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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