Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss is one hell of an actor. Today we compiled the best Richard Dreyfuss movies just for you here at Otakukart. Firstly, Over the course of three decades —the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s— he worked in a myriad of iconic movies that shaped popular culture as we know it today. From “Jaws” to “American Graffiti,” his work is there for us to enjoy. Moreover, Dreyfuss held the record of being the youngest actor to win Best Actor at the Oscars until Adrien Brody beat him to it.
Dreyfuss began working in small productions and worked his way up. He got a role in the 1973 hit movie by George Lucas American Graffiti opposite Ron Howard and Harrison Ford riding motorcycles in California into the sunset. After that, he teamed up with Steven Spielberg in 1975 for the horror movie in the high seas Jaws and then for the alien movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Movies that we will cover here paved his way into stardom. Now jump with us as we cover his best movies here at Otakukart.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
This 1977 Steven Spielberg stars Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, and Cary Guffey. And it tells the story of an average joe worker in Indiana, United States after he has an encounter with a flying saucer. The deal is this. Nobody believes him. And people think the dude is crazy. But that’s not it all, as all over the world, UFOs interact in weird forms with humans, resulting in bizarre. And incomprehensible alien abductions all over the place. It’s one of Spielberg’s most deep and enthralling films ever.
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
The romantic comedy that made Dreyfuss win the Oscar. Produced by Ray Stark and directed by Hebert Ross, it stars Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason with a screenplay by Neil Simon. Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason) and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy (Quinn Cummings) share a Manhattan apartment with Tony DeForrest, her married lover. Tony leased the flat to Elliot Garfield (Richard Dreyfuss), an aspiring actor from Chicago, prior to his departure.
Paula, who is demanding, cynical, and neurotic, expresses her displeasure with Elliot from the start but grudgingly allows him to come in. Elliot has been cast in the title role of Richard III in an off-Broadway production, but the director wants him to portray the character as an exaggerated gay cliché. Opening night is attended by theater reviewers from a variety of New York City television stations and publications, who slam his performance.
Elliot is given a film part he cannot refuse, but the work is in Seattle, and he will be gone for four weeks. Despite loving Elliot, Lucy becomes wary and views the affair as a repetition of what occurred with Tony. Despite their many disagreements and Paula’s lack of appreciation for Elliot’s assistance, the two fall in love and sleep together.
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Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)
The 1995 drama by Stephen Herek opposite Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, and Glenne Headly tells the story of Glenn Holland, who is a successful and talented musician and composer from Portland, Oregon. He retires as a music teacher so he can spend more time with his young wife Iris and work on his symphony. The film covers his 30-year teaching career, set amongst the changes in American society. Glenn is a musician, and in a fate of irony, he has a deaf son. He fails to learn American Sign Language properly, leaving him unable to communicate with his deaf son Coltrane. An argument with his teenage son finally makes Holland realize the error of his ways. On his last day, ex-pupils welcome him back to the auditorium with a standing ovation where he leads them playing a symphony he composed over the course of three decades.
Jaws (1975)
Jaws is a thriller by Steven Spielberg starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gray, and Murray Hamilton. And, of course, Richard Dreyfuss. It narrates the story of a terrorized beach town by a giant white shark and the team aboard a boat called “The Orca” to hunt it. Three men, Quint, Brody, and Hooper, set out to hunt a shark that attacked the USS Indianapolis. Quint estimates its length at 25 feet (7.6 m) and weight at 3 tonnes (3.0 long tons; 3.3 short tons). After a long chase, Quint harpoons the shark with another barrel. The shark drags the boat backward, swamping the deck and flooding the engine compartment. Trapped on the sinking vessel, Quint shoves a pressurized scuba tank into the shark’s mouth, which explodes and obliterates the shark.
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