Movers & Shakers (1985)
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.
- Released
- 1985-05-03
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- William Asher
- TMDB rating
- 3.9/10 from 15 votes
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
- Nita Talbot as Dorothy
- Sandy Ward as Doctor
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