Arthur Hiller — Director (12)
Plaza Suite (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Plaza Suite
other title: Appartamento al Plaza / Hotelgeflüster
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.
Carpool (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Carpool
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Tom Arnold / David Paymer
other title: A spasso col rapinatore / Carpool, todos al coche
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
Teachers (1984) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Teachers
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Nick Nolte / JoBeth Williams
other title: Professores / Die Aufsässigen
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
Silver Streak (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Silver Streak
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Gene Wilder / Jill Clayburgh
other title: Wagons-lits con omicidi / Chicago Ekspressen
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
W.C. Fields and Me (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
W.C. Fields and Me
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Rod Steiger / Valerie Perrine
other title: W.C. Fields et moi
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
Taking Care of Business (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Taking Care of Business
director: Arthur Hiller actor: Jim Belushi / Charles Grodin
other title: Filofax - Un'agenda che vale un tesoro / Milionário Instantâneo
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
The Babe (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Babe
director: Arthur Hiller actor: John Goodman / Kelly McGillis
other title: The Babe - La leggenda / The Babe - Ein amerikanischer Traum
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.