Dinah Manoff

The story behind the classic movie musical. The programme examines the original stage musical in the early 1970s, which starred a young Richard Gere, and the changes that occurred between stage and screen, including the addition of several new songs and toning down the original show's darker elements. Plus, a look at some of the actors who could have played the roles made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy in school, has already found a date. At the same time, Danny's divorced parents are both looking for relationships again.

Carol Cartman, a tempestuous talk show host, is a high-heeled, high-maintenance Scrooge. This insensitive, self-centered and stingy woman is about to experience a holiday she'll never forget.

Four young gamblers come up with a plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.

Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.

Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of her adoptive parents. She finds that connection with her birth family in the Navajo community. But cultures clash when her husband is rejected as an outsider. Rebecca and her family experience rebirth in a rich culture and renewal as a family in this dramatic film based on the autobiography Looking for Lost Bird by Yvette Melanson (with Claire Safran).

In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?

In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?

In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored.

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.

Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.

After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered Brian (Quill), lovelorn Kit (Mulroney) and jokester Duncan (Astin) - find themselves at odds with their parents and each other.

シカゴを震撼させていた連続殺人鬼チャールズ・リー・レイは警察に追い詰められ、近くの玩具店へ逃げ込む。そこで彼は刑事に撃たれ、そばにあった人形に呪いの言葉を唱えながら絶命する。数日後、6歳の誕生日を迎えた少年アンディは、母カレンからおしゃべりするチャッキー人形をプレゼントされるが、その人形こそ、チャールズの魂が乗り移った呪いの人形だった。やがてアンディとカレンの周囲では奇怪な事件が起こりだした。

Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.

Three ad agency buddies, who cannot seem to find fulfilling love, decide to place personal ads to find new romance. The resulting blind dates and ultimate results are about what one would expect.

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follows the main players throughout the day, with a lot of care taken to re-create what actually went wrong, who died, and who survived. There is a lot of actual footage from the day, as well as accurate representations of aircraft type and airline.

Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.

Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.

Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.

An aspiring young actor moonlights as a male stripper while looking for work in the theatre.

シカゴ郊外の住宅街。弁護士のカルビンは長男をボート事故で失って以来落胆したままの日々を送り、妻のベスは同じ事故で生き残った次男コンラッドへつらく当たっていた。そんなコンラッドも自分が兄の死の現場にいあわせたという事実の重みに耐えかねて自殺未遂を図り、心の病を治すための施設に入院。４カ月後、退院したコンラッドは自分の学校に再び通いだすが、カルビンはそんな彼を今度は精神分析医のセラピーに通わせる。

1959年9月。ライデル高校の不良少年グループ《T・バーズ》のリーダーであるダニーは3年生になるが、夏休みにバカンスに行った先で恋に落ちた少女、サンディと突然再会して驚く。彼女は父親の転勤で、ダニーの高校に転校してきたのだ。仲間たちの手前、はしゃぎすぎないよう心がけるが、サンディといられることを内心喜ぶダニー。2人は時に気持ちがすれ違いケンカすることもあるが、新たに恋を育んでいく。

A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.

A housewife flees from a policeman's killer on the road between Phoenix and Denver.

1976年6月27日、テルアビブ発パリ行きのエール・フランス機139便が、アテネ空港出発30分後にハイジャックされた。乗客は245人。飛行機はリビアを経由して、ウガンダのエンテベに着陸。イスラエル人(ユダヤ人)以外の人質全員が解放され、テロリストたちは世界各国に拘留されているゲリラの釈放を要求する。要求のタイムリミットは7月4日午前11時。イスラエルのラビン首相はショムロン准将を司令官に精鋭部隊を組織。決死の救出作戦を展開する・・・。

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. 

Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.