Julie Bovasso
出生 : 1930-08-01, Brooklyn, New York, USA
死亡 : 1991-09-14
Self (archival footage)
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, which comes from the kitchen, and how a real Italian father is the source of believability for the film.
Amelia Sturdeyvant
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Vinnie's Mother
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
Grandma
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, selfish character-here named Gus - and he suckers Willy (Gregory Harrison) into his scheme to rob the mansion. The two losers have to try to figure out how to sell the valuable but high-profile item without getting busted. They travel the world looking for potential buyers but always end up short. Everyone can see that they are novices in the art world and buffoons in general.
Dialect Coach
ニューヨークのダウンタウンに住むロレッタを中心に、人の心を狂わす満月の夜に起こるイタリア人一家のさまざまな出来事をユーモアを交えて描くドラマ。この作品でシェールはオスカーに輝いた。
Rita Cappomaggi
ニューヨークのダウンタウンに住むロレッタを中心に、人の心を狂わす満月の夜に起こるイタリア人一家のさまざまな出来事をユーモアを交えて描くドラマ。この作品でシェールはオスカーに輝いた。
Lil Dickstein
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Mrs. Wareham
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.
Frieda Stein
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
Mrs. Manero
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Maureen Rooney
酒びたりの日々を送る弁護士が、ある訴訟をきっかけに再び真実と正義を問いただすようになるまでを描く法廷ドラマ。主人公ギャルビンは新聞の死亡欄から裁判になりそうな事件を見つけては、葬儀に紛れ込んで依頼を受けようとするまでに落魄れた毎日を送っていた。そこに医療ミスで植物人間にされた患者の弁護の仕事がやってくる。始めは金になりそうと言うだけで引き受けたが、調査を進める内に再び弁護士魂に火が点り、法廷に立ち上がるギャルビンだったが……。
Doris
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Mrs. D'Amico
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
Mrs. Campana
Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.
Marie
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
Flo
ニューヨーク、ブルックリンに暮らす貧しいイタリア系青年のトニー。安い給料で面白くもない仕事、ゴタゴタばかりの家庭と、冴えない日常を送る彼は、土曜の夜になると着飾ってディスコに繰り出し、踊りまくることで日頃の鬱憤を晴らしていた。そんなある日、彼はディスコで新顔の女性ステファニーと出会う。そのダンスの腕前に魅了されたトニーは彼女をパートナーに誘い、ディスコダンス・コンテストの優勝を目指すのだが……。
Ramona
Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story.
Pearl
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."