Buck Henry Movies

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...

Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his...

A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz...

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters...

Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats ques...

The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through...

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task f...

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nea...

In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle f...

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to...

A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.

Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic...

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose chil...

When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.

On New Year's Eve 1999, as a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their iden...

This video contains three segments: First, the Oscar-nominated short The absent-minded waiter (1977),then a fake interview with Steve Martin about hi...