Screenplay: James L. Brooks

Direction Matt Groening · Sam Simon · James L. Brooks · Mark Kirkland

Plot TV Series (1989-Today). 32 Seasons. The Simpsons started out in the Tracy Ullman Show on the 19th April 1987, as shorts, and then, worked it's way up, to become as...

Direction David Silverman

Plot The family is forced to spend all of their savings to get Bart's new tattooo removed, and with no money for Christmas, Homer is forced to become a store Santa.

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast Jack Nicholson · Helen Hunt · Greg Kinnear · Cuba Gooding Jr.

Plot In New York, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is the most dysfunctional of men, an acid-tongued romance novelist who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. As part of Melvin's unwavering daily routine, he...

Direction Pete Michels

Plot The Simpsons attempt to cover up their accidental murder of Ned Flanders in "I Know What You Did-Iddly-Did." Then, Bart and Lisa become superheroes and save Lucy Lawless from the...

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast Debra Winger · Shirley MacLaine · Jack Nicholson · Danny DeVito

Plot An account of the complex and difficult relationship between a mother (Shirley MacLaine) and a daughter (Debra Winger) as they face life's challenges over three decades.

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Gene Reynolds · Alexander Singer

Cast Ed Asner · Robert Walden · Linda Kelsey · Mason Adams

Plot TV Series (1977-1982). 5 Seasons. 114 Episodes. After everyone on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" got fired, Lou Grant went to Los Angeles and became city editor of the L.A....

Direction David Silverman

Plot Maggie Simpson spends a day at the Ayn Rand Daycare Center where she is diagnosed at an average intelligence level. Longing to be grouped with the gifted children, Maggie finds...

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast William Hurt · Holly Hunter · Albert Brooks · Jack Nicholson

Plot In James L. Brooks’ quirky, romantic comedy, three ambitious workaholics are set loose in a network TV newsroom where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly cross-wired. Tom (William Hurt)...

Direction James L. Brooks · Stan Daniels · David Davis · James Burrows

Cast Danny DeVito · Judd Hirsch · Marilu Henner · Tony Danza

Plot TV Series (1978-1983). 115 episodes. Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito) is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied...

Direction David Silverman

Plot Homer adopts a pig who's run away from Krusty Burger after Krusty tried to have him slaughtered, naming the pig "Spider Pig." At the same time, the lake is protected...

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Jay Sandrich · Peter Baldwin

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · Ed Asner · Valerie Harper · Gavin MacLeod

Plot TV Series (1970-1977). 7 Seasons. 168 Episodes. Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after a relationship goes bad. She finds work as an associate producer in a small television newsroom where...

Direction David Silverman

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Burt Reynolds · Jill Clayburgh · Candice Bergen · Charles Durning

Plot His life racked by divorce, Phil Potter learns what it's like to be single, self-sufficient, and lonely once again. When a blind date grows into a serious affair, the romance...

Direction David Silverman

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast Nick Nolte · Whittni Wright · Albert Brooks · Julie Kavner

Plot Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do....

Direction David Silverman

Plot It's about a skinny guy named Miro seeking revenge to Simo for killing his mates. INFO: To celebrate the 600th episode of The Simpsons, the team behind the iconic series...

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast Adam Sandler · Téa Leoni · Paz Vega · Cloris Leachman

Plot Flor (Paz Vega) plays a Mexican woman who moves to the States to find a better life for her daughter. She finds a job as a housekeeper with the Clasky...

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast Reese Witherspoon · Paul Rudd · Owen Wilson · Jack Nicholson

Plot A romantic comedy centered on the love triangle between professional softball player Lisa Jorgenson (Reese Witherspoon), George (Paul Rudd), a corporate executive in a middle of a crisis, and Manny...

Direction William A. Graham

Cast Charlayne Woodard · Cleavant Derricks · Mae Mercer · Clifton Davis

Plot Cinderella wants to marry a dashing army officer, finding out out that her father, who she thought had an important job at a big hotel, is actually the men's room...

Direction James L. Brooks · Stan Daniels · Charlie Hauck · Ed Weinberger

Cast Wilfrid Hyde-White · Martin Short · Alley Mills · Joe Regalbuto

Plot TV Series (1979-1980). 13 episodes. It revolves around three young law school graduates who had just joined the prestigious firm of Bass and Marshall as associates, beginning their five-to-seven-year trial...