Penelope Spheeris Movies
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1. Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales (1969)
40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
While it's unclear what the film was about, it is believed that it followed a group of Black Panthers who kidnap a wealthy white man and put him on trial for all the racial crimes in American history.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye
Votes: 40
2. Suburbia (1983)
R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Chris Pedersen, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay, Timothy O'Brien
Votes: 6,012
Penelope Spheeris's Suburbia is a clear- eyed, compassionate melodrama about a bunch of young dropouts who call themselves ''The Rejected'' or, for short, the TR's.
3. The Boys Next Door (1985)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Roy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Patti D'Arbanville, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 3,616
4. Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)
R | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. The Vice Squad discovers that a dangerous gangster has turned the girl into one of his junkie teen prostitutes. The Squad also investigates illegal betting and a BDSM pornographer.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Ronny Cox, Frank Gorshin, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Trish Van Devere
Votes: 655
5. Dudes (1987)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy
Three punk-loving New York City dudes need a change and drive a VW Beetle to California. After rednecks kill one of them in Arizona, they want justice. A cute girl helps them.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Jon Cryer, Daniel Roebuck, Flea, Lee Ving
Votes: 1,701
The violent clash between cultures makes for absurdist adolescent drama, but it's weirdly entertaining.
6. Visitors from the Unknown (1991 TV Movie)
47 min | Biography, Sci-Fi
A special reenacting the experiences of people who have had documented encounters with extraterrestrial life forces. A British policeman has a close encounter with a UFO, a wood-cutter ... See full summary »
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: James Earl Jones, Karl Bakke, Stephen Held, Jon Chardiet
Votes: 43
7. Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991 TV Movie)
79 min | Drama
Three dramatic stories inside the walls of a women's prison.
Directors: Donna Deitch, Joan Micklin Silver, Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Lolita Davidovich, Silvana Gallardo, Kimberly Scott, Edith Fields
Votes: 195
8. Wayne's World (1992)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Music
Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere
Votes: 170,914 | Gross: $121.70M
An oddball comedy that revels in its silliness and memorable catch phrases, Wayne's World is also fondly regarded because of its endearing characters.
9. The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family
Nice guy redneck Jed Clampett strikes it rich when he finds black oil. He and his kin move to posh Beverly Hills.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Jim Varney, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 19,822 | Gross: $44.03M
Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you've ever seen, spin it out to 93 minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It's appalling. It's not even really a good version of whatever it was that made the TV series appealing.
10. The Little Rascals (1994)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Alfalfa is wooing Darla and his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage the relationship.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Travis Tedford, Bug Hall, Brittany Ashton Holmes, Kevin Jamal Woods
Votes: 56,203 | Gross: $52.13M
Spheeris appears caught between her desire to make a film for little children and amuse their parents, resulting in a mess that will do anything for a cheap laugh.
11. Black Sheep (1996)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy
A gubernatorial candidate hires a wormy special assistant whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson, Christine Ebersole
Votes: 43,692 | Gross: $32.38M
A little comedy that succeeds in its modest aim to provide 87 minutes of harmless diversion.
12. Senseless (1998)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Marlon Wayans, David Spade, Brad Dourif, Esther Scott
Votes: 17,752 | Gross: $13.04M
Moments are simply that, moments, which are not enough to lift this fantasy/comedy above its one-joke premise.
13. The Thing in Bob's Garage (1998)
Mystery
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Star: Richard Bachynsky Hoover
14. Applewood 911 (1998 TV Movie)
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Mark Beltzman, Jason Blicker, Matthew Carey, Wade Carroll
15. Dear Doughboy (2000 TV Movie)
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Hopwood DePree, James Barry, Jerry Lambert
16. The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
The rise and fall of the Enron company, as seen from the perspective of employee Brian Cruver, based on his book.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Christian Kane, Shannon Elizabeth, Cameron Bancroft, Nancy Anne Sakovich
Votes: 1,032
17. The Kid & I (2005)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy
Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Tom Arnold, Joe Mantegna, Eric Gores, Linda Hamilton
Votes: 1,534
Well-intentioned but sappy, The Kid & I is a strange hybrid of comedy and cinema verite.
18. Balls to the Wall (2011)
R | 85 min | Comedy
An engaged guy is forced by his future father-in-law to take a side job moonlighting as an exotic dancer in order to pay extravagant wedding neither of them can afford.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Joe Hursley, Jenna Dewan, Dustin Ybarra, Dean Austin
Votes: 570
19. Five (2011 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
Directors: Jennifer Aniston, Patty Jenkins, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Rosario Dawson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Ginnifer Goodwin
Votes: 1,207
20. The Real St. Nick (2012 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
A pretty psychiatrist is saved from an accident by a man who, after hitting his head on a rock, believes he is Santa Claus. As she nurses him back to health at her institute, he brings the spirit of Christmas to the hospital.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Torrey DeVitto, Callard Harris, Roma Maffia, Kenneth Choi
Votes: 510
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