Screenplay: Jerry Belson

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jerry Belson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Fun With Dick and Jane

1977 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Ted Kotcheff

Cast George Segal · Jane Fonda · Ed McMahon · Dick Gautier

Plot Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. They just build a swimming-pool when Dick is fired very unexpectedly - leaving him with...

5.5

170 votes

5.5

170 votes

Always

1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Holly Hunter · John Goodman · Audrey Hepburn

Plot This remake of the 1943 film A GUY NAMED JOE stars Richard Dreyfuss as Pete Sandich, a daredevil pilot who specializes in putting out forest fires. Pete promises his girlfriend,...

5.4

5K votes

5.4

5K votes

Smile

1975 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Michael Ritchie

Cast Bruce Dern · Barbara Feldon · Michael Kidd · Geoffrey Lewis

Plot It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on...

5.3

31 votes

5.3

31 votes

Fun With Dick & Jane (Fun With Dick and Jane)

2005 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Dean Parisot

Cast Jim Carrey · Téa Leoni · Alec Baldwin · Chris Ellis

Plot Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni play a married couple who can't pay the bills - the pet detective racket just isn't what it used to be - so they take...

5.0

11K votes

5.0

11K votes

The End

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Burt Reynolds

Cast Burt Reynolds · Dom DeLuise · Sally Field · Strother Martin

Plot Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.

4.9

65 votes

4.9

65 votes

How Sweet It Is!

1968 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Paris

Cast James Garner · Debbie Reynolds · Maurice Ronet · Terry-Thomas

Plot A husband and wife take their young son on a trip to Europe as a way of sparking their marriage life, but the wife ends up having interludes with a...

4.9

22 votes

4.9

22 votes

The Grasshopper

1970 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Paris

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Jim Brown · Joseph Cotten · Corbett Monica

Plot Wide-eyed nineteen year old Christine Adams decides on a whim to leave her broken family life in small town British Columbia to move to Los Angeles to be with her...

4.6

40 votes

4.6

40 votes

Surrender

1987 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Belson

Cast Sally Field · Michael Caine · Steve Guttenberg · Peter Boyle

Plot A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for...

4.6

75 votes

4.6

75 votes

Smokey and the Bandit II

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Hal Needham

Cast Burt Reynolds · Jerry Reed · Sally Field · Jackie Gleason

Plot It's been a few years since Cletus and the Bandit made their famous 28-hour run to Texas for a few cases of Coors. Bandit is now a washed-up has-been living...

4.4

230 votes

4.4

230 votes

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again

1982 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Belson

Cast Mark Blankfield · Bess Armstrong · Krista Errickson · Tim Thomerson

Plot Dr Daniel Jekyll researching into drugs that would help mankind avoid surgery discovers a white powder that unleashes the animal in every man, and in his case turning him from...

3.7

30 votes

3.7

30 votes

Hank (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Allen Baron · Coby Ruskin · Sidney Miller · William Wiard

Cast Dick Kallman · Linda Foster · Dabbs Greer · Howard St. John

Plot Campus lunch wagon operator "drops in" to classes to get college education.

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The Bill Dana Show (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Danny Thomas

Cast Bill Dana · Jonathan Harris · Gary Crosby · Don Adams

Plot TV Series (1963-1965). 2 seasons. 42 episodes. This NBC spinoff of "The Danny Thomas Show" featured the character of Jose Jimenez, a nasally sounding Latin American bellhop at a New...

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Tracey Takes On (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Tracey Ullman · Allan McKeown · Thomas Schlamme · Don Scardino

Cast Tracey Ullman · Seymour Cassel · Neil Duncan · Adele Givens

Plot TV Series (1996-1999). 4 Seasons. 50 Episodes. Tracey Ullman takes on a different topic in each episode, giving different characters opinions on such things as vanity, royalty and law.

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Love American Style (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Charles R. Rondeau · Bruce Bilson · Alan Rafkin · Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Stuart Margolin · Mary Grover · Barbara Minkus · Michael Callan

Plot An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about...

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Evil Roy Slade (TV)

1972 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Paris

Cast Mickey Rooney · John Astin · Dick Shawn · Henry Gibson

Plot Evil Roy Slade, the meanest villain the West has known, meets a beautiful young woman who persuades him to change careers from train robber to family man. He is pursued...

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