Biography: Jon Avnet |
Had prominent Hollywood director/producer Jon Avnet gone into business as originally intended, Hollywood may likely be a very different place today. The man who brought such memorable features as Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and The War (1994) to the... more
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Cast: Robert De Niro
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 100min
Jon Avnet's hriller Righteous Kill stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a pair of Big Apple police officers investigating a series of murders committed by a serial killer. Carla Gugino co-stars as a crime-scene investigator who has romantic ties to...
Cast: Al Pacino
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 107min
Jon Avnet directs Al Pacino in the hriller 88 Minutes. Pacino plays university professor Jack Gramm, who occasionally assists the FBI in matters of forensic psychiatry. His recent testimony against a freshly convicted criminal seems to be the reason...
Cast: Judy Davis
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Slice of Life
Length: 276min
Based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, the six-part miniseries The Starter Wife starred former Will & Grace leading lady Debra Messing as Molly Kagan, an archetypal "Hollywood wife" who for ten years had enjoyed the perks and...
Cast: Donald Sutherland Jon Voight Maurice Jarre Jon Avnet
Tags: Docudrama War Drama War Resistance Film
Length: 210min
Uprising is based on the true story of the Jewish Fighting Organization, a courageous band of youthful Polish guerrillas and freedom fighters who refused to knuckle under to the Nazis during World War II. Led by schoolteacher Mordechai Anielewicz...
Cast: Richard Gere Peter Donat
Tags: Courtroom Drama Political Drama Drama
Length: 122min
The strong anti-China beliefs of actor and political activist Richard Gere were evident in this Hitchcockian thriller that sought to expose the civil and human rights abuses of that country's legal system. Gere stars as Jack Moore, counsel to a large...
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer Robert Redford Kate Nelligan Stockard Channing
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance
Length: 124min
A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and it shares the same screenwriters as those who penned the 1976 version of that film, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. It's...
Cast: Kevin Costner Mare Winningham
Tags: Family Drama Drama War Drama
Length: 125min
Jon Avnet's The War is set in the rural south and brimming with lessons on social consciousness, much like his previous effort, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). During the summer of 1970 in backwoods Mississippi, Stephen Simmons (Kevin Costner) is...
Cast: Jessica Tandy Cicely Tyson Kathy Bates Mary Stuart Masterson
Tags: Comedy Drama Period Film
Length: 130min
A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in...
Length: 95min
The old reliable movie title Between Two Women was activated once more for this made-for-TV film. Farrah Fawcett and Colleen Dewhurst star as, respectively, a domineering ex-opera star and a shy schoolteacher. The ads for the film suggested that...
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