Screenplay: Bruce Jay Friedman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bruce Jay Friedman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Heartbreak Kid

1972 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Elaine May

Cast Charles Grodin · Cybill Shepherd · Jeannie Berlin · Audra Lindley

Plot Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides...

6.3

211 votes

6.3

211 votes

Stir Crazy

1980 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Poitier

Cast Gene Wilder · Richard Pryor · Georg Stanford Brown · JoBeth Williams

Plot New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote...

5.6

2K votes

5.6

2K votes

The Lonely Guy

1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Steve Martin · Charles Grodin · Judith Ivey · Robyn Douglass

Plot A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

5.6

257 votes

5.6

257 votes

Brazzaville Teen-Ager (S)

2013 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Michael Cera

Cast Michael Cera · Jack O'Connell · Charles Grodin · Kelis

Plot In a self-effacing attempt to save his father from a death by deterioration, a young man enlists his curmudgeonly boss and Kelis to perform a song, and a miracle.

5.3

26 votes

5.3

26 votes

The Heartbreak Kid

2007 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Peter Farrelly · Bobby Farrelly

Cast Ben Stiller · Michelle Monaghan · Jerry Stiller · Malin Akerman

Plot Single and indecisive, Eddie (Ben Stiller) begins dating the incredibly sexy and seemingly fabulous Lila (Malin Akerman). Upon the urging of his father and best friend, Eddie proposes to her...

5.1

12K votes

5.1

12K votes

Splash

1984 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Tom Hanks · Daryl Hannah · Eugene Levy · John Candy

Plot Tom Hanks is a lonely bachelor in New York; Daryl Hannah is the mystery woman who brings romance into his life. What he doesn't know is that she's a mermaid!...

5.0

20K votes

5.0

20K votes

Steambath (TV Miniseries)

1983 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Jay Friedman · Burt Brinckerhoff · Terry Hughes

Cast Robert Picardo · José Pérez · Al Ruscio · Neil J. Schwartz

Plot TV Mini-Series. 6 episodes. TV play chronicling the advice and various miracles dispensed by God who has come to earth in guise of Morty, an irrasible attendent working in a...

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Foreplay

1975 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction John G. Avildsen · Bruce Malmuth · Robert McCarty · Ralph Rosenblum

Cast Pat Paulsen · Irwin Corey · Zero Mostel · Estelle Parsons

Plot Three vignettes about a man who buys a weird doll, a writer who is visited by his muse and a kidnapper with very odd demands who holds a VIP.

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Steambath (TV)

1973 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Burt Brinckerhoff

Cast Stephen Elliott · Bill Bixby · Herb Edelman · Neil J. Schwartz

Plot TV adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's off-Broadway play. Tandy, Merideth and assorted others unexpectedly wake up in a steambath with no easy exit. After spending some time there, it becomes...

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Doctor Detroit

1983 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Michael Pressman

Cast Dan Aykroyd · Howard Hesseman · Donna Dixon · Lydia Lei

Plot A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets.

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Not rated