Michael Pressman

Nacimiento : 1950-07-01, New York City, New York, USA

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Pressman (born July 1, 1950 in New York City, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television. Some of the films he has directed are The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976), Doctor Detroit (1983), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996). For television, he has directed episodes of Picket Fences, The Practice, The Graudian, Boston Legal, The Closer, Law & Order, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy and other series. He is an alumni of Camp Rising Sun and studied filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts.

Películas

Becoming Helen Keller
Director
The life and legacy of Helen Keller, including how she used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice for women, the poor and people with disabilities.
Detours
Tom McKinnon
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
Frankie and Johnny Are Married
Michael Pressman
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
Frankie and Johnny Are Married
Director
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
Frankie and Johnny Are Married
Writer
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
A Season for Miracles
Director
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.
Mandíbulas
Producer
Cuando un hombre es comido vivo por una criatura desconocida, el guardián local se une con una paleontóloga de Nueva York para encontrar a la bestia. Añade a la mezcla un filántropo excéntrico con una inclinación por los cocodrilos y...ya lo tenemos!. Este lago remoto y tranquilo es de repente el foco de una intensa búsqueda de un cocodrilo con un gusto por los animales vivos....y las personas!
Bondad en el alma
Director
Ian es un muchacho de 17 años, proveniente de una clase media-baja de Baltimore, que se culpa del suicidio de su hermano por una conversación que tiene con él antes de su muerte.
Feliz cumpleaños amor mío
Director
Un hombre joven y apuesto no ha podido superar la muerte de su mujer, fallecida en un accidente náutico. Ni la presencia de su hija adolescente propicia que el hombre tenga el mínimo interés por reconducir su vida, y se limita a salir de noche y esperar a que el espíritu de su mujer se le aparezca a la orilla del mar. La amarga situación inicial irá cambiando cuando otra mujer aparezca en su vida, y le haga dudar sobre la conveniencia de seguir viviendo en una ilusión.
Miracle Child
Director
A despairing young widow who abandons her baby at pond-side among bulrushes and a man who's fighting to reclaim his own son are drawn together. A baby plops out of a rainy, stormy sky into the arms of the town's beloved, vaguely addled spinster. Miracles suddenly reverse the fortunes of the town as drought and unemployment disappear, only to be replaced by boosterism and greed.
Quicksand: No Escape
Director
A hard-working architect is pulled into intrigue when his wife hires a private investigator to make sure he's just working late. The private eye sees an opportunity to frame him for a murder instead.
El Making Of de Las Tortugas Ninja: Detrás de los caparazones
Himself
Un vistazo único entre bastidores de la creación de Las Tortugas Ninja (The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Este documental ofrece una visión sorprendente de cómo nacieron estos radicales reptiles. Entrevistas en profundidad, detrás de las escenas, e imágenes de cómo se filmaron las escenas de acción. Una primera visita al interior de Creature Shop de Jim Henson muestra cómo se desarrollaron las cuatro tortugas, Splinter y Shredder, y cómo se les dieron sus características individuales. Entrevistas en profundidad con diseñadores, artistas y creadores de modelos. Y Michael Pressman, el director de la película, cuenta toda la historia. Verás emocionantes escenas detrás de las cámaras. Si te encantan las Tortugas, entonces no te lo pierdas esta oportunidad. Detrás de los caparazones, un vistazo al cuarteto más fabuloso de la película.
Las tortugas ninja II: El secreto de los mocos verdes
News Manager
El malvado Shredder tiene un único y perverso plan: acabar con los cuatro superhéroes Tortugas Ninja Mutantes, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo y Donatello. Para ello, secuestra al profesor Jordan Perry, creador del "moco verde" que hace posible la mutación de las Tortugas. Poco después, Shredder aplica la preciada sustancia a dos criaturas que acaba de reclutar, convirtiéndolos en terribles e imponentes guerreros ninja que lucharán e intentarán terminar con los superhéroes. Sin embargo, éstos logran hacen frente al peligroso criminal, con la ayuda de su maestro Splinter, la elegante periodista April y el repartidor de pizzas Keno.
Las tortugas ninja II: El secreto de los mocos verdes
Director
El malvado Shredder tiene un único y perverso plan: acabar con los cuatro superhéroes Tortugas Ninja Mutantes, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo y Donatello. Para ello, secuestra al profesor Jordan Perry, creador del "moco verde" que hace posible la mutación de las Tortugas. Poco después, Shredder aplica la preciada sustancia a dos criaturas que acaba de reclutar, convirtiéndolos en terribles e imponentes guerreros ninja que lucharán e intentarán terminar con los superhéroes. Sin embargo, éstos logran hacen frente al peligroso criminal, con la ayuda de su maestro Splinter, la elegante periodista April y el repartidor de pizzas Keno.
Joshua's Heart
Director
A woman is torn between her boyfriend's ending their relationship and being separated from his young son with whom she has bonded.
