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Dennis Dugan
Dennis Barton Dugan (; born September 5, 1946) is an American film director, actor, and comedian. He is known for directing the films ''Problem Child (film), Problem Child'', ''Brain Donors'', ''Beverly Hills Ninja'' and ''National Security (2003 film), National Security'', and his partnership with comedic actor Adam Sandler, for whom he directed the films ''Happy Gilmore'', ''Big Daddy (1999 film), Big Daddy'', ''The Benchwarmers'', ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'', ''You Don't Mess with the Zohan'', ''Grown Ups (film), Grown Ups'', ''Just Go with It'', ''Jack and Jill (2011 film), Jack and Jill'' and ''Grown Ups 2''. Dugan is a four-time Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director nominee, winning once. Early life Dugan was born in Wheaton, Illinois, the second of four sons of Marion, a housewife, and Charles Dugan, an insurance executive. He graduated from The Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) and started his acting career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton is a city in and the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Milton and Winfield Townships, approximately west of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, Wheaton's population was 53,970, making it the 27th-most populous municipality in the state. History Founding The city dates its founding to the period between 1831 and 1837, following the Indian Removal Act, when Erastus Gary laid claim to of land near present-day Warrenville. The Wheaton brothers arrived from Connecticut, and in 1837, Warren L. Wheaton laid claim to of land in the center of town. Jesse Wheaton later made claim to of land just west of Warren's. It was not long before other settlers from New England joined them in the community. In 1848, they gave the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad of right-of-way, upon which railroad officials named the depot Wheaton. In 1850, ten blocks of land were platted and anyone who was willing to build immediately was granted free land. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Raspberry Award For Worst Director
The Razzie Award for Worst Director is an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards to the worst director of the previous year. The following is a list of nominees and recipients of that award, along with the film(s) for which they were nominated. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Age superlatives Multiple wins 2 wins * Michael Bay * John Derek * M. Night Shyamalan Multiple nominations 6 nominations * Michael Bay * Renny Harlin 5 nominations * Brian De Palma 4 nominations *Dennis Dugan * M. Night Shyamalan 3 nominations * John G. Avildsen *Uwe Boll * John Derek * James Foley * John Landis * Hal Needham * Tyler Perry 2 nominations * Steven Brill * Michael Cimino * Bob Clark *Bill Condon *Kevin Costner *Jan de Bont *Blake Edwards * Roland Emmerich * Jason Friedberg * Ron Howard *Roland Joffé * George Lucas *Prince * Aaron Seltzer *Sylvester Stallone *Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born ) is an American filmmaker. Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' is an 1889 historical novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled ''A Yankee in King Arthur's Court''. Some early editions are titled ''A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur''. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician. He becomes a rival of Merlin, who appears to be little more than a fraud, and gains the trust of King Arthur. Hank attempts to modernize the past in order to make people's lives better. Hank is disgusted by how the Barons treat the commoners and tries to implement democratic reforms, but in the end, he is unable to prevent the death of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film Film production company, production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios (division), the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of Live action, live-action feature films and animation within the Walt Disney Studios unit and is based at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Disney began producing live-action films in the 1950s. The live-action division became Walt Disney Pictures in 1983, when Disney reorganized its entire studio division, which included the separation from the feature animation division and the subsequent creation of Touchstone Pictures. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unidentified Flying Oddball
''Unidentified Flying Oddball'' is a 1979 science fiction comedy film. It is based on Mark Twain's 1889 novel '' A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', directed by Russ Mayberry and produced by Walt Disney Productions. Released in the United Kingdom as ''The Spaceman and King Arthur'', then subsequently re-released in the United States as ''A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court'', the film stars Dennis Dugan as NASA employee Tom Trimble who unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. Plot After Trimble's NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, it takes him and his android back to King Arthur's Camelot in the year 508 AD. They then use their 20th-century technology to help defeat a plot by the evil Sir Mordred and Merlin to oust King Arthur from his throne. Cast *Dennis Dugan as Tom Trimble/Hermes * Jim Dale as Sir Mordred * Ron Moody as Merlin *Kenneth More as King Arthur * John Le Mesurier as Sir Gawain * Rodney Bewes as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norman conquest of southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries ** Normanist theory (also known as Normanism) and anti-Normanism, historical disagreement regarding the origin of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and their historic predecessor, Kievan Rus' ** Norman dynasty, a series of monarchs in England and Normandy ** Norman architecture, romanesque architecture in England and elsewhere ** Norman language, spoken in Normandy ** People or things connected with the French region of Normandy Arts and entertainment * ''Norman'' (2010 film), a 2010 drama film * ''Norman'' (2016 film), a 2016 drama film * ''Norman'' (TV series), a 1970 British sitcom starring Norman Wisdom * ''The Normans'' (TV series), a documentary * "Norman" (song), a 1962 song w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry And Walter Go To New York
