Bob Balaban
出生 : 1945-08-16, Chicago, Illinois, USA
略歴
Robert Elmer Balaban, Born: August 16, 1945, Chicago, Illinois, U.S (Height: 5' 5" [1.65 m]). is an American actor, author, comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest mockumentary comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006), as well as his roles in the films Midnight Cowboy (1969), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), 2010 (1984), Deconstructing Harry (1997), and Capote (2005). Balaban has also directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films. He is also an author of children's novels.
Balaban began his career in the 1960s, appearing in small roles in films and television shows. He made his breakthrough role in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, playing a young hustler who befriends an aging rodeo cowboy. In the 1970s, Balaban appeared in a number of popular films, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), and 2010 (1984). He also continued to work in television, appearing in recurring roles on the shows Lou Grant and Designing Women.
In the 1990s, Balaban began a long and fruitful collaboration with filmmaker Christopher Guest. He appeared in all of Guest's mockumentary comedies, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006). Balaban's performances in these films were widely praised, and he earned a reputation as one of the most reliable comedic actors in Hollywood.
In addition to his work in film and television, Balaban has also directed three feature films: The Last Shot (1999), Bernie (2011), and A Little Help (2010). He is also a successful author of children's novels, and he has won several awards for his writing.
Balaban is a respected and versatile actor who has enjoyed a long and successful career in the entertainment industry. He is known for his sharp wit, his impeccable comedic timing, and his ability to create memorable characters. He is a true Renaissance man, and he is sure to continue to entertain audiences for many years to come.
Balaban has been nominated for numerous awards throughout his career. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, for his work on the television shows Lou Grant and Designing Women. He has also been nominated for two Tony Awards, for his performances in the Broadway plays The Norman Conquests and The Plough and the Stars.
Balaban is a recipient of the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Balaban is married to Lynn Grossman, and they have two children together. He is a resident of New York City.
Mark
A quartet of elderly best friends decide to live life to the fullest by taking a wild trip to the Super Bowl LI to see their hero Tom Brady play.
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a dark and difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed people who made it. It is about New York in a troubled era of cultural ferment and social change. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era. The 1969 movie tells the story of two homeless loners who join forces out of desperation and struggle to survive.
Short film sequel to the web miniseries “Thank You and Sorry.”
Uncle Nick
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Uncle Aaron
With some apprehension, Jared (Richard Ellis) flew across the country to move in with his boyfriend, Owen (writer-director Owen Thiele). On top of the expected challenges of move-in day, they're faced with a practical one that puts their relationship to the test.
Himself
A documentary about the life of Carl Laemmle, early cinema pioneer and founder of Universal Studios, documenting his life in Hollywood and his efforts in the 1930s to save Jewish families in Nazi Germany.
Executive Producer
かつてベストセラーで名を成した伝記作家が転落した挙句、有名人の手紙を捏造してコレクターに高値で売る詐欺師となり……。リー・イスラエルの自伝をメリッサ・マッカーシー主演で映画化したクライム・ストーリー。
King (voice)
近未来の日本。ドッグ病が大流行するメガ崎市では、人間への感染を恐れた小林市長が、すべての犬を“犬ヶ島”に追放する。ある時、12歳の少年がたった一人で小型飛行機に乗り込み、その島に向かった。愛犬で親友のスポッツを救うためにやって来た、市長の養子で孤児のアタリだ。島で出会った勇敢で心優しい5匹の犬たちを新たな相棒とし、スポッツの探索を始めたアタリは、メガ崎の未来を左右する大人たちの陰謀へと近づいていく─。
Self
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
Sol Lumpkin
Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
Mr. Waxcap
A young nurse takes care of elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
Wilhelm Hesse (voice)
German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in part a reaction to the rigid structures of then-popular minimalism, a male-dominated movement. Hesse’s complicated personal life encompassed not only a chaotic 1930s Germany, but also illness and the immigrant culture of New York in the 1940s. One of the twentieth century’s most intriguing artists, she finally receives her due in this film, an emotionally gripping journey with a gifted woman of great courage.
