Peter Werner
Nascimento : 1947-01-17, New York City, New York, USA
História
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Peter Werner (born January 17, 1947 in New York City, New York) is an American television and film director.
In 1977, Werner won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for directing the short film In the Region of Ice.[1]Since then he worked on primarily directing television amassing a number of television film credits namely Mama Flora's Family, Two Mothers for Zachary, Call Me Claus, Gracie's Choice, Mom at Sixteen and among other films.
His television series credits include Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, A Different World, The Wonder Years, Moonlighting and other series.
He is the older brother of television producer Tom Werner.
He is the father of Lillie, Katharine and James Werner.
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O filme acompanha o promotor Jeff Ashton durante o polêmico julgamento de Casey Marie Anthony, acusada de matar sua filha Caylee, de dois anos. Em 2008, Caylee desapareceu na Flórida e as autoridades só foram avisadas 31 dias depois.
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Um homem é morto enquanto tenta controlar um grupo de adolescentes rebeldes em uma festa e sua mulher tenta descobrir a verdade sobre o incidente.
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Um menino deficiente mental adora cuidar de animais abandonados. Ele deve convencer sua família (e toda a vizinhança) a participar de um programa para adotar cães no Natal. Baseado no livro de Greg Kincaid.
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Al Shines, former king of the US race car track circuit, has a hard time starting his own team, once he's fired by his sponsor Robin Cates. Robin hired Al's immature daughter Kylie Shines instead. She resents Al's inevitable 'absence' as a widowed father, as well as the reigning champion, equally young but professionally vetted Kid Walker. Kylie tries to prove herself against Kid while having an on-off affair with him. Cates's marketing strategy dictates his intentions to manipulate Walker and both Shines racers.
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Drama familiar inspirado na vida de Brad Cohen, portador da Síndrome de Tourette, que desafiou a doença para realizar o sonho de ser professor e vencer suas dificuldades.
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Garota popular na escola, Rachel parece ter a vida dos sonhos. Mas descobre que um ex-namorado, usuário de drogas, era portador do vírus HIV e morreu. Ela teme ter sido infectada e tem que aprender a viver uma nova realidade.
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Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma - whether to have a lumpectomy or the potentially safer mastectomy.
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A suspiciously magical Christmas Eve snowstorm blows some small miracles into the lives of people around the country.
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A single blind date suffices for handsome gentleman Scott Peterson, a traveling salesman, to seduce Amber Frey all the way. When a colleague finds out about his marriage, she believes him to be a widower. Later however it becomes clear his wife was alive and pregnant, but is missing. Pregnant herself, Amber hears his wife and baby's corpses were found and records his phone calls for the police. Ultimately she's the key witness is his murder trial.
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Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
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Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
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A jovem Jacey acaba de mudar de cidade em companhia da família, mas precisa ter cuidado para não revelar um importante segredo sobre Charley, o caçula da família.
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A jovem Jacey acaba de mudar de cidade em companhia da família, mas precisa ter cuidado para não revelar um importante segredo sobre Charley, o caçula da família.
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Fed up with the constant abuse she suffers at the hands of the men in her life, Christine (Kate Vernon) is driven to desperate measures and begins killing each of her tormentors, burying them all together in a shallow makeshift grave. But just as Christine starts to believe that she'll get away with her vigilantism, the ghosts of her victims emerge to torment her on an entirely different level.
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For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
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For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
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Candice DeLong is Clarice Starling in "Silence of the Lambs," Samantha Waters on "Profiler" and Nicole Scott on "MISSING" all rolled into one tough female FBI agent. Lifetime's spine-tingling Original Movie is inspired by DeLong's harrowing real-life experiences in the field. DeLong (Jean Smart) is on the verge of retiring from the FBI so that she can spend more time with her son, when a serial rapist and murderer attacks one of her best friends. As a single working mom, she feels torn between her child's needs and avenging her girlfriend. Things get more complicated when she has to work the case with her married lover (played by A Martinez). This top cop's decisions will put her life in serious danger. Hold on, it's going to be a suspenseful ride!
Producer
A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
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A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
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Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
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Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
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Quando Lucy Collins, uma bem sucedida produtora de televisão, contrata um ator para ser o Papai Noel de seu programa de telecompras, ganha mais do que poderia imaginar. Afinal Nick, o verdadeiro Papai Noel, tem que procurar um sucessor, pois está se aposentando apos 200 anos. O problema é que tem que achar esta pessoa especial até a noite de Natal e Lucy é sua favorita.
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A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.
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A reporter (Bridget Fonda) gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the doctor (Mary Beth Hurt) responsible for creating the clone.
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Four friends, fresh from tragedy at Kent Sate, graduate from college and begin their adult lives during the turbulent 1970s. But Dexter (Guy Torry), Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), Byron (Brad Rowe) and Christie (Amy Smart) find their paths are heading in different directions. Namely, toward the Black Panthers, the feminist movement, the Watergate Scandal and the Hustle. Peter Werner directs this poignant television miniseries originally aired on NBC.
