Richard Dreyfuss

We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork. It might not be too late. Our democratic republic is failing, and it shouldn't be a surprise. We can't fly a plane without training; we can't practice medicine without attending medical school. And yet we expect the American people to wield the full power of their citizenship, the product of the most revolutionary governmental thinking in human history, without any education. We no longer teach...

A veiled reflection of the anticommunist witch-hunts of the 1950s, this play portrays seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts as a rigid theocracy eager to ferret out real or imagined deviations from the norm, and indicts everyone in Salem--and by extension American society--for the crimes of intolerance and blind hatred.

Film about the confusion between real life and reel life that consumes a film maker. By mixing interviews with real people and erotic scenes of a haunting young woman, the audience is kept guessing about which is reality and which is a dream.

Gangster rises from immigrant poverty to a world of power and wealth. The mob has many faces, but only one man is behind them all. Emigrating to America as a child, the young Meyer Lansky learns to fight with his wits and always comes out on top - and at a proftit. Starting with a small gang, Lansky soon becomes a big-time gangster when, at the height of prohibition, he joins Bugsy Siegal and Lucky Luciano in creating a crime "syndicate", organizing...

A struggling New York actor is kidnapped and forced to impersonate the late dictator of Parador, a Caribbean nation. The actor gets better and better at the role, with the help of the dead leader's sultry mistress, until guerilla fighters strike, and he wonders if it might not be a good time to move to a new role!

After prehistoric piranha are released into a lake as a result of an earthquake, the local sheriff must find a way to stop the fish from destroying everyone in town during Spring Break parties.

Oliver Twist is the workhouse orphan who finds himself in with some bad company, but he eventually finds the happiness he deserves.

Two plainclothes cops are convinced that a dangerous escaped convict is headed for his ex-girlfriend's apartment. They "stakeout" her apartment and the watch remains routine until one of the detectives falls in love with the woman under surveillance.

A dying man on a final road trip picks up a free-spirited 22-year-old woman. This unexpected adventure opens their eyes to life's most important lessons, and they end up finding friendship in the last place they ever would have looked.

A university professor is paid to find the last undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. When he fails to find the tribe, he comes home, and rather than admitting that he's failed, he gives a lecture about the Shelmikedmu tribe (named after his children: Shelly, Mike, and Edmund) and then has his family dress like "Shelmikedmus," so that he can film them as proof of his discovery.