Barton Heyman

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

ニュー・オリンズ。“希望の家”で働くシスター・ヘレンは死刑囚マシューからの手紙を受け取り、彼と接見する事になった。マシューは相棒が無期懲役なのに自分が死刑になる事に憤りを感じている。ヘレンは特赦を得ようと弁護士の協力を仰ぐが嘆願は却下され、残るは州知事への直訴だけとなった。被害者の両親たちからは敵と見なされ非難を浴びるヘレン。しかし毎日、アドバイザーとしてマシューと会い話をしていくうちに二人の心は繋がっていく。が、やがて処刑の日が訪れた……。

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.

マンハッタンのミッションスクールに通うジムたちは、バスケットボールに夢中な無垢な不良少年であったが、教師である神父にいじめられたのをきっかけにドラッグを始めてしまい、やがて退学、泥棒、ホームレス、果ては殺人と、彼らを破滅の道へと招いていく…。 ジム・キャロルの実体験にもとづく全米ベストセラー青春文学『マンハッタン少年日記』の映画化。レオナルド・ディカプリオが堕ちていく純粋な少年を迫真の演技で体現している。全体的に乾いたシンプルな演出が施されており、ウェットなセンチメンタルになることを巧みに避けているのが、逆に悲劇のリアリティを高めている。共演もマーク・ウォールバーグなど、後にブレイクした若手俳優が多数出演。(的田也寸志）

A failed pilot about a rich Virginia plantation owner and his family caught up in the American Civil War. He has a slave for a mistress, his older son is to marry a working class Irish girl and his younger son promotes the Confederacy.

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。

In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental institution.

A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

30年の昏睡から目覚めた患者と、彼を救おうとする医師の葛藤を描く人間ドラマ。30年間昏睡状態だった男レナードが、奇跡的に意識を回復した。セイヤー博士の治療が功を奏したのだ。博士はその治療を、他の患者にも適用してめざましい効果をあげるが…。

While Al Capone works his way up from top-dog street gang thug captain in Chicago to U.S. crime king, his brother Jimmy Capone chooses the righteous way, actually with father's blessing, leaving Illinois for small town Harmony in Nebraska, where he adopts the alias Richard Hart, marries teacher Kathleen, has offspring and becomes its incorruptible town marshal, with a loyal Indian deputy. When his efficient fight against Al's illegal alcohol trade starts to bite financially, the gang's top lawyer is sent to buy 'Hart' or order his death, but recognizes Jimmy and arranges a fraternal reunion in Chicago. Yet money nor threats can turn Jimmy bad...

A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident writer who is awaiting the knock at the door that may send him to prison.

Paul Colson is a New York cabdriver and struggling actor. When he learns that he has about three days left to live due to a rare blood disorder, he goes through all five stages of loss and grief in a darkly comedic way.

A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason.

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.

A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.

Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.

This made-for-TV sequel to the 1977 theatrical film "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" follows a New York City detective's quest to find the murderer of a schoolteacher.

Six years in the making, "COASTER" is the true story of a wooden coastal schooner the John F. Leavitt. It is the story of the sea, seen through the eyes of a Melville...a rich human drama set against the backdrop of the harsh North Atlantic and the rugged coast of Maine. Prepare yourself to set sail on an adventure that will leave you deeply enriched - a story that will move every member of your family.

TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.

A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.

Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.

70年代初頭に、ニューヨークで起きた一連の残忍なホモ・セクシャル殺人事件を解決しようと、ニューヨーク市警察が、囮捜査官をクリニッジ・ビレッジの”ハードゲイ”地帯にもぐりこませる…。

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.

A troubled young woman agrees to spend two weeks at a friend's Manhattan penthouse while the friend is away on a modeling assignment, but a series of mysterious disturbances begin occurring during the night.

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep up the interest payments. Add to that a small, frizzy-wigged highway hooker named Janice, who tempts them with her lurid charms.

Assured that it's a joke, a berated wife makes a deal with a local Satan occultist for the death of her irritating husband and finds that the Devil doesn't play games.

イラク。アメリカの古生物学者でもあるメリン神父は、古代遺跡の中から悪魔パズズの偶像を発見。それは、不吉な兆候を予感させた…。一方、ワシントンで仮住まいをしている女優クリスの一家に異変が起き始めた。一人娘のリーガンが恫喝的な声色で卑猥な言動を発し、その表情も変貌していく。科学的検査では何ひとつ解明されないどころか、娘の行状が日増しにひどくなっていくことに苦しむクリスは、カラス神父に救いを求めた。悪魔が少女に取り憑いたとしか思えないカラス神父は、教会に悪魔払いを要請。数少ない経験者であるメリンが到着し、ついに壮絶な悪魔払いが始まるのだが…。

The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.

On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.

Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.

A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970

A Doukhobor sect in Northern Alberta tries to prevent the wedding of a Russian girl to a Canadian.