Karen Arthur

Рождение : 1941-08-24, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

История

Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941) is an American film director, producer, and actress. Arthur has directed three feature films, including Lady Beware (1987) and The Mafu Cage (1978), but the majority of her work has been in television, where she has had a long and prolific career directing television movies and series. In 1985, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.

Фильмы

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Director
После того как её отец получает травму, успешная деловая женщина возвращается к нему, чтобы помогать в его бизнесе — парке развлечений «Санталенд».
Рождественское благословение
Director
Nathan Andrews is all grown up. As a young doctor, Nathan finds himself questioning his career choice, so he goes to his hometown to soul search and reconnect with his father. Once home, a blossoming romance with teacher Megan Sullivan and a fast friendship with student Charlie Bennett teach Nathan to live life in the moment and embrace the time he has with friends and family.
The Locket
Director
A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Passion & Prejudice
Director
When prim and proper New England college professor Gwen Barry (Titanic's Frances Fisher) hires handsome young prison inmate Dalton Roy (Derwin Jordan) to tend her yard through a prison work furlough program, their mentor-student relationship soon turns into a passionate love affair. But when Dalton completes his prison sentence, meets a pretty young college student (Kandyse McClure), and attempts to start over again on his own, Gwen becomes obsessed with remaining a part of Dalton's life or destroying it completely.
Потерянное дитя
Director
Это история женщины, которая уже в зрелом возрасте решила отыскать своих настоящих родителей. Она пытается найти хоть какие — то данные в Интернете и совершенно случайно наталкивается на женщину, которая оказывается ее сестрой.
Labor of Love
Director
Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a child, also feels the pangs of parental yearning. The couple decides to have a naturally conceived child together. Mickey moves in with Annie, but she then meets Gordon, the man of her dreams with whom she has a passionate fling. Annie finds herself pregnant and not exactly sure which of the two men in her life is the father. But commitment-shy Gordon wants nothing to do with the child. Mickey eventually assures Annie that no matter what, he will help raise the child as his, together as a family with Annie.
The Staircase
Director
A mysterious carpenter appears just as a church is in need of repair.
Journey of the Heart
Director
Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is too big, she is a single-mother and her two children are strange. Ray (6) is a hellraiser and Tony (9) is autistic. One day, however, Tony sits down at the piano and plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Janice knows there may be hope for him (and them) yet.
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story
Director
Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
Against Their Will: Women in Prison
Director
Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten year silence is finally broken, exposing the twisted truth to the world and enabling the prisoners the freedom to live without fear.
The Disappearance of Christina
Director
Joe and Christina's marriage is in trouble when they take a sailing trip with their married best friends. On the trip, Christina vanishes and is presumed dead. Joe is suspected of her murder, but he believes Christina isn't dead at all when strange things begin to happen. Joe isn't sure whom he can trust as he discovers disturbing information about his missing wife.
The Secret
Director
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
Shadow of a Doubt
Director
Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has a deep, dark secret. And knowledge of that secret by anyone can prove to be deadly.
Пагубное влечение
Director
Бывший профессор колледжа, фигура с весьма сомнительным прошлым, питает нездоровый интерес к маленьким детям и похищает 8-летнего мальчика. Их ищет полиция, ищет мама, в прошлом самый крутой репортер из "Нью-Йорк Таймс", их пытается убить грязный мафиози. А мальчик тоже оказывается непрост. Ему удается спрятаться, да еще и пожар устроить. И пока все вокруг полыхает огнем, мафиози убивает свою помощницу, профессор закалывает отверткой мафиози, после чего решает покончить жизнь самоубийством и выбрасывается из окна, а мальчик при всем при этом проявляет чудеса изобретательности...
Fall From Grace
Director
Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that they had established in 1987.
Blue Bayou
Director
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
Project: Tinman
Director
A mechanical man with a moral code and soul looking for adventure and his creator after escaping the military. He attempts to discover the reasons why he was created. An action-adventure pilot for ABC, a series that never happened.
Bridge to Silence
Director
A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
Calling the Shots
Self
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Леди, берегись
Director
Главная героиня фильма — Катя Ярно, девушка, которая работает оформителем витрин в американском городе Питтсбург. Катя увлечена своими сексуальными фантазиями — это проявляется и в её работе оформителя: многие мужчины тянутся к её витринам. Но среди них и маньяк-психопат Джек Прайс. Он начинает следить за девушкой, а через некоторое время следуют и его телефонные звонки с угрозами. Однажды когда Катя возвращается домой после встречи с одним журналистом, с которым у неё завязался роман, она к своему удивлению находит у себя дома Джека Прайса…
Cracked Up
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17-year-old track star, John Owens, has never used any drug stronger than pot, until he meets an older woman who introduces him to crack cocaine. He quickly becomes addicted but is able to hide his problem from all except his best friend, Chris.
The Rape of Richard Beck
Director
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the victims he's dealt with on a daily basis, Beck must now confront the tough system he was a part of. As he struggles to regain his status at work, he also must make sure those responsible for his attack are prosecuted.
A Bunny's Tale
Director
A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.
Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story
Director
Before stalking was a well-known crime in North America, there was Theresa Saldana's story. A drifter from the U.K., Arthur Jackson, flies to the U.S. to seek Saldana out. His twisted mission: Jackson planned to murder Saldana, then request the death sentence for himself so he "could join her in paradise". The psychopathic Jackson confronts Saldana on the street in front of her home, and stabs her violently several times. No one comes to Theresa's aid except water deliveryman Jeff Fenn, who overpowers Jackson and gets the knife away from him. Jackson is arrested & charged with attempted murder...and Theresa Saldana tells her story of terror and survival as herself in this TV movie.
Charleston
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Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.
The Mafu Cage
Director
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.
Legacy
Producer
Director Karen Arthur's 1976 tale of a woman's mental breakdown stars Joan Hotchkis.
Legacy
Director
Director Karen Arthur's 1976 tale of a woman's mental breakdown stars Joan Hotchkis.
Победители
Miss Dairy Queen
Гонщик Фрэнк Капуа сражается за победу на гонках Инди-500, стараясь не думать об измене жены, ушедшей к главному сопернику по трассе. Что теперь важнее для него — победить или вернуть любовь супруги.
Руководство для женатых
Lady Dinner Partner at Romanoff's
После 12-ти лет счастливой супружеской жизни Пол Мэннинг вдруг понимает, что его одолела скука. Приятель Эд Стэндер дает Полу совет: ему необходимо развлечься и завести интрижку на стороне, иначе — браку конец. Но порядочный семьянин совсем не готов прибегнуть к таким реанимационным мерам по спасению семьи…