Universal Movies

An aging New York Yankee (Tom Selleck) gets traded to a team in Japan and lets them all know how he feels about it.","large":"A professional American baseball player whose career is on the wane, Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) gets traded to the Dragons, a Japanese team. Openly unhappy about the change, Elliott isn't eager to adapt to a new culture and proceeds to get on the bad side of his teammates, i

Pursued by an IRS agent, a wealthy Manhattan couple (Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley) flee to Pennsylvania and pose as an Amish man's (Jay O. Sanders) kin.","large":"Brad Sexton (Tim Allen) and his wife, Caroline (Kirstie Alley), are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and

A bumbling fairy godfather (Martin Short) tries to grant a girl's (Mara Wilson) wish that her cabby father (Robert Pastorelli) land a Broadway role.","large":"Eight-year-old Annabel (Mara Wilson) is rooting for her father, Oliver (Robert Pastorelli), to get the lead part in a new musical, but he doesn't have the same name recognition as arrogant actor Tony Sable (Alan Campbell). When Murray (Marti

An ex-Hong Kong policeman (John Cleese) ruins a media mogul's (Kevin Kline) London zoo that he had been hired to make profitable.","large":"After multimillionaire Rod McCain (Kevin Kline) buys a London zoo, the staff is pressured to make higher profits or face closure. McCain assigns the lovely Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) to supervise the zoo, particularly its misguided director, Rollo Lee (Jo

After seeing her no-good husband killed by hit men (Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock), a woman (Renée Zellweger) thinks she is a nurse who must find her lover, a soap-opera doctor.","large":"What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your

The team mascot, a chimp, reverses the fortunes of a struggling minor-league pitcher (Matt LeBlanc) and his losing squad.","large":"Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of his teammates, is a chimp. E

A mad scientist (Trace Beaulieu) subjects a space traveler (Michael J. Nelson) and his robot sidekicks to a bad '50s science-fiction film.","large":"Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) figures he can rule the world if he deadens his subjects' brains by making them endure terrible movies. Exploiting his access to nearby satellite-dwellers Mike Nelson (Michael J. Nelson) and his robot pals, Crow

An innocent monk falls in with a TV evangelist when his efforts to raise money for his monastery lead him to Hollywood.","large":"When the Order of St. Ambrose the Unlikely finds itself broke, the monks pin their hopes on the generosity of televangelist Armageddon T. Thunderbird (Andy Kaufman), and send the naïve Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman) to Los Angeles to ask for $10,000 in person. En route

A Chicago con man (Dana Carvey) breaks into a luxury home and makes the most of being mistaken for a housesitter.","large":"Eddie (Dana Carvey) is a con artist whose schemes usually involve dressing as a meter man to steal TV sets. But when he learns that a large home he is robbing is to be free for a few months, he decides to move in. However, businessman Milt (Robert Loggia) drops by, so Eddie a

An ex-'60s-radical computer hacker (Robert Redford) and his company are tapped for a shady black-box job.","large":"Computer hacker Martin (Robert Redford) heads a group of specialists who test the security of various San Francisco companies. Martin is approached by two National Security Agency officers who ask him to steal a newly invented decoder. Martin and his team discover that the black box

An eccentric, accident-prone British art caretaker (Rowan Atkinson) wreaks havoc at the U.S. unveiling of "Whistler's Mother."","large":"At the Royal National Gallery in London, the bumbling Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a guard with good intentions who always seems to destroy anything he touches. Unless, of course, he's sleeping on the job. With the chairman (John Mills) blocking Bean's firing, th

A producer (John Goodman) sells his new monster movie with gimmicks in Key West, Fla., during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.","large":"In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurs and the menace of nuclear war looms over the American South. Low-budget filmmaker Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is in Key West, Fla., debuting his new film "Mant!" and thinks the prevailing mood of fear surrounding

A mad scientist (Trace Beaulieu) subjects a space traveler (Michael J. Nelson) and his robot sidekicks to a bad '50s science-fiction film.","large":"Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) figures he can rule the world if he deadens his subjects' brains by making them endure terrible movies. Exploiting his access to nearby satellite-dwellers Mike Nelson (Michael J. Nelson) and his robot pals, Crow

An innocent monk falls in with a TV evangelist when his efforts to raise money for his monastery lead him to Hollywood.","large":"When the Order of St. Ambrose the Unlikely finds itself broke, the monks pin their hopes on the generosity of televangelist Armageddon T. Thunderbird (Andy Kaufman), and send the naïve Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman) to Los Angeles to ask for $10,000 in person. En route