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?

오하이오 주 변두리의 한적한 소읍 클라이드에 어느 날 온 마을을 떠들썩하게 하는 사건이 벌어진다. 15년 전 훌쩍 이곳을 떠난 후, 공전의 대히트를 기록한 노래의 주인공으로서, 또한 유능한 사업가로서 그 마을의 전설적인 존재가 된 '록시 카마이클'이라는 여자가 귀향한다는 소식 때문이었다. 조용했던 마을은 삽시간에 술렁이고, 주민들은 금요일에 있을 '록시 귀향 환영 무도회'에 대한 이야기로 꽃을 피운다. 그 소식은 록시의 옛애인 덴튼(Denton Webb: 제프 다니엘스 분)의 생활을 뒤흔들어 놓는다.

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.

흉악 살인범 찰스 리 레이(브래드 듀리프 분)는 형사 마이크 노리스(크리스 서랜든 분)의 추격을 받으며 시카고의 와버쉬 거리 사이로 도주하고 있다. 공범인 에디 카푸토에게 버림받고 부상입은 레이는 닫혀진 장난감 가게로 뛰어든다. 뒤쫓아온 마이크가 쏜 총에 맞고 쓰러진 그는 배신한 친구 에디와 형사 마이크의 복수를 외치면서 '착한 애(Good Guys)' 인형에 매달려 주문을 외우자, 밖에서는 불길한 천둥과 폭풍이 몰아쳐면서 가게는 폭발한다. 백화점 점원으로 혼자서 어린 아들 앤디(알렉스 빈센트 분)을 키우고 있는 캐런(캐서린 힉스 분)은 아들의 생일 선물로 인형을 사다준다. 아들 앤디가 그렇게도 원하던 말하는 인형 척키(Chucky: 에드 게일 분)는, 어른들 앞에선 천진스런 인형이다가, 앤디하고만 있게 되면 살아나서 말도 하고 행동도 하며, 더 나아가서는 소름끼치는 살인의 향연을 벌이기 시작한다. 아무도 인형이 살인을 하리라곤 믿지않기 때문에, 의심의 화살은 앤디에게 쏟아지고, 앤디의 힙겹고 외로운 투쟁은 시작된다. 앤디가 척키에 대한 사실을 밝히려 애쓸수록, 그는 이상한 아이로 취급받아 결국 격리당해 정신과 의사의 관찰까지 받게된다. 그러나 캐런이 인형상자에 건전지가 그대로 있는 것을 발견하고, 척키가 건전지 없이 말하고 움직인 것을 알게되자, 척키는 본색을 드러내는데...

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.

캘빈의 가족은 중산층으로 평화롭게 살아가고 있었다. 하지만 장남과 동생이 함께 놀러갔다가 뜻하지 않은 사고로 형이 죽게 된다. 가족들은 이 죽음으로 큰 충격을 받고 집안 분위기가 달라지기 시작한다. 죄책감에 시달리는 동생 콘래드는 계속해서 자살을 시도하고, 다른 가족 구성원들도 서로 의지하지 못하고 서로 상처를 주고 받으며 멀어진다. 모두가 정신적으로 황폐해지면서 점점 가족의 울타리가 붕괴되기 시작하는데...

1950년대말, 캘리포니아에 있는 한 고등학교. 대니 주코(Danny Zuko: 존 트라볼타 분)와 샌디 올슨(Sandy Olsen: 올리비아 뉴튼 존 분)은 여름 방학 때 해변에서 우연히 알게 된 사이로 바캉스 시즌이 끝나자 두 사람은 기약없이 작별하지만 대니가 다니는 고등학교에 샌디가 전학해 오면서 뜻밖의 재회가 이루어진다. 내심 기뻤던 대니지만 학교의 서클인 티버즈의 리더인 그가 어느 특정한 여자에게 가까이 하면 친구들의 빈촉을 살까봐 이러지도 저러지도 못한다. 이런 대니의 마음을 모른는 샌디는 오해를 해 스포츠에 만능인 톰과 친하게 지낸다. 이에 쇼크를 받은 대니는 샌디에게 용서를 빌어 가까스로 샌디의 마음을 되돌려 놓는다. 바야흐로 학교의 최대 행사인 댄스 파티가 열리자 대니와 샌디는 한조가 되어 출전, 결승전까지 진출하지만 티버즈의 라이벌인 스코피언스의 리더인 차차의 방해로 우승을 놓친다. 화가 난 샌디에게 야외 극장에서 대니는 자기의 반지를 빼주며 샌디의 마음을 바꾸지만 샌디의 몸을 강요한게 그녀를 더 토라지게 만들고 말았다. 드디어 티버즈와 숙적인 스콜피온스 간에 카레이스로 결판을 내는 날이다. '선더로드 경주'라는 이름의 이 시합에서 차차는 비겁한 수단으로 골탕을 먹이지만 이를 잘 피해 대니가 이기는데 이를 가슴조이며 지켜보던 샌디는 대니의 품에 안긴다. 이윽고 고등학교 졸업식이 왔다. 졸업 파티가 성대하게 벌어지고 정장을 하고 머리에다 그리이스를 발라 의젓해진 대니와 샌디는 빨간 승용차를 타고 다정하게 교문을 나선다. 축하무드가 절정을 이루며 뒤를 따르는 동창생들.

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.

Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..

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.