Donald Wrye
Nacimiento : 1934-09-24, Riverside - California - USA
Muerte : 2015-05-15
Teleplay
Alex Winston, una bella joven con talento, surge de la nada para convertirse en una superestrella del patinaje artístico. Pero el camino al estrellato no es nada fácil. Alex tiene que superarse, reinventarse, y lo que es aún más doloroso, dejar a su novio en su ciudad natal. Cuando una trágica caída la deja ciega, necesita a alguien que crea en ella, que la quiera y que la convenza de que tiene la fuerza suficiente para volver a patinar y a soñar. Remake de la película homónima dirigida por el propio Donald Wrye en 1978.
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Alex Winston, una bella joven con talento, surge de la nada para convertirse en una superestrella del patinaje artístico. Pero el camino al estrellato no es nada fácil. Alex tiene que superarse, reinventarse, y lo que es aún más doloroso, dejar a su novio en su ciudad natal. Cuando una trágica caída la deja ciega, necesita a alguien que crea en ella, que la quiera y que la convenza de que tiene la fuerza suficiente para volver a patinar y a soñar. Remake de la película homónima dirigida por el propio Donald Wrye en 1978.
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Emma, una joven profesora, decide acompañar a sus amigas en unas vacaciones de primavera. Cuando regresa, descubre horrorizada que un escandaloso vídeo erótico en el que aparece su cara ha sido colgado en Internet.
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Emma, una joven profesora, decide acompañar a sus amigas en unas vacaciones de primavera. Cuando regresa, descubre horrorizada que un escandaloso vídeo erótico en el que aparece su cara ha sido colgado en Internet.
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Lainey Berman cree firmemente que su marido se recuperará del coma profundo en el que ha caído a lo largo de unas vacaciones.
Director
When Donielle is just eight years old and attending her best friend's funeral she has a vision that her friend was murdered by his father. No one believes her and she is disowned by her mother. Years later and now a mother herself she drifts from town to town and they finally settle in a town that is in the grips of a serial killer.Only Donielle can "see" who the killer is and after he threatens her daughter she knows she must face him down. Based on actual events.
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A former news reporter marries and tries to adjust to the life of a house wife and mother. However, her need for an adrenaline high is overpowering and she becomes a gambling addict.
Director
Local Neo-Nazi thugs, financed by an outside racist attempt to create an atmosphere of fear in a small Montana community by intimidating black churchgoers, and Native American and Jewish residents.
Executive Producer
Two single mothers, polar opposites in personality, join forces to track down their children that have been kidnapped by their ex-husbands.
Director
Two single mothers, polar opposites in personality, join forces to track down their children that have been kidnapped by their ex-husbands.
Director
College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.
Director
Inseparable Alabama twin sisters, Betty Gay Wilson and Peggy Joy Lowe, are arrested and tried for conspiring to murder Betty's wealthy husband. These two sisters hire handyman James White to kill Betty's husband. White's love and devotion for Peggy compels him to obey their irrational orders and carry out the murder. White confesses to the murder and the twins are arrested, charged, and tried. Based on the true story of Alabama twins Betty Wilson and Peggy Lowe who were arrested and tried in 1992 for the conspiracy to murder of Betty's husband, a wealthy, well-known ophthalmologist, Jack.
Executive Producer
Based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely abused all six children, and committed incest with all four of his daughters.
Director
Based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely abused all six children, and committed incest with all four of his daughters.
Director
Ever since Pam Cheney (Cheryl Ladd) lost her baby during labor, she has been struggling with depression. She is not only supported by her loving, but hard working husband Sean (Robert Desiderio), but also by her friends Ella (Polly Draper) and Terry Sabin (D. David Morin), who have also lost a baby at age three. One year after labor, Pam decides to finally take a proposal to adopt a toddler. Going through official agencies proves unsuccessful, partly due to Pam's age, partly due to the growing demand of adoption. She is advised to take care of an orphaned teenager instead, but Sean refuses this option.
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Steve Thompson is losing himself, one memory at a time. Plagued with amnesia after getting a concussion, Steve is overwhelmed by his unrecognizable life and leaves his family in search of answers. But his quest only returns him back home, where he must face his demons and get at the truth.
Director
When 30-year-old Allison Campbell wins a $2 million lottery, her family life turns upside down not just because of her winnings but because Allison is mentally handicapped. Kari, her younger sister, has been caring for Alison for 10 years. Problems arise when the girls' mother, Katherine, decides she wants Allison to live with her.
