Screenplay: James Orr

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


Tough Guys

1986 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Kanew

Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Charles Durning · Alexis Smith

Plot Harry and Archie are released from prison ready to collect their Social Security. How could they get into trouble at their age? Let's count the ways; A parole officer who...

5.8

605 votes

5.8

605 votes

Mr. Destiny

1990 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction James Orr

Cast James Belushi · Linda Hamilton · Michael Caine · Jon Lovitz

Plot Larry Burrows (James Belushi), a businessman, has always been haunted by the fact that he struck out at the state baseball championship game, costing his high school the title. Offered...

5.4

466 votes

5.4

466 votes

14 Going on 30 (TV)

1988 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Paul Schneider

Cast Steven Eckholdt · Daphne Ashbrook · Adam Carl · Gabriel Olds

Plot Danny is hopelessly in love with his teacher Peggy Noble. Of course she doesn't even notice him while she plans to marry the obnoxious coach Roy "Jack-jaw" Kelton. When Danny's...

5.0

38 votes

5.0

38 votes

Three Men and a Baby

1987 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Leonard Nimoy

Cast Tom Selleck · Steve Guttenberg · Ted Danson · Nancy Travis

Plot Three bachelor friends -architect Peter (Tom Selleck), artist Michael (Steve Guttenberg), and actor Jack (Ted Danson)- are sharing an apartment in Manhattan. After Jack goes filming in Turkey his two...

4.7

9K votes

4.7

9K votes

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

1993 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Bill Duke

Cast Whoopi Goldberg · Maggie Smith · Wendy Makkena · Kathy Najimy

Plot Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). And if trying to...

4.3

12K votes

4.3

12K votes

My Future Boyfriend (TV)

2011 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Michael Lange

Cast Sara Rue · Barry Watson · Enisha Brewster · Fred Willard

Plot An archaeologist (Barry Watson) from 1000 years in the future uncovers a romance novel written in our time. Curious, he journeys back to find out about this thing called "love"...

3.8

67 votes

3.8

67 votes

Christmas in Wonderland

2007 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction James Orr

Cast Patrick Swayze · Matthew Knight · Amy Schlagel · Zoe Schlagel

Plot Three kids and their dad go last minute Christmas shopping in a mall, find counterfeit cash, inadvertently help grab the crooks, and awaken the next day to find Santa is...

3.5

87 votes

3.5

87 votes

Man of the House

1995 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction James Orr

Cast Chevy Chase · Farrah Fawcett · Jonathan Taylor Thomas · George Wendt

Plot Ben Archer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is not happy. His mother, Sandy (Farrah Fawcett), has just met a man, the lawyer Jack Sturges (Chevy Chase), and it looks like things are...

3.2

200 votes

3.2

200 votes

The Night Before the Night Before Christmas (TV)

2010 · Movie · 88 min. · Canada

Direction James Orr

Cast Jennifer Beals · Rick Roberts · R.D. Reid · Jordan Prentice

Plot When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs...

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A Change of Heart

2017 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Kenny Ortega

Cast Virginia Madsen · James Belushi · Aimee Teegarden · Cody Horn

Plot Discouraged with cards that life has dealt him, Hank (Jim Belushi) is a man whose circumstances have steered him to fear change, but his town is adhering less to traditional...

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Love on the Run (TV)

1994 · Movie · 120 min. · Canada

Direction Ted Kotcheff · Julie Lee

Cast Anthony Addabbo · Len Cariou · Blu Mankuma · Nada Despotovich

Plot Hired by her millionaire father, allround talent Frank Powers frees Ava Dietrich from a Turkish prison. Still drunk from the celebration of her regained freedom, they marry... and soon realize...

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They Still Call Me Bruce

1987 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction James Orr · Johnny Yune

Cast Johnny Yune · David Mendenhall · Pat Paulsen · Joey Travolta

Plot A Korean man comes to America to thank the American GI who saved his life, but instead winds up running a struggling karate studio.

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