Larry Peerce
Nacimiento : 1930-04-19, The Bronx, New York, U.S.
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Lawrence "Larry" Peerce (born April 19, 1930) is an American film and TV director whose work includes the theatrical feature Goodbye, Columbus, the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, One Potato, Two Potato (1964), The Other Side of the Mountain (1975), and Oscar nominee Two-Minute Warning (1976).
The son of operatic tenor Jan Peerce and talent agent Alice (Kalmanowitz) Peerce, Larry Peerce was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York. He attended the University of North Carolina. He made his directing debut with One Potato, Two Potato, released in 1964 by the distributor Cinema V. The groundbreaking drama about an interracial marriage between a white divorcee (played by Barbara Barrie, who won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival for the role) and an African-American office worker (Bernie Hamilton) was the first U.S. movie to portray such an interracial relationship.
Peerce went on to direct several episodes of the Western television series Branded and the campy superhero series Batman, among other shows, before directing the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, released in 1966 by American International Pictures and featuring such performers as The Byrds, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Ronettes and The Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
Following more TV, Peerce returned to film in 1967 with The Mystery of the Chinese Junk and The Incident, the latter of which starred Martin Sheen and Tony Musante. He followed this with the acclaimed Goodbye, Columbus, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel. The movie earned Peerce a DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, and screenwriter Arnold Schulman an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
Peerce's subsequent theatrical features included The Sporting Club, A Separate Peace, Ash Wednesday, and The Other Side of the Mountain. Peerce's work is frequently viewed as part of the expressive sentimental directorial style with a particular focus on coming-of-age stories.
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A couple, secretly on the verge of announcing plans to divorce, reluctantly depart for a second honeymoon after their family surprises them with a tropical trip as a gift for their 20th wedding anniversary.
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Tras 20 años de matrimonio, Mark y Cassie forman una pareja modélica. Sin embargo, el avión en el que viaja Mark a Seattle por una asunto de negocios se estrella y él queda en coma. En la investigación de los hechos se descubre que Mark viajaba acompañado de una mujer que muere en el accidente y que constaba inscrita en el pasaje como su esposa. Pero eso no es todo, ya que Cassie también descubre que de su relación con esa mujer Mark tenia una hija de la que ahora deberá hacerse cargo. Cuando Mark despierta del estado de coma intenta justificarse, pero Cassie ya no puede confiar en él.
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En la adormecida ciudad de Vine Creek, el bombero voluntario y predicador Joe Cass se despierta para darse cuenta de que su familia y su comunidad están en un punto de quiebre. Joe decide tomar el control de su vida y debe demostrar su valentía cuando lo llaman para salvar a un niño atrapado dentro de un edificio en llamas. Perdido dentro del infierno, un misterioso bombero los ayuda a ponerse a salvo y desaparece rápidamente. Mientras Joe espera que el misterioso bombero avance, rumores circulan por todo Vine Creek que la aparición fue un ángel enviado desde arriba.
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Emily Bale ha perdido la fe en el amor. Desde que su novio de toda la vida la dejara por otra, su vida ha transcurrido solitaria y concentrada en el trabajo. Cuando la diosa del amor, Venus, descubre esta situación decide mandar a su hijo Cupido convertido en un apuesto joven para que la chica recupere la alegría. Sin embargo, los planes se tuercen cuando la flecha del amor no se clava en Emily sino en el propio Cupido. Ahora éste se enamorará perdidamente de ella y deberá decidir si quiere irse o quedarse en la Tierra, donde se verá obligado a abandonar su anterior vida.
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Billy es un adolescente que aborrece la Navidad y es algo que su hermana le reprocha. Sin embargo, este año Billy está dispuesto a pedir un deseo especial para complacerla: que sea Navidad cada día...
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Kate finds herself in harrowing danger when her cop ex-husband, Paul, will stop at nothing to get her back -- and the harassment, which includes sexual assault and battery, doesn't end because the authorities won't hear of it. Also at the receiving end of the maniacal stalker is Kate's boyfriend, Dan.
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A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies.
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To save a group of horses slated to be destroyed by the US Cavalry, a group of officers rebel and begin a journey towards Canada to save themselves and the mounts.
