Frances Sternhagen

頑固で偏屈な男のもとへ疎遠の息子がやって来た。娘を預かって欲しいと言うが、初対面の孫を引き取るにも、マイペースで生きる男には手助けが必要で…。

11歳の内気な少年ソーヤーは、浜辺で大怪我を負ったイルカを発見する。保護されたイルカはウィンターと名づけられ、海洋生物専門の病院で治療を受けるが、傷の状態が悪すぎたため、命を救うために尾びれを切断するしかなかった。海洋生物にとって尾びれを失うことは致命的だが、ソーヤーはウィンターのために人工尾びれを開発することを思いつく。博識の海洋生物学者と熟練の義肢装具士に協力を依頼したソーヤーは、ウィンターが再び泳げるようになるよう奮闘する。

1949年、パリでフランス料理の虜となったアメリカ女性ジュリア。彼女は名門ル・コルドン・ブルーで学ぶと、家庭で誰でも作れる524のレシピを本にまとめて出版する。本はベストセラーとなり、彼女はテレビの料理番組に出演するなど一躍人気者となった。それから50年後のニューヨーク。小説家になる夢に破れた29歳のOLジュリーは、人生を変えるためにある無謀な計画を立てる。それは、365日かけてジュリアが書いた524のレシピに挑戦し、その過程を毎日ブログに綴ることだった……。

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

ガラス窓を破るほどの嵐の翌日、スーパーへ買い出しに出掛けたデヴィッド。軍人やパトカーが慌ただしく街を往来し、あっという間に店の外は濃い霧に覆われた。設備点検のために外に出た店員のジムが不気味な物体に襲われると、店内の人々は次第に理性を失いはじめる。

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

A documentary presenting the behind the scenes of Rob Reiner's classic "Misery", with Reiner himself, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Frances Sternhagen, writer William Goldman, Barry Sonnenfeld (the film's cinematographer) presenting their views on the film years later of its release and the impact "Misery" had in their professional lives.

Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?

"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.

A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.

A loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being crazy. Over a decade later, somebody finally investigates, removes the daughter from the mother's care, and attempts to rehabilitate the daughter.

A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.

The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.

A compilation of three episodes from the Tales from the Crypt series ("Carrion Death", "None but the lonely heart" and "Abra Cadaver") with some famous cast and directors.

When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.

子育てに異常な執念を燃やす心理学者カーターは、友人カレンの娘を誘拐しようとし、そこに現われた双子の兄弟ケインの悪知恵にも助けられ、娘をあるモーテルに連れていくことに成功する。その後、カーターは妻ジェニーが元恋人と浮気をしていることを知るが、そこにもケインが出現する。警察はカーターを怪しいとにらみだし、その尻尾をつかもうとするが……。やがて、ある人物は、カーターの過去など意外な事実の数々を語りだす。

A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.

After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.

When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.

恋愛小説「ミザリー」シリーズのベストセラー作家ポールは純文学に転向しようと、シリーズの主人公の女性ミザリーの死をもってシリーズを完結させる。山中のロッジで私小説第1作を書き上げた彼は吹雪の中、家路を目指すが、車は事故に遭い、彼も重傷を負う。そんなポールは近くに住む元看護師アニーに救われるが、彼女は「ミザリー」の熱狂的ファン。彼を手厚く看護してやるが、出版された「ミザリー」最終刊を読むと豹変する。

Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors)..

A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theatre. The Group Theatre, a cooperative theater ensemble, became a leading force in the theater world of the 30s. Meisner performed in many of the group’s most memorable productions.

A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.

Six actors play over 50 characters across 18 scenes from different families that overlap and intertwine in a single dining room. Set in a typical well-to-do household, the mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.

An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.

Jason Carmichael is a popular New York City playwright in desperate need of a new writing partner who can provide him with inspiration. Phoebe Craddock is a small-town teacher who aspires to be a writer.

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.

An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.

A love-hate relationship among three generations of women, spanning 30 years.

After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

This powerful drama about the social ferment that culminated in the 1917 Russian Revolution is set on an estate in provincial Russia in 1905. In a sun-dappled garden, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping the countryside. The play goes beyond depicting class struggle by keenly examining the gulfs between youth and old age, vision and shortsightedness, and conservatism versus change.

Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other.

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?

The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.