Movies with John Ratzenberger

Brave

Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure

Starring: Billy Connolly, John Ratzenberger, Julie Walters, Kelly Macdonald, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd

Directors: Callum O'Neill, John Ratzenberger

Country: USA

Year: 2012

Available Quality: Hi Def

Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, "Brave" features Merida, an aspiring archer and impetuous daughter of royalty. Merida makes a reckless choice that unleashes unintended peril and forces her to spring into action to set things right.

 

Monsters, Inc.

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family

Starring: Steve Buscemi, Frank Oz, John Ratzenberger, Jennifer Tilly, John Goodman, James Coburn, Jack Angel

Directors: Pete Docter, David Silverman

Country: USA

Year: 2001

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

James P. Sullivan (AKA "Sulley") and Mike Wazowski pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy from the goose bumps of children. Sulley, the No. 1 scream-generator at the plant accidentally lets in a little girl into the monster world. Since monsters are actually terrified of children it's a major cause for alarm and a major headache for Sulley and Mike.

 

Warlords of the 21st Century aka Battle Truck

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Starring: John Ratzenberger, John Bach, Annie McEnroe, Michael Beck, Mark Hadlow, Marshall Napier, Bruno Lawrence

Directors: Harley Cokliss

Country: New Zealand

Year: 1982

Post World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.

 

Cheers - Season Ten

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1991

The tenth year of Cheers is anchored by the story of Sam (Ted Danson) and Rebecca (Kirstie Alley), whose once tempestuous relationship has so sweetened with time that the characters decide to make a baby together. Getting the job done, however, proves a somewhat daunting task as Sam becomes self-conscious about having sex with an actual purpose, and Rebecca can't help him relax. The pursuit of pregnancy has both hilarious and poignant sides, such as a hellish night spent by the would-be parents babysitting the monstrous children of Carla (Rhea Perlman), and later making tough decisions about whether having a child is even a good idea.Meanwhil...

 

Cheers - Season Eleven

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1992

The 11th and last season of Cheers maintains the highest standards of the long-running, NBC comedy while adding poignancy by wrapping up the show's long-running storylines. The Final Season commences with a devastating fire that all but destroys the eponymous Boston bar owned by Sam Malone (Ted Danson). Shocking as it is to see Cheers nearly reduced to rubble, a lot of funny material comes out of it, not least the fact that manager Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) is responsible for the blaze and can't quite bring herself to tell Sam. The episode's sophisticated ending sets the tone for the season, in which all the show's characters seem prepared...

 

Cheers - Season Six

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1987

In its sixth season, Cheers introduced its second major--and most significant--cast change. Following the events of season 5, Sam (Ted Danson) returns from his aborted around-the-world boat trip to find the old gang gone, Carla (Rhea Perlman) and Woody (Woody Harrelson) wearing uniforms more fit for a barbershop quartet, and a tough new boss who reportedly "eats live sharks for breakfast." The new boss, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley, probably best known at the time for her appearance in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and later to anchor such series as Veronica's Closet and Fat Actress), grudgingly hires back Sam, but has him positively befuddled wi...

 

Cheers - Season Seven

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1988

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in the Cheers bar (named for the toast "Cheers") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun. The show's theme song was written by Judy Hart Angelo and Gary Portnoy and performed by Portnoy; its famous refrain, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" also became the show's tagline.

 

Cheers - Season Eight

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1989

After premiering on September 30, 1982, it was nearly cancelled during its first season when it ranked last in ratings for its premiere (77th out of 77 shows). However, Cheers eventually became a highly rated television show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons, including one season at #1, and spending the bulk of its run on NBC's "Must See Thursday" lineup. Its widely watched series finale was broadcast on May 20, 1993. The show's 270 episodes have been successfully syndicated worldwide, and have earned 28 Emmy Awards from a then-record 117 nominations. The character Frasier Crane (played by Kelse...

 

Cheers - Season Nine

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1990

heers maintained an ensemble cast, keeping roughly the same set of characters for the entire run. Numerous secondary characters and love interests for these characters appeared intermittently to complement storylines that generally revolved around this core group.

 

Cheers - Season Three

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1984

Season 3 of Cheers enriched television history in a lot of ways, most notably by introducing Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Frasier Crane while also bidding an off-screen farewell to Nicholas Colasanto, the actor who played Coach. (Colasanto died near the end of the season, and while Coach's character was kept alive via outtakes for remaining episodes, he essentially disappeared from Cheers before the commencement of year 4.)Grammer's beloved character, who remained on NBC for 20 unbroken years (including the long-running Frasier), is ushered into the Cheers family when he meets barmaid Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) in a very funny, Emmy-nomi...

 

Cheers - Season Four

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1985

For its fourth season, Cheers served up a new bartender. Following the death of Nicholas Colasanto, who had played Coach, the season premiere introduced Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), the Indiana hick who certainly didn't raise the bar's collective IQ but had his own brand of endearing goofiness. That episode, "Birth, Death, Love and Rice," also explained what happened at the end of season 3 when Sam (Ted Danson) chased Diane (Shelley Long) and Frasier (Kesley Grammer) to Italy in hopes of preventing their marriage. The end result is that Diane returns to work at the bar and resumes her sexually charged flirtation with Sam, and Frasier becomes...

