Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.


Movers & Shakers (1985)
A new comedy about a movie that doesn't get made and the people who don't make it.
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Walter Matthau
Joe Mulholland

Charles Grodin
Herb Derman

Vincent Gardenia
Saul Gritz

Tyne Daly
Nancy Derman

Bill Macy
Sid Spokane

Gilda Radner
Livia Machado

Earl Boen
Marshall

Michael Lerner
Arnie

Joe Mantell
Larry
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