Movers & Shakers (1985)

Movers & Shakers (1985)

A new comedy about a movie that doesn't get made and the people who don't make it.

Release Date: 1985, May 3
Directors: William Asher
Countries: United States of America
Production: United Artists, United Artists, Asher-Grodin Productions, Asher-Grodin Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: Steve Martin, Earl Boen, Tyne Daly, Sam Anderson, Michael Lerner, Stanley Lawrence, Clair E. Leucart, Penny Marshall, Frances Bay, Walter Matthau, Bill Macy, Gene Dynarski

Overview:

Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.