Nora Ephron flopped big time with a world-class cast with the 1994 Christmas dark comedy Mixed Nuts.
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Charles Grodin, Mr. Sex himself, was hired to adapt the plotless, best-selling sex manual The Joy of Sex for the big screen, an experience he transformed into the basis for his 1986 flop Movers and Shakers.
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Director John Landis, screenwriters Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman and Steve Martin and stars Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short joined forces for the clever and affectionate 1986 western comedy Three Amigos, which is enormous fun if you can overlook its very 1980s style of casual racism.
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In a piece collected in the forthcoming Fractured Mirror book I wrote about Frank Oz and Steve Martin’s beloved show business comedy, featuring two of Eddie Murphy’s best performances.
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Screenwriter Nora Ephron and director Herbert Ross’ goofy, giddy Goodfellas riff My Blue Heaven is a goddamn delight, is what it is.
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Charles Grodin is hilarious and heartbreaking in one of his best and most overlooked performances as the world’s saddest man in the otherwise middling 1984 comedy The Lonely Guy.
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