Carol Sobieski
Nacimiento : 1939-03-16, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Muerte : 1990-11-04
Screenplay
Joey Coyle (Cusack) es un trabajador portuario en paro que un día encuentra una saca, con más de un millón de dólares, que se ha caído de un coche blindado. Sin dudarlo ni un momento, se queda con el dinero, viendo su gran oportunidad para darse la gran vida. Pero mantener un millón de dólares en secreto es una tarea sumamente difícil, sobre todo si comienzas a gastar el dinero de manera extravagante. No obstante, Joey hará hasta lo imposible por salir ileso de las investigaciones policiales y mantener, por supuesto, su millón de dólares...
Screenplay
Evelyn, una mujer madura que vive frustrada por su gordura y por la incomprensión de su marido, conoce en un asilo a Ninny, una anciana que le va contando poco a poco una dramática historia ocurrida en su pueblo, en Alabama. La trama gira en torno a la gran amistad entre dos mujeres y al misterioso asesinato del marido de una de ellas.
Teleplay
Jacob (Christopher Walken), un granjero del medio-oeste, viudo con dos niños pequeños, pone un aviso en un periódico solicitando una esposa que lo ayude a criar a sus hijos. Le responde Sarah (Glenn Close), una mujer soltera del este, que se describe a sí misma como “sencilla y alta”.
Screenplay
Estados Unidos, 1934. Wayland Jackson, un joven viudo, se traslada con su hija a un pueblo de montaña de Carolina del Norte. Rápidamente empieza una relación con una joven madre soltera, pero antes debe convencer a su padre y a sus tres hermanos de que sus intenciones son nobles. Para demostrarlo participa con ellos en la tradicional caza del oso y en la construcción de la nueva torre del reloj de la comunidad. Los problemas empiezan cuando el padre del niño reclama sus derechos sobre él.
Story
Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
Teleplay
Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
Writer
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Screenplay
Eric es un niño de nueve años de edad, hijo de un poderoso multimillonario. El joven posee la colección de juguetes más completa del mundo, pero no consigue dejar de aburrirse. La única solución es un divertido juguete real que le entretenga a todas horas. Remake del film francés "Le jouet" de 1976.
Producer
Annie, una inquieta niña huérfana, ha sido seleccionada entre sus compañeras para vivir unos días en casa de un multimillonario. Aunque, en un principio, el único objetivo de éste era montar una campaña publicitaria para mejorar su imagen, inesperadamente acaba encariñándose con la niña y decide ayudarla a encontrar a sus verdaderos padres.
Writer
Annie, una inquieta niña huérfana, ha sido seleccionada entre sus compañeras para vivir unos días en casa de un multimillonario. Aunque, en un principio, el único objetivo de éste era montar una campaña publicitaria para mejorar su imagen, inesperadamente acaba encariñándose con la niña y decide ayudarla a encontrar a sus verdaderos padres.
Self
An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director John Huston, the nationwide search to cast the title role, the production process, and the conception of several musical numbers, including a different version of the song "Easy Street" than the one that ended up in the film.
Writer
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Screenplay
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
Writer
A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where bored housewives and wandering husbands go to find some adventure in their miserable lives.
Screenplay
Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.
Writer
A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family. While there, he begins to rekindle the relationship he once had with his childhood girlfriend.
Writer
Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.
Writer
A biography of President Harry S. Truman.
Teleplay
La acción transcurre en un colegio de niños, en régimen de internado, regentado por un matrimonio. El marido es un verdadero déspota y continuamente somete a la mujer a una presión insostenible. Ante la negativa del divorcio, la mujer habla con una amiga, también profesora, y ésta le propone matar al marido, como única posibilidad de terminar con los sufrimientos de aquélla. Adaptación de la novela que dio origen al clásico film de Clouzot "Las diabólicas" (1955).
Story
A teenage boy fathers a child with his girlfriend. He then fights his parents, the girlfriend, the girl's parents and the courts in an attempt to get custody of the child.
Writer
A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.
Writer
A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
Screenplay
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he creates and attaches to the ceiling.
Story
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he creates and attaches to the ceiling.
Screenplay
The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.
Story
The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.