Michael Ritchie

Michael Ritchie

Total Credits at Criticker: 22 (Director), 3 (Writer)

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    The Fantasticks
    The screen incarnation of America's longest-running theatrical production, The Fantasticks is a funny, mischievous and moving tale of lovers, carnivals, sword fights, magicians, comedians, romantic dreams, romantic delusions and the wisdom of letting true love follow its own course. (MGM)
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    Fletch
    Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour... (IMDB)
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    Fletch Lives
    Fletch is a reporter for a Los Angeles newspaper, but he acts more like a detective. When an obscure relative leaves him a Louisiana mansion in his will, Fletch is naturally curious (imdb)
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    The Golden Child
    A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child that dark forces want to eliminate. (imdb)
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    Wildcats
    Molly is a highschool track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet... (imdb)
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    The Scout
    The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player. (imdb)
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    Prime Cut
    A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage... (imdb)
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    The Candidate
    Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. (imdb)
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    The Bad News Bears
    An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league. (imdb)
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    The Island
    David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investagate the mystery of the disappearing boats. (imdb)
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    Cops and Robbersons
    When police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robberson's home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone is assigned to the stakeout. (imdb)
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    The Couch Trip
    The escaped delinquent John Burn deputizes for Dr. Maitlin, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird. He scores as a radio- psygologist and is very popular. But then Dr. Maitlin meets the real Dr. Lawrence Baird at a congress in London. (imdb)
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    The Survivors
    Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two. (imdb)
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    Semi-Tough
    A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved. (imdb)
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    Divine Madness!
    In 1980, the head usher at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium gives his crew a pep talk: he wants tonight's "Betty Midler" show to go smoothly. He's a little worried about risque language, Liberace recently gave him a scare. (imdb)
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    Smile
    It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy? (imdb)
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    Downhill Racer
    Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax. (imdb)
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    Diggstown
    Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours... (imdb)
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    Student Bodies
    Toby experiences terror as a deranged killer starts taking out her classmates one by one.
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    A Simple Wish
    Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots. (imdb)
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    The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
    Based on the true story of a Texas mom who tries to hire a hitman (through her ex's brother) to kill either or both a cheerleader and her mother. With the intended victims out of the way, Wanda's daughter gets the chance to become a cheerleader. When the media get hold of the story, Wanda's trial turns into a media circus. (imdb)
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    An Almost Perfect Affair
    In this romantic comedy, competition knows no bounds when it comes to the pursuit of love. At the Cannes Film Festival (where sections of the movie were filmed), filmmaker Hal Raymond (Keith Carradine) meets alluring Maria Barone (Monica Vitti), whom he discovers is the wife of movie producer Federico Barone (Raf Vallone). But that doesn't stop him from seducing her. Is this a case of true love, or professional jealousy gone awry? (Netflix)
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