Biography: Peter Yates |
British director Peter Yates graduated from his early-'60s low-budget feature debut, the musical comedy Summer Holiday (1963), starring Cliff Richard and the Shadows, to the superb hriller Robbery (1967) with Stanley Baker. It was a short jump to the... more
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Tags: Period Film Psychological Drama Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 91min
John Knowles' celebrated allegorical novel has been given a new screen interpretation in this made-for-cable adaptation. Gene (J. Barton) and Finny (Toby Moore) are two students at an upscale prep school during World War II; like their fellow...
Cast: Michael Caine Peter Yates Buck Henry James Spader Maggie Smith
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Haunted House Film Fantasy Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 105min
In this romantic comedy with supernatural touches, Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) works for a large publishing house, editing and acquiring new projects. Lowe's new boss is after him to buy fewer books that are good and more books that will sell, while...
Tags: Romantic Adventure Romantic Comedy Adventure Romance
Length: 135min
In this film, young, headstrong Margaret Harwood (Penelope Ann Miller) is entrusted with a business assignment by her wine merchant father. While taking an inventory of the contents of the wine cellar of a Scottish estate, Margaret discovers an...
Cast: Bob Hoskins Isabella Rossellini
Tags: Costume Adventure Adventure
Length: 150min
A crusade for decency and truth is mounted by a man gone mad (or has he?) in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Alonso Quijano decides that it is time to devote his life to battling evil in all its forms; he dubs...
Tags: Prison Film Drama
Length: 113min
In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. Then, one day, Jimmie decides to take a shower. While scrubbing himself clean, two crooked cops are...
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Cast: Jessica Tandy Jeff Daniels
Tags: Political Thriller Romantic Mystery Thriller
Length: 111min
Yes, there are commies under the bed. But are there Nazis there too? Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) is a modestly successful Life photo editor living in 1950s New York, until she is called before the Senate Un-American Activities Committee to testify...
Cast: Albert Finney
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance Coming-of-Age Drama
Length: 109min
One of two 1995 films from British director Peter Yates that shared strong thematic and story similarities (the other was Roommates), this drama intertwined political and generational conflict for an unusual tale of teen romance in Ireland. Albert...
Cast: Cher
Tags: Courtroom Drama Mystery
Length: 101min
British filmmaker Peter Yates directs Suspect, a suspenseful courtroom drama set in Washington, D.C. After a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and a Justice Department secretary is found dead, a deaf-mute homeless veteran, Carl Wayne Anderson...
Cast: Peter Falk Julianne Moore
Tags: Odd Couple Film Family Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 108min
In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did it again, twice, in the TV movie remake of The Sunshine Boys (1995) and this film, a comedy-drama. Falk stars as Rocky...
Tags: Psychological Drama Political Drama Drama Historical Film
Length: 135min
Based on the autobiographical novel by Nicholas Gage, Eleni traces Gage's search for the truth behind the execution of his Greek mother Eleni. John Malkovich plays Gage (herein referred to only as Nick), a New York Times journalist assigned to cover a...
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