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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award.
Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, and...
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A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 ensemble comedy elegy directed by Robert Altman, his final film released just five months before his death. It is based on A Prairie Home Companion, a program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States...
Big Business
Big Business is a 1988 American farcical comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. Produced by Touchstone Pictures and loosely based on The Comedy of Errors (1589—1594) by William Shakespeare.
The movie revolves around two pairs of...
I ♥ Huckabees
I Heart Huckabees, also known as I Love Huckabees, and written as i ♥ huckabees, is a 2004 comedy film from Fox Searchlight. It was produced and directed by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena. The film reunites Russell...
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Nine to Five
Nine to Five, also known as 9 to 5, is a 1980 American comedy movie starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman.
The film concerns three working women living out their fantasy of getting even with, and their successful...
Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog (1992) is a black and white film directed by Woody Allen and based on his one-act play Death. It stars Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, William H. Macy, Madonna, and Kenneth Mars. It was filmed on a 26,000-square-foot ...
The Ant Bully
The Ant Bully (ISBN 0590395912) is a 1999 children's book drawn and written by John Nickle. It is about a young boy named Lucas Nickle (also known as Peanut the Destroyer), who is the titular character in the book and who likes to torment ants. It...
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies is a 1993 20th Century Fox comedy motion picture starring Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman, Lea Thompson, Rob Schneider and Penny Fuller. It features cameo appearances by...
The Celluloid Closet
The Celluloid Closet (1995) is a documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. The film is based on the 1981 (revised 1987) book of the same name written by Vito Russo, and on previous lecture and film clip presentations...
All of Me
All of Me is a 1984 fantasy/comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. This film is based on the novel Me Two by Edwin Davis.
Martin plays an attorney named Roger Cobb. He is dating his boss' daughter and is also...
Tea With Mussolini
Tea with Mussolini (1999) is a semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a kind British woman and her circle of friends.
The film begins in Florence, Italy, where a group of...
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...
Flirting with Disaster
For the album by rock band Molly Hatchet, see Flirtin' with Disaster.
Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 American comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell about a young father's search for his biological parents. The film stars Ben Stiller...
Orange County
Orange County is a 2002 United States comedy film starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black. It was released on January 14, 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake...
Moment by Moment
Moment by Moment is a 1978 film starring John Travolta and Lily Tomlin. It tells the story of a romance between a young drifter named Strip Harrison (John Travolta) and an older wealthy woman, Trish Rawlings (Lily Tomlin). The film was written and...
Short Cuts
Short Cuts is a 1993 drama film directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. Substituting a Los Angeles setting for the Pacific Northwest...
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991) is the filmed version of the one-woman stage show written by Jane Wagner and starring Lily Tomlin, which won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. Directed by John...
Nashville
Nashville is a 1975 American musical film directed by Robert Altman. A winner of many awards, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman's best films.
The film takes a...
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a 1981 science fiction/comedy film, starring Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, John Glover and Elizabeth Wilson, and directed by Joel Schumacher. The film was written by Tomlin's longtime life partner and...
The Kid
The Kid is a 2000 American family film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Bruce Willis. It co-stars Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride, and Jean Smart.
Russel Dritz works as an image consultant, but he is a jerk to people...
Krippendorf's Tribe
Krippendorf's Tribe is a 1998 film adaptation of Frank Parkin's novel directed by Todd Holland.
Respected anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and his wife, Jennifer (Barbara Williams), bring their three children along during their...
Blue in the Face
Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster. It stars Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Giancarlo Esposito, Roseanne Barr, Michael J. Fox,Lily Tomlin, Mira Sorvino, Lou Reed, Mel Gorham,Jim Jarmusch,and Malik Yoba.
Blue in the...
The Walker
The Walker is a 2007 drama film that was written and directed by Paul Schrader. It is a British-American independent production and was proclaimed to be the latest installment in Schrader's "night workers" series of films, starting with Taxi Driver...
The Pink Panther 2
The Pink Panther 2 is a 2009 detective comedy film directed by Harald Zwart. It is the sequel to the 2006 film The Pink Panther, a reboot of the popular comedy series. The film was released on February 6, 2009 in North America. In the film,...
The Late Show
The Late Show is a 1977 comedy, neo-noir, romance, mystery film written and directed by Robert Benton and produced by Robert Altman. The film stars Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, and Joanna Cassidy. The film follows an aging...
Ponyo
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is the 2008 animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
The Ant Bully
The Ant Bully is a 2006 computer-animated film based on the 1999 children's book and produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, John Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions and directed by the aforementioned Davis. Released in movie...