''Harry and Walter Go to New York'' is a 1976 American period comedy film written by John Byrum and Robert Kaufman, directed by Mark Rydell, and starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning and Lesley Ann Warren. In the film, two dimwitted con-men try to pull off the biggest heist ever seen in late nineteenth-century New York City. They are opposed by the greatest bank robber of the day, and aided by a crusading newspaper editor. Plot Harry Dighby and Walter Hill are struggling vaudeville, vaudevillians who are sent to jail when Dighby is caught robbing audience members. They become roommates to a cultured, wealthy, and charming bank robber named Adam Worth. Worth plans to rob the Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell Bank and Trust, both to avenge himself on the bank manager who had arranged his capture and because his ego cannot resist the temptation of robbing a bank reputed to be perfectly secure. Though in jail, he procures detailed diagrams of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smile (1975 Film)
''Smile'' is a 1975 American satirical comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Jerry Belson, and starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, and Geoffrey Lewis. The film focuses on various personalities involved in a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California, and satirizes small-town America and its peculiarities, hypocrisies and artifice within and around the pageant. Filmed on location in Santa Rosa, the film premiered at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas, and opened theatrically in Los Angeles in July 1975 before screening at the 1975 New York Film Festival. Though it received generally favorable reviews from critics, the film was a box-office flop. In the years since its release, ''Smile'' went on to develop a cult following. It was adapted into a 1986 Broadway musical of the same name with songs by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Ashman. Plot Big Bob Freelander is a used car dealer, and the head judge of the Young American Miss Pageant held in Santa R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Moves (1975 Film)
''Night Moves'' is a 1975 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Arthur Penn from a screenplay by Alan Sharp. It stars Gene Hackman as an ex-professional football player turned Los Angeles private investigator who uncovers a series of sinister events while searching for the missing teenage daughter of a former movie actress. The cast also features Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Jennifer Warren, James Woods and Melanie Griffith in her film debut. The film was released by Warner Bros. on June 11, 1975. It received positive reviews from critics, but a lukewarm commercial reception. Hackman was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance. Although ''Night Moves'' was not considered particularly successful at the time of its release, it has attracted viewers and significant critical attention following its home media releases. The film has been called "a seminal modern noir work from the 1970s." Plot Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a former pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Call Nurses
''Night Call Nurses'' is a 1972 American sex comedy, sex comedy film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It is the third in Roger Corman's "nurses" cycle of films, starting with ''The Student Nurses'' (1970). Quentin Tarantino called it "a sexy version of ''Three Coins in the Fountain''." Plot Three young nurses work in a psych ward at a hospital. Barbara comes under the influence of a charismatic sex therapist and is stalked by a mysterious nurse. Janis has an affair with a truck-driving patient who is addicted to drugs. Sandra becomes politicized through an affair with a black militant and helps a prisoner escape from the hospital. Cast *Patty Byrne as Barbara *Alana Stewart, Alana Hamilton as Janis *Mittie Lawrence as Sandra *Clint Kimbrough as Dr. Bramlett *Felton Perry as Jude *Stack Pierce as Sampson *Richard Young (actor), Richard Young as Kyle Toby *Martin Ashe as Bathrobe Benny *Bob Brogan as George *Tris Coffin as Miles Bailey *Dennis Dugan as Kit *Lynne Guthrie as Cynthia *Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Most Likely To
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sixth Sense (American TV Series)
''The Sixth Sense'' is an American paranormal thriller television series featuring Gary Collins and Catherine Ferrar. The series was produced by and filmed at Universal Studios, and broadcast by ABC from January 15 to December 23, 1972. Development ''The Sixth Sense'' series was based on the 1971 television movie ''Sweet, Sweet Rachel''. That opened with a photo of UCLA's Royce Hall—implying UCLA is where Dr. Darrow is a parapsychology researcher—and with a quote: "'If I had my life to live over, I should devote myself to psychic research rather than psychoanalysis.' — Sigmund Freud." Its cast included Alex Dreier as Dr. Lucas Darrow (former surgeon and parapsychology researcher), Pat Hingle as Arthur Piper, Louise Latham as Lillian Piper, Steve Ihnat as Dr. Simon Tyler (Psychologist), Brenda Scott as Nora Piper, Chris Robinson as Carey Johnson (Dr. Darrow's blind research assistant), Stefanie Powers as Mrs. Rachel Stanton, Rod McCarey as Paul Stanton, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
