Director Howard Deutch (1950)

My Best Friend’s Girl (2008) is a comedic flick directed by Howard Deutch. Sherman ‘Tank’ Turner has a unique side job as a ladies’ man and professional help-line operator. His specialty? Assisting men in rekindling their relationships by taking their significant others on disastrous dates. Tank’s tactics involve acting like a rude and uncouth Neanderthal, causing the women to realize that their exes may not be so bad after all and return to them. Tank lives with his step cousin Dustin, who happens to have developed feelings for a co-worker named Alexis. Despite confessing his love during a ...

The sports comedy film The Replacements (2000), directed by Howard Deutch, centers around a professional football league that is facing a players’ strike with only four games remaining in the season. In response, the league’s owner, Edward O’Neil, reaches out to his former coach Jimmy McGinty and asks him to return and coach the Washington Sentinels for the rest of the season. O’Neil informs McGinty that winning three out of the four remaining games will secure their spot in the playoffs. However, McGinty agrees to return on one condition – that he has full control over selecting his own players ...