Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Barry W. Blaustein is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 1 january 1955

Barry W. Blaustein

Barry W. Blaustein
If you like this person, let us know!
Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1955 (69 years)

Barry W. Blaustein is an American comedy writer best known for his writing on Saturday Night Live and What's Alan Watching? and the screenplays for Coming to America and The Nutty Professor all written in collaboration with David Sheffield.

Best films

Coming to America (1988)
(Scriptwriter)
The Nutty Professor (1996)
(Scriptwriter)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
(Story)
Boomerang (1992)
(Scriptwriter)
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
(Writer)

Usually with

Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy
(5 films)
Brian Grazer
Brian Grazer
(4 films)
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
(2 films)
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Barry W. Blaustein (10 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, 1h46
Directed by Peter Segal
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Obésité, Comedy science fiction films, Films about disabilities
Actors Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, Richard Gant, Melinda McGraw
Roles Man in Bathroom
Rating45% 2.255682.255682.255682.255682.25568
After finding success with a DNA restructuring formula in the first film, Sherman Klump has created another formula which enables those who take it to find the Fountain of Youth. He has also met and fallen in love with a colleague, Denise Gaines, who has developed a method to isolate genetic material and later becomes his fiancée. Together, their work has enabled Wellman College to receive a $150 million award from a pharmaceutical firm to the excitement of Dean Richmond. Despite his good fortune, Sherman has a major problem: the personality of his vanquished alter ego, Buddy Love, is still ingrained inside him and causes him to act out in the same crass manner Buddy does.
Beyond the Mat, 1h42
Directed by Barry W. Blaustein
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Professional wrestling documentary films
Actors Mick Foley, Jesse Ventura, Dwayne Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Barry W. Blaustein, Paul Heyman
Roles Narrator
Rating75% 3.7977453.7977453.7977453.7977453.797745
The film begins with director Barry Blaustein discussing his love for professional wrestling and clips of him viewing employees of the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling. He then decides to travel the United States over a three-year period, endeavoring to understand the mindset of someone who would voluntarily choose to become a professional wrestler. Blaustein interviews a wide variety of wrestling personalities and ascertains their motivations.

Director

Peep World
Peep World (2010)
, 1h19
Directed by Barry W. Blaustein
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Ron Rifkin, Lewis Black, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Ben Schwartz
Rating54% 2.7474052.7474052.7474052.7474052.747405
At a dinner celebrating the 70th birthday of their father Henry Meyerwitz (Ron Rifkin), tensions among the four Meyerwitz siblings explode thanks to the success of the youngest son, Nathan (Ben Schwartz), whose new novel Peep World is a thinly veiled portrait of the family. The best-selling expose reveals the oldest, "responsible" son, Jack (Michael C. Hall), as a porn addict, the daughter, Cheri (Sarah Silverman), as a catty drama queen, and the third son, Joel (Rainn Wilson), as a living disaster with a loony plan to change his life.
The Ringer
The Ringer (2005)
, 1h34
Directed by Barry W. Blaustein
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Films about the Olympic Games, Films about disabilities
Actors Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox, Bill Chott, Jed Rees, Edward Barbanell
Rating57% 2.8994752.8994752.8994752.8994752.899475
Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) hates his job but after over two years of working, receives a promotion. His first duty is to fire his friend Stavi, who is the janitor. Steve fires Stavi (Luis Ávalos), but hires him to work around his apartment. Stavi gets three fingers cut off in a lawn-mower accident, and reveals that he doesn't have health insurance. Steve must raise $28,000 within two weeks to pay for the surgery to re-attach his friend's fingers. His uncle Gary (Brian Cox), owes $40,000 in gambling debts and suggests that they fix the Special Olympics in San Marcos, Texas in order to solve both of their financial problems. Steve, who competed in track and field in high school as well as being in the drama club, enters the Special Olympics in the guise of a high functioning young man with learning difficulties named Jeffy Dahmor. Gary, assuming that Steve will easily defeat the legitimate contenders, bets $100,000 that reigning champion Jimmy Washington won't win the gold medal. Despite initially being disgusted at pretending to be mentally challenged, Steve goes along with it for Stavi.
Beyond the Mat, 1h42
Directed by Barry W. Blaustein
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Professional wrestling documentary films
Actors Mick Foley, Jesse Ventura, Dwayne Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Barry W. Blaustein, Paul Heyman
Rating75% 3.7977453.7977453.7977453.7977453.797745
The film begins with director Barry Blaustein discussing his love for professional wrestling and clips of him viewing employees of the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling. He then decides to travel the United States over a three-year period, endeavoring to understand the mindset of someone who would voluntarily choose to become a professional wrestler. Blaustein interviews a wide variety of wrestling personalities and ascertains their motivations.

