David Shire

A career overview of tv/film composer Billy Goldenberg.

A captivating and hilarious song cycle which delves into the trials and tribulations of modern love, Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever will take audiences on a journey of lust and romance, marriage and ageing, unrequited love and obsession.

Starting Here, Starting Now is a thrilling and touching musical using the songs of Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire (Big, Baby, Closer Than Ever). Starting Here, Starting Now offers a tender-tough inventory of love and the lonesome lack thereof. Made for each other, the wry lyrics of Richard Maltby, Jr., combined with David Shire‘s buoyant music, forge a fast-moving, ingratiating look at how love can go right, wrong or nowhere. This bold, extroverted journey takes a winsome cast of four through the maze of modern relationships with its heart firmly on its sleeve. As with all of Maltby and Shire’s work, each song is an impeccably crafted story – original, engaging, and bursting with character.

A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.

The story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his father Roger stop getting along, Clark thinks about running away from home. He just needs to decide where to go.

A single-shot portrait of the Foley process, revealing multiple layers of fabrication and imposition, which is dedicated to Walter Murch and "Ed Snowden."

Famous New Yorkers and the pooches they love are the focus of this refreshingly honest and endearing series of interviews that celebrates the meaningful connections people share with their pups. Gossip columnist Cindy Adams, playwright Edward Albee, designer Isaac Mizrahi, and actors Glenn Close, Edie Falco and Richard Gere are among the many celebs who pay tribute to their beloved canine companions.

Remake do filme de Fritz Lang, com o mesmo título, sobre o plano dum homem que visa expor o carácter corrupto do Procurador do Ministério Público, sem saber que as teias da corrupção são maiores do que ele julga.

A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern greats.

Há várias maneiras de perder a vida para um homicida. Estamos perante uma caça a um serial killer em São Francisco. Poucos casos na história do crime são tão intrigantes como o de Zodiac, um atirador bizarro com um capuz de carrasco que confunde a polícia com dúzias de cartas que contêm mensagens e criptogramas sinistros.

Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Este filme mostra uma mãe e a sua filha adolescente ambas com cancro. Essa descoberta ajuda a superar o relacionamento antagônico de longa data que as duas desenvolveram.

Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one night. He brings in Spenser to help locate her, who begins to piece together her complete life story while submerged in the Latino shadow world of the town of Proctor.

The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs father, John Witting, thought long ago dead, hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered.

Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, hosted by Sam Waterston, tells the compelling stories behind some of the world's most memorable photographs. Returning to the scene of the action, each photographer describes, in a gripping first-hand account, how they took their prize-winning photographs. The moments they captured forged history and changed lives - including the photographers own. The stories of these unforgettable photographs' own. The stories of these unforgettable photographs - many of them shown here for the first time - are as compelling and long lasting as the images themselves.

Depois de passar vinte anos longe de casa, preocupada com a própria carreira, a cantora Olivia volta para casa. Para consertar os erros do passado, Olivia usa seus contatos para deslanchar a carreira da filha Kayla, fortalecendo os frágeis laços entre as duas. Fita inclui clipes das músicas 'Until We Meet Again' e 'Almost Doesn't Count'

Um arquiteto recentemente paralisado, Jason Kemp (Christopher Reeve), vive em um apartamento altamente equipado tecnologicamente. Ao passar longas horas observando seus vizinhos, acredita que testemunhou um assassinato a partir da sua janela. Sua colega (Daryl Hannah) junta-se a ele para tentar solucionar a teia de misterios que invade o apartamento. Um detetive da polícia (Robert Forster) vai respondendo pacientemente às repetidas chamadas e acusações de Jason, mas acredita que a sua imaginação está se sobrepondo à sua razão. Determinado a descobrir a verdade, Jason continua a ir cada vez mais além, chegando ao ponto em que se vê encurralado num jogo mortal do gato e do rato.

Kelly's new husband Nick begins behaving oddly, showing a surprising desire to make babies and shun his drinking buddies. Little does she know he's not entirely himself.

John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.

A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.

As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.

Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.

Michelle Sanderson (Ally Sheedy) is a woman who seems to have everything -- great looks, a promising career, a large circle of friends. But the one thing she yearns for most is a romantic relationship, which somehow eludes her. One night, Michelle meets a stunning young man and the game of seduction begins. But is this stranger really the man of her dreams or is he something more dangerous? A steamy one-night stand sets the stage for a suspenseful exploration of a woman's need for the right lover and the consequences she faces when choosing a person she just met.

Heidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to intellectual art dealer/mother, and chronicles her ups and downs and revelations.

The story of one of America's first female reporters.

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleared by the overwhelming white supremacist beliefs. Having lost his entire family to them and not knowing where his young Son is or whether he is alive is what sets this movie apart from others

The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.

In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring along a "companion", a nearly-human android to cook and clean. She settles on a male companion named "Geoffrey." Bored with some of Geoffrey's behavior, she tinkers with his programming -- first his personality, then his sexuality. Real trouble comes when she gives his mind access to "random data."

After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern boarding school. Daphne finally seems to have rediscovered love in her leading man. But an accident leaves her hospitalized, contemplating her life, fate and her best chance for love.

This film concerns a writer of mystery stories who bases his villain on a criminal, played by Malcolm McDowell, who is incarcerated in prison. Escaping prison after his apparent death in a fire, the criminal plans to revenge himself on the writer (Roger Moore) for 'stealing his personality', and proceeds to carry out a set of murders based around the novels. Moore is unable to convince the authorities of the true murderer and, alerted by an avid fan (Nancy Allen) who has psychic powers, seeks to trap McDowell into giving himself away.

Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.

Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.

A divorced father falls in love with a pregnant woman whose husband had abandoned her when he discovered she was expecting a child.

Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombstone, Arizona. The town's Doom Brothers are trouble for everybody including Wyatt Earp, the sheriff. Ernest uses his own special brand of short-sighted shooting to help Wyatt rid the town of its worst citizens and live in peace.

An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.

Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.

A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.

Life changes for three woman who run a failing hotel, when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.

Uma pequena cidade do sul dos Estados Unidos é o cenário dessa história. Por volta de 1949, Paris Trout, um agiota racista e amoral, vinga-se de um rapaz negro envolvido num negócio que correu mal: num acesso de fúria mata a tiros a irmãzinha e fere a mãe do rapaz. Entre o crime e o julgamento, do qual escapa subornando um juiz, Trout torna-se cada vez mais violento.

When Walter's diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, because that partner is a chain-smoker. As Walter fights cancer he also tries to put his affairs in order by teaching writing to prison inmates, talking to his son and ex-wife, and getting his partner to quit smoking.

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

Só depois dos dezasseis anos, Robert descobre que é adotado. Os pais adotivos dele contam que ele foi raptado de seus pais verdadeiros. Então Robert começa a procurar seus pais verdadeiros.

Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.

Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.

Em 1973 um menino de 7 anos chamado Steven Stayner é sequestrado pelo pedófilo Kenneth Parnell. Acreditando que Kenneth tenha sua guarda legal, e que sua família tenha se mudado, Steven fica com Parnell por sete anos, sofrendo abusos consecutivos. Finalmente, em 1980, com o sequestro de outro menino, Steven encontra um modo de fuga de ambos.

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Allan, uma rapaz cheio de vida com uma linda namorada, sofre um acidente e fica tetraplégico. Cansado de hipocrisia dos que o rodeiam, só tem como amigo, Geoffrey que lhe dá uma macaca de presente. Ela é um experimento de laboratório que parece ter um cérebro quimicamente humano, o que a faz ter um contato telepático com Allan, passando a destruir todos que o atormentam.

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.

Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a million-dollar, modern-day madam to her notorious plummet into bankruptcy and public disgrace, experience a private glimpse into the forbidden world of high-class prostitution-where money talks...pleasure sells...and discretion is everything.

Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years

Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.

Jessie é uma mulher que sofre de epilepsia, com um filho viciado em drogas e não vê futuro em seguir com a vida. Na noite em que resolve cometer suicídio, sua mãe percebe o desespero de sua filha e tenta dissuadi-la da morte.

Atingido por um raio, o robô conhecido apenas como "Número 5" escapa de uma empresa de eletrônica experimental. Newton Crosby (Steve Guttenberg) e seu assistente Ben Jabituya (Fisher Stevens) são convocados para tentar localizá-lo. Nº 5 encontra a ecologista Stephanie Speck (Ally Sheedy), esperando ensinar tudo para o "alienígena", ela preenche o banco de memória de Nº 5 com cultura pop e é aí que começa a confusão. Filme também conhecido pelo título, O Incrível Robô.

