Biography: Peter Riegert |
University of Buffalo graduate, former Bella Abzug campaign worker, and onetime schoolteacher Peter Riegert finessed an early flair for comedy into appearing with an improv troupe called the War Babies. This led to Riegert's Broadway bow in 1975, then... more
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Cast: John Waters
Tags: Comedy Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History Media Studies
Length: 55min
Fans of toilet humor rejoice! In this uncensored documentary tracing the history of taboo busting comedy, personalities like John Waters, Lin Shaye, David Ansen, Peter Riegert, and Stephen Furst all weigh in on their favorite scatological big screen...
Cast: Joseph Sargent
Tags: Drama Showbiz Drama Biopic
Length: 101min
Actor and dancer Gregory Hines served as both executive producer and star for this biographical drama that chronicles the life of legendary entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered...
How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Cast: Kenneth Branagh Lynn Redgrave Peter Riegert
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners
Length: 107min
Somewhere in L.A., Peter (Kenneth Branagh), a washed-up British playwright, struggles to duplicate his past glory as he surfs a foul-smelling tide of disenchantment. His wife, Melanie (Robin Wright Penn), manages to maintain an optimistic outlook even...
Cast: Isabella Rossellini Rita Moreno Eli Wallach
Tags: Family Drama Psychological Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 93min
A man looking for a new purpose in his life finds one that last place he expected in this comedy. Leo Spivak (Peter Riegert) is a man slowly sinking into the quicksand of a midlife crisis. He's become increasingly unsatisfied with his career in...
Cast: Saul Rubinek Brad Garrett
Tags: Comedy Drama Ensemble Film Sports Comedy
Length: 120min
There are people who like to watch a ball game every once in a while, and then there are baseball fans, individuals of rare dedication whose passion for their favorite team defies conventional logic, and this comedy-drama follows a group of fans whose...
Unseen + Untold: Animal House (2003)
Cast: John Landis Karen Allen
Tags: Biography Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History
Length: 60min
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the release of the classic "raunch comedy" National Lampoon's Animal House, the Spike TV cable channel offered this behind-the-scenes special on the making of the film. Amidst a sea of anecdotes concerning...
Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (1998)
Cast: James Farentino
Length: min
The flamboyant novelist who brought the world such deathless literary masterpieces as -Valley of the Dolls and -Once is Not Enough is the subject of this made-for-cable iopic. Michele Lee stars as Jacqueline Susann, a second-string actress and...
Tags: Comedy Drama Psychological Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 94min
For most of its existence, a tightly-knit Massachusetts community has earned its living and gained its identity from the fish industry. Indeed, the North Shore frozen fish company is the town's primary source of income. Sal Matilla (Tony Danza) is the...
Cast: Demi Moore William Fichtner
Tags: Romance Drama Psychological Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 105min
Demi Moore stars in this unusual psychological drama about two women caught between reality and imagination. Marie (Moore) is an American widow trying to raise two children under difficult circumstances in a small town in France. Marty (also played by...
Cast: Stockard Channing Jodie Foster Laura Dern
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 95min
For this TV movie, writer-director Jane Anderson adapted her own play contrasting biological and adoptive mothers. Impoverished and pregnant Wanda LeFauve (Laura Dern) lives in a trailer outside Shreveport with her four children and her unemployed...
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