Howard Hesseman

Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind the scenes stories...until now.

A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his roller-coaster life since that breakthrough role.

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing profit targets. Riley finds that the company is the lifeblood of a town and, instead of closing down the iconic firm, she unexpectedly falls in love and learns valuable lessons beyond the bottom line.

Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.

A group of eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.

Del Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Murray to Chris Farley to Amy Poehler, many of the most famous comedians consider him their mentor. Fifteen years after Del Close’s death, thousands of Improv students, comedy fans, actors, and successful comedians gather to celebrate the most important person in modern comedy that no one knows.

1970's pop culture icons Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams face off in the hunt for the legendary mountain creature.

Carl Vanderveer (Greg Kinnear) encontrou na religião uma forma de mudar sua vida, antes dedicada às drogas e ao rock. Sua esposa, Gwen (Jennifer Connelly), é frequentadora assídua da Igreja do Terceiro Milênio, liderada pelo carismático pastor Dan Day (Pierce Brosnan). Tudo vai bem até que Carl testemunha um acidente fatal envolvendo Dan e o Dr. Paul Blaylock (Ed Harris), um grande nome do ateísmo.

Mary Horowitz (Sandra Bullock) é uma mulher excêntrica que trabalha criando palavras cruzadas. Ela está convencida que Steve (Bradley Cooper), um cinegrafista da CNN, é o grande amor de sua vida. Por isso passa a persegui-lo ao redor do país, na esperança de convencê-lo que foram feitos um para o outro.

Michael Myers continua enorme e não menos perigoso do que antes. Após uma reunião falhada para tentar chegar à sua irmã bebé na sua antiga casa, Laurie Strode é imediatamente levada para um hospital para ser tratada das feridas que foram afligidas pelo seu irmão à algumas horas atrás. No entanto, Michael continua não muito longe e irá continuar a sua matança de 'Halloween' até conseguir ter a sua irmã só para si.

Rainn Wilson (do seriado The Office) comanda muitas gargalhadas nesta comédia muito irreverente sobre alguém que vive um sonho rock'n'roll...e acorda em uma crise de meia-idade. Vinte anos depois de ser expulso de sua quase famosa banda de cabeludos dos anos 80, Robert Fish (interpretado pelo próprio Rainn Wilson) se vê preso a um emprego sem futuro em um escritório e morando na casa da irmã. Mas, quando ele menos espera, ganha uma segunda chance de virar um astro. Sem vacilar, este baterista desesperado jura que vai conquista o trono de deus do rick que (ele acha que) sempre mereceu!

David Gordon (John Cusack) é um escritor de ficção científica que ficou viúvo recentemente. Ele então decide adotar Dennis (Bobby Coleman), um menino órfão que acredita ser um marciano em missão de exploração na Terra. Liz (Joan Cusack) tenta dissuadir David da ideia, alegando os perigos da paternidade. mas ele está decidido e adotar o garoto. A partir de então passa a contar com ajuda da amiga Harlee (Amanda Peet), já que se vê completamente perdido.

Jack Giamoro é um dos principais agentes de Hollywood e tem tudo o que sonha para sua vida: dinheiro, uma carreira de sucesso e uma linda esposa, Nina. Porém um dia sua vida começa a desandar. A casa de Jack é invadida, Nina o trai e seu pai começa a enlouquecer, já que a todo instante tenta entrar no aquário. Para piorar seu diário é roubado pela ambiciosa Barbi, o que põe em risco sua carreira. Jack tenta então resolver todos estes problemas, para que sua vida volte à perfeição de antes.

A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her limo on Christmas eve and has her drive him to various ice rinks where he gives out $100 bills to the people there. The news media catches on and starts following him.

This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that littered the West during the late '60s and helped launch such super groups as The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and The Quicksilver Messenger Service. The Red Dog Saloon had its genesis in 1964 when a group of free-thinking, LSD-enhanced Northern California students and young folks had a party and began thinking about starting up a saloon that would evoke the old West. They decided to build their saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, a once prosperous town that was by then nearly empty. The ambience of the saloon blended Old West sensibilities with modern psychedelia, go-go girls and plenty of illegal drugs. The film is comprised of interviews with surviving founders, actual archival footage, and even a performance of some of the musicians who appeared there.

Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) é um homem que 60 anos que precisa lidar com a recente aposentadoria e também com a morte repentina de sua esposa. Incerto sobre seu futuro e também sobre seu passado, ele parte em uma jornada rumo ao Nebraska para ajudar no casamento de sua filha Jeannie (Hope Davis) com Randall (Dermot Mulroney), um vendedor de camas d'água. Entretanto, cada novo passo que Warren dá parece ser sempre errado, fazendo com que ele acredite que o fim de sua vida será igual ao seu passado: um grande fracasso. Até que Warren decide dividir sua jornada com um inesperado amigo: um jovem garoto da Tanzânia o qual ele patrocina pagando 73 centavos por dia. Em suas longas cartas ao garoto Warren expõe sua história e passa a ver com outros olhos sua própria vida.

