Jon Avnet

Jon Avnet

出生 : 1949-11-17, Brooklyn, New York, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jonathan Michael "Jon" Avnet (born November 17, 1949) is an American director, writer and producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Avnet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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フォー・グッド・デイズ
Producer
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
3人のキリスト
Producer
1950年代後半。それぞれ自分がイエス・キリストだと主張する3人の精神科患者を治療することになった野心的な医師が、実験を通して人間の精神の謎を探ってゆく。
3人のキリスト
Writer
1950年代後半。それぞれ自分がイエス・キリストだと主張する3人の精神科患者を治療することになった野心的な医師が、実験を通して人間の精神の謎を探ってゆく。
3人のキリスト
Director
1950年代後半。それぞれ自分がイエス・キリストだと主張する3人の精神科患者を治療することになった野心的な医師が、実験を通して人間の精神の謎を探ってゆく。
Ape
Executive Producer
To take control of his life, Travis Wilker must conquer the hallucinations that plagued his childhood.
Sickhouse
Producer
A group of teenagers film a live documentary on the Sickhouse legend to millions around the world. Stealth launched on Snapchat and experienced by millions, Sickhouse is a "made for mobile" horror thriller.
Gumdrop
Executive Producer
A robot's life story emerges during a casting session.
Celia
Executive Producer
A doctor is forced into an uncomfortable decision when her patient turns out to be the daughter of an old friend.
Allison
Executive Producer
What happens when you go 90% of the way?
Serena
Executive Producer
A short film that deals with the forbidden love of a woman for her pastor, which she reveals to him while confessing.
Have a Little Faith
Director
At age 82, Mitch Albom's former rabbi Albert Lewis wants the famous Detroit sportswriter to give his eulogy when the time comes. Albom makes a visit to his former home town in New Jersey, where Rabbi Lewis has served a congregation for about 50 years. Albom doesn't feel worthy, especially since he is no longer a practicing Jew and, in fact, he has married a Christian (who apparently isn't active either). Nevertheless, Rabbi Lewis says he is the one to do the job, and over the next eight years, Albom makes several visits back home and even attends some Sabbath services, where the good rabbi is determined to continue working and inspiring his flock even as his health declines.
ブラック・スワン
Executive Producer
ニューヨーク・シティ・バレエ団に所属するバレリーナ、ニナは、踊りは完ぺきで優等生のような女性。芸術監督のトーマスは、花形のベスを降板させ、新しい振り付けで新シーズンの「白鳥の湖」公演を行うことを決定する。そしてニナが次のプリマ・バレリーナに抜てきされるが、気品あふれる白鳥は心配ないものの、狡猾で官能的な黒鳥を演じることに不安があり……。
Teen Spirit: Teenagers and Hollywood
Himself
Teen movies have had a great impact on the movie industry - especially in the 80s. This documentary takes a closer look at the genre's origins and the impact it has made up till today.
The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business
Set against the landscape of 80s teen culture and the dawn of yuppiedom, this documentary relishes 'Risky Business' for having the brains to break from convention, while celebrating the film's cultural impact.
ボーダー
Producer
タークとルースターは、20年以上コンビを組んでいるベテラン刑事。固い絆で結ばれた二人だったが、とある連続殺人事件の容疑がタークにかけられて……。ロバート・デ・ニーロ、アル・パチーノ共演のサスペンス。
ボーダー
Director
タークとルースターは、20年以上コンビを組んでいるベテラン刑事。固い絆で結ばれた二人だったが、とある連続殺人事件の容疑がタークにかけられて……。ロバート・デ・ニーロ、アル・パチーノ共演のサスペンス。
Nobel Son
Thanks
Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.
88ミニッツ
Producer
A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.
88ミニッツ
Director
A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.
Land of the Blind
Producer
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
スカイキャプテン ワールド・オブ・トゥモロー
Presenter
1939年、ニューヨーク万国博覧会の年。NYクロニクル紙の敏腕新聞記者ポリー・パーキンスは、著名な科学者が連続して失踪している事件の調査に、独自で乗り出していた。そんな彼女の目に信じられない光景が飛び込んでくる。世界中の大都市に奇妙な巨大ロボット軍団が飛来し人間を襲い始めた。
スカイキャプテン ワールド・オブ・トゥモロー
Producer
1939年、ニューヨーク万国博覧会の年。NYクロニクル紙の敏腕新聞記者ポリー・パーキンスは、著名な科学者が連続して失踪している事件の調査に、独自で乗り出していた。そんな彼女の目に信じられない光景が飛び込んでくる。世界中の大都市に奇妙な巨大ロボット軍団が飛来し人間を襲い始めた。
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
Self - Director: 'Fried Green Tomatoes'
This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this marvelous actress. This featurette is fairly short, but it offers fine insight, history and heart
Uprising
Producer
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Uprising
Writer
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Uprising
Director
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
彼女を見ればわかること
Producer
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
Inspector Gadget
Executive Producer
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.
