Biography: Robert M. Young |
New York-born Robert M. Young began his directorial career in association with Michael Roemer in 1960 with a documentary on sit-ins for the NBC White Paper series. This was followed by a documentary on Angola. In 1962, their controversial documentary... more
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Cast: Jane Horrocks Robbie Coltrane
Tags: Drama
Length: 93min
Made for British television, Alive and Kicking is the bleak but compelling story of two druggies. Smudgen (Lenny Henry) is not only a user but a dealer; his wife Marie (Annabelle Apsion) is in what seems to be a perpetually strung-out state. When...
China: The Panda Adventure (2001)
Tags: Docudrama Animal Picture Drama
Length: 48min
In this visually striking tale of adventure, Ruth (Maria Bello) is an American widow who during the 1930s travels to China in hopes of making her late husband's dream a reality by bringing Chinese pandas to the United States. Ruth is awed by the...
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Workplace Comedy
Length: 95min
Featuring a mixture of live-action and animation, this quirky comedy comes from director Robert M. Young (Caught). Robert Knott and Xander Berkeley star as Dobbitt and Hanrahan, two working stiffs who have left their families and homes behind for jobs...
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis Todd Graff Ray Liotta David Strathairn
Tags: Drama Melodrama Family Drama
Length: 96min
Dominick Luciano (Thomas Hulce) is the moderately retarded twin brother of highly intelligent young intern Eugene (Ray Liotta). Anxious to become a successful doctor, Eugene finds he must devote most of his time to caring for Dominick. For his part,...
Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso Sonia Braga
Tags: Sports Drama Family Drama Drama
Length: 93min
Milcha Sanchez-Scott adapted her own play for this moving and poetic tale of family obsessions directed by Robert M. Young. Edward James Olmos stars as Gallo, the macho head of the Morales family. He has been in prison for the last seven years for...
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 116min
Love, lust, loyalty, and betrayal are the themes of this tense adult drama. Joe (Edward James Olmos) and Betty (Maria Conchita Alonso) are a married couple living in Jersey City; Joe runs a fish market, and Betty wishes that Joe showed as much...
Tags: Drama
Length: 92min
The made-for-TV We are the Children stars Ally Sheedy as an idealistic doctor, working in Ethiopia. When famine hits the land, Sheedy struggles valiantly to protect the hundreds of men, women and children in the village where she works. While so...
Cast: Edward James Olmos Lorraine Bracco
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 91min
Sammy Bodean is the newest, most promising recruit according to the advertisement of the California Angels--and has to prove it come game time. Following the team's sale to young business whiz Gil Lawrence (Terry Kinney), ex-player Virgil Sweet...
Cast: Tim Curry Diana Rigg Fairuza Balk Charlotte Rae
Tags: Family Children's Fantasy
Length: 70min
Jill Murphy's children's story The Worst Witch is given satisfactory treatment in this amiable film fantasy. The scene is a school for witches, where the head sorceresses offer a liberal black-arts curriculum. Problems occur when one of the students...
Cast: Robert Loggia Willem Dafoe
Tags: Sports Drama War Drama POW Drama War Drama Docudrama
Length: 115min
Triumph of the Spirit is the true story of Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. Arrested while attempting to help his family and friends escape the Nazi juggernaut, Arouch (Dafoe) is slated for...
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