Peter Riegert

Nos tempos do colégio, Seymour Levov era um grande atleta. Depois dos estudos, ele se casa com uma antiga rainha de beleza da cidade, e herda os negócios rentáveis de seu pai. A vida parece perfeita, até a filha do casal começar a manifestar atitudes políticas extremistas, participando de atos terroristas mortais durante a Guerra do Vietnã.

Audrey e George se conhecem durante um tour na futura faculdade de seus filhos. Apesar de suas diferenças, os dois acabam se envolvendo no decorrer do dia e dividem novas e antigas experiências de vida.

A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.

Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) é um pai de família que decide que precisa recomeçar sua vida após o falecimento da esposa. Desta forma, ele e seus dois filhos se mudam para um zoológico em péssimo estado de conservação, onde, com a ajuda de uma equipe de funcionários, tentam fazer com que o local recupere o brilho perdido.

The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.

A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, timed around the chaos of an upcoming Rolling Stones concert. The sensitive younger brother, Brian, ultimately has a choice: remain loyal to the brother with whom he shares a powerful love-hate bond, or use his hidden talent as an artist as his own ticket out of their dead-end existence.

Paul é um homem normal que está farto de tudo. Odeia o seu trabalho, a sua bonita mulher o deixou, e o seu irmão, um monge Budista, lembra-o constantemente dos seus defeitos. Embora Paulo não saiba, a sua vida está a prestes a mudar consideravelmente….

Documentary about the making of Animal House

THE RESPONSE is a courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. Conceived in the vein of "12 Angry Men", the film revolves around the trial of a suspected enemy combatant and the military judges who must decide his fate.

O lado grotesco do humor Documentário que mostra o humor escatológico no cinema mundial. Importantes personalidades do gênero e cenas de filmes como "Kentucky Fried Movie", "Clube dos Cafajestes", "Porky's - A Casa do Amor e do Riso", "O Sentido da Vida", "Banzé do Oeste" e "American Pie", ícones do gênero.

Uma afetuosa mãe, Natalie Swerdlow (Diane Keaton), sempre deu total atenção para sua filha Sara (Alexa Davalos). Mesmo depois dela se tornar adulta ainda usam a mesma saudação: "Renda-se, Dorothy", por causa de "O Mágico de Oz", já que quando criança Sara adorava ouvir esta história. Repentinamente Natalie vê que tudo aquilo acabou, pois enquanto Sara estava com alguns amigos, passando férias em Hamptons, Long Island, morre em um acidente de automóvel. Após o choque inicial e o funeral, Natalie vai para a casa onde a filha passava férias, pois quer saber mais sobre seus últimos dias. Assim se muda para o quarto dela na casa em Long Island e começa a conhecer seus amigos. Em sua dor começa limpando a casa como se fosse uma faxineira perfeccionista, pois estava uma bagunça.

A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels lost inside. Determined to find herself, Beck embarks on a journey, starting with her ex-beau (Peter Fonda) and ending with an unexpected soul mate. Jack Palance, Peter Riegert, Faye Dunaway and Ione Skye also star.

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist of fate and some bizarre wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" help Leo navigate the murky waters of his life and turn his crisis into a second-chance.

A hilarious John Landis-created 'mockumentary' that provides updates on what became of Faber College's most notorious alums. Features original cast members.

The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.

Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the St. Louis Eagles. Marvin (Brad Garrett) and Decker (Peter Riegert) gamble. So does Zig (Wayne Knight), even though his wife constantly nags him about the money he loses. Meanwhile, blind Greg (Matt Craven) enjoys the game through pretty Melody (Sarain Boylan), who describes it to him. A seasoned ensemble case of TV and film veterans create winning chemistry in this slice-of-life comedy.

A father and son work together as agents.

Biografia do dançarino afro-americano William Bojangles Robinson e sua luta contra o preconceito racial.

It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very indecisive (ex-?)girlfriend. Marlon is a cocky young actor, certain that his big break is just around the corner. When the restaurant's obnoxious owner, Simon, brings a special client in for dinner, pressures mount until an explosion seems inevitable.

Uma série de histórias interligadas dão um panorama sobre o alto escalão do tráfico de drogas, envolvendo um policial mexicano preso numa teia de corrupção, uma dupla de agentes do DEA (departamento antidrogas), infiltrada no perigoso mundo dos negociantes de San Diego, um barão da droga que após ser preso, explica como sua mulher tomou seu negócio ilegal e ainda um juiz da Suprema Corte de Justiça de Ohio, conhecido pela sua posição anti-drogas, que precisa lidar com sua filha viciada.