Poodle Springs
Executive Producer
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
レッド・コーナー/北京のふたり
Producer
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
レッド・コーナー/北京のふたり
Director
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
ジャングル・ジョージ
Producer
人間の言葉を話すゴリラに育てられたジョージは、ジャングルを飛び回る野生児。ある日ライオンに襲われそうになっていた大富豪の娘を助けて恋に落ちる……。ディズニー・アニメを実写化したロマンス・コメディ。
D3: The Mighty Ducks
Producer
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
アンカーウーマン
Producer
知性と美貌を併せ持つTVキャスター、アンカーウーマンに憧れる女性を描いたファンタジックなラブ・ストーリー。働きながら夜学に通うタリーの夢はニュース番組のアンカーウーマンになること。マイアミの小さなローカル局に入社した彼女は、天気予報のキャスターとして張り切っていた。彼女の上司は、かつて全国ネットのメイン局で人気・実力ともにトップのアンカーマンだったウォーレンだった……。
アンカーウーマン
Director
知性と美貌を併せ持つTVキャスター、アンカーウーマンに憧れる女性を描いたファンタジックなラブ・ストーリー。働きながら夜学に通うタリーの夢はニュース番組のアンカーウーマンになること。マイアミの小さなローカル局に入社した彼女は、天気予報のキャスターとして張り切っていた。彼女の上司は、かつて全国ネットのメイン局で人気・実力ともにトップのアンカーマンだったウォーレンだった……。
Miami Rhapsody
Executive Producer
Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her family is having. With her sister getting married and her brother already married, her mother is growing concerned about Gwyn's being the last single person in the family. But the more she thinks about marriage, the more she must search for the balance between career, marriage and family.
The War
Producer
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
The War
Director
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
男が女を愛する時
Producer
幼い娘を抱えながら教師として働くシングル・マザーのケイトは、パイロットのマイケルと再婚。幸せな家庭を築き上げるが、次第にケイトはマイケルの不在をアルコールで紛らわすようになり……。2大スターの共演がみどころなラブ・ストーリー。
D2 マイティ・ダック -飛べないアヒル2-
Producer
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame and must regather if the Ducks are to defeat tournament favourites Iceland.
三銃士
Executive Producer
17世紀のフランス。若き冒険家ダルタニアンは、国王に仕える近衛銃士隊に入ろうとパリに向かうが、既に銃士隊は解散させられていた。国王ルイ13世とアン王妃が住む城で銃士隊を解散させたのは、国王の失脚をたくらむリシュリュー枢機卿で、残った銃士隊のメンバーは、アトス、アラミス、ポルトスという3人だけだ。アトスたちと出会ったダルタニアンは彼らと手を組み、枢機卿の野望をくだこうと誓い合い行動を起こす。
飛べないアヒル
Producer
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
The Nightman
Executive Producer
A drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.
フライド・グリーン・トマト
Producer
ジェシカ・タンディとキャシー・ベイツ、二人のオスカー女優が共演を果たした名作。人生に疲れた中年夫婦が老人ホームで老女と知り合い、南部の田舎町のさまざまな物語を聞き……。年の差を越えて育まれた友情を描く。
フライド・グリーン・トマト
Director
ジェシカ・タンディとキャシー・ベイツ、二人のオスカー女優が共演を果たした名作。人生に疲れた中年夫婦が老人ホームで老女と知り合い、南部の田舎町のさまざまな物語を聞き……。年の差を越えて育まれた友情を描く。
Funny About Love
Producer
When Duffy Bergman, a New York cartoonist, meets Meg Lloyd, a gourmet chef, he discovers the love of his life and they marry -- yet love alone isn't enough to make them happy. Meg decides she wants to have a baby, a goal that initially makes Duffy frantic, but soon becomes his most important desire as well. When they are unable to have a baby, Meg begins concentrating on her career and the two slowly drift apart -- eventually separating. Later, when Duffy is speaking at a convention of the Delta Gamma sorority, he reveals that the Delta Gamma girls have always been his dream girls -- his Love Goddesses. There he meets the young and uninhibited Delta Gamma girl, Daphne Delillo. When Daphne moves to New York to work as a network sports reporter, their mutual attraction and Daphne's spontaneity spark an adventurous new relationship for Duffy. Now Duffy must decide which is more valuable to him -- the relationship he has given up, or the relationship he has always dreamed of having.
