Flaherty, two passionate Boston Celtics fans and Damon Wayans as Lewis Scott...
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Chaplin
Chaplin is a 1992 British biographical film about the life of English comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, and Anthony Hopkins. It also features...
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Christmas with the Kranks
Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Joe Roth. The screenplay by Chris Columbus is based on the 2001 novel Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.
After Luther and Nora Krank see their daughter depart for a Peace Corps...
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Crossroads
Crossroads is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Tamra Davis and written by Shonda Rhimes starring pop superstar Britney Spears in her first major movie role along with Dan Aykroyd and Kim Cattrall. The film was rated PG-13 in the United States...
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Doctor Detroit
Doctor Detroit is a 1983 comedy film, written by Bruce Jay Friedman, Robert Boris and Carl Gottlieb. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Lynn Whitfield, Fran Drescher, and Donna Dixon, with a special appearance by James Brown. The film was...
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Dragnet
Dragnet is a 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Dabney Coleman, Harry Morgan, and Alexandra Paul, directed by Tom Mankiewicz. The screenplay is written by Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, and Tom Mankiewicz. The original music...
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Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 film adapted from the Alfred Uhry play of the same title for Warner Bros. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford with Morgan Freeman reprising Hoke's role and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy. The story defines Daisy...
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Exit To Eden
Exit To Eden is a 1994 American feature film loosely based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name, directed by Garry Marshall and adapted to the screen by Deborah Amelon and Bob Brunner. The original music score was composed by Patrick Doyle.
Dana...
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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters (titled on-screen as Ghost Busters) is a 1984 science-fiction comedy film written by co-stars Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis about three eccentric New York City parapsychologists-turned-ghost exterminators. The film was released in the...
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Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II is a 1989 sci-fi comedy film and sequel to Ghostbusters. Produced and directed by Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters II follows the further adventures of a group of parapsychologists and their organization which combats paranormal activities...
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Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American comedy film, directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver.
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Grosse Pointe Blank the 21st greatest comedy film of all time. The film's...
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North
North is a 1994 film directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dan Aykroyd, Reba McEntire, and Alan Arkin. The story is based on the novel North by Alan Zweibel, who also wrote the...
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Nothing But Trouble
Nothing But Trouble is a horror comedy released in 1991. Dan Aykroyd directed and starred in the film and also wrote the screenplay with his brother Peter. Chevy Chase, John Candy, and Demi Moore round out the main cast, while Taylor Negron, Raymond...
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Sgt. Bilko
Sgt. Bilko is a 1996 comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn and written by Andy Breckman. It is an adaptation of the 1950s television series The Phil Silvers Show (which itself is often informally called Sgt. Bilko or simply Bilko).
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Sneakers
Sneakers is a 1992 caper film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was filmed in late 1991 and released in 1992.
Martin Brice (Robert Redford), a hacker, has kept to his assumed name of...
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Spies Like Us
Spies Like Us is the name of a 1985 comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, and Donna Dixon. The movie presents the comic adventures of two novice intelligence agents sent to the Soviet Union. The...
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The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features...
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
Shortcut to Happiness is a 2007 film adaptation of the Stephen Vincent Benet classic short story The Devil and Daniel Webster. It stars Anthony Hopkins as Daniel Webster, Alec Baldwin as Jabez Stone, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as The Devil. Baldwin...
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The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors is a 1988 comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. Annette Bening and Stephanie Faracy co-star. Robert Prosky and Lewis Arquette have supporting roles. The film was directed by Howard Deutch and was written by John Hughes....
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Trading Places
Trading Places is a 1983 comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis. It was directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. It was produced by Aaron Russo. The film was nominated for an Academy...
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983 film produced by Steven Spielberg as a theatrical version of The Twilight Zone, a 1950s and 60s TV series created by Rod Serling. It starred Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen...
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Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love is the title of a sleeper comedic film released in 2002. The film follows Grace Beasley who in the face of her failing marriage, and the death of her favorite pop star, learns the value and limitations of unconditional love, and...
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a...
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video was a 1979 movie conceived by Saturday Night Live writer/featured player Michael O'Donoghue.
Mondo Video was a spoof of the controversial 1962 documentary Mondo Cane, showing people doing weird stunts. The logo for this film...
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The Couch Trip
The Couch Trip is a 1988 comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd as a mental patient who gets a chance to go to Hollywood and host a radio talk show.
Mental patient John Burns (Akyroyd) gets the chance to fill in for his doctor when he intercepts a...
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Susan's Plan
Susan's Plan (also released as Dying to Get Rich on video) is a 1998 black comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Nastassja Kinski, Dan Aykroyd, Billy Zane, Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle and Michael Biehn. The plot revolves around Susan...
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1984 movie starring a number of high profile Hollywood actors. It was directed by Tom Schiller, who had previously worked on Saturday Night Live. Although widely regarded as a classic, and highly sought after, the movie...
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Stardom
Stardom is a 2000 Canadian film written by J.Jacob Potashnik & Denys Arcand and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a 2001 film directed, written by, and starring Woody Allen. The cast also features Dan Aykroyd, Elizabeth Berkley, Helen Hunt, John Schuck, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, and Charlize Theron. The plot concerns...