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Margaret Mitchell, portrayed as rebellious and spirited as Scarlett O'Hara, grows up in a comfortably middle-class Atlanta home, absorbing her grandmother's stories of the Civil War and the burning of their city by the Yankees. Young Peggy, as she likes to be called, goes to Smith College in Massachusetts and hates it. Back in Atlanta, her mildly scandalous reputation is made more so by her first marriage, to Red Upshaw, a bootlegging rake. Later, her second husband encourages her to expand her writing talents beyond feature articles for The Atlanta Journal. Her first and only novel becomes one of the best-selling books of all time.
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Un rompecorazones de la ciudad natal (Harry Hamlin) se casa con las bellezas locales y luego las envenena en esta verdadera historia asesina. Su ex-esposa sospecha que es responsable de la muerte de su última esposa, y pide la ayuda de un detective para probar que tiene razón.
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Un pastor y su mujer que no puede tener hijos, adoptan a dos hermanos, un niño y una niña. Aunque al principio todo parece normal, poco a poco empiezan a observar algo extraño en el comportamiento de los niños...
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Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. But when she suddenly falls dead on a party after having a sandwich, the main suspect is Susan, who served her the food. The handsome detective Joe Russo interrogates her repeatedly and they become friends. He invites her to help him with the investigation, what she happily accepts - too happily, says her husband.
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A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
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New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
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1982. John Belushi (Michael Chiklis, "The Shield", "Los 4 fantásticos") despierta en la morgue después de morir por una sobredosis. Asustado y dejando su cuerpo atrás, Belushi termina en compañía de un misterioso taxista que le lleva a momentos significativos de su vida, desde sus inicios hasta su matrimonio, su exitosa carrera cómica, su amistad con Dan Aykroyd y su eventual declive. Mientras tanto, el periodista Bob Woodward está investigando la vida de Belushi para escribir un libro sobre el fallecido humorista...
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The story of Priscilla's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
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Queenie was an ABC miniseries, adapted from the eponymous novel by Michael Korda, which is based loosely on the life of his aunt, actress Merle Oberon. A half-caste beauty emigrates from India to Great Britain, pursues fame and fortune at the cost of personal happiness, and becomes a Hollywood movie star while suppressing the truth of her heritage.
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The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.
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A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
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Jamie Roberts is a rock star living the highlife when he falls for an intellectual child psychologist who only has ears for classical music. Opposites attract, but his jealous ex-girlfriend isn't ready to give up so easily.
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Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies with three different men in attendance of being married to them. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband Phil.
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It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.
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Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.
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Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
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The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
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En Los Ángeles, en la víspera de un importante partido de fútbol americano, un sujeto armado con un rifle de mira telescópica se dirige furtivamente hacia una de las torres del estadio Coliseum. Cuando se detecta al francotirador, se recurre a los equipos SWAT y al director de seguridad del estadio, el capitán Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), cuya misión será detener al individuo antes de que cunda el pánico en un estadio con más de 90.000 personas.
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One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.
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A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
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Bárbara (Elizabeth Taylor), una mujer madura con un matrimonio en crisis decide hacerse la cirugía estética para parecer más joven y reconquistar a su marido Mark (Henry Fonda). Tras la operación, que ha resultado un éxito, Bárbara espera a su esposo en una estación alpina para darle una sorpresa, pero antes de reencontrarse con él, conoce a un atractivo joven que la seduce. Ella cae rendida a sus encantos aprovechando su rejuvenecimiento. Cuando vuelve a reencontrarse con Mark éste le dice que ha conocido a una muchacha más joven.
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Gene y Finny son dos muchachos que son los mejores amigos que vivieron en 1943, en el apogeo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La idea de que lo más probable es que los jóvenes sean reclutados cuando cumplan los dieciocho años los está rodeando, y prácticamente se ven obligados a vivir sus vidas al máximo. Los dos niños asisten a la escuela Devon, que los prepara para la vida militar a la que muy probablemente estarán sometidos.
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The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
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Neil Klugman trabaja en la biblioteca pública y vive en Nueva York con su tía, lejos de Arizona donde viven sus padres. Brenda Patimkin pertenece a una adinerada familia judía. Aun así, los dos se sienten atraídos y comienzan una relación. Pronto sus diferencias salen a la luz...
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Dos jóvenes entran en un vagón de metro con una única intención: provocar el terror entre los pasajeros.
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The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.
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Dick Tracy must save a trio of ambassadors who have been kidnapped by Mr. Memory. Pilot for Dick Tracy TV show from Batman's William Dozier.
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Live performances by some of the top rock-and-roll acts of the mid 60s. Includes Ray Charles, The Byrds, Joan Baez, Ike and Tina Turner, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, and several more.
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Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
