Biography: Daniel Petrie |
American director and producer Daniel Petrie first entered show business as an actor. He went on to direct productions on stage, screen, and television. In film, he scored a critical success with the screen adaptation A Raisin in the Sun (1961).... more
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Cast: Gena Rowlands Laura Linney Fred Ward
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Family Drama
Length: 95min
A woman tries to make sense of her relationship with her mother -- who also happens to be her boss and landlady -- in this dramatic comedy. Iris (Laura Linney) has never had an especially warm relationship with her mother Min (Gena Rowlands), but...
Cast: Jack Lemmon George C. Scott Piper Laurie
Tags: Drama Message Movie Courtroom Drama
Length: 120min
The celebrated stage drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the real-life Scopes trial in which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is filmed for the third time in this adaptation produced for the...
Length: 177min
Based on George Dell's 1934 novel ~The Earth Abideth, the two-part CBS TV movie Seasons of Love covers thirty years (1866-1896) in the lives of Kansas farming couple Thomas and Kate Linthorne (Peter Strauss, Rachel Ward). A dynamic, forceful person...
Monday After the Miracle (1998)
Cast: Daniel Petrie Moira Kelly
Tags: Drama
Length: min
This made-for-TV biographical drama was adapted from William Gibson's sequel to his own play ~The Miracle Worker. Moira Kelly and Roma Downey are respectively starred as the teenaged Helen Keller and her teacher and closest friend Annie Sullivan....
Cast: Joan Plowright Armin Mueller-Stahl
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: min
Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of -The Natural. During the Depression, drifter Frank Alpine (Gil Bellows) and hobo Ward...
Cast: Kate Nelligan Michael Moriarty Melvin Van Peebles
Tags: Drama
Length: 97min
Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the made-for-TV Calm at Sunset is a "generation-gap" story with an unusual twist. Instead of causing his family heartbreak by refusing to follow in his dad's footsteps, the protagonist disappoints his family by...
Length: 100min
In this drama, based on a true story, an unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform his high school and ends up unemployed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Frederic Forrest
Tags: Family Adventure Family-Oriented Adventure Animal Picture
Length: 92min
The story of an intelligent, heroic collie and his young owner, previously featured in numerous films and a successful 1950s television series, was updated for the 1990s in this family feature. This time, Lassie is determined to help a cynical city...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr.
Length: 93min
This made-for-cable Disney effort stars Jason Robards as the writer Mark Twain who, in the twilight of his life, met and befriended an 11-year-old girl named Dorothy Quick. Their relationship served as the basis for Quick's autobiographical book...
Cast: Beau Bridges Ron Silver
Tags: Historical Film Drama Biopic Political Drama Docudrama
Length: min
Walter Isaacson's book Kissinger: A Biography served as the basis for this made-for-television movie about the famed political leader. Beau Bridges stars as President Richard Nixon and Ron Silver portrays Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security...
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