Apaixonado pelo avô, morto em tentativa de atravessar o Atlântico Norte, num biplano no início do século XX, garoto resolve mudar a história, usando máquina do tempo.

Dorothy, salva de um experimento psiquiátrico por uma misteriosa garota, por algum motivo estranho é chamada de volta ao mundo de Oz. É quando Dorothy, se depara com uma bruxa que destrói tudo aquilo que faz de Oz, uma Terra mágica.

Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional turmoil it causes for her. It also shows how the changes impact her husband, George, and their children. The film also looks at the process by which families can be educated and supported to deal with the impact of the disease, as well as what is done for those afflicted.

A bordo da nave Leonov, uma tripulação que reúne americanos e soviéticos, está a caminho de um encontro com a Discovery, estacionada em órbita fixa. Aquilo que eles não sabem é que estão a caminho, também, de um futuro desconhecido para os humanos, e que o seu destino poderá ficar nas mãos do antigo computador da Discovery, o HAL-9000.

Harry é o típico empresário explorador de novos talentos. Sempre com a sua jaqueta vermelha e o charuto aceso, Harry (George Burns, de "Alguém lá em Cima Gosta de MIm") é uma verdadeira tentação para os jovens artistas que buscam o sucesso. Por um precinho "super" especial, ele é capaz de transformar qualquer pessoa numa grande estrela do "Show Biz". E para Bobby Shelton, um jovem músico capaz de tudo para conquistar a fama, Harry teria "caído do céu", mas pelo contrário, o inmescrupuloso empresário oferece ao pobre Shelton (Ted Wass) mais um de seus contratos diabólicos.

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

A single man searches for a woman who will bear his baby with no strings attached.

O relacionamento entre uma atriz alcóolatra que está tentando parar de beber e a sua filha adolescente.

An aspiring country singer (Dennis Quaid) and his feisty younger sister/manager (Kristy McNichol) struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad. Mark Hamill and Don Stroud also star.

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

Norma Rae é uma trabalhadora têxtil do sul, empregada em uma fábrica com intoleráveis condições de trabalho. Essa preocupação com a situação dá a ela o bom senso de ser a principal associada a um organizador sindical visitante. Juntos, eles empreendem a difícil e possivelmente perigosa luta para sindicalizar sua fábrica.

The unfulfilled dreams of his parents and the tensions created at home cause life to become a nightmare for a youngster who seeks release in a withdrawal to his own world.

Dustin Hoffman é um assaltante que está na prisão, mas é solto ao ganhar a liberdade condicional, o que o obriga a andar na linha. Com isso, ele tenta levar uma vida normal, com um emprego regular e seguindo todas as regras. Mas mesmo assim acaba novamente caindo na prisão por causa de um policial. Quando ele é novamente solto, busca vingança e, para isso, assalta o policial que o pôs novamente na cadeia, roubando seu carro e voltando mais uma vez à vida do crime.

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

Tony Manero, um jovem do Brooklyn e um excelente dançarino de disco music, só encontra significado na vida quando dança, pois passar a semana trabalhando em uma loja de tintas não o gratifica de forma nenhuma. Assim ele se perfuma, se veste de um jeito fashion e vai para a discoteca no final de semana. Sob a influência de seu irmão, um padre frustrado, e de Stephanie, sua parceira de dança, começa a questionar a maneira como encara a vida e a limitação de suas perspectivas. Paralelamente Tony vive uma crise amorosa, enquanto se prepara para participar de um concurso em uma discoteca.

A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.

This is based on the true story about the relationship between Penn State football player John Cappelletti and his younger brother Joey, who has leukemia. John and Joey's bond is a strong one. Joey hangs out with John in the Penn State locker room, and inspires him to be the top college football player in the country. Their bond knows no boundaries and goes beyond making touchdowns and winning awards.

A operação de resgate dos passageiros e tripulantes de um avião sequestrado por palestinos. Com a velada simpatia do ditador africano Idi Amin Dada, os terroristas permanecem em Uganda, exigindo a libertação de 53 palestinos presos pelos israelenses em troca dos reféns. Baseado em fatos reais.

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.

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.

Dois vigaristas desesperadamente de 2ª classe tentam fazer o maior assalto a banco do século XIX. Eles ganham a inimizade do ladrão de bancos mais famoso do mundo e o carinho de uma jornalista revolucionária.

