Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A documentary 33 years in the making, director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archives to create the first film featuring the revolutionary late writer.

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.

Follows Elliot Rosewater, heir of a massive fortune controlled by the Rosewater Foundation, as he deals with the guilt surrounding his wealth. At the same time, young lawyer Norman Mushari attempts to track down the other. less wealthy branch of the Rosewater family, to convince them to sue their wealthy cousins.

In the year 2204, the Earth has become a dystopian wasteland. In order to maintain strict population levels, any newborn is only permitted to live if another person's life is traded in and a receipt issued. Edward K. Wehling, Jr. sits in Chicago Lying-In Hospital waiting for the birth of his triplets, except he has no receipts to collect them.

He was one of the best-selling authors of the 20th Century. His books became movies. His writings became music. He became an icon. He was Kurt Vonnegut. First, though, he was just a kid from Indianapolis, whose early idyllic life turned tragic. Things got tougher in World War II, when he was captured by the Germans and survived the Dresden firebombing. He overcame all of that to become a literary lion who was both proud of--and frustrated with--his hometown. But as his friend Morley Safer said, he never lost his Hoosier roots. Narrated by NPR Anchor Steve Inskeep, A Writer's Roots talks with Kurt's family and friends, including his daughter, Nan Vonnegut, and fellow writers Morley Safer, Dan Wakefield and James Alexander Thom.

An in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Nelson Algren. This never before told compelling life story reveals a unique literary voice through rare interviews, archival footage and the gritty noirish voice of Algren on Algren. Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel, literary giants in their own right, sing songs of praise along with many of his old friends, which makes this film seem like a hymn from the grave. This stylishly produced film embeds us in the 1950's cold war world when Algren worked. Algren's touching love affair with Simone de Beauvoir weaves it's way through the film along with the damaging impact of FBI and CIA surveillance.

Jeremy explains to John issues he faced in college while John tries to consolidate his old friend while nursing beers.

Sitting in a bar, Petar Lard decides to ring up his former sweetheart.

2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is "finally equal...." The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage.

Michael Moore vuelve a la carga con un documental que denuncia el sistema sanitario norteamericano; un sistema que, al no existir la sanidad universal, excluye a 50 millones de norteamericanos (que, o bien no tienen seguro de salud privado, o no pueden pagárselo) y que se basa en compañías privadas que buscan principalmente beneficios económicos y en aseguradoras que pagan bonos a los empleados que más rentabilidad les proporcionan al denegar prestaciones y reclamaciones a los asegurados.

Arguably the most influential person in American comics, Will Eisner, as artist, entrepreneur, innovator, and visual storyteller, enjoyed a career that encompassed comic books from their early beginnings in the 1930s to their development as graphic novels in the 1990s. During his sixty-year-plus career, Eisner introduced the now-traditional mode of comic book production; championed mature, sophisticated storytelling; was an early advocate for using the medium as a tool for education; pioneered the now-popular graphic novel, and served as inspiration for generations of artists. Without a doubt, Will Eisner was the godfather of the American comic book.

Rico reunites with his ex-wife after serving a five year prison term for armed robbery. Upon Rico's release he encounters old and new forces conspiring to bring him down and tear him between what he holds dear and what he most fears.

Retrato de una ciudad del medio-oeste americano que es el hogar de un grupo de personas con su propia idiosincrasia y un poco neuróticos. Dwayne Hoover es el dueño de un concesionario de coches que está al borde del suicidio y está perdiendo el contacto con la realidad.

Retrato de una ciudad del medio-oeste americano que es el hogar de un grupo de personas con su propia idiosincrasia y un poco neuróticos. Dwayne Hoover es el dueño de un concesionario de coches que está al borde del suicidio y está perdiendo el contacto con la realidad.

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

En un futuro lejano, el igualitarismo ha creado un estado de auténtica igualdad para todos. ¿El precio? El sacrificio de todo lo bueno de la humanidad. La pregunta: ¿vale la pena el precio pagado por esta paz?

"Malowany chlopiec" - The first major mystification of the Holocaust was the novel "The Painted Bird" by Polish Emigrant Jerzy Kosinski, who in his book describes himself as an abandoned child who became mute, ended up in an orphanage and only later discovers his Jewish origin. "The Painted Bird" has since its publication in 1965 been the subject of discussion on its authenticity.

When he hears that the girl next door is getting married, Newt goes AWOL from the Army and hitch-hikes home to convince her to marry him.

Thornton Melon, un millonario excéntrico dueño de una cadena de tiendas llamada "Altos y gordos", preocupado por los repetidos fracasos de su hijo en la universidad, se matricula en el mismo centro para darle ejemplo. Pero una serie de circunstancias harán que el objetivo que se había propuesto cambie por completo.

A documentary featured on BBC's Arena series in 1983. The author discusses his life, his work and his thoughts and opinions.

Caleb Swain y su esposa Lutetia son una pareja de ricos catalogados por la prensa como los más guapos entre los guapos. Todo cambia cuando Lutetia da a luz a dos inmensos y deformes gemelos llamados Wilbur y Eliza. La pareja desconoce que en realidad los gemelos son un equipo de aliens implantados en el vientre de Lutetia para solucionar los problemas del mundo.

Basada en un relato corto de Kurt Vonnegut Jr., esta película es uno de los primeros trabajos del prestigioso director Jonathan Demme. Harry (Christopher Walken) es un tímido empleado de una ferretería que en su tiempo libre forma parte de un grupo de teatro amateur. Cuando se sube al escenario se transforma completamente y asume la personalidad del personaje que interpreta. Helene (Susan Sarandon), que es nueva en la ciudad y trabaja en una compañía de teléfonos, consigue tras una audición el papel de Stella en la representación de "Un tranvía llamado Deseo" en la que Harry tendrá el papel del bruto Stanley. Durante los ensayos, Helene se enamora perdidamente de Harry, al que cree fuerte y varonil como su personaje, sin conocer su verdadera forma de ser...

David Potter, owner of a small town weekly newspaper, decides to get a more secure job. Despite his wife's misgivings, he applies to be a publicity writer at the mammoth Ilium Works. Although shaken at seeing how the company immediately plans out his entire career, he accepts the position. He is then given his first assignment, recording the capture of a deer that has slipped onto the grounds of the Works.

A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The action of the films takes place in the 1930s in Estonia.

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.

Billy Pilgrim, un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se encuentra a sí mismo misteriosamente desligado del tiempo, de modo que es capaz de viajar, sin que pueda evitarlo, desde los días de su infancia a aquellos de su peculiar vida en un lejano planeta llamado Tralfamadore, pasando por su amarga experiencia como prisionero de guerra en la ciudad alemana de Dresde, sobre la que se cierne la sombra inevitable de una tragedia inenarrable.

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of 'Kurt Vonnegut Jr.', including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, 'Harrison Bergeron', and 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'

Tras pasar ocho años en el Amazonas, Harold (Rod Steiger), famoso deportista y escritor, regresa a su casa y se encuentra con que todos lo habían dado por muerto. Su mujer Penelope (Susannah York), que se creía viuda, está a punto de casarse con un médico (George Grizzard).

Tras pasar ocho años en el Amazonas, Harold (Rod Steiger), famoso deportista y escritor, regresa a su casa y se encuentra con que todos lo habían dado por muerto. Su mujer Penelope (Susannah York), que se creía viuda, está a punto de casarse con un médico (George Grizzard).

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., discusses his development as a writer, including references to some of his major novels, his themes and their meaning, his relationship to other writers, problems in sustaining his special vision of American life, and his future. Accompanied by photographs that chronicle the author’s life and selections from home movies taken during his youth.