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.
Narrator (voice)
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Director
Everyone’s talking about it, but who can explain it? Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelan have partnered to produce WE THE ECONOMY 20 Short Films You Can’t Afford to Miss. Each film is helmed by an acclaimed filmmaker, each with their own creative vision. The series aims to drive awareness and establish a better understanding of the U.S. economy. Told through animation, comedy, musical, non-fiction, and scripted films, WE THE ECONOMY seeks to demystify a complicated topic while empowering the public to take control of their own economic futures.
Monsieur Martin
1932年、品格が漂うグランド・ブダペスト・ホテルを仕切る名コンシェルジュのグスタヴ・Hは、究極のおもてなしを信条に大勢の顧客たちをもてなしていた。しかし、常連客のマダムDが殺されたことでばく大な遺産争いに巻き込まれてしまう。グスタヴは信頼するベルボーイのゼロと一緒にホテルの威信を維持すべく、ヨーロッパ中を駆け巡る。
Pvt. Preston Savitz
第2次大戦末期のヨーロッパ。ナチスドイツはヒトラーの命を受け、侵攻した各国にある彫刻や歴史的名画を略奪していた。このことに危機感を募らせたハーバード大学付属美術館の館長ストークスは、大統領のルーズベルトにナチスドイツに奪われた美術品の奪還作戦を認めさせる。そして、芸術のエキスパート7人で特殊部隊“モニュメンツ・メン”を結成。貴重な美術品の行方を追うため、彼らはヨーロッパ各地の前線へ向かう。
Lawyer
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
Sol
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Self
Narrator Bob Balaban briefly profiles Murray, Willis, Norton, and Anderson. There's some lovely behind-the-scenes clips here, and a few laughs.
Maxwell
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
The Narrator
The librarian of the town of New Penzance introduces six animated segments illustrating Suzy's favorite books.
The Narrator
1960年代ニューイングランド島。自分が養子だということを寂しいと感じながらボーイスカウト活動をしていたサム（ジャレッド・ギルマン）は、常に本を読んでいる少女スージー（カラ・ヘイワード）に恋をする。キャンプでの生活になじめない二人は文通を始め、キャンプから勝手に抜け出し森で自由気ままに過ごしていた。一方、村では保安官（ブルース・ウィリス）やスージーの両親（ビル・マーレイ、フランシス・マクドーマンド）らが、二人を捜していたのだが……。
Leonard Dahl
A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
Pâté
Paris, 1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colourful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Bird of Paradise cabaret, an eccentric scientist and his irascible monkey to save the monster, who turns out to be an oversized but harmless flea, from the city's ruthlessly ambitious police chief.
Voice of Daniel's father
Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.
Judge Clayton Horn
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Bob
Some people will do anything to find the location.
Mr. White
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
Director
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Himself
Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces. Starting in the Hamptons, in the town of Wainscott, the film weaves Rogers' footage into a journey through childhood memories, a less than encouraging mother, a family background of privilege, and Rogers' persistent, dogged attempts to document his own life. Rogers' friend, actor and writer Wallace Shawn, joins in the process, as the film investigates the differences between documentary and fiction, and tells the tragic story of Rogers' life.
Ben Ginsberg
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
Arthur Planck
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.
Jewellery Store Clerk
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
Therapist
マンハッタンの高級レストランで料理長を務めるケイト（キャサリン・ゼタ・ジョーンズ）は、ある日、姉を交通事故で失い、残されためいのゾーイ（アビゲイル・ブレスリン）を引き取ることに。一方、仕事場には、ケイトとは正反対の性格の陽気な副料理長ニック（アーロン・エッカート）が新たに雇われる。
The true story behind the Prince of the City.
Philip Koontz
The possibility of Oscar gold holds the cast and crew of an independent film in its grip after the performance of its virtually unknown, veteran star generates awards buzz.
