Steve Oedekerk

Bruce is a local news reporter who is discontented with nearly everything in his life, and rarely misses an opportunity to complain about it. Until one day God endows Bruce with all of his powers and challenges him to take on his job and see if he can do any better. (Universal Pictures)

The inter-stellar saga of a super-intelligent pre-teen boy inventor and his robot dog Goddard. Together they undertake a daring rescue mission, battle evil aliens, save the Earth, and, perhaps most importantly, return home in time for dinner. (Paramount Pictures)

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way, he encounters some strange characters, one of which is a cow trained in the martial arts. (imdb)

Professor Sherman Klump is getting married. And the Klump family could not be more delighted for him... (imdb)

Robin Williams is Patch Adams - a doctor who believes in laughter as medicine and will do just about anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own career. (Universal)

Pet detective Ace Ventura comes out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the symbol of an African tribe (imdb)

Grossly overweight Prof. Sherman Klump, desperate to lose weight takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love (imdb)

Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself (imdb)

Nick Beam's life couldn't get any worse. He discovers he has been living a lie and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown... (imdb)

A hilarious look at what really happens in a barnyard when the farmer's back is turned. (Paramount)

In a send-up of the original Star Wars, several fingers and thumbs are used to act out the roles of would-be heroes and villians as the forces of finger and thumb clash of an evil super-weapon. (imdb)

Steve Carell, reprising his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter of "Bruce Almighty," is the next one appointed by God to accomplish a holy mission. Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God (Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions. (Universal)

The man behind such hits as Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, The Nutty Professor, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Steve Oedekerk seems to also have a thing for thumbs, as apparent by his series of short-subject movie parodies with casts completely comprised of the digits. This time around, Oedekerk and company take aim at Tim Burton's gothic, comic-book epic Batman... (All Movie)

In October of some year, three student filmmakers went into the woods to shoot a documentary about "The Blair Thumb"... without a tripod. (tagline)

A spoof of the godfather, with thumbs

Titanic, but with thumbs instead of people

A version of Frankenstein consisting of thumbs with Steve Oedekerk's face instead of live actors or cartoon characters.