Larry Peerce
Рождение : 1930-04-19, The Bronx, New York, U.S.
История
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Lawrence "Larry" Peerce (born April 19, 1930) is an American film and TV director whose work includes the theatrical feature Goodbye, Columbus, the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, One Potato, Two Potato (1964), The Other Side of the Mountain (1975), and Oscar nominee Two-Minute Warning (1976).
The son of operatic tenor Jan Peerce and talent agent Alice (Kalmanowitz) Peerce, Larry Peerce was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York. He attended the University of North Carolina. He made his directing debut with One Potato, Two Potato, released in 1964 by the distributor Cinema V. The groundbreaking drama about an interracial marriage between a white divorcee (played by Barbara Barrie, who won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival for the role) and an African-American office worker (Bernie Hamilton) was the first U.S. movie to portray such an interracial relationship.
Peerce went on to direct several episodes of the Western television series Branded and the campy superhero series Batman, among other shows, before directing the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, released in 1966 by American International Pictures and featuring such performers as The Byrds, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Ronettes and The Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
Following more TV, Peerce returned to film in 1967 with The Mystery of the Chinese Junk and The Incident, the latter of which starred Martin Sheen and Tony Musante. He followed this with the acclaimed Goodbye, Columbus, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel. The movie earned Peerce a DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, and screenwriter Arnold Schulman an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
Peerce's subsequent theatrical features included The Sporting Club, A Separate Peace, Ash Wednesday, and The Other Side of the Mountain. Peerce's work is frequently viewed as part of the expressive sentimental directorial style with a particular focus on coming-of-age stories.
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A couple, secretly on the verge of announcing plans to divorce, reluctantly depart for a second honeymoon after their family surprises them with a tropical trip as a gift for their 20th wedding anniversary.
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Cassie's husband was just involved in a plane crash and is in a coma. The airline says his wife was killed in the accident. The two have a young daughter together. Cassie must decide if she can accept David's child by another woman.
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In the sleepy town of Vine Creek, preacher and volunteer fireman Joe Cass wakes up to realize his family and community are at a breaking point. Joe decides to take control of his life and must prove his bravery when he is called to save a child trapped inside a burning building. Lost inside the inferno, a mysterious fireman helps them to safety and quickly disappears. As Joe waits for the mystery fireman to come forward, rumors circulate throughout Vine Creek that the apparition was an angel sent from above.
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Two years after her last failed relationship, Emily Vale has stopped believing in love. This brings her to the attention of Venus who sends her son Cupid down to Earth to pierce her with an arrow in the hope of changing her mind. Unfortunately, the handsome but hapless Cupid misses and the arrow strikes his own heart making him fall hopelessly in love with Emily. Thus he is granted temporary leave from paradise in order to pursue her. However, not only does he have a limited time on Earth, but also Emily's last boyfriend, the handsome but sleazy Ted has just shown up intent on winning her back. Which one will Emily choose? And is she ready to open her heart and accept love into her life once more?
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У мальчика Билли все плохо. Он поссорился с сестренкой. Его папе грозит увольнение. И в баскетбол Билли все время проигрывает. Но стоило ему расплакаться и выкрикнуть в сердцах «Не верю в Санта-Клауса!», как начинаются рождественские чудеса…
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Kate finds herself in harrowing danger when her cop ex-husband, Paul, will stop at nothing to get her back -- and the harassment, which includes sexual assault and battery, doesn't end because the authorities won't hear of it. Also at the receiving end of the maniacal stalker is Kate's boyfriend, Dan.
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A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies.
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Фильм основан на реальных событиях. После Второй мировой войны кавалерия отжила свой век. Генерал Макартур приказал заменить кавалерию бронетанковыми войсками, а лошадей уничтожить. Уничтожали лошадей зверски - просто расстреливали из пулеметов. Несколько кавалеристов не смогли этого вынести, взбунтовались и угнали 500 своих боевых "товарищей", чтобы отдать их индейцам. По их следу были посланы войска с приказом задержать или уничтожить. Дочь старого полковника, бывшего командира их кавалерийской части, подняла шум в прессе. Вопрос о судьбе лошадей стал вопросом чести.
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Margaret Mitchell, portrayed as rebellious and spirited as Scarlett O'Hara, grows up in a comfortably middle-class Atlanta home, absorbing her grandmother's stories of the Civil War and the burning of their city by the Yankees. Young Peggy, as she likes to be called, goes to Smith College in Massachusetts and hates it. Back in Atlanta, her mildly scandalous reputation is made more so by her first marriage, to Red Upshaw, a bootlegging rake. Later, her second husband encourages her to expand her writing talents beyond feature articles for The Atlanta Journal. Her first and only novel becomes one of the best-selling books of all time.