Executive Producer
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.
Director
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.
Harry Farber
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Executive Producer
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Director
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Self
Documentary featuring the contentious news surrounding the movie "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), including its Oscar win for feature film.
William Shawn
天才作家トルーマン・カポーティの代表作、『冷血』の誕生秘話を描き出した伝記ドラマ。全米が震撼した一家惨殺事件を小説化しようと犯人であるペリーへの取材を進めるうち、彼の心とシンクロしていく。
Roger
A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a torrent of foul-mouthed rippings and ferociously humorous musings on their marriage, love, hate and committment.
Jonathan Steinbloom
1960年代にフォーク・ブームの潮流を作った伝説のマネージャーがこの世を去った。彼の長男は追悼コンサートを画策するが……。“アメリカン・パイ”シリーズのユージーン・レビーが出演するコメディ作品。
Winton Chalmers (uncredited)
運転の腕前を買われて大富豪デヴリンのお抱え運転手にスカウトされたジミー・トン。デヴリンからは彼のタキシードに絶対触らないよう言われていたが、ある日、ジミーが運転する車が何者かに襲われデヴリンは重傷を負う。ジミーは好奇心からそのタキシードを着ると、それは特殊な物であることを知る。実はデヴリンは秘密機関の諜報員で、ジミーは怪我した彼の代わりに新人諜報員デルとともに危険な秘密任務にかり出される。
Himself
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Elvin Glyde
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Idea
１９３２年イギリス。ゴスフォード・パークと呼ばれるカントリー・ハウスでパーティが催され続々と貴族が集まって来た。傲慢なかれらのお楽しみはキジ撃ちと豪華な食事と他人のゴシップ。中には破産の崖っぷちにたつ人間もいて、裏では欲望がどろどろと絡み合う。一方屋敷の「階下」では数え切れないほどの使用人が「階上」の貴族たちの様子を伺っている。そんな中で、突然起きた密室殺人。容疑者は屋敷にいる全員。果たして犯人は？その目的は？
Producer
１９３２年イギリス。ゴスフォード・パークと呼ばれるカントリー・ハウスでパーティが催され続々と貴族が集まって来た。傲慢なかれらのお楽しみはキジ撃ちと豪華な食事と他人のゴシップ。中には破産の崖っぷちにたつ人間もいて、裏では欲望がどろどろと絡み合う。一方屋敷の「階下」では数え切れないほどの使用人が「階上」の貴族たちの様子を伺っている。そんな中で、突然起きた密室殺人。容疑者は屋敷にいる全員。果たして犯人は？その目的は？
Morris Weissman
１９３２年イギリス。ゴスフォード・パークと呼ばれるカントリー・ハウスでパーティが催され続々と貴族が集まって来た。傲慢なかれらのお楽しみはキジ撃ちと豪華な食事と他人のゴシップ。中には破産の崖っぷちにたつ人間もいて、裏では欲望がどろどろと絡み合う。一方屋敷の「階下」では数え切れないほどの使用人が「階上」の貴族たちの様子を伺っている。そんな中で、突然起きた密室殺人。容疑者は屋敷にいる全員。果たして犯人は？その目的は？
Enid's Dad
全米の若者の間でカリスマ的人気を誇るダニエル・クロウズの新感覚コミックを「アメリカン・ビューティー」のゾーラ・バーチ主演で映画化したおしゃれでキッチュでとびきり切ない青春ストーリー。イーニドとレベッカは高校を卒業した今も進路も決めないまま好きなことだけしてフラフラする毎日。ある日、二人は新聞の出会い系の広告に載っていた中年男をダイナーに呼び出し、待ちぼうけを食っている惨めな姿を見て暇を潰すのだったが……。
Self
A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Bernie Nayman
ゴア・ヴァービンスキー監督のもと、ブラッド・ピットとジュリア・ロバーツが夢の共演を果たしたハードでスリリングなラヴ・ストーリー。伝説の拳銃“メキシカン”をめぐる争奪戦に巻き込まれたカップルの愛の行方を描く。
James Foster
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman.
Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III
The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.
Tex
The legend of Tex, who never lost a gunfight.
Harry Hopkins
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Decker
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.
Kowalsky
第二次大戦中、ナチス占領下のポーランド。ジェイコブはユダヤ人居住区ゲットーに住む元パン屋。ある日、ドイツ軍司令部でラジオのニュースを偶然耳にするが、それは、ドイツの戦況不利を伝えるものだった。ジェイコブが友人たちに伝えたそのニュースはまたたく間にゲットーに流れ出していく。外部と接触するだけで重罪に問われるゲットーで、ジェイコブの行為は大きな波紋を呼ぶが、彼は身の危険も顧みず、解放が近いというニュースをでっちあげて伝え続け、住民たちに生きる希望を芽生えさせていく……。
Producer
A best man gives an increasingly uncomfortable toast at his friends' wedding reception.
Director
A best man gives an increasingly uncomfortable toast at his friends' wedding reception.
Justice Eli MacCorckle
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
Dr. William Powell
Residents of an East Texas town react strangely when a serial killer invades their small town world.
Bob
After a woman's husband dies while jogging in the park, the young widow's deep grief helps to awaken his ghost. The ghost urges her to commit suicide to join him in the afterlife. While the young woman is making up her mind about suicide, her husband's ghost helps with a current murder case.
Richard
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Director
The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase an ensemble of familiar faces, and range from stories of compassion and love to reflections on violence and loss. Among them: a disabled beggar quarrels with a woman and ruins her shoes with his wheelchair, provoking onlookers to wrath and pity; a skittish tourist proves to be her own worst enemy; a newlywed trysts with a mysterious sexpot; a commuter helplessly witnesses a suicide attempt; and, in the most affecting segment, a young woman grieves over her mother's imminent death.
Wolfe Rollins
When 25-year-old New Yorker Eric Traber gets fired from his job and kicked out of his apartment, he fears the worst. But his best friend, Ziggy, shows up A.W.O.L. from the Peace Corps and leads him out to the swank Hamptons for Easter weekend in search of betterment and understanding. Once there, they confront the adult roles of life for the first time; fraud, attempted murder, two-faced disloyalty and well-catered cocktail parties!
Milton Lasky
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Mr. Webster
An American historian (Mr Webster) comes to Berlin to visit an old man who claims to be the real Adolf Hitler and to be 103 years old. The Hitler who died in 1945, the old man says, was just one of his six doubles - one for each weekday - while Hitler himself retired into a bunker below the S-Bahn tracks and married a second time.
Lloyd Miller
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
Warren Littlefield
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
Paul Entamen
A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
Producer
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Screenplay
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Director
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Jeffrey Sanborn (uncredited)
Mitch Robbins 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Ed
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Ed Drinkwater
自分のホテルを経営するという大きな夢を抱く接客係マイケルの前に、スポンサー候補の実業家が現われる。だが実業家がマイケルの愛する美女に惚れ、彼は選択を迫られる。マイケル・J．フォックス主演のラブ・コメディ。
Director
Missy McCloud is the most beautiful girl in school and Johnny Dingle has been in love with her for years. One night, Johnny is killed trying to win her over, and soon he comes back from the dead, and wins Missy's heart.
Dr. R. A. (Roy) Fink
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
Cutting Edge Producer
アメリカ上院議員選挙に立候補した人気歌手“ボブ・ロバーツ”の姿を、ドキュメンタリーの形式を借りて描いたユニークな作品。アメリカ上院議員選挙に立候補したボブは、その人気と豊富な資金力をバックに選挙戦の台風の眼となる。表のクリーンなイメージの一方で、当選するためには手段を選ばない側面も。その結果、ボブは選挙戦を有利に進めるが……。
Lou Finkleberg
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Quizmaster
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
Sid Moscowitz
マンハッタンの超高級マンションで暮らすアリス。体調不良を崩しチャイナタウンの怪しげな診療所でもらった薬を飲むと、いつもとは違う積極的な性格になり……。ウディ・アレン流“自分探しの旅”コメディ。
Director
A compilation of episodes from the classic '80s horror anthology TV series "Tales From The Darkside" for the VHS market.
