Begley's film career has been somewhat less fruitful than his TV work, although he seems to have found a niche as the white straight man in every other kitsch film of the 80s and 90s. He has appeared in two Paul Bartel-helmed camp classics, "Eating Raoul" (1982) and "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills" (1989) and starred as a lustful husband of the "She-Devil" (1989). He had his first leading role as the bug-turned-human in "Meet the Applegates" (1991), co-starring Stockard Channing. Begley can also be found in "This is Spinal Tap" (1984), as the drummer who dies from a bizarre gardening accident, Lawrence Kasdan's "The Accidental Tourist" (1988), as William Hurt's brother, "Greedy" (1994), as one of the relatives after Kirk Douglas's money, Gus Van Sant's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1994) and Joel Schumacher's "Batman Forever" (1995).