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A hometown heartthrob (Harry Hamlin) marries the local beauties and then poisons them in this true story of a real lady killer. His ex-wife suspects that he is responsible for the death of his latest wife, and enlists the help of a detective to prove her right.
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Семья священника усыновляет сестричку с братиком – Кэт и Эрика. Мальчик – нежное и любящее существо, но сестричка подвержена вспышками необъяснимой ярости, а страдает от этого, прежде всего, маленький человек постоянно находящийся рядом с ней – ее брат.
Положение становится еще более критическим, когда в голове Кэт зреет план убийства не только своего брата, но и отца.
Приемные родители изо всех сил стараются помочь и понять девочку, пытаются уберечь Эрика, но для этого, прежде всего, надо узнать тайну, которая явилась причиной такого поведения…
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Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. But when she suddenly falls dead on a party after having a sandwich, the main suspect is Susan, who served her the food. The handsome detective Joe Russo interrogates her repeatedly and they become friends. He invites her to help him with the investigation, what she happily accepts - too happily, says her husband.
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A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
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New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
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The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
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The story of Priscilla's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
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Queenie was an ABC miniseries, adapted from the eponymous novel by Michael Korda, which is based loosely on the life of his aunt, actress Merle Oberon. A half-caste beauty emigrates from India to Great Britain, pursues fame and fortune at the cost of personal happiness, and becomes a Hollywood movie star while suppressing the truth of her heritage.
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The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.
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A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
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Jamie Roberts is a rock star living the highlife when he falls for an intellectual child psychologist who only has ears for classical music. Opposites attract, but his jealous ex-girlfriend isn't ready to give up so easily.
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Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies with three different men in attendance of being married to them. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband Phil.
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It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.
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Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.
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Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
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The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
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A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.
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Невероятно трогательная правдивая история о том, как начать жить заново, лишившись всего, включая власть над собственным телом, с участием Бо Бриджеса и Мэрилин Хэсет . Талантливая, многообещающая лыжница Джилл Кинмонт могла одолеть любую гору и самый крутой склон. У нее был успех, поклонники, жених и многообещающая спортивная карьера. Пока однажды трагический случай накануне Олимпийских игр круто не изменил ее жизнь...
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A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
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Стареющая женщина Барбара Сойер решается на болезненную косметологическую операцию в надежде стать более привлекательной для своего мужа Марка, и спасти свой брак, который находится на грани развода.
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Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives
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The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
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Экранизация одноименной повести американского писателя Филипа Рота, за которую (вместе с еще 5 рассказами, вошедшими в книгу) автор получил Национальную книжную премию в 1960 году, когда ему было всего 26 лет. Каждое из произведений посвящено различным жизненным проблемам второго и третьего поколения ассимилировавшихся американских евреев. Как и более известный (возможно, скандально) российскому читателю роман "Случай портного" / "Portnoy’s Complaint " (1969, рус. перев. 2001) книга посвящена рефлексиям еврейского юноши над невозможностью обрести счастье в силу слишком еврейского воспитания... В данном случае - избранницы. Она - типичная еврейско-американская принцесса, ее родители, сами добившиеся благосостояния тяжелым трудом, ни в чем ей не отказывают, поскольку она их никогда не разочаровывала.
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В ночном нью-йоркском метро два хулигана вваливаются в один из полупустых вагонов и начинают третировать пассажиров. Одни, парализованные страхом перед отморозками, нервно ждут своей остановки, другие, молча, наблюдают со стороны и не решаются вмешаться. Но очередь дошла до каждого, и ночная поездка превратилась в настоящий террор, который надо было найти смелость остановить.
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The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.
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Dick Tracy must save a trio of ambassadors who have been kidnapped by Mr. Memory. Pilot for Dick Tracy TV show from Batman's William Dozier.
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Live performances by some of the top rock-and-roll acts of the mid 60s. Includes Ray Charles, The Byrds, Joan Baez, Ike and Tina Turner, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, and several more.
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Действие происходит в Соединенных Штатах Америки в 1960-е годы. Джули вторично выходит замуж и ее второй муж - негр Фрэнк Ричардс. Они поселились на ферме, принадлежащей родителям Фрэнка. Сам Фрэнк работал в городе и хорошо зарабатывал. Джули и ее дочь от первого брака были счастливы в новой семье. Девочка, окруженная любовью, воспитывалась в идеальных условиях. Но первый муж Джули, Джо Каллен, узнав, что его дочь растет в негритянской семье, возбуждает дело против Джули, требуя вернуть ему дочь…
