Alan Arkin was nominated for his first film, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, and won Best Supporting Actor forty years later for Little Miss Sunshine.
Wait Until Dark gives him a genuinely frightening villain, and Catch-22 gives him Yossarian, carrying an adaptation most people considered unfilmable.
He came from Second City and The Committee, directed several films, and worked into his late eighties, including Argo and The Kominsky Method.
Abigail BreslinLittle Miss Sunshine (2006) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Six people in a failing Volkswagen driving from Albuquerque to a children's beauty pageant in California. Every one of them has a private humiliation, and the film's…
Alan ArkinMike Nichols' 1970 Heller adaptation. Substantial source material that the film handles only partially.
Alan ArkinBen Affleck directed and starred. The film adapts the historical events of the 1980 Canadian Caper, when six American diplomats escaped the Iranian hostage crisis through a CIA operation involving a fake Hollywood production.
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