Movers & Shakers (1985)
A new comedy about a movie that doesn't get made and the people who don't make it.
80 min
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, 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, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.
- Release date
- May 3, 1985
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Walter Matthau as Joe Mulholland
- Charles Grodin as Herb Derman
- Vincent Gardenia as Saul Gritz
- Tyne Daly as Nancy Derman
- Bill Macy as Sid Spokane
- Gilda Radner as Livia Machado
- Earl Boen as Marshall
- Michael Lerner as Arnie
- Joe Mantell as Larry
- William Prince as Louis Martin
Crew
- William Asher · Director
- Charles Grodin · Writer
- William Asher · Producer
- Charles Grodin · Producer
- Ken Welch · Composer
- Mitzie Welch · Composer
- Robbie Greenberg · Cinematographer
- Tom Benko · Editor
- Pamela Basker · Casting director
- Fern Champion · Casting director