Biography: Robert Mulligan |
After a stab at studying for the priesthood, Bronx-born Robert Mulligan majored in radio communications at Fordham University. He carried over his radio skills into his WWII service with the Marines, then landed a postwar job in the editorial... more
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Cast: Whoopi Goldberg Freddie Francis
Tags: Coming-of-Age Family Drama Drama
Length: 115min
In this sentimental coming-of-age drama, directed by Richard Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) and written by Mark Medoff (Children of a Lesser God), Whoopi Goldberg plays Clara Mayfield, whom Leona Hart (Kathleen Quinlan) meets up with in Jamaica,...
Cast: Jeff Bridges James Caan Sally Field Claire Trevor Paul Dooley Robert Mulligan
Tags: Romance Fantasy Comedy Fantasy Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 101min
Robert Mulligan directed this Americanized re-make of the successful Brazilian comedy Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Sally Field stars as Kay Villano, a lonely widow of three years who can't forget the memory of her dead husband, Jolly (James Caan)....
Cast: Sam Waterston Reese Witherspoon Gail Strickland
Tags: Romantic Drama Teen Movie Drama Romance Coming-of-Age
Length: 105min
In its elegiac nostalgia for the days of childhood innocence, Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon recalls another of Mulligan's earlier films, To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in a Louisiana backwater town in the 1950s, the film chronicles the...
Tags: Melodrama Adventure Drama Family Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 50min
Older brother Chubby (Paul Sorvino) is a combative, booze-swilling, rough-edged construction worker, following in the footsteps of his brother Tommy (Tony Lo Bianco). Macho in the extreme, these fellows have no time for the sensitive moral quandaries...
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Crime Drama
Length: 106min
The events leading up to the death of a small-time Los Angeles hood provides the basis of this gripping crime drama. The doomed gangster is known as the "key man" because he manages several warehouses containing oodles of pilfered loot. They mobsters...
Cast: Alan Alda Ellen Burstyn
Tags: Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 119min
Based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play of the same name, this film is about George, a married New Jersey accountant (Alan Alda), and Doris, a housewife (Ellen Burstyn). The two accidentally meet in a Californian country inn in 1951. They have an...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 108min
This crime thriller with occult overtones puts a spine-tingling twist on the Jungian psychological notion of "the shadow." In the '30s, Holland and Niles Perry are 10-year-old twins growing up on an idyllic farm in the Connecticut countryside. Niles...
Cast: Michel Legrand
Tags: Americana Period Film Drama Coming-of-Age Romance
Length: 102min
A surprise success in 1971 (20 million worth of "surprise"), The Summer of '42 is a coming-of-age piece, drenched in nostalgia. Director Robert Mulligan narrates the film as the grown-up counterpart of Hermie (Gary Grimes), a teenager of the War Years...
The Pursuit of Happiness (1970)
Cast: Barbara Hershey
Tags: Crime Drama Prison Film Drama
Length: 93min
William Popper (Michael Sarrazin) is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter....
Cast: Gregory Peck Eva Marie Saint Robert Forster
Tags: Western Indian Western
Length: 109min
Adapted from a novel by Theodore V. Olsen, The Stalking Moon opens in the Arizona of the Old West, as the U.S. calvary is in the process of relocating Native Americans to reservations. One of the calvary men is Sam Varner (Gregory Peck), an aging...
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