Richard Friedenberg

Movies

Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Screenplay
Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.
Of Two Minds
Writer
Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family, including her husband, their teenage son and young daughter. At first, Baby and the family work to adjust to their new living arrangement. However, after a disturbing incident involving her son and Baby, it becomes clear to Billie that she and her family are not equipped to handle Baby's illness, ultimately forcing her to make the difficult decision to do what's best for her sister and her family.
The 19th Wife
Teleplay
Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son Jordan for help in freeing his mother.
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Teleplay
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Director
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Twelve Mile Road
Director
A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family.
Twelve Mile Road
Screenplay
A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family.
Snow in August
Teleplay
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
Snow in August
Director
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
The Education of Little Tree
Screenplay
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
The Education of Little Tree
Director
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Screenplay
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America as a loving family.
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Director
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America as a loving family.
A River Runs Through It
Screenplay
A River Runs Through It is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920s.
Dying Young
Jeopardy Contestant
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
Dying Young
Screenplay
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
Promise
Co-Producer
Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.
Promise
Teleplay
Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.
The Rogue & Grizzly
Camera Operator
A 19th-century New Englander becomes a mountain man friendly with an Indian and a bear.
Bitter Harvest
Teleplay
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
The Bermuda Triangle
Director
Documentary on with strange goings-on in the 'devil's triangle'.
The Deerslayer
Director
Hawkeye and Chingachcook attempt to rescue the daughter of a chief who was captured by raiders from a rival tribe.
The Adventures of Frontier Fremont
Director
The true story of one man's struggle to make the wilderness his home and the animals his friends.
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
Director
After fleeing into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder, woodsman "Grizzly Adams" discovers an uncanny bond to the indigenous wildlife of the region after rescuing an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he adopts and calls "Ben".