Fred Parnes

Películas

Peter Case: A Million Miles Away
Director
Peter Case has lived a life of constant change, soaring highs, and soul-crushing lows. This film walks a million miles in the shoes of one of America’s last great troubadours.
A pedazos
Screenplay
Cuando un dramaturgo de Broadway encuentra el manuscrito perdido de su amigo muerto, aprovecha la oportunidad para transformar su vida y usa el manuscrito como propio.
Starting Out in the Evening
Screenplay
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
Starting Out in the Evening
Producer
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
James Dean
Actor's Studio Stage Manager
James Dean, una de las grandes leyendas del Hollywood de los 50 y de la historia del cine, vivió una vida llena de inseguridades y tragedias que lo condujeron al abismo. Desde la devastadora pérdida de su madre siendo todavía un niño y la difícil relación con su padre, vivió un vertiginoso encumbramiento como uno de los más grandes actores, hasta su trágica muerte a los 24 años. Esta película narra la verdadera historia del hombre que se esconde detrás del mito.
A Man Is Mostly Water
Writer
The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives.
A Man Is Mostly Water
Director
The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives.
A Man Is Mostly Water
Roper
The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives.
Crime of the Century
Gas Station Attendant
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
Matilda
Waiter
Matilda Wormwood es una jovencita extremadamente curiosa e inteligente, todo lo contrario que sus chabacanos padres, que a menudo la ignoran. A medida que crece va descubriendo que posee poderes telequinéticos, hasta que un día un profesor le enseña que puede usar esos poderes para ayudar a sus amigos. Además las personas que hasta ese momento le han hecho la vida imposible sufrirán las consecuencias.
Ayer, hoy y siempre
Jeep Driver
Eddie y Dixie (James Caan y Bette Midler) apoyaron y animaron a las tropas norteamericanas en tres guerras. A Eddie lo único que le importaba era la fama; el caso de Dixie era muy distinto: había perdido a su marido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), había visto cómo su tío era acusado de comunista por sus propios amigos y cómo su hijo se enfrentaba a un destino atroz en Vietnam.
Sons
Orderly in Wheelchair
A comedy drama that played the festival circuit before vanishing without trace. Forsythe, Sweeney and Miranda are the trio of stepbrothers accompanying paralysed father Fuller on a jaunt to Normandy, where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war. Jennifer Beals, a regular in husband Rockwell's movies, plays a transvestite.