Fantasia e realidade se tornam indistinguíveis para uma mulher que conduz sua vida dupla em seus sonhos. Marie (Demi Moore) é uma linda e solitária viúva americana, que vive com suas duas filhas no sul da França, onde cria uma existência imaginária em seus sonhos. Mas será ela realmente Marie ou Marty (Demi Moore), uma glamourosa executiva que vive em Nova York? Relutante em revelar a verdade por trás desta confusão aos homens de suas vidas, Marie e Marty precisam resolver logo qual delas é verdadeira e qual é fictícia, antes que ambas percam tudo o que já conseguiram.

By Courier is a 2000 English language short film adapted from a story by O. Henry and directed by Peter Riegert, starring Garret Dillahunt, Claire Lautier and Joey Temperini. It follows two lovers who are no longer speaking. As articulate and intelligent as they are, they can’t breach this gap without the “poetic” assistance of a 13-year-old from the wrong side of the tracks. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.

Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.

Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friends who owe him money.

This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a collection of new interviews with the cast and crew behind the making of the film. There's even some archive footage of John Belushi, and many hilarious behind the scenes stories are told. Its evident that they had a great time creating this classic, and memorable comedic landmark of a film.

Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home with her family in a grungy trailer park, Wanda Le Fauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she reads a newspaper and agrees to meet well-to-do Rachel Luckman and her husband. The childless Luckman's are desperate to raise a baby and Wanda is anxious to find a home for her latest. They strike a deal, and at first things are fine, but as the birth parents and the potential adoptive parents get to know each other, fundamental differences emerge. The birth of the baby brings matters to a painful head.

When blonde bombshell Meredith Lake breezes into his office, New York private eye Bob Signorelli can't resist giving her "personal" attention. But their one-night stand becomes a deadly liaison when they are linked to a homicide; and a night of steamy passion snowballs into a marathon of madness and murder...

Sal (Tony Danza) has been the foreman at North Shore Fish, a frozen fish factory, for years. He and Flo (Mercedes Ruehl), the "batter" person on the assembly line, not only were high school sweethearts, but are currently carrying on an affair.

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Born November 2, 1913, he went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster - later Burt Lancaster - was one of five children of a New York City postal worker. Burt recalled family life as warm and mutually supportive. At the Union Settlement House, he and boyhood friend Nick Cravat formed an acrobatic team. By eighteen, Burt was 6'2" and blessed with the athletic physique and dynamic good looks that helped make him famous. A basketball scholarship was not enough to keep him in NYU beyond his sophomore year. That's when he and the 5'2" Cravat joined a circus, earning $3 weekly between them. A stint in the Army introduced Burt to acting and led him to Hollywood where his first release, The Killers (1946), propelled him to stardom at age 32. He took control of his own career and seldom faltered.

A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.

A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies.

An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult, male, white tutor (Mark Evan Jacobs) and his 17-year-old, African-American, female student (Karen Kirkland).

O jovem Cosmo (Jason Priestley) faz pequenos serviços para a máfia. É um trabalho sem muita importância, até que os chefões decidem promovê-lo com seu mais novo assassino profissional. Para ensinar a "arte" do negócio, Cosmo conta com a ajuda do esperto e perigoso Steve e acaba se transformando em um profissional de primeira linha. Para complicar sua promissora carreira, Cosmo se apaixona pela bela Jasmine. Agora, ele precisa decidir entre o bem e o mal, e só há uma maneira.

Depois de ser confundido com um neonazista pela polícia alemã, o jornalista americano Yaron Svoray tem acesso ao mundo sombrio de pessoas que juraram lealdade ao nazismo. Sua investigação revela uma rede de intolerância com raízes em muitos países.

Em Edge City vive Stanley Ipkiss, um cara decente que trabalha em um banco, mas é socialmente desajeitado e sem muito sucesso com as mulheres. Após um dos piores dias da sua vida, ele acha no mar a estranha máscara de Loki, um deus escandinavo. Quando Stanley coloca a máscara, se transforma em "O Máskara", um ser com o rosto verde que possui a coragem para fazer as coisas mais arriscadas e divertidas que Stanley receia fazer, inclusive flertar com Tina Carlyle, a bela e sensual cantora que se apresenta no Coco Bongo, a discoteca do momento. O Máskara tem velocidade sobre-humana e um humor não-convencional e, enquanto isto, o gângster Dorian Tyrrell, que namora Tina, se esforça para destruir o Máskara e se apoderar da máscara para usar seus poderes para o mal.

A television adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.

A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.

A morte repentina de Jack Scanlan provoca uma reviravolta na família, que deseja oferecer ao patriarca um funeral apropriado. O filho mais velho tenta liderar o grupo, mas percebe que a tarefa é muito mais difícil do que parece.

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.