Ira Preduski
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can see murders as they are happening.
Elliott Webley
Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
Director
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.
Warren Gerber
When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
Director
Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have invaded Earth and who, disgruntled and bored with the mundane nature of human life, threaten to blow up the planet unless someone gives them a good reason not to.
Writer
A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five 20-minutes tales were all taken from the Tales from the Darkside TV series and strung together as a video feature.
Dr. R. Chandra
傑作「2001年宇宙の旅」の続編。 2001年のディスカバリー号の木星探査は失敗に終わり、生き残った船長デビット・ボーマンは木星の衛星軌道上で巨大なモノリスと接触し、謎のメッセージを残して失踪する。 それから9年後、米ソの緊張が高まる中、ディスカバリー計画の責任者ヘイウッド・フロイド博士は、HAL9000の開発者チャンドラ博士らとともに、ソ連の宇宙船レオーノフ号で木星へ向けて旅立った。そこで明らかにされるディスカバリー号のHAL9000の反乱の真実。そしてフロイドの前に表れたボウマン船長の幻影が語る。
Director
Town miser Gideon Hackles spends Halloween hiding IOU's in his house, which he then rigs as haunted and invites local kids to search for the IOU's so he can scare them. This year, he gets his comeuppance.
Director
A mother afflicted with depression comes into conflict with own mother and children when she refuses to seek professional health care.
Carter Hill
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Elliott Rosen
FBIによって仕組まれたでっち上げの報道が、それまで築いてきた地位や社会的信用、そして生活を瞬時に崩してしまう。その脅威にさらされた男が一人、マスコミに立ち向かっていく姿を描く。シドニー・ポラック監督作品。
Santimassino
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Arthur Rosenberg
鬼才ケン・ラッセルが人類進化の謎に迫ったSFスリラー。人間の肉体が変化していく特殊メイクアップが話題を呼んだ。細胞に眠る人類進化の起源を探ろうと、タンクに浸かりドラッグを試みる学者。実験は成功し、彼は太古のイメージを見るのだが、その効果は精神だけでなく肉体にも影響を及ぼし始めていた……。
Martin
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
David Laughlin
ある日、ラコーム率いる調査団がメキシコの砂漠で第二次大戦時の戦闘機を発見する。それは、消失当時と変わらぬ姿で残っていた。一方アメリカのインディアナ州では、町一帯の停電を調べていた電気技師ロイがUFOのような光を発見。以来、彼はこの不思議な光にすっかり魅了され、その正体を探っていく。やがて、光が行き着く先はワイオミング州のデビルズ・タワーという山だと判明するのだが…。
Joey Egan
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Victor Karp
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
Bernie
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
Wilkie
In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
Elliot
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
Capt. Orr
第二次世界大戦下、地中海の小島にある米軍基地では、相次ぐ戦争に嫌気がさした兵士たちが戦地から逃げ出す画策を計画していた……。アラン・アーキン主演、戦争の不条理さを風刺したブラック・コメディ。
Morris
劣等感に悩んでいた少女の、ブルックリンの片隅で花ひらいた恋の歓びを描く青春物語。
The Young Student
テキサスの片田舎からニューヨークへやって来たカウボーイ姿の青年ジョーは、自身の肉体と美貌を武器に金持ち女性の相手をして富と名声を得ようと考えていた。しかし最初の客に騙され、逆に金を巻き上げられてしまう。そんな彼の前に、足の不自由な詐欺師ラッツォが現れる。2人はともに底辺から這い上がろうともがくうちに奇妙な友情で結ばれていくが、ラッツォは深刻な病に侵されていた。
