Biography: Glenn Jordan |
Yale Drama School graduate and Café La Mama veteran Glenn Jordan has been an "A"-list TV director since his work on the 1971 PBS production Hogan's Goat. Jordan's many prestigious TV-movie assignments have included Frankenstein (1973), Les Miserables... more
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Length: 150min
From the same production team responsible for the highly regarded 2000 Judy Garland TV iopic comes this equally elaborate and very thorough (if not 100-percent accurate) filmed iography of Lucille Ball. Using the 1960 breakup of the marriage between...
Cast: Jack Lemmon
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 91min
75-year-old retired cabinetmaker Thomas Gerrin (Jack Lemmon) has been a widower for three years, during which time his well-meaning children have insisted upon treating him as a helpless invalid. Determined to prove that the spark of life still burns...
Cast: Glenn Jordan
Length: min
The made-for-cable feature Midwives was based on the Oprah Book Club selection by Christopher A. Bohjalian. Set in the 1980s, the films stars Sissy Spacek as Sibyl Danforth, a midwife in the town of Reddington, VT. Already under fire for pursuing an...
Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End (1999)
Cast: Christopher Walken Glenn Close Jack Palance Ralf Bode
Tags: Adventure Drama Family Drama Rural Drama
Length: 120min
This follow-up to the acclaimed made-for-TV movies Sarah, Plain and Tall and Skylark finds Sarah (Glenn Close) and her husband Jacob (Christopher Walken) dealing with the trials of life on their Kansas farm in 1918. Jacob must contend with the...
Cast: Truman Capote Patty Duke Piper Laurie
Tags: Period Film Drama Childhood Drama Holiday Film Slice of Life
Length: 96min
Made for television, A Christmas Memory is adapted from the wistful short story by Truman Capote, previously filmed in 1967 as a one-hour episode of ABC Stage 67. Capote himself narrated the original version, in which he recalled his lonely childhood...
Cast: James Garner Kathleen Turner Mary-Louise Parker
Tags: Courtroom Drama Comedy Drama Satire
Length: 105min
Made by and for the TNT cable network, this sharp, satirical courtroom drama skewers the increasingly symbiotic relationship between the judicial system and popular media. The story centers on the trial of a famous model (Gina Gershon) who has been...
Length: min
To their friends and neighbors, the Stapps were the "perfect" family--at least until, for no apparent reason, 18-year-old Jimmy Stapp (Peter Fanicelli) committed suicide. The focus in this heartwrenching made-for-TV movie is not on Jimmy but on the...
Tags: Message Movie Drama
Length: 95min
A man facing AIDS has to deal with the personal and social ramifications of the disease in this made-for-television movie. John Lithgow was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of twin brothers, one of whom is a teacher diagnosed with AIDS. The...
Cast: Candice Bergen
Tags: Drama
Length: min
This provocative made-for-television drama centers on a community's reaction when an aging widow becomes emotionally attached to a slightly retarded young man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Alan Alda Neil Simon Lolita Davidovich Anne Archer
Tags: Drama Marriage Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 93min
Assembled by the same team responsible for "The Hallmark Hall of Fame", this TV adaptation of Neil Simon's hit play ~Jake's Woman stars Alan Alda, recreating his Broadway role as Simon-esque writer Jake. Mired in an unhappy marriage with current...
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