Charles Gross

Nacimiento : 1934-05-13, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Películas

Good King Wenceslas
Music
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
No me mientas que te creo
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Los populares cómicos de los ochenta Richard Pryor y Gene Wilder, al igual que hicieron en "No me chilles que no te veo", vuelven a trabajar juntos en un film de formato, guión y resultado semejante al mencionado. En este caso uno miente por diversión, el otro por dinero, formando la pareja más mentirosa que jamás se haya visto
Air America
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En 1969, un grupo de pilotos de Air America, la línea aérea de la CIA durante la guerra de Vietnam, participa en misiones que llenarán los bolsillos de los militares subvienamitas. A cambio, el gobierno norteamericano recibirá ayuda para frenar el avance comunista.
Turner & Hooch
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In 1990 NBC did a television pilot based on the 1989 film, "Turner And Hooch." It aired in the summer with another dog pilot, "Poochinski" under the banner, "Two Dog Night".
No Place Like Home
Music
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
Socios y sabuesos
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Scott Turner es un meticuloso detective que está investigando un difícil caso de homicidio. Un día encuentra en la calle a un perro desgarbado, vulgar y con muy malos modales, al que decide adoptar. El chucho se convierte en el mejor ayudante que nunca ha tenido.
Lo que cuenta es el final
Music
Un ama de casa de Nueva Jersey, madre de tres hijos, sueña con triunfar como comediante. Toda su vida le han dicho que es muy graciosa, y ahora su casa es un caos ya que todas las noches actúa en un club neoyorquino. Allí conoce a Steven Gold, el humorista estrella del club. Al intentar ayudarse mutuamente una atracción especial va a nacer entre ellos.
Question of Faith
Music
A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat the disease.
Open Admissions
Music
An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get a good education in this issue-oriented drama.
Aprendiz de Asesino
Music
Pennsylvania, 1927. Billy, un chico de dieciséis años, está ya acostumbrado a trabajar duramente y a recibir palizas cada vez que su padre se emborracha. Su vida cambia por completo cuando conoce a Alice y a John, una especie de curandero y predicador, que le enseña a leer con la intención de convertirlo en su discípulo. Pero Alice, que se ha enamorado de él, lo que quiere es que se vayan juntos a Filadelfia.
Vietnam, prisionero de guerra
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Es la historia de Jim, un piloto americano que sufrió el horror de los campos de prisioneros en Vietnam durante ocho años de cautiverio. Su mujer se convierte en activista de sus derechos y lucha para conseguir su regreso.
Los crímenes de la calle Morgue
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C. Auguste Dupin (George C. Scott), detective retirado, vuelve al mundo de la investigación para ayudar al marido de su hija a demostrar que es inocente de unos crímenes de los que le acusan, concretamente del brutal asesinato de una madre y su hija en un pequeño apartamento en París.
Barnum
Music
The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
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A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the judicial system takes too long for the Moon's devoted stepson and he takes matter into his own hands.
Entre Dos Mujeres
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Narra la relación entre dos mujeres, suegra y nuera, durante catorce años. La primera, una antigua estrella de la ópera (Colleen Dewhurst), es la madre dominante de un hijo alienado (Michael Nouri), y la segunda, una brillante profesora (Farrah Fwcett), es la mujer de éste.
Dulces sueños
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Virginia, años 50. Charlie, un despreocupado vividor, conoce a Patsy, una atractiva cantante de country, que abandona a su aburrido marido para casarse con él. El primer disco de Patsy es un éxito, pero el alistamiento de Charlie en el ejército, su creciente alcoholismo y sus frecuentes infidelidades deterioran gravemente la relación de la pareja. Patsy se ve entonces ante una encrucijada: tendrá que elegir entre el amor que siente por Charlie o la necesidad de seguir con su carrera musical.
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
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Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.