Men Don't Leave
Second Unit Director
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth
Men Don't Leave
Producer
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Executive Producer
Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented — "we should have known, we should have seen" — but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.
Breaking Point
Producer
With D-Day less than 72 hours off, top US intelligence officer Jefferson Pike (Corbin Bernsen), is captured by the enemy. Pike, one of handful of officers who know where the allies will strike, is a professional who the Nazis know will never succumb to torture. They hatch a diabolical plan to deceive him into thinking that the war is over and he's recuperating from memory loss in a US hospital in Germany. His doctor (John Glover) and nurse (Joanna Pacula) head an elite Nazi psychological team that attempt to convince Pike into revealing the top secret. But as time slips away, Pike's captors decide he must reach his BREAKING POINT... or die.
My First Love
Executive Producer
A widow thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 37-year-old girlfriend.
レス・ザン・ゼロ
Producer
ビバリー・ヒルズのプール付き豪邸に生まれ、セックス&ドラッグ&ロックン・ロールをあたかも空気のように吸い込んで生活する若者たちの”ゼロより少ない青春”。トレンドの下に隠された哀しさが露になる時、ゼロ・ゼネレーションは音をたてて崩れ落ちていく。
In Love and War
Executive Producer
This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, among other senior officers, led a resistance group against the North Vietnamese, facing torture, isolation, and starvation in attempts to break their wills. Back in the US, Stockdale's wife, Sybil, begins working with other POW wives to try to get information on their husbands and to inform the world on their treatment.
Between Two Women
Executive Producer
When shy school teacher Val and Harry, the son of an aged opera singer, get married, Val quickly discovers that Harry's mother, Barbara, is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But, when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?
Between Two Women
Writer
When shy school teacher Val and Harry, the son of an aged opera singer, get married, Val quickly discovers that Harry's mother, Barbara, is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But, when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?
Between Two Women
Director
When shy school teacher Val and Harry, the son of an aged opera singer, get married, Val quickly discovers that Harry's mother, Barbara, is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But, when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?
The Burning Bed
Executive Producer
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
Calendar Girl Murders
Producer
Millionaire Richard Trainor is rolling out a new spread featuring a beautiful nude model for each month of the year. However, the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a building and later Miss February is knifed to death. Homicide detective Dan Stoner is assigned to the case which leads to the seductive former model Cassie Bascombe. What connection is she to the case and will the killer be caught before they reach Miss December?
Deal of the Century
Executive Producer
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
卒業白書
Producer
シカゴ郊外の高級住宅街で暮らす高校生ジョエルは、裕福な家庭のひとりっ子。卒業を控えて浮かれる彼は、両親が休暇で不在中、悪友にそそのかされて美人売春婦のラナを家に呼ぶ。そこで有頂天になったジョエルだが、はめを外しすぎて父のポルシェを壊してしまった。高額な修理費が払えない彼は、両親がいない自宅にラナの仲間の売春婦たちを集めてパーティーを開き、参加者から会費を集めてひともうけと皮算用するのだが…。
Something So Right
Executive Producer
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 ...
Homeward Bound
Producer
The relationship among a divorced man, his incurably ill teenage son, and his long-estranged father is explored when the youngster joins his dad for one final summer vacation and they end up at the grandfather's vineyard where he reconciles the two older men.
Coast to Coast
Producer
Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, a debt-ridden truck driver. Madie and Charles eventually fall in love while evading an assortment of bad guys including a pair of thugs hired by Madie's husband to prevent her from returning to California, and a repo man sent to reclaim Charles' truck
Checkered Flag Or Crash
Associate Producer
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden (Baker), nicknamed that because of his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright (Sarandon) intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran (Hagman) wants the race completed by any means necessary.
Outlaw Blues
Post Production Supervisor
An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has been stolen and made into a hit record by a country music superstar. When his confrontation with the star takes a violent turn the ex-con has to go back on the run, but he finds an unexpected ally in a shrewd background singer with a plan to turn the tables in his favor.