Em 1972, sem ter a menor noção da gravidade dos fatos, um repórter do Washington Post, inicia uma investigação sobre a invasão de cinco homens na sede do Partido Democrata, que dá origem ao escândalo Watergate e que teve como conseqüência a queda do presidente Richard Nixon.

Uma vidente americana afirma pouco antes do dirigível Hindenburg, um verdadeiro hotel no céu e um dos símbolos do poderio nazista, deixar a Alemanha, que ele será destruído em sua viagem até Nova York e que o desastre acontecerá quando ele estiver chegando nos Estados Unidos. Apesar de nada suspeito ter sido encontrado, na Alemanha e nos Estados Unidos circulam rumores sobre a possível destruição do dirigível. Assim o coronel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), um herói de guerra que opera para a inteligência militar, é designado para voar no Hindenburg como chefe da segurança. Nesta missão ele é ajudado pelo agente da Gestapo Martin Vogel (Roy Thinnes), que nem de longe tem a educação e a discrição de Ritter, que gradativamente cria sua lista de suspeitos. Vai ficando cada vez mais certo que os rumores de sabotagem têm muito fundamento, mas Ritter não está preocupado em proteger um símbolo do poderio nazista e sim evitar que dezenas de pessoas morram num atentado.

O detetive particular Philip Marlowe tenta encontrar Velma, dançarina de um clube noturno e namorada de Moose Malloy, um pequeno criminoso que acaba de sair da prisão. Mas rapidamente percebe que nada neste caso é o que aparente ser à primeira vista. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Nos anos 20 nos Estados Unidos havia a Lei Mann, que era muito temida. Ela proibia transportar uma mulher de um estado para outro em transporte coletivos com "fins imorais", assim um homem que quisesse fugir com uma mulher e não pudesse ou quisesse casar com ela poderia se ver em um problema. Para burlar a lei Nicky (Warren Beatty), que ainda não estava divorciado mas estava envolvido com Freddy (Stockard Channing), uma rica herdeira, pede que Oscar (Jack Nicholson), um trapaceiro, case-se com Freddy só no papel, pois assim poderiam ir para Los Angeles. Assim Oscar e Freddy "se casam" e os três viajam juntos, mas os problemas começam quando Oscar exige a atenção de Nicky e seus direitos como marido de Freddy. Ficar no meio desta situação deixa Freddy exasperada quando vê o quão importante é o dinheiro neste relacionamento. Assim Freddy ameaça doar a herança para a caridade, incitando Oscar e Nicky a elaborarem um plano para assassiná-la e ficar com o dinheiro.

The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.

A family tribe of Cro-Magnons faces hardships, such as hunger, animal attacks, Neanderthal attacks, and death from injuries as they migrate to find a more bountiful land to live on.

Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant child. They promise the woman that they will take care of the child and get it to safety, even though none of them knows anything whatsoever about children or babies.

Em um dia aparentemente comum, o policial Zach Garber, responsável pela segurança no metrô de Nova York, é surpreendido pelo sequestro da composição Pelham 1:23 PM por um bando misterioso. Os quatro criminosos, liderados por Blue e fortemente armados, exigem US$ 1 milhão para libertar os dezessete reféns com vida. Comandando a negociação, Garber tem uma hora para encontrar uma solução para o impasse. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.

A high school teacher's career is threatened because of a student's death when the rumor is spread that his negligence killed the boy. This pilot film led to a short-lived series later the same year.

O expert em vigilância Harry Caul é contratado por um cliente misterioso para perseguir um jovem casal. Harry Caul, é um expert em vigilância, conhecido nacionalmente por seu profissionalismo. Ele é contratado pelo diretor de uma grande empresa para vigiar e gravar as conversas de um casal de amantes. Porém, no passado um trabalho dele provocou a morte de três pessoas, diante desse novo trabalho ele teme que algo parecido aconteça.

Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the capture of an outlaw.

A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.

A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.

A homeless man and woman prepare for and enjoy a special Sunday dinner

A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.

Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.

Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number and reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.

Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity.

Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other.

A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.

Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam.

Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the East Coast blackout of 1965.

Her first television special to feature guest-stars, The Belle of 14th Street celebrates, in ways both comedic and heartfelt, "The Golden Age of Song". A marvelous showcase for such evergreens as Sophie Tucker's "Some Of These Days", "How About Me" (written by "a young new talent" Irving Berlin), the poignant "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", and the sublime "My Buddy" - all classics of the vaudeville era, reinvented by "the greatest star" of our time.