In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on tormenting the living. When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death (and able to describe the world beyond), things get tricky for his daughter (Jessica Capshaw) and her beau (Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser, M.D." fame), who can't get their hands on his estate.

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.

Trish (Mary Stuart Masterson) and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat wallets, they run into a little snag—a department store security guard named Bert (Mark Ruffalo) catches them in the act. The store owner wants them arrested, but decides to wait until Christmas is over. To ensure they don't make a run for it, he entrusts their care to Bert. With jail on the horizon, Trish and Patsy are scared for their future. But as the holiday nears its end, it looks as though a budding romance might just save them after all.

A former news reporter marries and tries to adjust to the life of a house wife and mother. However, her need for an adrenaline high is overpowering and she becomes a gambling addict.

Após um amigo sofrer overdose, Spoon (Shakur) e Bagulhão (Tim Roth) decidem largar as drogas e se esforçam para entrar num programa de desintoxicação do governo. A tentativa é prejudicada quando a dupla é responsabilizada pela morte de uma pessoa. Os dois acabam sendo procurados pela polícia e por traficantes de drogas.

The magical Munchie is back, and if he gets in any more trouble it's off to the dullest constellation in the galaxy. Staying out of trouble has never been easy for Munchie, but this time he gives it his best shot. He is sent to earth and finds himself in the company of the McClelland family. As he proves himself, he becomes mixed up in the family's many problems. Munchie does his best to fulfill his duty on Earth, but not without getting involved in a little mischief. Written by Concorde - New Horizons.

Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the airport slaying of a man handcuffed to him and decides she needs a good story to go with her picture.

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed's ex-wife Rula and an elusive Andy Warhol critic.

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!

B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles...

Infeliz com sua vida e casamento, uma professora do ensino médio é levada à julgamento depois de seduzir um estudante de quinze anos e convencê-lo a matar o seu marido.

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.

When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go down at a renowned gallery, they enlist one of their suspects, gallery employee Tara Holden (Brooke Shields). But an attempt to foil the robbery explodes with deadly consequences for Tara. Committed to break the case, Rawlings relentlessly pursues the clues through a twisted maze of deceit and danger that takes him to England, where he and Scotland Yard detecive Charlie Lawson expose the ultimate con and solve the crime.

Sátira dos programas de TV e dos filmes de orçamento precário, com várias histórias desde um funeral conduzido por comediantes até a grande noite de um adolescente que acaba virando um pesadelo.

In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.

There was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as Your Seriousness...

Um garoto é sequestrado por alienígenas e só volta para casa seis anos depois (mesmo que, para ele, só tenham se passado quatro horas). No entanto, como não envelheceu sequer um dia, isso causa estranheza a todos.

A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male coworkers and the disbelief of her customers.

Em uma noite tempestuosa de 1954, seis indivíduos com históricos comprometedores em Washington se reúnem para um jantar na mansão do ostentoso Sr. Boddy. Eles são recebidos pelo mordomo, Wadsworth, que atribui a cada convidado um pseudônimo a fim de proteger suas identidades: Sr. Green, Coronel Mustard, Sra. Peacock, Professor Plum, Srta. Scarlet, e Sra. White. Após o jantar, eles descobrem que foram chamados para conhecer o seu chantageador: o Sr. Boddy, e cada um deles recebe uma arma. Quando o anfitrião aparece morto, o grupo se apavora e procura por pistas para revelar o assassino.

Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) e os companheiros acabaram de se graduar na Academia de Polícia, e como cadetes iniciantes têm que sair em uma missão. O grupo de desajustados vai ter que enfrentar uma gangue de vândalos que estão trasnformando a cidade em um verdadeiro caos, e só assim conseguirão baixar as taxas de criminalidade da cidade, mas não conseguirão diminuir as confusões.

A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.

Filmado como se fosse um documentário real, o filme mostra, com muito humor, a primeira excursão americana da banda inglesa de heavy metal Spinal Tap. A excursão serve de lançamento do disco “Smell the Glove”, e o diretor especialista em comerciais de TV, Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), é o responsável pelas filmagens do documentário. Durante a viagem, tudo acaba saindo errado: Shows são cancelados, vão a lugares errados, o som das guitarras sofrem interferência e muitas outras situações muito engraçadas. O mais realista e engraçado filme feito sobre a excursão de uma banda e seus problemas.

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.

Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts (Robert Hays, Airplane!), who battles boredom and a tyrannical captain to the admiration of Ensign Pulver, Doc, and the crew.

Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown Records, The show was also co-written by de Passe along with Ruth Adkins Robinson who would go on to write shows with de Passe for the next 25 years, including the follow up label tributes—through "Motown 40," Buz Kohan was the head writer of the threesome. The program was taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983,[1] and broadcast on NBC on May 16. Among its highlights were Michael Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean", a Temptations/Four Tops "battle of the bands", Marvin Gaye's inspired speech about black music history and his memorable performance of "What's Going On", a Jackson 5 reunion.

A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.

Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves him one step behind a killer in the mystery One Shoe Makes It Murder. Soon after the Nevada Gaming Commission suspends his casino license, gambling czar Carl Charnock (Mel Ferrer) hires private investigator Harold Schillman (Mitchum) to find his missing wife. With the help of Fay Reid (Angie Dickinson), Schillman locates the unfaithful spouse--right before she falls from a balcony! Now Schillman must determine whether she jumped or ... whether One Shoe Makes It Murder.

A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him. NOTE: This is the made-for-television film, not to be confused with the horror film of the same title and year.

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.

Nicole Mallow, é uma mulher de uns 30 e poucos anos de idade, imigrante francesa que chega aos Estados Unidos, e arruma emprego como empregada doméstica de uma rica família. Sua tarefa também será cuidar do filho dos patrões, Phillip, o adolescente de 15 anos. Não demora muito e Nicole, fica amiga do motorista da família, um homem inescrupuloso que força a emprega a seduzir o garoto, iniciando-o sexualmente. O plano é forjar a morte da empregada e colocar a culpa no garoto, para depois chantagear a família. O problema é que a moça se apaixona pelo menino.

Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.

A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system caught in a gridlock that John Beck, as a traffic expert, endeavors to unsnarl.

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.

John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches.

Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) cresceu no Mississipi, tendo sido adotado por uma família de agricultores negros. Ao completar 18 anos ele tem vontade de conhecer o resto do planeta e parte para St. Louis. Todos exploram sua ingenuidade e uma invenção banal o transforma em milionário.

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.

Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.

Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.

A young woman accused of murdering the jailer who raped her, escapes from jail and becomes a fugitive.

An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the poisonous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees

When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marries the sweet but naive Catherine. Even though Noelle has found a new lover, an affluent Greek named Constantin, and has started a great career as an actress, she vows revenge on her onetime lover. But once her plan is in motion, she and Larry fall in love and plot Catherine's death.

The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Um professor e seu assistente constroem o primeiro ônibus movido a energia nuclear, apesar da oposição que representa interesses contrários. Entretanto quando uma bomba é colocada no ônibus cria diversos tumultos em sua primeira viagem.

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you name it. What they discover will surely crack you up! This outrageous and irreverent spoof of television launched the careers of some of the greatest comedians of all time.

Uma dupla de vaudeville aceita se reunir para um especial de televisão, mas acontece que eles não se suportam. Lewis e Clark foram comediantes famosos durante a era do vaudeville. Fora do palco, porém, eles não se suportavam e não se falavam há mais de vinte anos. Ben, sobrinho de Willy Clark, é o produtor de um show de variedades que quer apresentar uma reunião da dupla clássica. Como Ben convencerá os velhos comediantes a deixar de lado suas diferenças antes do grande espetáculo? (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is imprisoned at Quai Dong, on the South China Sea, for refusing to fight. After a year at hard labor, he is told to use his Vietnamese language skills to question a Viet Cong suspect. The prisoner is drugged and tortured during the interrogation. Krueger eventually stops the torture by pretending that the prisoner has disclosed the location of a supply dump.

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of his partner.

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.

Darrell REm um período de mudanças comportamentais (1968) um cabeleleiro popular entre as mulheres corre atrás de sua independência financeira enquanto vive vários casos amorosos (alguns perigosos) ao mesmo tempooodt Um cabeleireiro mulherengo e sedutor de Beverly Hills se envolve facilmente com várias mulheres pois, em virtude da sua profissão, muitos homens o consideram homossexual. Ele tenta convencer um rico empresário que está tendo um caso com uma de suas amantes a lhe fornecer capital para montar um salão de beleza. Ao mesmo tempo, ele é pressionado pela noiva para se casar o mais rápido possível, o que pode prejudicar seus planos.

Bumper Morgan é um veterano da Polícia de Los Angeles prestes a se aposentar depois de 20 anos de serviços, mas fica obcecado pelo brutal assassinato de uma prostituta e resolve que agarrar o assassino será sua última missão antes de entregar o distintivo.

Bickford, chega na cidade de Texas Dime Box e assume uma variedade de trabalhos braçais. Ele é ajudado por Reese e sua esposa, Molly. Somente com a chegada da ex-namorada Janet descobre-se que Bickford é realmente o famoso ladrão de trem Kid Blue.

A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. There mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.

A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.

A Session with the Committee

An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.