Marc "Babaloo" Mandel (born October 13, 1949) is an American writer and producer. He first wrote episodic television comedy, then later began writing feature films and theatre. He and long-time writing partner Lowell Ganz penned numerous high-profile films including Splash (1984), Parenthood (1989), City Slickers (1991), and A League of Their Own (1992).
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Release Date1984-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Rudy
Vote Count1394
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.
Release Date1992-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Writer #2
Vote Count59
Few screenwriters can concentrate for more than a few hours, let alone sustain a career in Hollywood for over 30 years. But the blockbuster comedy writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel has been making television and film audiences laugh for decades. In the early '70s, Ganz was writing for The Odd Couple while Mandel was receiving his first paychecks for work on M*A*S*H and Busting Loose. In total, Ganz and Mandel have written an astonishing 18 produced feature screenplays, including City Slickers, A League of Their Own, Mr. Saturday Night, Forget Paris, Where the Heart Is, Robots, and Fever Pitch, while also maintaining a "secret career" of un-credited rewrites on studio comedies.
Release Date2006-10-20
Charactersd Himself
Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.
Release Date2020-04-27
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Retrospective documentary on the making of the hit comedy Splash (1984).
Release Date2004-03-30
Charactersd Self - Screenwriter
Vote Count5
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
Release Date1985-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count204
In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. There, she meets other women who also dream of playing pro baseball and makes connections that open up her world. Rockford local Max Chapman also comes to the tryouts but is turned away. With the support of her best friend Clance, she must forge a new path to pursue her dream.
Release Date2022-08-11
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Episode Count8
Vote Count105
Release Date1997-09-23
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Short-lived sitcom based on the critically acclaimed movie. Hunt Stevenson is the laid-back American employee liaison of a Japanese car company in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania. Clashes abound as Hunt and Kaz looked for ways to bridge the gap between one another with funny results. Many of the Japanese actors from the movie reprised their roles for the series.
Release Date1986-12-05
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.
Release Date2005-03-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4698
Take Five is an American sitcom that aired from April 1 until April 8, 1987.
Release Date1987-04-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Knight & Daye is an NBC television sitcom that ran for only seven episodes in the summer of 1989. The show was about Hank and Everett, two former friends that hadn't spoken to each other in years after Everett married the woman they were both interested in, but are reunited for a radio talk show. Their bickering proves to be a ratings bonanza.
Release Date1989-07-08
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
Release Date1992-07-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1441
When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. Soon, Derek is inspired to rekindle his youthful dreams.
Release Date2010-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2019
Hiller and Diller is an American sitcom that aired from September 23, 1997 to March 6, 1998.
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
Release Date1991-06-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count811
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
Release Date2000-04-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count703
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Release Date1994-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count268
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Release Date1989-07-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count660
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Release Date1999-03-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count651
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.
Release Date1982-07-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count215
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.
Release Date1996-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count555
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Release Date1985-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count654
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Release Date1994-06-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count324
When Ben Wrightman, a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks, the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but they fall in love, regardless. Their romance goes well until baseball season begins, and Lindsey soon realizes that Ben is completely obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Though she tries to understand Ben's passionate team loyalty, eventually it threatens to end their otherwise happy relationship.
Release Date2005-04-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count718
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Release Date1997-05-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count287
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.
Release Date1995-05-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count159
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Release Date1986-03-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count205
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.
Release Date1988-08-05
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count76
A high-school nerd goes to his 10-year class reunion.
Release Date1983-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.
Release Date2006-06-25
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count2
Billy Crystal stars—again—as Buddy Young, Jr. in this entertaining musical about an outrageous and outspoken comedian who has one last shot at reclaiming the spotlight—and his family—one hilarious step at a time. Now, some 40 years after his TV career flamed out, Buddy seeks one more shot at the spotlight, and while he’s at it, one last shot at fixing the family he fractured along the way.
Release Date2022-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Executive returns to her hometown to try to revive the local TV station which is struggling in the ratings.
Release Date1988-08-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
1980 TV pilot
Release Date1980-08-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."
Release Date2006-06-25
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count1