Biography: Adam Arkin |
The oldest of three sons of Broadway star Alan Arkin, American actor Adam Arkin has had stage and movie work, but is best known for his TV assignments. In 1977 Arkin was starred in his first series, the one-season sitcom Bustin' Loose, wherein the... more
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Cast: Ethan Coen Joel Coen Adam Arkin
Tags: Black Comedy Period Film Comedy
Length: 105min
Filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen write, produce, and direct this period lack comedy set in 1967 concerning a Midwestern physics professor whose staid and stable life slowly begins to unravel after his wife announces that she's leaving him. As if...
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 89min
As high school graduation draws near, four high school seniors put their futures on the line to help a friend in desperate need of financial assistance. With a key to the bank and a foolproof plan, how difficult could it be to simply waltz right in,...
Cast: Hume Cronyn
Tags: Comedy Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 95min
In this made-for-cable comedy-drama, a ten-year-old boy (Rory Culkin), who is still coming to terms with the death of his parents, is sent to spend the summer with his aunt (Sherilyn Fenn), who works as a lounge singer at a Florida resort hotel that's...
Cast: Shirley Knight
Tags: Coming-of-Age Drama
Length: 100min
A young girl learns a difficult lesson about the bonds of family in this drama based on the novel for young adults by Kimberly Willis Holt. Tiger Ann Parker (Kelsey Keel) is a girl growing up in the small rural community of Saitter, LA, and she's not...
Cast: Ned Beatty James Garner
Tags: Drama Biopic Period Film
Length: 185min
Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain (James Garner) is invited to be keynote speaker at the Bryn Mawr graduation ceremonies of 1891. At first worried...
Cast: Walter Matthau Meg Ryan Diane Keaton
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama Domestic Comedy
Length: 93min
Diane Keaton directed and starred in this comedy/drama about a family brought together by potential tragedy. In her mid-40s, Eve (Meg Ryan) minds her house, runs a business organizing parties and events for others, and looks after her father (Walter...
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999)
Cast: Ken Burns Charles Durning Julie Harris Sally Kellerman Amy Madigan
Tags: Politics & Government Gender Issues Social History History Biography
Length: 240min
Upon finding a written biography of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, film producers Paul Barnes and Ken Burns (director of "The Civil War") were shocked and outraged that her story -- which is also that of Stanton's longtime...
Cast: David Alan Grier
Length: 86min
Amy Goldstein directs this hip, indie look at the ups and downs of a trio of New York roommates from 1985 to 1995. The film opens as Peter (Patrick Breen), Reggie (Nadine Van Der Velde), and Chart (Scott Kraft) take out a 10-year lease on a musty...
A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Cast: William H. Macy
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Thriller Detective Film Comedy
Length: 94min
Based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake, this seriocomic tale of murder and manipulation stars William H. Macy as nerdish but powerful movie critic Terry Thorpe. During an argument with his lover, Terry accidentally kills the woman, forcing him to go...
Length: 109min
Mark Osborne directs this dark Hollywood satire about TV, suicide, and good lighting. L.A. couch potato Emile (Kent Osborne) gets so much satisfaction from television -- particularly sitcoms and nature documentaries -- that it borders on the indecent....
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