Biography: Norman Jewison |
Receiving his undergraduate education at Malvern Collegiate Institute, Victoria College and University of Toronto, Ontario-born director and producer Norman Jewison also studied piano and music theory at the Royal Conservatory. Following service in... more
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Length: 90min
In this latest of a long string of underground films, Lothar Lambert has chosen to parody himself and the underground film industry, flying Ulrike S. to New York and Toronto for sequences in which she talks to the well-established movie director...
Cast: Jessica Tandy Burt Reynolds Norman Jewison Goldie Hawn
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Marriage Drama
Length: 116min
We'd rather not speculate over how much of Best Friends is autobiographical. We'll just note that this story of a male-female screenwriting team was written by real-life married scenarists Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. Lovers as well as...
Cast: Sylvester Stallone Rod Steiger
Tags: Political Drama Drama Social Problem Film
Length: 145min
F.I.S.T. is author Norman Jewison's chronicle of an innocent and idealistic young man corrupted by power and success as seen through the rise of the United States labor movement. Sylvester Stallone plays a Jimmy Hoffa-inspired figure who rises through...
Cast: John Houseman
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Action Science Fiction Sports Drama
Length: 129min
In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the demise of politics. With the absence of war or conflict, a forcibly passive population's bloodlust is satisfied by a brutal new...
Cast: Al Pacino
Tags: Comedy Drama Satire
Length: 120min
Norman Jewison's blackly satirical look at the American justice system has gained in stature as one of the more incisive social commentaries of its time. Al Pacino plays Arthur Kirkland, an incorruptible attorney who attempts to initiate reforms in...
Tags: Period Film Comedy Drama Musical Drama Musical
Length: 179min
Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yugoslavia). Israeli actor Topol repeats his London stage role as Tevye the milkman, whose equilibrium...
Tags: Religious Drama Musical Drama Rock Musical Musical
Length: 107min
The second Biblical epic to be turned into a musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, this box-office disappointment recounts the last week in the life of Jesus Christ in rock-opera format and from the surprising point of view of...
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Cast: Faye Dunaway Steve McQueen Yaphet Kotto
Tags: Romance Crime Caper Romantic Adventure Chase Movie
Length: 102min
Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all behind. Tired of being part of the Establishment, he has hopes of pulling off the caper and flying to Rio. Erwin Weaver (Jack...
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Cast: Sidney Poitier
Tags: Odd Couple Film Message Movie Police Detective Film Mystery
Length: 109min
The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unusual murder has been committed. Rod Steiger plays sheriff Bill Gillespie, a good lawman despite his...
Cast: Hal Ashby Beau Bridges
Tags: Slapstick Docudrama Biopic Comedy Crime Musical
Length: 106min
Ben Hecht's reminiscences from his youth as a cub reporter in 1910 Chicago makes an uneasy transition to the screen in this Norman Jewison production. During the Galena, Illinois, Independence Day celebration of 1910, Ben Young (Beau Bridges)...
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