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Movers and Shakers

Play trailer Poster for Movers and Shakers PG 1985 1h 19m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Studio head Joe Mulholland (Walter Matthau) promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz (Vincent Gardenia), to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman (Charles Grodin), a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane (Bill Macy) to help him create a movie.

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Michael Lasky Bay Area Reporter 04/30/2020
Movers and Shakers is like one of those precious. coy, terribly urbane cartoons in The New Yorker except they are on one page and this is 90 minutes. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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06/23/2014 A terrible terrible movie... and it even has Walter Matthau in it. See more 12/30/2013 a hollywood satire based on charles grodin's own troubles when he was assigned to adapt the sex manual joy of sex. his screenplay didn't satisfy the heads at paramount. so he was stuck with his own script. it took grodin 7 years to bring this film to the screen and it's a real hoot with a great cast and funny sex puns. See more 10/11/2011 Stumbles around like an inexperieced first timer. See more 07/13/2011 Stumbles around like an inexperieced first timer. See more Read all reviews
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William Asher

Director

Walter Matthau

Joel Mulholland

Charles Grodin

Herb Derman

Tyne Daly

Nancy Derman

Vincent Gardenia

Saul Gritz

Bill Macy

Sid Spokane
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Synopsis Studio head Joe Mulholland (Walter Matthau) promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz (Vincent Gardenia), to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman (Charles Grodin), a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane (Bill Macy) to help him create a movie.
Director
William Asher
Producer
William Asher, Charles Grodin
Screenwriter
Charles Grodin
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 19m