Movies with music written by Marc Shaiman
When Harry Met Sally, probably Rob Reiner's most popular film to date (the other likely candidate for that title would be A Few Good Men), made the studios aware that, even during the cynical '90s, the romantic comedy could be a profitable genre. ...
U.S. Release Date: 1989-07-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, ...
Flipped is Rob Reiner's best film in 18 years, and includes echoes of two of his most accomplished efforts, The Sure Thing and Stand By Me. It also may be 2010's best romantic comedy. And it is being buried by Warner Brothers because of a concern...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-08-06
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe, Rebecca De Mornay, ...
At the end of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, the character of Bert (played by Dick Van Dyke) offers this final wish: “Goodbye, Mary Poppins, don't stay away too long.” Walt Disney Pictures hopes that 54 years – the longest span between a mot...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Musical
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Emily Blunt, David Warner, Angela Lansbury, ...
Lately, it seems every time I review a Rob Reiner movie, I lament the fall this once reliable filmmaker has taken. Admittedly, Reiner started at such a pinnacle that there was nowhere to go but down, but it's beyond consideration that the director...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, ...
Hairspray follows in the footsteps of Little Shop of Horrors and The Producers as campy movies that became even more campy stage musicals before returning to the screen in lavish song-and-dance productions. (Spamalot may be the next title to follo...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-07-20
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Amanda Bynes, ...
8-year old Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger) misses his mother, who died from cancer eighteen months ago. More than that, however, he recognizes that his father, Sam (Tom Hanks), is desperately lonely. So, on Christmas Eve, Jonah calls a radio talk-s...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-06-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, ...
I suppose there are a lot of Generation Xers who harbor a certain fondness for the old TV cartoon George of the Jungle, which ran on Saturday mornings in the late '60s and early '70s (apparently, there were only 17 episodes produced, but they w...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-07-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: FAMILY COMEDY
Director: Sam Weisman
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, ...
It's hard to believe that The American President was made by the same man responsible for the no-holds-barred satire of This Is Spinal Tap. Is there any element of American culture more ripe for the humorist's razor-sharp wit than presidential pol...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-11-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Michael Douglas, Anna Deavere Smith, David Paymer, ...
With a title like And So It Goes, it would be reasonable to expect something generic and forgettable - and that would be in line with what the film delivers. Everything about the movie is as uninspired as the title. More bland than bad, And So It G...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-07-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton, Sterling Jerins, ...
Somewhere in Simon Birch, buried not too deeply beneath the surface, lie the seeds of a moving story. Unfortunately, as told by Mark Steven Johnson, this loose adaptation of John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany" is a relentlessly manipulativ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-09-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Cast: Joseph Mazzello, Ian Michael Smith, Ashley Judd, ...