Biography: Jonathan Kaplan |

Parisian-born American film director Jonathan Kaplan may have held degrees from the University of Chicago and New York University, but he gained his hands-on education at the Roger Corman School of Makin' 'Em Cheap. Kaplan apprenticed at Corman's New... more
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Cast: Jonathan Kaplan   
Tags: Melodrama Drama Prison Film 
Length: 100min
Two carefree Americans embark on an overseas vacation that soon becomes a nightmare in this powerful drama. Alice (Claire Danes) is a headstrong teenager who wants to do something different to celebrate her high school graduation, so she persuades her...

Cast: Drew Barrymore Ralf Bode   
Tags: Revisionist Western Buddy Film Feminist Film Western 
Length: 99min
Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines. They all start out as prostitutes, as Cody (Stowe) shoots a drunken colonel who attempts to...

Cast: Tom Cruise Alfonso CuarĂ³n   
Tags: Drama Mystery Crime 
Length: 90min
This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the...

Tags: Drama Juvenile Delinquency Film 
Length: 85min
Crime, sex, and the 100-yard-dash are the ingredients of this tongue-in-cheek drama about kids in trouble. Donna Patterson (Aimee Graham) is in love with Vince (Matt LeBlanc) -- so much so that when he gets in trouble with the law, she willingly takes...

Cast: Kurt Russell Madeleine Stowe   
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller 
Length: 107min
After their Los Angeles suburban house is burglarized, Karen and Michael Carr (Madeleine Stowe and Kurt Russell), are assisted by policeman Pete Davis (Ray Liotta). At first, Davis seems helpful and polite, even helping the Carrs when he is off duty....

Cast: Truman Capote Sam Neill   
Tags: True Crime Crime Crime Drama Docudrama 
Length: 140min
Jonathan Kaplan remakes Richard Brooks' 1967 masterpiece that takes the viewer inside the mind of a pair of killers during a shocking murder of a farm family in 1950s Kansas. Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts star in this version. ~ Jonathan Crow, All...

Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer Jerry Goldsmith   
Tags: Chase Movie Romantic Drama Drama Road Movie 
Length: 104min
Jonathan Kaplan directs this drama which grafts a nostalgic mood piece with a race-to-the-finish road movie. Lurene Hallett (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an insulated middle-class wife living in Texas in the early 1960s who adores the Kennedys, particularly...

Cast: Helen Hunt Matthew Broderick   
Tags: Comedy Drama Animal Picture 
Length: 107min
Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to teach the chimps how to operate a flight simulator, discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of...

Cast: Glenn Close James Woods Kevin Dillon Mary Stuart Masterson   
Tags: Family Drama Drama 
Length: 99min
Glenn Close and James Woods star in this artery-clogging schmaltz about a childless couple who desperately want to have a baby. Linda (Close) and Michael Spector (Woods) are an upscale couple who have everything -- except a child. Linda mists over...

Cast: Jodie Foster   
Tags: Message Movie Courtroom Drama Drama 
Length: 110min
Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local...

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