WHAT ABOUT BOB?

GENRE:  Comedy
MADE:  1991
CAST:  Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty
DIRECTOR:  Frank Oz
WRITER:  Alvin Sargent, Laura Ziskin, Tom Schulman

PLOT:  Bob Wiley visits his therapist often for his obsessive compulsive behavior, when he finds out that his therapist is leaving on a family vacation Bob can't help but to join him.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Groundhog Day, As Good As It Gets, Trading Places

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FANTASTIC MR. FOX

GENRE:  Animation/ Adventure/ Comedy/ Family
MADE:  2009
CAST:  George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson
DIRECTOR:  Wes Anderson
WRITER:  Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach

PLOT:  at 7 fox years Mr. Fox is having a mid-life crisis which prompts him to plot and raid the farmer's land, after which he must take responsibility and help the animal community somehow survive when the farmer decides to do something about it.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Chicken Run, Ratatouille, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

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GET SMART

GENRE:  Action/ Adventure/ Comedy
MADE:  2008
CAST:  Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin
DIRECTOR:  Peter Segal
WRITER:  Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, Mel Brooks, Buck Henry

PLOT:  Maxwell Smart is an administrator in a government spy agency, this changes when the head office is attacked and he is then assigned to be agent number 86, paired up with beautiful agent number 99, who finds him to be a major slow-down in their special assignment.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Date Night, Johnny English, The A-Team, The Tuxedo

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THESPIAN OF THE WEEK: Bill Murray

Name:  William James Murray

AKA:  Bill Murray

Date of birth:  September 21, 1950

From:  Wilmette, Illinois

Specialty:  Actor, Screenwriter

3 Murray Films To Watch:

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Comedy Adventure Drama

What About Bob?

Comedy

Ghostbusters

Comedy Adventure

BROKEN FLOWERS

GENRE:  Drama/ Comedy/ Mystery
MADE:  2005
CAST:  Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone
DIRECTOR:  Jim Jarmusch
WRITER:  Jim Jarmusch, Bill Raden, Sara Driver

PLOT:  Bachelor Don Johnston receives an anonymous letter regarding a son, who he never knew he had, was searching for him.  This letter anonymous letter takes Don on a journey to find out which one of his ex-girlfriends wrote him the letter.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Coffee And Cigarettes, The Darjeeling Limited, High Fidelity, Riding In Cars With Boys, Punch Drunk Love

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RUSHMORE

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama
MADE:  1998
CAST:  Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
DIRECTOR:  Wes Anderson
WRITER:  Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

PLOT:  A student of Rushmore prep school is put on academic probation causing a teacher student rivalry to ensue.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

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GROUNDHOG DAY

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama/ Fantasy
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
DIRECTOR:  Harold Ramis
WRITER:  Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis,

PLOT:  An obnoxious weather man finds himself on his yearly visit to a little town to report on the ground hog that will announce the first day of Spring.  Too his complete panic and extreme dismay he finds himself living the same day over and over.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Stranger Than Fiction, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rushmore

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LOST IN TRANSLATION

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance
MADE:  2003
CAST:  Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
DIRECTOR:  Sofia Coppola
WRITER:  Sofia Coppola

PLOT:  A lonely older movie star and a young lonely newlywed meet in Japan and begin a friendship.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Broken Flowers,  The Virgin Suicides, Somewhere

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LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU

GENRE:  Comedy/Drama/Adventure
MADE:  2004 
CAST:  Angelica Huston, Bill Muray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum 
DIRECTOR:  Wes Anderson 
WRITER:  Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach

PLOT:  After his best-friend and sea-exploring partner is eaten by a Jaguar Shark during an expedition, Steve Zissou and an eclectic mix of a crew go on a voyage to seek out the Jaguar Shark and eliminate it for revenge.  Along the way he meets his grown son, a pilot, for the first time and falls in love with a pregnant journalist that his son just happens to also be in love with.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited, Lost In Translation

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