Austin Pendleton Movies

A former pro-wrestler is hired to be the bodyguard/nanny for a couple of bratty kids whose inventor father is being stalked by a rival.

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his...

A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.

A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living...

A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.

Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his...

After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.

Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage,...

Brett is a high-school outcast who doesn't run with the in crowd, unlike Samantha, the cheerleader he has a desperate crush on. Then one day, he gets...

Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was...

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are...

When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.

An old trucker steals his truck for one last cross-country run, with a madam and her crew on board.

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance...

Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present,...

Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson's epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming the first fan of the movie that...

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who...

A montage of short scenes of New Yorkers talking on their cellphones, evoking snippets of conversation overheard in passing on the streets of...

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.