Arthur Allan Seidelman
Рождение : , The Bronx, New York, U.S
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Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor.
Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, Poker Alice, A Friendship in Vienna, Grace and Glorie, Harvest of Fire, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A Christmas Carol-The Musical; episodes of series such as Fame, The Paper Chase, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., L.A. Law, and A Year in the Life, among others; and several episodes of the ABC Afterschool Special series. The latter won him two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Direction in Children's Programming. He received additional Emmy nominations for Hill Street Blues, I Love Liberty, and as host of the PBS series Actors on Acting. He also has won the Writers Guild of America Award for his contribution to the 1982 all-star variety special I Love Liberty, featuring Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Fonda, and Dionne Warwick, as well as two Christopher Awards. He has also won The Peabody Award, the Humanitas Award, The Western Heritage Award and numerous awards from international film festivals, including the Milagro Award for the Best American Independent Film for The Sisters. Seidelman most recently guest starred in the final episode of ER.
Seidelman's Broadway career has been less successful. Billy, a 1969 musical adaptation of Billy Budd, closed on opening night. Vieux Carré, a 1977 play by Tennessee Williams, ran for six performances, and in 2003, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks closed less than two months after it began previews. He directed a revival of The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera in 1991. He has had considerable success off-Broadway with acclaimed productions of The Ceremony of Innocence, by Ronald Ribman, Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets and Hamp by John Wilson, among others. He directed Madama Butterfly for Santa Barbara Opera and The Gypsy Princess for Opera Pacific. In Los Angeles, he has directed major revivals of Hair, Of Thee I Sing, Mack and Mabel, The Boys From Syracuse, Follies and others. For regional theatres, he has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, A Man for All Seasons, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and The Tempest, among others. In addition, he served as the Administrator of the Forum Theatre (now the Mitzi Newhouse) for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center and as Artistic Director of Theatre Vanguard in Los Angeles.
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A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.
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Based on the 1891 play "Spring Awakening," this filmed stage drama examines the tensions and confusion of young people as their growing sexual awareness conflicts with the repressive social environment around them. The passionate kiss between two males might be the first envisioned for the stage since Christopher Marlowe's between Edward II and Gaveston.
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Этот обычный день не предвещал ничего необычного. Утром мама отправила дочку в школу и поехала на работу, в банк. Вечером она получает конверт с фотографиями своего ребенка и анонимным письмом о том, что девочка украдена… Похитители требуют, чтобы мать вскрыла одну банковскую ячейку и передала им ее содержимое. Только так она сможет получить свое дитя обратно. Женщина, понятное дело, ради дочери согласна на все. Открыв нужную ячейку, она обнаруживает карту памяти, на которой хранится видеозапись, компрометирующая сотрудников прокуратуры…
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Tired of living a closeted life on the Lakota Indian reservation, a young gay man must summon up the courage to leave the only home he's ever known and strike his own path.
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Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
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Прошло семь лет с того дня накануне Рождества, когда Скрудж похоронил своего друга и делового партнера. За это время одиночество Скруджа превратилось в полное неприятие окружающего мира. Но в канун этого Рождества к Скруджу являются три Рождественских Призрака - Прошлого, Настоящего и Будущего. С их помощью он понимает, что если не откроет свое сердце раскаянию и прощению, то может окончательно упустить свой последний шанс полюбить и быть любимым...
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Прайс — наемный убийца, давно работает на ЦРУ, но когда он совершает не разрешенное начальством убийство, у его куратора не остается никакого другого выбора, как только начать на него охоту. Прайс решает уйти в Мексику и уговаривает писателя — неудачника и его жену отвезти его до границы…
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The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.
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When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, home, the Pacific and redemption.
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At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the town's new sheriff, Frank Richards (Dean Cain), to reopen the investigation of the unsolved murders of three black men. While the town would prefer that the truth remain hidden, the sheriff pursues the case, determined to see justice prevail. The Runaway is a stirring story of how friendship, determination and conviction can generate racial change in one heart or an entire town.
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Еще совсем недавно Джоанна твердо знала, что она - удачливая журналистка и идеальная жена, только что отпраздновавшая десятую годовщину свадьбы. Но когда муж бросил ее ради другой женщины, мир Джоанны рухнул. Она решила, что нужно на время уехать как можно дальше от дома.
И отправилась в Париж, чтобы взять интервью у «мадам» Симон, преуспевающей хозяйки службы высокооплачиваемых девушек по вызову. Утонченная и искушенная наставница молодых обольстительных красавиц, Симон быстро находит подход к Джоанне. И обнаруживает, что под покровом отчужденности скрывается очень ранимая женщина, которая хочет быть любимой и желанной.
