List of the best Penny Marshall movies: A League of Their Own(1992), Renaissance Man(1994), Big(1988), Alice, Upside Down(2007), Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World(2005), Stateside(2004), The Hard Way(1991), Get Shorty(1995) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1992
126 Minutes
Director
Tom Hanks Geena Davis Madonna Lori Petty Jon Lovitz David Strathairn Garry Marshall Megan Cavanagh Rosie O'Donnell Renée Coleman Ann Cusack
baseball catcher baseball pitcher baseball player baseball team owner baseball fan coach amusing lighthearted oregon illinois baseball field family home baseball family world war ii women in sports rivalry transformation rise 1940s
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
Comedy
USA
1994
129 Minutes
Director
Danny DeVito Gregory Hines James Remar Cliff Robertson Lillo Brancato Jr. Stacey Dash Kadeem Hardison Richard T. Jones Khalil Kain Peter Simmons Gregory Sporleder
teacher drill instructor student soldier divorcée inspiring uplifting lighthearted army base detroit classroom military teaching unemployment class distinctions new job education transformation discovery 1990s
A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.
Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
1988
104 Minutes
Director
Tom Hanks Elizabeth Perkins Robert Loggia John Heard Jared Rushton David Moscow Jon Lovitz Mercedes Ruehl Josh Clark Tracy Reiner Oliver Block
boy friend owner executive love interest rival charming positive amusing new jersey new york city carnival office toy store mistaken identity toys coming of age competition loneliness discovery
A wishing machine turns a boy into a 35-year-old man (Tom Hanks) with a fun job and a girlfriend (Elizabeth Perkins).
Comedy
France|USA
2007
91 Minutes
Mrs. Plotkin
Alyson Stoner Lucas Grabeel Penny Marshall Luke Perry Parker McKenna Posey Dylan McLaughlin Bridgit Mendler Ashley Drane
girl brother single father teacher love interest friend amusing lighthearted frenetic endearing school st. louis store household growing up new town young love death father/daughter relationship imagination
Alice and Lester move to a new town, where their dad's bought a music store. Alice starts in 6th grade and joins the theater club, hoping to be the musical's princess. She's insecure but imagines herself cool, cute and confident.
Comedy
USA
2005
99 Minutes
Penny Marshall
Albert Brooks Sheetal Sheth John Carroll Lynch Jon Tenney Homie Doroodian Amy Ryan Penny Marshall Victoria Burrows Juliet Touzene Sunny Raina Rima Laham
comedian muslim assistant agent government official woman hysterical offbeat playful pakistan stage new delhi office india comedy cultural differences travel search islam politics
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Drama
Germany|USA
2004
97 Minutes
Rachael Leigh Cook Jonathan Tucker Agnes Bruckner Val Kilmer Joe Mantegna Carrie Fisher Diane Venora Ed Begley Jr. Michael Godere Daniel Franzese Penny Marshall
young woman young man performer soldier friend melodramatic emotional california roman catholic school hollywood, calif. middle east military base mental illness aspirations accident troubled youth romance military service love discovery
The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1991
111 Minutes
Michael J. Fox James Woods Stephen Lang Annabella Sciorra John Capodice Luis Guzman LL Cool J Mary Mara Delroy Lindo Conrad Roberts Christina Ricci
actor detective serial killer captain girlfriend partner hilarious thrilling spectacular new york city hollywood, calif. police station nightclub roof police work acting mentorship serial murders unlikely friendship research
An action movie star researching a role is allowed to tag along with a hardboiled New York City policeman, who finds him superficial and irritating.
Comedy
USA
1995
105 Minutes
John Travolta Gene Hackman Rene Russo Danny DeVito Dennis Farina Delroy Lindo James Gandolfini David Paymer Martin Ferrero Miguel Sandoval Jon Gries
gangster actress director producer gritty cool outlandish offbeat miami las vegas hollywood, calif. movie making gambling kidnapping metamorphosis pursuit rescue 1990s
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.