Arthur Allan Seidelman
Nacimiento : , The Bronx, New York, U.S
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Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor.
Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, Poker Alice, A Friendship in Vienna, Grace and Glorie, Harvest of Fire, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A Christmas Carol-The Musical; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. Law, and A Year in the Life, among others; and several episodes of the ABC Afterschool Special series. The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Children's Programming. He received additional Emmy nominations for Hill Street Blues, I Love Liberty, and as host of the PBS series Actors on Acting. He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 all-star variety special I Love Liberty, featuring Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda, and Dionne Warwick, as well as two Christopher Awards. He has also won The Peabody Award, the Humanitas Award, The Western Heritage Award and numerous awards from international film festivals, including the Milagro Award for the Best American Independent Film for The Sisters. Seidelman most recently guest starred in the final episode of ER.
Seidelman's Broadway career has been less successful. Billy, a 1969 musical adaptation of Billy Budd, closed on opening night. Vieux Carré, a 1977 play by Tennessee Williams, ran for six performances, and in 2003, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks closed less than two months after it began previews. He directed a revival of The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera in 1991. He has had considerable success off-Broadway with acclaimed productions of The Ceremony of Innocence, by Ronald Ribman, Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets and Hamp by John Wilson, among others. He directed Madama Butterfly for Santa Barbara Opera and The Gypsy Princess for Opera Pacific. In Los Angeles, he has directed major revivals of Hair, Of Thee I Sing, Mack and Mabel, The Boys From Syracuse, Follies and others. For regional theatres, he has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, A Man for All Seasons, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and The Tempest, among others. In addition, he served as the Administrator of the Forum Theatre (now the Mitzi Newhouse) for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center and as Artistic Director of Theatre Vanguard in Los Angeles.
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A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
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Based on the 1891 play "Spring Awakening," this filmed stage drama examines the tensions and confusion of young people as their growing sexual awareness conflicts with the repressive social environment around them. The passionate kiss between two males might be the first envisioned for the stage since Christopher Marlowe's between Edward II and Gaveston.
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Rachel McKenzie, una especialista en sistemas de seguridad, se horroriza al descubrir que su hija ha sido raptada por el cabecilla de una peligrosa red de corrupción policial. El rescate que piden es una prueba incriminatoria que está en la caja de seguridad del banco de un policía muerto. Rachel es quien diseñó el sistema de seguridad de ese banco y es la única que puede desactivarlo. Sólo ella puede salvar a su hija, y el tiempo corre. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Tired of living a closeted life on the Lakota Indian reservation, a young gay man must summon up the courage to leave the only home he's ever known and strike his own path.
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Después de la muerte de su padre, tres hermanas y un hermano tienen que luchar codo con codo para sacar adelante a la familia, a pesar de tener personalidades diametralmente opuestas.
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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Durante su huida, un agente mercenario del gobierno americano hace un pacto con dos viajeros para que le ayuden a desaparecer en la selva mexicana. (FILMAFFINITY)
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The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.
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When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, home, the Pacific and redemption.
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At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the town's new sheriff, Frank Richards (Dean Cain), to reopen the investigation of the unsolved murders of three black men. While the town would prefer that the truth remain hidden, the sheriff pursues the case, determined to see justice prevail. The Runaway is a stirring story of how friendship, determination and conviction can generate racial change in one heart or an entire town.
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Una mujer recupera su sentido de sí mismo a través de un despertar sexual después de que su marido la deja por otra mujer.
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An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.
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When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a bond and learn about life.
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Cuando Wanda (Patricia Heaton) y (Sarah Meredith Baxter) son dos hermanas muy diferentes entre sí. Wanda es una sencilla ama de casa, mientras que Sara es una ocupada mujer de negocios. Tras morir su madre, ambas han heredado un terreno en el bosque. Podrían venderlo por mucho dinero, pero hay un problema: la cabaña está ocupada... (FILMAFFINITY)
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René Chadaway sospecha que su marido, Clay, le es infiel. Una noche, René desaparece y, aunque todo parece indicar que se trata de un secuestro, la policía sospecha que Clay la haya matado. Jo Anne, la hija del matrimonio, empieza a investigar por su cuenta y acaba descubriendo los motivos de la extraña relación de sus padres.
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Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
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In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community that little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.
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After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
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Stephen Dorff interpreta a Fraser, un chico de 17 años locamente enamorado de la chica más guapa del instituto, Ginny Grafton. Pero ella está fuera del alcance de Fraser, por lo que el chico se limita a seguirla a todas partes y hacerle fotografías a escondidas. Un día que pretendía espiarla con su novio en el río, presencia como unos mafiosos la secuestran. Fraser, que tiene fotos del secuestro, ve la oportunidad de salvar a Ginny y que ella se enamore de él.
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A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the nightmares are related to that crime. She enlists the help of two San Francisco police officers to help solve the old murder.
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The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
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In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.
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An assistant district attorney's (Phylicia Rashad) co-worker lover (Philip Michael Thomas) plans to prove her wrong about a case.
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En un esfuerzo por alejarse de la ciudad y todo su crimen, Chuck Yoman y su familia se mudan a una gran casa antigua en una tranquila ciudad junto al lago. El descubrimiento de un cadáver mutilado en el lago y otro cuerpo en el bosque, sin embargo, sugiere que los Yomans hubieran estado más seguros si se hubieran quedado ...
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Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
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Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their money. When a number of his 'victims' ...
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A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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She's a New Orleans gambler with a poker face no man can resist. And when she unwittingly wins a "house of ill repute" in a high-stakes card game, things start moving like a runaway train.
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One night, an unusual stranger in need (Malcolm McDowell) asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.
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A group of former high-school buddies have a reunion in Las Vegas. Thinking to increase their alumni fund, they proceed to use it to gamble at the casinos. Of course, they lose it all. They then get together and try to figure out a way to win it all back.
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A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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When two single parents remarry, their teenaged son and daughter begin developing an unexpected attraction to each other.
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Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
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An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.
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Laurie is 15 and she thinks she's pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't care. Her mother doesn't know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?
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An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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High school senior discovers his summer girlfriend has given birth to his child, and decides to fight for custody.
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The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
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The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
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A Hércules le aburre su vida en el Olimpo y le pide a Zeus, su padre, que le deje pasar unas vacaciones en la Tierra. Zeus se niega, pero un accidente le hace acabar en Nueva York. Su inexperiencia con la civilización y su arrogancia le causan muchos problemas, hasta que la hija de un profesor le ayuda a adaptarse. Lo malo es que empieza a gustarle la vida entre los mortales y desea quedarse más tiempo, incluso cuando su padre envía a Némesis a castigarle...
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