The best Buck Henry’s movies

Buck Henry

Buck Henry

09/12/1930- 08/01/2020
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Buck Henry’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Buck Henry.
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The Graduate

The Graduate
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1967
  • Character: Taft Hotel Desk Clerk
Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

Serendipity

Serendipity
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 05/10/2001
  • Character: Customer at Bloomingdales (uncredited)
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.

To Die For

To Die For
6.8/10
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth
6.6/10
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou, a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.

Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1993
  • Character: Snyder
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.

The Player

The Player
7.5/10
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Catch-22

Catch-22
7.1/10
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.

Defending Your Life

Defending Your Life
7.2/10
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.

Candy

Candy
5.1/10
Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.

Short Cuts

Short Cuts
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/09/1993
  • Character: Gordon Johnson
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait
6.9/10
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

I Miss Sonia Henie

I Miss Sonia Henie
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/01/1971
  • Character: Doctor
One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.

Taking Off

Taking Off
7.4/10
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.

Eating Raoul

Eating Raoul
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/03/1982
  • Character: Mr. Leech
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Gloria

Gloria
7.1/10
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

The Last Shot

The Last Shot
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/09/2004
  • Character: Lonnie Bosco
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

Town & Country

Town & Country
4.5/10
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.

Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/02/1999
  • Character: Fred T. Barry
A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.

The Real Blonde

The Real Blonde
6/10
An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.

Tune in Tomorrow...

Tune in Tomorrow...
6.1/10
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.

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