Biography: Richard Jordan |
Immediately upon his graduation from Harvard, actor Richard Jordan made the first of his over 100 New York stage appearances. Jordan's theatrical credits include a number of directorial assignments and eight years with Joseph Papp's New York... more
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Cast: Martin Sheen Jeff Daniels Ken Burns
Tags: Historical Epic Epic Historical Film
Length: 248min
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel -The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's novel, director Ronald Maxwell focuses on a handful of major players to dramatize the events of July 1863, when the armies of...
Tags: Drama Urban Drama
Length: 104min
Set in Chicago, Heaven is a Playground is about an inner-city basketball coach and a young lawyer who set out to save a group of teen-aged boys from crime and drugs by giving them athletic scholarships and teaching them basketball. ~ Stephen Thomas...
Tags: Political Thriller Drama
Length: 93min
In this political thriller, an ambitious press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Raul Julia
Tags: Drama Message Movie Biopic Docudrama
Length: 102min
In El Salvador in the late '70s, the wealthy few rule the impoverished many. To maintain the status quo against peasant insurgents and labor organizations, the military regime brutalizes the populace, in particular, rebels who espouse Marxism....
Cast: John Travolta Heather Graham
Tags: Drama Teen Movie Musical Drama
Length: 93min
John Travolta stars as a hip music teacher in this old-fashioned pseudo-musical set in 1955, the dawn of the rock n' roll era. Travolta is Jack Cabe, a musician on the run in Texas for murdering a man during a recording session. Attempting to elude...
The Murder of Mary Phagan (1987)
Cast: Jack Lemmon Kevin Spacey Maurice Jarre
Tags: Crime Drama Docudrama Drama
Length: 251min
The made-for-TV The Murder of Mary Phagan is an account of the real-life events fictionalized in the 1937 theatrical feature They Won't Forget. In 1913, Atlanta-area teenager Mary Phagan (Wendy J. Cooke) is found murdered. Although the evidence points...
Cast: Robert Culp
Tags: Crime Thriller Action Crime
Length: 96min
After he finds himself the target of mysterious assassins, an amnesiac (Michael Biehn) convinces a psychiatrist (Patsy Kensit) to help him remember his past. It would seem he was involved in a CIA operation that the agency does not want him to reveal....
The Secret of My Success (1987)
Cast: Michael J. Fox John Williams Herbert Ross Margaret Whitton Helen Slater
Tags: Farce Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 110min
Released at the height of his popularity on Family Ties and in the wake of Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox stars in this "country boy in the big city" comedy, directed by Herbert Ross. After making the move from Kansas to New York...
Cast: Jami Gertz Lukas Haas
Tags: Science Fiction Sci-Fi Adventure
Length: 95min
A futuristic dystopia is the setting for this tale about good versus evil and a magical space-sphere out to reestablish a civilized society. An orphanage in a bleak and deserted landscape imprisons a large group of youngsters who have divided into...
Cast: Harvey Keitel Frank Langella Roy Scheider
Tags: Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 100min
Based on a 1981 book by Leonard Michaels, focuses on a lawyer (Richard Jordan) who brings together a singularly dysfunctional group of men in a kind of venting, loquacious therapy session. All that talk brings out the worst in everyone. Cavanaugh (Roy...
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