Donald H. Birnkrant

Nascimento : 1932-07-28, California, USA

Filmes

Double Standard
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The true story of a judge who lives a double life, and stays married to two women for more than 15 years.
Murder by the Book
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Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.
Uma Família em Pé de Guerra
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James Garner estrela esta história de amor, honra e lealdade ao lado de Shirley Jones . G.D. Spradlin e Jenilee Harrison. O sargento-major Zack Carey (Garner) está muito próximo da aposentadoria servindo em uma base do exército americano em uma pequena cidade sulista. Depois de tomar partido de uma prostituta em uma discussão com um policia, acaba ganhando a antipatia do maníaco serife da cidade (Spraldin), e uma verdeira guerra tem início. Só que o xerife joga sujo e tenta atingir Zack prendendo seu filho, Bily, sob a falsa acusação de posse de drogas. Não é preciso dizer que o bom sargento tentará fazer justiça com as próprias mãos... Jogando um velho tanque de guerra contra quem ficar na sua frente".
I Was a Mail Order Bride
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On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a bridal candidate as an investigative reporting assignment, and then makes another bet that he can keep the relationship platonic for two weeks.
Pray TV
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A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity.
A Long Way Home
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A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at first reluctantly, decides to help him cut through the bureaucratic red tape.
The Marva Collins Story
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Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children labelled "unteachable" were spotlighted in a 1979 "60 Minutes" segment about how she became disillusioned with the traditional school system and decided to work outside of it, transforming her students into young scholars through her unique teaching style.
Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
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Two fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the elite Air Force Fighter Weapons School (known as "Red Flag") at Nellis AFB, Nevada, about a decade after the war. Brash, self-confident Clark is an instructor, while quieter, family man Rivers is the student. At first, the two men resume their friendship. But as the student starts to show the master a thing or two, tensions develop. Can their relationship survive the stresses of one of the military's top schools?
The Phoenix
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A godlike being, discovered in an ancient sarcophagus in the plains of South America, is brought back to life and must learn to cope with today's society while using his extraordinary powers to combat evil. This variation on the "Superman" theme served as the pilot to the short-lived series (1981-82).
A Time for Miracles
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Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
The Promise of Love
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A teenage bride becomes a war widow when her Marine Corps husband is killed in Vietnam, until into her life comes a civilian recreation director who works at Camp Pendleton.
Gideon's Trumpet
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True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
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The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.
Attica: A Rebelião Sangrenta
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Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
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To salvage his job and the circulation of his magazine, an editor decides to publish an expose revealing the inside story of the famed cheerleading squad and plants his reporter/girlfriend among the girls.
Zero to Sixty
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A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
A Máquina de Matar
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Quatro jovens veteranos do Vietnã voltam aos EUA completamente pirados. Na vida civil, eles não conseguem se ajustar e partem para a violência ou desespero.
The Curious Female
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In the year 2177, the world is under the control of a master computer. For recreation, however, people are allowed to view sex tapes.