Incident at Dark River
Director
When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him. In his fight he is joined by a beautiful student activist, and soon his obsession with revenge threatens his marriage as well as his career.
The Revenge of Al Capone
Agent
After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.
The Revenge of Al Capone
Director
After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.
Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
Director
Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.
Shootdown (Derribado)
Director
Estamos en plena Guerra Fría, la tensión entre las potencias mundiales se incrementa tras un lamentable incidente. En 1983, un misil soviético alcanza un avión civil 747 coreano, repleto de pasajeros, que volaba a más de 10.000 metros de altitud. El avión cae y se hunde en el mar del Japón. No hay supervivientes. El mundo se conmueve e indigna cuando la noticia, a pesar del intento de las superpotencias de silenciarla, llega al público. Esta es la historia real, que descubre la verdad y proporciona aclaraciones de vital importancia, pero también levanta terribles preguntas que aún hoy esperan respuesta.
To Heal a Nation
Director
The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky, he begins to find a new life for himself, and a personal goal when he agrees to begin a determined campaign to raise funds for a veteran's memorial.
Haunted by Her Past
Director
While staying at an inn in a colonial-recreation village for her anniversary, a young woman becomes possessed by her murderous ancestor through an antique mirror and compelled to murder her husband.
The Christmas Gift
Director
A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.
Final Jeopardy
Director
A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of murderous criminals with names like DOA, Ice and Slash. The couple are in for a night that they won't forget.
Private Sessions
Director
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically. And a woman who despite being in a healthy relationship goes around picking up guys and having sex with them. She decides to seek help and what the doctor learns is that the problem goes back to her childhood and her family.
And the Children Shall Lead
Director
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
The Impostor
Director
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get hired as the principal of the school where she teaches, in the hopes of winning her back. Cade soon begins to take a sincere interest in the welfare of his students, and enlists the help of his friend Matthew to break a drug-dealing network that has infested the school.
Doctor Detroit
Director
Un tímido profesor de literatura contratado en el Monroe College de Chicago conoce a cuatro muchachas que resultan ser prostitutas. Este encuentro y una serie de malentendidos, cambiarán la vida de Clifford (Dan Aykroyd) para siempre.
Una especie de héroe
Director
Eddie Keller (Richard Pryor), un hombre que vuelve a su casa tras seis años como prisionero de guerra para encontrarse que su mundo ha cambiado. Eddie tiene todo el derecho a esperar que le reciban como un héroe, pero nada es igual que antes. Su mujer ama a otro hombre y ha perdido sus ahorros; una hija, a la que él no ha visto en su vida, llama al nuevo novio "papa"; su madre se va recuperando de un golpe; el ejercito le está reteniendo su paga; y no puede conseguir un crédito porque no tiene aval. Entonces conoce a un alma compasiva (Margot Kidder), una prostituta de las altas esferas. Dándose cuenta de que debe actuar de alguna manera, Pryor inicia una desesperada y divertida incursión en el mundo del crimen.
Esos ojos, esos labios
Producer
Durante los años cincuenta el joven Artie Shoemaker (Tom Hulce), estudiante de medicina, se saca un dinerillo trabajando como ayudante en un teatro de verano en Ohio. Debido a su incompetencia, el director de la compañía no para de reprenderlo, pero cuenta con la protección del primer actor, Harry Crystal (Frank Langella), a quien el chico idolatra como si fuera una estrella de Broadway. Además Artie tiene otro motivo para quedarse: se ha enamodo de una de las bailarinas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Esos ojos, esos labios
Director
Durante los años cincuenta el joven Artie Shoemaker (Tom Hulce), estudiante de medicina, se saca un dinerillo trabajando como ayudante en un teatro de verano en Ohio. Debido a su incompetencia, el director de la compañía no para de reprenderlo, pero cuenta con la protección del primer actor, Harry Crystal (Frank Langella), a quien el chico idolatra como si fuera una estrella de Broadway. Además Artie tiene otro motivo para quedarse: se ha enamodo de una de las bailarinas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Boulevard Nights
Director
A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it.
Like Mom, Like Me
Director
A middle-aged mom and her teenage daughter adjust to life together after Dad's affair breaks up the family.
Dejenlos jugar
Director
Un atribulado y rebelde adolescente conduce a su equipo de béisbol hacia a Houston donde jugarán un partido de exhibición. Ahí el chico se encuentra con su padre, que está separado de su madre, y lo contrata como entrenador de su equipo.
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Director
Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
The Sound Sleeper
Still Photographer
A woman has a late night tryst with a dark turn
The Sound Sleeper
Passenger at Airport
A woman has a late night tryst with a dark turn