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Actor: Charles Grodin

Charles Grodin played the accountant in Midnight Run opposite Robert De Niro, and the comedy comes entirely from his refusal to be impressed by anything happening to him.

The Heartbreak Kid gives him a man who abandons his wife on honeymoon, played without any attempt at sympathy, and Beethoven gave him a family franchise. He hosted a talk show for years and wrote several books.

Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman stand in the Sahara Desert wearing mismatched outfits and confused expressions.Charles Grodin

Ishtar (1987) Review

Ishtar (1987) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Elaine May made a screwball comedy about two men with no talent, spent fifty-one million dollars doing it in the Sahara, and the name became shorthand for disaster before…

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Midnight Run (1988) film posterCharles Grodin

Midnight Run (1988) Review

Midnight Run is one of the great American films of the 1980s and one of the most substantially underrated buddy action comedies in commercial cinema histo. Martin Brest had directed Going in Style in 1979 and Beverly Hills Cop in…

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