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Dreyfus, Richard Stephen
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ImDb lists his name as one S but in some movies he has Two S’s in the credits. Which one is the real Dreyfusss? Dreyfuss is an example of talent, diversity and love for his work, touching not only all the genres in cinema but leaving an unforgettable footprint in all of his films.


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Movie: What About Bob? ( 1991 )
A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.
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Movie: The Young Runaways ( 1970 )
Follows the lives of three unrelated teenagers as they run away from their respective homes, each for different reasons. Arriving in Chicago, one tries to make good with his life only to find it a little more difficult than he had imagined; one falls in with "the rock and roll set" and comes to a violent end; and one gets mixed up with prostitutes, but comes good in the end. Shows things from both the parents' side and the kids' side. The underlying story is that you can't solve your problems on the road if you can't solve them at home.
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Movie: Hello Down There ( 1969 )
A marine scientist volunteers to have his family live in a prototype underwater home to prove it's practical.
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Movie: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1974 )
In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
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Movie: Dillinger ( 1973 )
John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.
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Movie: American Graffiti ( 1973 )
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
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Movie: Inserts ( 1975 )
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
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Movie: Jaws ( 1975 )
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
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Movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 )
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
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Movie: The Goodbye Girl ( 1977 )
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
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Movie: The Big Fix ( 1978 )
An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.
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Movie: The Competition ( 1980 )
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
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Movie: Whose Life Is It Anyway? ( 1982 )
Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he make friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
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Movie: The Buddy System ( 1984 )
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother.
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Movie: Down and Out in Beverly Hills ( 1986 )
A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
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Movie: Stand by Me ( 1986 )
After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
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Movie: Tin Men ( 1987 )
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Movie: Stakeout ( 1987 )
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
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Movie: Moon Over Parador ( 1988 )
A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?
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Movie: Let It Ride ( 1989 )
A nosy cab driver gets a hot tip on a race horse and wins big, but he can't seem to stop gambling. Will he go broke or walk home with a pretty penny?
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Movie: Always ( 1989 )
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
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Movie: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ( 1991 )
Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
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Movie: Once Around ( 1991 )
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his excessively flamboyant style and irrepressible nature. The very traits she finds romantic, however, lead to repeated conflict with her family, especially her beloved father Joe, leaving Renata trapped in the middle.
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Movie: Postcards from the Edge ( 1990 )
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
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Movie: Prisoner of Honor ( 1991 )
"Prisoner of Honor" documents the French Dreyfus Affair that saw a French Captain sent to Devils' Island for espionage near the end of the nineteenth century. Richard Dreyfuss plays Colonel Picquart who is given the job of justifying Dreyfus' sentence. Instead, he discovers that Dreyfus, a Jew, was merely a convenient scapegoat for the actions of the true culprit, a member of the French General staff. His attempt to right the wrong sees his military career ended and the famous French author, Emile Zola, found guilty of libel.
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Movie: Lost in Yonkers ( 1993 )
In the summer of 1942, two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother and their childlike aunt in Yonkers, New York.
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Movie: Silent Fall ( 1994 )
An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.
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Movie: The American President ( 1995 )
Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. President and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception", and sparks fly anyway.
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Movie: Mr. Holland's Opus ( 1996 )
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
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Movie: Night Falls on Manhattan ( 1997 )
A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
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Movie: Mad Dog Time ( 1996 )
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
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Movie: Krippendorf's Tribe ( 1998 )
An anthropologist creates a fictitious lost New Guinea tribe using his family members to cover-up for his mis-use of grant moneys.
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Movie: The Day Reagan Was Shot ( 2001 )
The 30th of March, 1981, the delusional John Hinckley Jr. tries to kill president Ronald Reagan. His life hangs on a thin thread at the hospital, while the Soviet Union is ready to invade a Poland on the brink of a revolution. Based on actual events during the final stages of the cold war.
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Movie: Fail Safe ( 2000 )
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
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Movie: Lansky ( 1999 )
This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. It tells of a young man growing up in the Jewish ghettos of America's big cities at the turn of the century and of his bright intelligence which he used for moving into crime. "I'm only a gambler," he claimed, "just like most all Americans." When asked by a reporter to comment on the killings that occurred under his leadership he declined, thereby making this film's thrust that of personalities and relationships rather than of acts of violence or the workings of corrupt deeds.
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Movie: The Crew ( 2000 )
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
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Movie: Who Is Cletis Tout? ( 2001 )
This is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies, and a twenty-year-old diamond heist.
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Movie: Silver City ( 2004 )
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
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Movie: Poseidon ( 2006 )
On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.
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Movie: Oliver Twist ( 1997 )
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives.
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Movie: W. ( 2008 )
Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.
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Movie: My Life in Ruins ( 2009 )
A travel guide rediscovers her romantic side on a trip around Greece.
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Movie: The Lightkeepers ( 2010 )
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
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Movie: RED ( 2010 )
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops Agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
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Movie: Piranha 3D ( 2010 )
After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.
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Movie: Cas & Dylan ( 2015 )
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
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Movie: The Last Laugh ( 2019 )
When retired talent manager Al Hart is reunited with his first client, Buddy Green, a comic who quit show business 50 years ago, he convinces Buddy to escape their retirement community and hit the road for a cross-country comedy tour.
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Movie: Astronaut ( 2020 )
Angus is an elderly widower in a dysfunctional family. When a billionaire announces a competition that grants three individuals a chance to fly in space, Angus sees his chance to live out a lifelong dream. Lying about his age, Angus successfully enters the competition, and wins one of the three spots.
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Movie: Daughter of the Wolf ( 2019 )
A military veteran hunts the men who kidnapped her son.
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Movie: Crime Story ( 2021 )
An old man suffering from cancer seeks revenge on the thieves who have destroyed his life.