La noche en que salvamos la Navidad
Music
Una compañía petrolífera está explorando lugares en el Ártico en busca de petróleo. Las explosiones en uno de los emplazamientos están afectando a la ciudad en la que viven Santa Claus y su familia (su mujer y los duendes elfos que trabajan con él). Santa teme que un nuevo emplazamiento de las máquinas y las explosiones acabe con la existencia de la ciudad; así que, toma cartas en el asunto e invita a descubrir los secretos de su trabajo y de sus instalaciones a la familia del ingeniero encargado de la empresa de petróleo.
La cama en llamas
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Francine Hughes es arrestada por prenderle fuego a su casa mientras Mickey, su ex marido, dormía plácidamente. Las pruebas son irrefutables y es acusada de asesinato con premeditación
Country
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Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but Jewell decides to fight for her family.
The Long Ride
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This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture for the lowly horsemen of the the plains in Hungary during World War II.
Sessions
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High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" man with whom she falls in love.
Something So Right
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Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Prime Suspect
Music
A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbours.
When the Circus Came to Town
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When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Flynn (Montgomery), a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes through town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so she leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with her new life.
A Private Battle
Music
A dramatization of the story of noted writer/journalist Cornelius Ryan, author of "The Longest Day," and the valiant battle against terminal cancer that led him to write about his ordeal, with the help of his loving wife, while at the same time determined to complete "A Bridge Too Far," which he had spent years researching.
Nurse
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Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.
El escarabajo de oro
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Adaptación televisiva del famoso relato de E.A. Poe. Un hombre apasionado por la entomología se obsesiona con una extraña especie de escarabajo que acaba de encontrar porque piensa que contiene alguna clave secreta que debe investigar. En compañía de su criado y un amigo recorre una isla convencido de que el insecto les señalará el camino que conduce al escondite de un antiguo tesoro.
Heartland
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En 1910 una viuda y su hija viajan a Wyoming para trabajar como amas de casa de un ranchero. Una vez instalada la mujer querra adquirir un trozo de terreno para su cultivo, pero la buena fortuna no le acompañará en su cometido. (FILMAFFINITY)
You Can't Go Home Again
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An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.
No Other Love
Music
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- despite attempts by the girl's parents to separate them.
On the Yard
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Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.
Siege
Music
A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because the victims are too scared to testify against the bullying leader, a semi-retired toolmaker decides to take a stand.
The Tenth Level
Conductor
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
The Tenth Level
Original Music Composer
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
Have a Nice Weekend
Conductor
A group of family and friends assembling at a small New England island home for a weekend gathering at the behest of a war veteran. After their arrival, several members of the group are systematically picked off by an unknown psychopath.
Have a Nice Weekend
Music
A group of family and friends assembling at a small New England island home for a weekend gathering at the behest of a war veteran. After their arrival, several members of the group are systematically picked off by an unknown psychopath.
Nicky's World
Music
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
King Lear
Music
James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their love for him, only to learn he's exalted the two who seek to destroy him. This live performance recording of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production deftly envisions the bard's haunting tragedy with a fine supporting cast, including Raul Julia, Paul Sorvino and Rene Auberjonois.
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
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Two New York City cops investigate a drug-smuggling ring that they believe is run by New York-based foreign diplomats.
My Old Man's Place
Music
Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.
Que viene Valdez
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El viejo sheriff mexicano-americano Bob Valdez siempre ha sido un refugio de cordura en una tierra de locos cuando se trataba de defender la ley y el orden. Pero el contrabandista de armas Frank Tanner es codicioso e impulsivo. Cuando Tanner provoca un tiroteo que causa la muerte de un hombre inocente y Valdez le pide que compense económicamente a la viuda, Tanner se niega a hacerlo y humilla severamente a Valdez, que hará justicia y vengará su honor, sin importar lo que cueste.
El grupo
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Los avatares de ocho mujeres de posición acomodada, compañeras de universidad, desde que se gradúan a mediados de los años 30, hasta los prolegómenos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una de ellas, a través de cartas mecanografiadas, da noticias de las otras a todas, manteniendo la unión, también fomentada en diversos encuentros.
Across the River
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A junkman who lives along New York's East River saves a woman from an attacker, then lets her stay with him.