Donald Petrie — Director (13)

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Opportunity Knocks (1990)
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other title: 사랑 사기꾼 / Der Unglücksritter …
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.

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The Favor (1994)
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唐纳德·皮特里 actor: 哈莉·简·科扎克 / 伊丽莎白·麦戈文 …
other title: 相伴到永远 / 여자 둘 남자 셋 …
On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce her old flame Tom, so she can get all the juicy details. But when Emily falls for Tom, it's like high school all over again!

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The Associate (1997)
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other title: 神秘大亨 / 合伙人 …
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.

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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Grumpy Old Men
Donald Petrie / 唐纳德·皮特里 actor: 沃尔特·马修 / Jack Lemmon …
other title: 그럼피 올드 맨 / Dois Velhos Rabugentos …
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.

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My Favorite Martian (1999)
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★ 7.6 14 ratings
other title: 外星人报到 / 火星叔叔马丁 …
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.

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Miss Congeniality (2000)
Miss Congeniality
★ 6.5 116 ratings
other title: 미스 에이전트 / デンジャラス・ビューティー …
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

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My Life in Ruins (2008)
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★ 6.0 10 ratings
other title: 我的废墟生活 / 濒临崩溃的生活 …
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.