Michael Ritchie Movies

A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.

The Candidate is a movie starring Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, and Melvyn Douglas. Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Smile is a movie starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, and Michael Kidd. A social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants.

The Bad News Bears is a movie starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, and Vic Morrow. An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Fletch is a movie starring Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson. Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher is a newspaper reporter being offered a large sum to off a cancerous millionaire, but is on the run, risking his job and...

Wildcats is a movie starring Goldie Hawn, Swoosie Kurtz, and Robyn Lively. A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.

The Couch Trip is a movie starring Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, and Charles Grodin. A burnt-out shrink needs a temp. A charming escaped convict takes over his practice and radio show.

Fletch Lives is a movie starring Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, and Julianne Phillips. After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irvin Fletcher heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into...

Gabriel's released from prison. His con man friend makes a foolish bet with Diggstown's owner on who'd win the boxing matches - their man against ten Diggstown men.

Cops and Robbersons is a movie starring Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, and Dianne Wiest. A counterfeiter with a habit of "eliminating" the competition moves in next door to the Robbersons. Two cops move in with the Robbersons for a...

The Scout is a movie starring Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, and Dianne Wiest. The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player.

A bumbling fairy godfather tries to grant a girl's wish that her cabby father lands a Broadway role.

A mysterious fair that comes to a small community in the countryside could make real the illusions of two teenagers.