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Loser
Loser is a 2000 romantic comedy film starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear. It is about a small town teenager who is accepted into New York University and must cope with the pressures of college life and the big city.
On an academic...
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It Came From Hollywood
It Came from Hollywood is a 1982 comedy film compiling clips from various B movies. Written by Dana Olsen and directed by Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt, the film features wraparound segments and narration by several famous comedians, including Dan...
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a 2007 sex screwball comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James. The film was released on July 20, 2007 in the U.S., August 16, 2007 in Australia and on September 21, 2007 in...
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Neighbors
Neighbors is a 1981 film based on the book by Thomas Berger. It was released through Columbia Pictures, directed by John G. Avildsen and stars John Belushi as Earl, Dan Aykroyd as Vic (renamed from the novel's Harry), Cathy Moriarty as Ramona,...
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Intern Academy
Intern Academy is a 2004 Canadian comedy film written and directed by Dave Thomas. It has several alternative titles including working titles An Intern's Diary, Whitecoats and Interns. In Canada, its English title is Intern Academy, while its French...
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My Girl
My Girl is a comedy-drama film released in 1991 that focuses on the coming-of-age of a young girl. It features Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut. It was written by Laurice Elehwany and...
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Getting Away with Murder
Getting Away with Murder is a 1996 comedy film written and directed by Harvey Miller. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin and Bonnie Hunt.
This was the final project for veteran writer and director Harvey Miller.
Jack Lambert's (Dan...
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My Girl 2
My Girl 2 is a 1994 comedy-drama movie starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Christine Ebersole, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, Austin O'Brien, and Roland Thomson. This was a sequel to 1991's My Girl.
There's being a kid. There's being an adult....
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My Stepmother Is an Alien
My Stepmother Is An Alien is a 1988 comedy science fiction film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Kim Basinger and Dan Aykroyd, with featured performances by Jon Lovitz and Alyson Hannigan.
Celeste (Kim Basinger) is an alien sent on a secret...
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My Fellow Americans
My Fellow Americans is a 1996 comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents. Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford and Jeff Yagher also appear in supporting performances. The film is...
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Diamonds
Diamonds is a 1999 comedy film directed by John Mallory Asher and written by Allan Aaron Katz. The film stars Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Jenny McCarthy, and Corbin Allred.
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.
The title derives from...
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Rainbow
Rainbow is a 1996 family adventure film directed by Bob Hoskins, written by Ashley Sidaway and Robert Sidaway and starring Bob Hoskins, Terry Finn, Jacob Tierney, Saul Rubinek and Dan Aykroyd. The story concerns four children and a dog whose journey...
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War Inc.
War, Inc. is a 2008 political satire film starring John Cusack and Hilary Duff and directed by Joshua Seftel. Cusack also co-wrote and produced the film. A working title of the film was Brand Hauser: Stuff Happens. The story is partly inspired by...
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 war film directed by Michael Bay. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King,...
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth is a 2000 film version of Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth. The film was written and directed by Terence Davies and starred Gillian Anderson.
It is New York City, 1905, and in the stem of a train appears the shape of a...
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Loose Cannons
Not to be confused with the Los Angeles AM sportsradio talk show or the Central Pennsylvania based used home media store.
Loose Cannons is a 1990 comedy film, written by Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson and Bob Clark (who also directed),...
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Earth vs. the Spider
For the original film with this title see Earth vs. the Spider
Earth vs. the Spider is a horror-thriller television film released in 2001 and directed by Scott Ziehl. Although it shares its title with the original 1958 film, this movie has little to...
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Tommy Boy
Tommy Boy is a 1995 comedy film starring Saturday Night Live alumni Chris Farley and David Spade. The film tells the story of the title character, a socially and emotionally immature man who learns lessons about friendship, trust and self-worth...
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Feeling Minnesota
Feeling Minnesota is a 1996 American romantic comedy film, starring Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, Cameron Diaz, Tuesday Weld and Courtney Love. The name comes from the Soundgarden song "Outshined" from the album Badmotorfinger ("I'm looking...
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Coneheads
Coneheads is the title of a 1993 movie based on the Saturday Night Live sketches about the Coneheads. The film was directed by Steve Barron and produced by Lorne Michaels. As was the case with the previous SNL skit-inspired film The Blues Brothers,...
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This Is My Life
This Is My Life is a 1992 film that marked the directorial debut of screenwriter Nora Ephron. The screenplay, written by Ephron and her sister, Delia Ephron, is based on the book, This Is Your Life, by Meg Wolitzer. The film tells the story of...
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The Arrow
The Arrow is a four-hour miniseries produced for CBC Television in 1996, starring Dan Aykroyd as Crawford Gordon, experienced wartime production leader during World War II and president of A. V. Roe Canada during its attempt to produce the Avro...
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Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is an upcoming live-action film adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera series, Yogi Bear, with a planned 2011 release date. It will be distributed by Warner Bros., with Hanna-Barbera Productions providing finance. Rhythm and Hues Studios will...