No leito de morte, o pai de um gângster pede a seu filho que vire um homem honesto. Ele decide cumprir a vontade do pai, mas enfrenta problemas. Entre os quais, arranjar um noivo para a filha grávida. Segunda versão cinematográfica da peça de Claude Magnier.

Jake (John Malkovich, de "Ligações Perigosas") e Tina (Andie McDowell, de "Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral"), são um casal americano que vive uma vida de luxo num hotel em Londres, consumindo tudo do bom e do melhor. As coisas começam a complicar quando uma greve de trabalhadores acaba com um negócio milionário que Jake fechava com produtores de cacau. O dinheiro da dupla rapidamente desaparece e as contas se acumulam. Até que ele vê uma possível solução nas mãos de Tina: uma raríssima escultura de Henry Moore, única lembrança que ela guarda de seu ex-marido. Quando o "objeto do desejo" desaparece, a confusão está formada e, entre divertidos altos e baixos, Jake e Tina vão ter que reavaliar sua relação - enquanto a misteriosa camareira surda parece esconder um segredo...

Uma pedra rúnica nórdica é descoberta no oeste da Pensilvânia. A profecia sobre ela fala do grande lobo nórdico Fenrir (Fenris), e que sua liberação da pedra trará o Ragnarok - o fim do mundo. O arqueólogo Sam Stewart e sua esposa Marla descobrem que tem alguma ligação com seu amigo Martin. Um menino chamado Jacob é assombrado por terríveis pesadelos do que está por vir, e sua família explica esses sonhos através de histórias da lenda nórdica, que diz que o único que pode destruir Fenrir é Tyr, o deus nórdico da guerra, que é profetizado para voltar a lutar contra a criatura.

A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he tries to avoid the insistent phone calls coming from Manhattan and records his philosophical ponderings about this mid-life crisis on videotape. Before long, he is partying with another burnt-out businessman and avidly avoiding the attentions of colleagues who have come to Bali to try and get him to come back to Manhattan.

O executivo da Madison Avenue, Graham Marshall, paga suas dívidas. Um trabalhador talentoso e dedicado, ele sofre com uma montanha de contas e uma irritante esposa que só deseja uma coisa: uma promoção bem merecida para ele. Mas quando a promoção é dada a um associado yuppie e falastrão, Graham descarrega sua raiva num mendigo agressivo, que ele mata acidentalmente, empurrando-o para os trilhos do metro. Então ele arquiteta resolver seus problemas com uma solução totalmente nova. Primeiro, ele organiza um "acidente" para sua irritante esposa. Depois ele cria outro "acidente", desta vez para o chefe dele. Parece que o mundo voltou a ser novamente um bom lugar para Graham. Mas um isqueiro desaparecido e um irritante detetive da policia pode mudar tudo isso. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village — all were captured in unforgettable photographs by the legendary W. Eugene Smith. This program showcases over 600 of Smith’s stunning photographs and includes a dramatic recreation in which actor Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey, Local Hero) portrays the artist using dialogue take from Smith’s diaries and letters. Interwoven through the program are archival footage and interviews with family and friends of this brilliant, complicated man, whose work developed from twin themes of common humanity and social responsibility.

This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.

Cansada de servir de babá a um multimilionário, advogada pede demissão. Mas ele só aceita que ela vá embora caso ela encontre uma substituta à altura.

Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to describe the murder, but doesn't remember where it occurred or who was involved.

An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.

When television news director Eric Ross pressures esteemed senior anchor Frank Kenley to sensationalize the news, Kenley isn't pleased -- and the conflict comes to a head when a local high school sex scandal hits the news. As Ross pushes him to play up the story, Kenley wrestles with the moral complexities of the situation and tries to find the balance between the public's need to know and the individual's rights.

A female photographer who is engaged to a businessman investigates a cult in the local club scene. By living out some of her sexual fantasies, she faces the truth about her life and helps one of the cult's victims escape.

Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.

Uma companhia petrolífera americana envia um homem para a Escócia para comprar uma vila inteira onde eles querem construir uma refinaria. Mas as coisas não correm como o esperado.

A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.

1962. Larry Kroger (Tom Hulce) e Kent Dorfman (Stephen Furst) são calouros na faculdade e sonham em entrar para uma fraternidade. Após não conseguirem entrar para a Omega eles resolvem tentar a Delta, que tem a fama de ser a pior fraternidade do campus. Lá eles conhecem Eric (Tim Matheson), Boone (Peter Reigert) e sua namorada Katy (Karen Allen), Hoover (James Widdoes) e Bluto (John Belushi). Larry e Kent logo são aceitos na fraternidade e passam a viver uma vida regada a viagens, piadas e festas de pijama. Só que Dean Wormer (John Vernon) está decidido a expulsar a Delta do campus da faculdade, contando com a ajuda dos integrantes da Omega.