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Submit Your ReviewIn a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Since misery loves company, he takes up with Warren, a fellow Lonely Guy (Charles Grodin), and eventually both Warren ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1984 | Running Time: 91 minutes
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The Lonely Guy was one of several transitional Steve Martin films in which the comedian began losing some of his "wild and crazy guy" persona and adopted a more human quality. Unfortunately, the transition is by no means complete in The Lonely Guy, seeing as the film is somewhat schizophrenic. It's trying to be both ironic and romantic, postmodern and engaging, but ends up falling unsatisfactorily between the two poles. Things are not helped by Arthur Hiller's uncertain direction, which keeps ...more
- Steve Martin - Larry Hubbard
- Charles Grodin - Warren Evans
- Judith Ivey - Iris
- Steve Lawrence - Jack Fenwick
- Robyn Douglass - Danielle
- Madison Arnold - Lonely cop
- Dominic Barto - Holdup Man No.2
- Ed Beheler - Jimmy Carter Look-alike
- Leslie Bevis - One of the Seven Deadly Sins
- Charles de Vries - Ship's Maitre d'
- Lamya Derval - One of the Seven Deadly Sins
- Jenny Gago - One of the Seven Deadly Sins
- Jose Martinez - Gang Member
- Alan Leach - Bookstore Man
- Arthur Hiller - Director
- William E. McEuen - Executive Producer
- Dorothy Wilde - Producer
- Arthur Hiller - Producer
- Neil Simon - Screenwriter
- Bruce Jay Friedman - Book Author
- Lynn Stalmaster - Casting
- Toni Howard - Casting
- Betsy Cox - Costume Designer
- Jack Roe - First Assistant Director
- Raja Gosnell - Editor
- William H. Reynolds - Editor
- Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score)
- Glenn Frey - Songwriter
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