Scriptwriter

Coming 2 America
Directed by Craig Brewer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Leslie Jones, Shari Headley, John Amos, Tracy Morgan
Roles Story
Rating53% 2.665562.665562.665562.665562.66556
Alors qu'il est sur le point de devenir le nouveau roi du Zamunda, le prince Akeem Joffer découvre qu'il a un fils, Lavelle, qui vit dans le Queens. Honorant la dernière volonté de son père, Akeem décide donc de retourner aux États-Unis avec son fidèle acolyte Semmi.
The Honeymooners, 1h30
Directed by John Schultz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mike Epps, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, Eric Stoltz, John Leguizamo
Roles Writer
Rating34% 1.70631.70631.70631.70631.7063
The Kramdens and the Nortons are working-class neighbors; bus-driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) and sewage worker Ed Norton (Epps) are best friends. Ralph is constantly masterminding get-rich-quick schemes with which Ed tries to help. The driving force behind them is their wives, Alice Kramden (Gabrielle Union) and Trixie Norton (Regina Hall); the men are trying to make enough money to afford the homes they think their wives deserve. Meanwhile, Alice and Trixie make ends meet by waitressing at the local diner.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, 1h46
Directed by Peter Segal
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Obésité, Comedy science fiction films, Films about disabilities
Actors Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, Richard Gant, Melinda McGraw
Roles Story
Rating45% 2.255682.255682.255682.255682.25568
After finding success with a DNA restructuring formula in the first film, Sherman Klump has created another formula which enables those who take it to find the Fountain of Youth. He has also met and fallen in love with a colleague, Denise Gaines, who has developed a method to isolate genetic material and later becomes his fiancée. Together, their work has enabled Wellman College to receive a $150 million award from a pharmaceutical firm to the excitement of Dean Richmond. Despite his good fortune, Sherman has a major problem: the personality of his vanquished alter ego, Buddy Love, is still ingrained inside him and causes him to act out in the same crass manner Buddy does.
Beyond the Mat, 1h42
Directed by Barry W. Blaustein
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Professional wrestling documentary films
Actors Mick Foley, Jesse Ventura, Dwayne Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Barry W. Blaustein, Paul Heyman
Roles Writer
Rating75% 3.7977453.7977453.7977453.7977453.797745
The film begins with director Barry Blaustein discussing his love for professional wrestling and clips of him viewing employees of the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling. He then decides to travel the United States over a three-year period, endeavoring to understand the mindset of someone who would voluntarily choose to become a professional wrestler. Blaustein interviews a wide variety of wrestling personalities and ascertains their motivations.
The Nutty Professor, 1h35
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Medical-themed films, Obésité, Comedy science fiction films, Films about disabilities
Actors Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Dave Chappelle, Larry Miller, John Ales
Rating56% 2.849252.849252.849252.849252.84925
At Wellman College, thousands of hamsters overrun the campus, due to the massively obese, yet loving and kind-hearted, professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy), who accidentally releases them due to his wide belly always accidentally hitting the button when he turns around. Meanwhile, Sherman has constructed an experimental formula that reconstructs human DNA in a way that allows them to lose weight instantaneously.
Boomerang
Boomerang (1992)
, 1h57
Directed by Reginald Hudlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Halle Berry, Robin Givens, David Alan Grier, Martin Lawrence, Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder
Rating56% 2.800982.800982.800982.800982.80098
The film begins as Marcus (Eddie Murphy) enters Chantress, the company that he works for as an advertisement executive. It is quickly established that he is quite the ladies' man, as he tells his assistant to send flowers to nine different women, with cards reading "only thinking of you." When he enters his office, Nelson (Geoffrey Holder), one of the creative minds also in Marcus' department, shows Marcus a re-cut he's done of one of the ads they've been working on. Marcus tells Nelson, who's very creative but also very risqué and overtly sexual with his style, that he must re-edit the ad, as some of the material may be offensive to women and may also cause problems with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Nelson reluctantly agrees, then leaves.
Coming to America, 1h56
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire
Actors Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, James Earl Jones, Madge Sinclair, John Amos
Rating70% 3.5481353.5481353.5481353.5481353.548135
Akeem Joffer, the crown prince to the throne of the wealthy African nation of Zamunda, lives a pampered lifestyle with every daily facet performed by servants. Akeem has become fed up with this and wishes to do more for himself. The final straw comes when his parents, King Jaffe and Queen Aeoleon, present him with an arranged bride-to-be named Imani Izzi, whom he has never met and who has been trained to obey Akeem's every command. Akeem concocts a plan to travel to the United States to find an intelligent, independent-minded woman he can both love and respect, and who will love Akeem for who he is and not for his wealth and social status as a prince. Akeem and his best friend/personal aide, Semmi, flip a coin to decide between going to either Los Angeles or New York City, and end up going to New York City. They end up in the borough of Queens and rent a run-down apartment in the neighborhood of Long Island City, passing themselves off as poor foreign students. They begin working at a local fast food restaurant called McDowell's—an obvious ripoff of McDonald's—owned by widower Cleo McDowell and his two daughters, Lisa and Patrice.
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, 1h37
Directed by Jerry Paris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Steve Guttenberg, David Graf, Bubba Smith, Bruce Mahler, Michael Winslow, Bobcat Goldthwait
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.903242.903242.903242.903242.90324
After a random attack the night before by a local gang known as "The Scullions" and their infantile leader Zed McGlunk (Bobcat Goldthwait), Chief Henry Hurst (George R. Robertson) arrives at the 16th precinct and notifies its captain, Pete Lassard (Howard Hesseman) that the precinct is the worst in the city. Nevertheless, Hurst gives Lassard 30 days to turn the precinct around or he is out. Before Hurst leaves, Lieutenant Mauser (Art Metrano) schemes his way into getting a promotion to Captain should Lassard fail. Capt. Lassard then calls his brother Eric (George Gaynes) who is in charge of the Police Academy and asks him for six new recruits. Mauser is seen talking with his dim-witted partner, Sgt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey), as he attempts to take control of the precinct.

Producer

Beyond the Mat, 1h42
Directed by Barry W. Blaustein
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Professional wrestling documentary films
Actors Mick Foley, Jesse Ventura, Dwayne Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Barry W. Blaustein, Paul Heyman
Roles Producer
Rating75% 3.7977453.7977453.7977453.7977453.797745
The film begins with director Barry Blaustein discussing his love for professional wrestling and clips of him viewing employees of the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling. He then decides to travel the United States over a three-year period, endeavoring to understand the mindset of someone who would voluntarily choose to become a professional wrestler. Blaustein interviews a wide variety of wrestling personalities and ascertains their motivations.