 

Cheers - Season Five

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1986

Even as it bid goodbye to one of its core characters, Cheers enjoyed a fifth season of high hilarity that still holds up decades later. The cliffhanger at the end of the fourth season began a season-long courting dance between Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) in which both want to get married--but never at the same time. They argue, they see a pre-nuptial counselor (an Emmy-winning John Cleese), and then one has to make a final decision. But Sam and Diane weren't the only ones exploring relationships. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) once again meets Dr. Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth) and, with the help of Diane, are soon cozily coinhabiting...

 

Cheers - Season One

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1982

The definition of comfort television is this: You want to go where everybody knows your name. And you're always glad you came. Long one of DVD's most wanted, Cheers is at last open for business in this four-disc set that contains all 22 episodes of the first, and best, season of one of the defining series of the 1980s. Cheers inherited the mantle from Taxi as television's best ensemble-driven workplace comedy. It can be instructive to return to a long-running series' more humble beginnings. While Cheers got drunk on farce in its later seasons, it began life as a much more grounded human comedy. In these inaugural episodes, the action does not...

 

Cheers - Season Two

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Angela Aame

Directors: Brian Pollack, David Isaacs, Gary Khammer, Hillel Wasserman, Jon Barbou

Country: USA

Year: 1983

It looks great: season two of the situation comedy many consider the best ever produced on American television has a superb presentation on this DVD collection. The colors are rich, the images sharp--a vast improvement over those murky reruns in perpetual TV syndication.Then, of course, there are the consistently brilliant episodes from Cheers' sophomore year. Despite its low-rated debut in 1982, the ensemble farce set in a Boston bar confidently returned with several strong story arcs, including the turbulent, screwball romance between intellectual poseur Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and affable primitive Sam Malone (Ted Danson), romantic c...

 

Toy Story 3

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family

Starring: Tim Allen, Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, Ned Beatty, Joan Cusack, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger

Directors: Lee Unkrich

Country: USA

Year: 2010

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

What made the original Toy Story so great, besides its significant achievement as the first-ever feature-length computer animated film, was its ability to instantly transport viewers into a magical world where it seemed completely plausible that toys were living, thinking beings who sprang to life the minute they were alone and wanted nothing more than to be loved and played with by their children. Toy Story 3 absolutely succeeds in the very same thing--adults and children alike, whether they've seen the original film or not, find themselves immediately immersed in a world in which Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan C...

 

Warlords of Atlantis

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Shane Rimmer, Robert Brown, Cyd Charisse, Michael Gothard, Ashley Knight, Daniel Massey

Directors: Kevin Connor

Country: UK

Year: 1978

Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell destroyed, a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advance alien race makes slaves of the ship-wrecked sailors. The aliens want to rule the human world to create a nazi state. Due to his high IQ, they think that Charles may join them. Greg and the team will need the help of Delphine, the daughter of a slave, to escape the city surrounded ...

 

The Village Barbershop

Genres: Drama

Starring: John Ratzenberger, Cindy Pickett, Shelly Cole, Cory DuVal, George McRae, Daron Jennings, Josh Hutchinson

Directors: Chris J. Ford

Country: USA

Year: 2008

Art Leroldi is widowed and fading - a small time Reno barber stuck in a rut of haircuts and horse-books. When he loses his cutting partner of twenty years, he's faced with closing Reno's last man's man barbershop or hiring the last person on earth he'd ever want working there - a woman. More specifically, Gloria MacIntyre, a broke, spit-fire young woman suddenly unable to take no for answer. This is the story two unlikely people, who meet in one unlikely place - The Village Barbershop.

 

A Bug's Life

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Hayden Panettiere, Madeline Kahn, John Ratzenberger, Bonnie Hunt, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Directors: Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter

Country: USA

Year: 1998

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Journey inside the world of bugs in this epic of miniature proportions. Crawling with imaginative characters, hilarious laughs, and colorful animation, Walt Disney Pictures Presentation of A Pixar Animation Studios Film, A BUG'S LIFE, will "delight everyone -- young, old, or six-legged." (People Magazine) In this 2-disc set you'll step behind the scenes for a look at the innovation and teamwork that resulted in this ingenious film. Loaded with bonus features — including animation not seen in theaters, abandoned sequences, and multiple surprises — A BUG'S LIFE COLLECTOR'S EDITION offers something for everyone from families to film lovers!HD ...

 

Outland

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Angus MacInnes, Peter Boyle, Clarke Peters, Frances Sternhagen, Eugene Lipinski, Kika Markham, John Ratzenberger

Directors: Peter Hyams

Country: UK

Year: 1981

Marshal W.T. O'Niel is assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. During his tenure miners are dying - usually violently. When the marshal investigates he discovers the one thing all the deaths have in common is a lethal amphetamine-type drug, which allows the miners to work continuously for days at a time until they become "burned out" and expire. O'Niel follows the trail of the dealers, which leads to the man overseeing the colony. Now O'Niel must watch his back at every turn, as those who seek to protect their income begin targeting him...

 

One Night Stand

Genres: Drama

Starring: Thomas Haden Church, Wesley Snipes, Thomas Kopache, John Ratzenberger, Glenn Plummer, Robert Downey Jr., Marcus T. Paulk

Directors: Mike Figgis

Country: USA

Year: 1997

Los-Angeles commercials director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with AIDS in New York. There he meets Karen, they are attracted to each other and after they meet later that day at the concert, they have a passionate night. Then he returns home to L.A. to his family and wife Mimi. A year later Max returns to New York again to visit Charlie who is now dying, and there he meets Karen again, who is married to Charlie's brother Vernon.