Howard Hesseman

Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) has arrived at several of life's crossroads all at the same time. With no job, no wife, and no family, he is desperate to find something meaningful in his thoroughly unimpressive life. He sets out on a journey of self-discovery, exploring his roots across Nebraska in a 35-foot motor home. (New Line Productions)

Based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar," this is a twisted comedy about a doctor who convinces a dying man's family to allow him to put the man in a trance as he takes his final breaths. (Roxbury Films)

A comic junket behind-the-scenes of the world's most exclusive power-broker retreat. The true story: the richest, most powerful white men in America gather each summer in Northern California for a super secret retreat that takes them back to their sophomore year in college. For fifty-one weeks a year they run the country. For one week they run amuck. They're there to unwind, but they get really unwound when that secrecy is threatened. (Visionbox Pictures)

When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them. (imdb)

San Francisco physician, Archie Bollen, is divorcing, sorting out new relationships with his ex, her new man... (imdb)

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other. (imdb)

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a detox program.

A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets. (imdb)

A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. There mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip. (imdb)

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you name it. What they discover will surely crack you up! This outrageous and irreverent spoof of television launched the careers of some of the greatest comedians of all time. (imdb)

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed'd ex-wife Rula and an elusive Andy Warhol critic. (imdb)

Tommy Lee Jones plays a driven man who amassed wealth and recognition as a Hollywood mover and shaker, aviation giant and man of mystery. (imdb)

Casey Meadows (Deborah Foreman) becomes the first woman to ever drive for the exclusive and male dominated Brentwood Limousine company. The company dispatcher Mr. McBride (Howard Hesseman) takes offense to everything about her and gives her the worst driving assignments to be had.

The magical Munchie is back, and if he gets in any more trouble it's off to the dullest constellation in the galaxy. Staying out of trouble has never been easy for Munchie, but this time he gives it his best shot. He is sent to earth and finds himself in the company of the McClelland family. (imdb)

The Diamond Trap is the story of a New York City cop (Detective Rollings) and his partner (Brendan). (imdb)

For 9 year old Heather, having millions is misery! Stuck with a money-grubbing stepmother, Heather escapes to find her real mom. But Heather's stepmom isn't about to let her meal ticket go without a battle. So she hires Nick Frost, Private Eye, to bring her back. Then, in a crafty case of double-cross, Mrs. Freeloading Stepmother sics the Feds on Nick - for the kidnapping of one Little Miss Millions. (imdb)

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans. (imdb)

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love. (imdb)

Convinced that a CNN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler (Bullock) trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.

An Army private volunteers to be the subject of biological and chemical weaponry experiments. When the effects force him into early retirement from the military, he turns to a new career, using the experimental gases to help him rob banks.

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business. (imdb)

Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action of heat, as Burt Reynolds plays the soft-hearted bodyguard who's out to protect his friends. (imdb)

Fed up with her mundane life, teacher Pamela Smart (Helen Hunt) is looking for a little excitement. After her attempts to get a job at the local television station prove unsuccessful, she decides to seduce her 15-year-old student, Billy (Chad Allen). But when Pam challenges Billy to prove his love for her by killing her husband (Hank Stratton), her plot spins out of control.

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film. (imdb)

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat. (imdb)

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer. (imdb)

Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor. (imdb)

An Army sergeant is accused of murdering a colleague's entire family and amid a storm of controversy is given the death penalty, leaving his family and lawyers struggling to prove his innocence before it's too late. (locatetv.com)

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems. (imdb)

In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard. (imdb)

Ken goes to kill himself at the same spot Skip did, but Skips parents show up, and talk him out of it. (imdb)

1970's pop culture icons Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams face off in the hunt for the legendary mountain creature. (imdb)

On Christmas Eve, Shannon McManus (Andrea Roth) is stuck driving around a wealthy and eccentric client (Howard Hesseman) who is giving away large sums of money with the secret hope of reuniting with his long lost daughter, who turns out to be his driver.

Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson tries to run a failing Cincinnati radio station owned by his "tough as nails" mother. His own incompetence is overshadowed by the strange employees that work at the station. From wild Disc Jockeys: Dr. Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap to the geeky news director, Les Nessman and obnoxious advertising sales manager, Herb Tarlek.

Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.

A laidback teacher provides needed guidance about life for a special class of exceptional students. (imdb)

The further misadventures of the struggling radio station. (imdb)

In this comedy-satire on conformity, Dick Van Dyke plays a Manhattan bank teller who grows a beard when he develops a rash from a bee sting. He is promptly fired from his job while his co-workers stand behind him. (imdb)

An aging Bette Davis is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Davis teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Howard Hessman is a aircraft repair service trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air. (imdb)