Director
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
Screenplay
La Casa de Dios es un hospital donde un grupo de estrafalarios médicos internos residentes en prácticas intentan lidiar con la presión que va asociada a su profesión. Después de que Jo, el jefe de los residentes, sufra una crisis, deciden colocar a los internos bajo la tutela del médico residente más veterano, un curioso personaje conocido con el sobrenombre de Fatman. Aunque fue rodada en 1979, esta comedia negra sobre el día a día del personal médico de un hospital no fue estrenada en salas comerciales hasta que algunos de sus protagonistas ya habían alcanzado una cierta popularidad, como es el caso de Tim Matheson ("Los albóndigas en remojo") o Bess Armstrong ("La gran ruta hacia China"). En papeles secundarios participan también intérpretes como Sandra Bernhard ("El rey de la comedia") o Michael Richards("Seinfeld").
Director
La Casa de Dios es un hospital donde un grupo de estrafalarios médicos internos residentes en prácticas intentan lidiar con la presión que va asociada a su profesión. Después de que Jo, el jefe de los residentes, sufra una crisis, deciden colocar a los internos bajo la tutela del médico residente más veterano, un curioso personaje conocido con el sobrenombre de Fatman. Aunque fue rodada en 1979, esta comedia negra sobre el día a día del personal médico de un hospital no fue estrenada en salas comerciales hasta que algunos de sus protagonistas ya habían alcanzado una cierta popularidad, como es el caso de Tim Matheson ("Los albóndigas en remojo") o Bess Armstrong ("La gran ruta hacia China"). En papeles secundarios participan también intérpretes como Sandra Bernhard ("El rey de la comedia") o Michael Richards("Seinfeld").
Director
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.
Writer
Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and assaultee Rebecca (Dianne Weist). Director Donald Wrye co-wrote the screenplay for Face of Rage with Hal Sitowicz, drawing much of the dialogue from real-life transcripts. The film was first aired as an "ABC Theatre" presentation on March 20, 1983, preceded with an all too appropriate "parental guidance" proviso.
Director
Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and assaultee Rebecca (Dianne Weist). Director Donald Wrye co-wrote the screenplay for Face of Rage with Hal Sitowicz, drawing much of the dialogue from real-life transcripts. The film was first aired as an "ABC Theatre" presentation on March 20, 1983, preceded with an all too appropriate "parental guidance" proviso.
Director
Successful divorce lawyer Jack Sturgess discovers that his own marriage is falling apart and must juggle his domestic conflicts with his clients' problems.
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Successful divorce lawyer Jack Sturgess discovers that his own marriage is falling apart and must juggle his domestic conflicts with his clients' problems.
Director
A young real estate developer returns to his hometown to make a land killing but soon takes up the cause of a crusty old-timer in his struggles with the government which wants his ranch for an Army missile base.
Writer
Alexis es una joven patinadora artística y esperanza olímpica que parece destinada a la grandeza. Impulsada por su entrenador, da lo mejor de ella y llega a las finales. Justo en el momento en el que Lexie está en la cima, sufre un fatal accidente...
Director
Alexis es una joven patinadora artística y esperanza olímpica que parece destinada a la grandeza. Impulsada por su entrenador, da lo mejor de ella y llega a las finales. Justo en el momento en el que Lexie está en la cima, sufre un fatal accidente...
Director
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an incident no fault of her own which threatens her name and the community standing of her longtime family business, the Bailey Building and Loan, which she took over after the passing of her father. What Mary does not know is that most in town, including her husband George Hatch and their children, are also praying for her. All the prayers are heard by Joseph, God's gatekeeper of prayers. As there are no other angels available on such a busy day, Joseph assigns Clara Oddbody, angel second class (i.e. she has yet to receive her wings), to Mary's case, which he reluctantly does as Clara has never been assigned a case on her own in the two hundred years she's been in heaven for good reason.
Director
A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom.
Writer
Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
Director
Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
Director
Christine Parker es una chica de catorce años víctima de los malos tratos de su padre, que la golpea cuando está de mal humor. La madre es alcohólica y hacen de su hija el objeto de su desahogo. Un día Chris decide escaparse de casa, y no es la primera vez, pues le es imposible vivir con ellos y sueña con irse a casa de su hermano mayor. Pero los padres deciden que lo mejor será internarla en un reformatorio y que allí la enderecen. Entonces comienza un auténtico infierno para Chris.
Director
An emotionally disturbed young boy shuts out all of his family and friends. A counselor tries to help bring him and his family together again.
Director
The Numbers Start with the River is a 1971 American short documentary film about small-town life in Iowa. Produced by Donald Wrye for the United States Information Agency, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Oscar nominated documentary short from 1969
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Oscar nominated documentary short from 1969