Albert Brooks Archives

Defending Your Life (1991)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 15, 2001Afterlife Comedy

Albert Brooks directed/starring comedy in which he plays a man in the afterlife on trial, required to defend the dull and ordinary life he led, at the same time as he begins a romance with Meryl Streep

Director: Albert Brooks

Actors: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry

Category: Fantasy

15 October 200117 January 2026 by Roog

The Muse (1999)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 31, 1999Modern Muse/Hollywood Satire

Albert Brooks film with Sharon Stone as a Greek muse. This suggests a Woody Allen whimsy crossed with something of Robert Altman’s The Player and its satire on Hollywood with real-life celebrities playing themselves

Director: Albert Brooks

Actors: Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Bridges, …

Category: Fantasy

31 August 19999 August 2020 by Roog