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The unauthorized biography of Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire.
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A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He goes and sees the woman he loves is still alive in that world and wants to stay. But when he discovers that this world has rules that differ from his world, he wants to leave but when he goes back to where the machine is, there's a fire and the machine is destroyed and the man who built it is killed. He later meets a woman from his world who also built a machine of her own but the officials there upon seeing her thinks she's crazy because her counterpart is alive and says she doesn't know her. So he tries to help her so that they can return home.
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Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ward for treatment. There she meets Jake, an unstable teenager with an anger problem. They fall in love and are soon separated by their doctors, psychiatrists and parents. Fuming, Jake suddenly sees a chance for escape and takes Zoe with him, along with a few other patients. After a trip around the country, Jake and Zoe must face up to their illness and their crime.
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Maggie Yearwood moves to a new town to be near her son, Peter, who has gone deaf as the result of an accident and is now attending a special school. She moves into a small house next door to Owen Whister and soon falls in love with the cowboy, who harbors a dark secret...
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A grandmother sues her daughter for custody of her grandson, because she believes that her daughter's homosexuality renders her unfit for motherhood.
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An ambitious young female lawyer meets a former lover while investigating a sexual harassment case aboard a US Navy support ship that turns into a murder case when the victim is discovered dead.
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Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne (Lea Thompson) marries Clay (James Marshall), and the couple soon have a daughter. It's then that Clay begins to show the first signs that he's unhinged. When he sees Brianne innocently talking to a man, Clay shoots him dead. At first, Brianne believes that her love for her husband can prevail. But when authorities threaten to take away custody of her daughter, she learns a horrible truth about her past.
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The story of one of America's first female reporters.
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Christopher Millard was 14 years old when he died of cancer in 1972. Shortly before losing his battle, Chris wrote a story about a great knight named Sir Millard who sought out the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and Strength in order to be released from the grips of an evil sorceress. These diamonds symbolized the attributes that Chris believed were necessary to overcome cancer.
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In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.
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A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.
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Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.
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Reconta o agosto de 1945 onde houve o bombardeio nuclear sobre Hiroshima através dos olhos de um número de sobreviventes, incluindo soldados japoneses, cidadãos e prisioneiros de guerra americanos. O filme é parcialmente baseado em Diário de Hiroshima, de Michihiko Hachiya. Ele mostra a angústia de procurar seus entes queridos e o desespero de encontrá-los mortos. Um filme para mostrar que a guerra não deveria ser assim, isto é, atacando pessoas inocentes em vez de ter um exército contra exército de batalha.
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When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
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Benjy Taylor (D. B. Sweeney) é um tira de Los Angeles com paixão por carros esporte. Ted Varrick (Charlie Sheen) é um rico playboy com a mania de roubá-los. O último tira a se infiltrar na quadrilha de ladrões de carros de Varrick foi morto. Benjy vai investigar Varrick e é seduzido pela vida fácil e ousada do seu suspeito que se torna seu mestre e modelo. Logo Benjy estará diante de uma escolha difícil entre a lei e uma vida que ele adora!
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LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1973. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of Johnson.
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Fresh out of law school, Kevan Harris is hired by her dead father's ex-partner, Frank Murchison, and immediately 'falls into bed' with him. She then falls in love with his son, Gregory, who is fighting his father over his mother's will. Along the way, she learns about her father and his relationship with the ruthless Murchison.
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Tenacious young engineer flips over the centerfold model he spots on television and embarks on a romantic adventure on a bet with his buddies.
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A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises morale so that they are able to win the "brass-axe" competition versus another local military academy.
Dr. Werner (uncredited)
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart won over by the children at a nearby orphanage where he does volunteer work. At first, a doctor named Katherine Cross has to persuade him to help the children. But soon, Brian willingly puts his career and safety on the line to provide the orphans with the food and medical supplies they need.
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During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart won over by the children at a nearby orphanage where he does volunteer work. At first, a doctor named Katherine Cross has to persuade him to help the children. But soon, Brian willingly puts his career and safety on the line to provide the orphans with the food and medical supplies they need.
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Abe Snopes é um rendeiro cuja natureza violenta prova ser sua ruína nesta adaptação do filme (com roteiro de Horton Foote) de um dos contos góticos do autor William Faulkner.
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The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.
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Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
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In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast as a sullen, emotionally disturbed boy. The title refers to the "thawing" process that occurs when the nun attempts to break through Lempert's wall of silence. Winner of the Oscar for "Best Short Film, Live Action".
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In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast as a sullen, emotionally disturbed boy. The title refers to the "thawing" process that occurs when the nun attempts to break through Lempert's wall of silence. Winner of the Oscar for "Best Short Film, Live Action".
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Documentário sobre Frances H. Flaherty, responsável pela fotografia de still nos filmes de seu marido, Robert J. Flaherty.