Общение с Симон и чудесный, волнующий кровь парижский воздух помогают Джоанне вновь обрести веру в себя и открыть душу для счастья и любви.
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An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.
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When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a bond and learn about life.
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Quarreled sisters; Sarah and Wanda inherit property from their mother. It has always belonged to the family. Sarah insists on selling it as soon as possible because she has many difficulties. She goes there with her daughter; Gina. Wanda, on the other hand, wants to keep the property in family. They soon discover that it's not abandoned. Old lady, Lilly Cooper has been living there for many years and doesn't want to leave the house, at least, not as long as she can meet her son.
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A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted concerning her family life was a lie.
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Очень качественная лента с крепкой драматургией, уверенной режиссурой и великолепной игрой всех актеров. Действие происходит в небольшом городе в одном из южных штатов во время второй мировой войны, которая почти не коснулась жителей, разделенных по расовому признаку. В семье адвоката Темпла Рэйберна умирает пожилая чернокожая служанка Розетта и перед смертью просит жену Темпла пообещать позаботиться о ее недоразвитом сыне Бене Тайлере. Будучи добрыми людьми, они вынуждены приютить его в подвале своего небольшого дома. Местный богач и владелец фабрики мистер Мэйтлэнд выдвигает Рэйберна в кандидаты в Сенат, имея далеко идущие планы на человека, который всего в жизни добился собственным трудом.
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In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community that little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.
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В грузовой космический корабль врезается метеорит. Командир, узнавший об этом за пару минут до катастрофы, бросает экипаж, вылетев на спасательной шлюпке. Связь нарушена, кислорода хватит только на троих человек из пяти, находящихся на борту. Двое должны «уйти», но решать свою судьбу простой жеребьёвкой кое-кому не хочется, ведь речь идёт о жизни и смерти. Кто выживет?
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Увлекающийся фотографией старшеклассник, влюбленный в самую роскошную девчонку в школе, узнает, что та должна встретиться у реки со своим парнем - естественно, самым популярным спортсменом школы. Зная, что купаться они будут без купальников, он прихватывает с собой фотоаппарат и устраивается поблизости на дереве.
В том же месте парень, испытывающий материальные трудности, договорился продать фальшивые акцизные марки, найденные им в пустыне у разбитого самолета, двум аферистам. В результате те похитили и марки, и деньги, и девчонку, за которую потребовали выкуп с папаши-банкира в четверть млн. долларов.
Юноша находит парня и, показав снимки у реки, убеждает его (ветерана Вьетнама), помочь ему вернуть любимую девушку. Далее следуют комедийные приключения, в ходе которых ребята становятся друзьями.
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A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the nightmares are related to that crime. She enlists the help of two San Francisco police officers to help solve the old murder.
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The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
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In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.
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An assistant district attorney's (Phylicia Rashad) co-worker lover (Philip Michael Thomas) plans to prove her wrong about a case.
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In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...
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Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
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Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their money. When a number of his 'victims' ...
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A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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She's a New Orleans gambler with a poker face no man can resist. And when she unwittingly wins a "house of ill repute" in a high-stakes card game, things start moving like a runaway train.
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One night, an unusual stranger in need (Malcolm McDowell) asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.
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Три приятеля встречаются через двадцать лет после окончания школы. Джэк Сэндерс, неудачник, много задолжавший своим кредиторам, уговаривает Джона и Джеральда отправиться в Лас-Вегас, захватив при этом украденные 25000$. Друзья надеются не только выиграть достаточно денег для оплаты долгов Джека, но и сами немного подзаработать. За два дня, в которые они ухитряются выиграть, а затем просадить 150000$, одинокий Джон находит свою любовь - официантку, помешанную на фильмах ужасов, застенчивый Джеральд с помощью проститутки побеждает импотенцию, а невезучего Джэка... преследуют гангстеры, кредиторы и разъяренные женщины.
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A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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When two single parents remarry, their teenaged son and daughter begin developing an unexpected attraction to each other.
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Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
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An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.
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Laurie is 15 and she thinks she's pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't care. Her mother doesn't know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?
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An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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High school senior discovers his summer girlfriend has given birth to his child, and decides to fight for custody.
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The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
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The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
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После долгой жизни на Олимпе Геркулеc, незаконнорожденный сын Зевса, вопреки желанию отца, отправляется на Землю и оказывается в Нью-Йорке. Но для человека, который жил в Греции нелегко привыкнуть к современной жизни…
Mr Bolivar Alvarez
