The good luck, bad luck, fates and fortunes of four taxi drivers collide during one night in Manhattan. It's 11:45 P.M. in New York. Lady Luck Cab's night shift begins. And four floaters take to the streets. It starts out as just another night for Mizra, a refugee from Bosnia-Herzegovina who has fled one war for a life-and-death battle of another kind. For jazz-loving free soul, Hershey, it ...
Based on a true story, this charming film, which will appeal to adults and children alike, explores the relationship of the extraordinary black bear who became the inspiration for the stories of A.A. Milne, and the heroic man who saved her life and gave her to the world. August 1914. The outbreak of World War One. The Canadian city of Winnipeg is gripped by a patriotic frenzy. Troops march ...
Based on actual events which occurred in Boston in January 1975, A Case of Deadly Force is a shocking portrayal police corruption and brutality and the courage of one lawyer to stand up to the system. Attorney Lawrence O’Donnel, Sr. (Richard Crenna) is a former cop in the Boston Police Department. Now considered to be a “cop’s” lawyer, O’Donnell remains close to the tight-knit Irish ...
They call it home, their future. It’s a bold frontier for a new settlement of landowners—proud, fiercely independent, and unwilling to abandon their dreams to satisfy the greed of others. But no dreams come easy. If fate were a poker game, then a hand of aces ‘n eights, known in folklore as “a dead man’s hand,” certainly foretells the high stakes of securing those dreams. Another ...
Janet Hamilton (Suzanne Pleshette), a tough police captain with an impeccable reputation, is transferred to "The Sewer," a crime-infested inner city precinct, and charged with the task of cleaning it up by the Chief of Police (Danny Aiello). She gets little support from her own men, many of whom have been thriving, in this lawless wasteland. Sergeant Alan Benson is mysteriously shot while on ...
Who said there are no second acts in life? Here's a true story that proves otherwise, and shows that the road to self-discovery can be a totally unpredictable one. After more than thirty years of marriage Jane (Oscar and Golden Globe winner KATHY BATES, About Schmidt) and Michael Stern (ROBIN THOMAS, The Contender) have reached a standstill in their private life and joint career ...
A family on the mend finds the faith to believe in the impossible. Childhood memories, lost innocence, and enduring love shape the foundation of a family in transition and inspire a miracle that becomes its heart and soul. Sarah Bishop (Tracy Needham, JAG), a struggling, insecure artist and her estranged sister Beth (Natasha Gregson Wagner, Urban Legend), a successful and ambitious ...
This is an eyewitness account written from the darkest depths imaginable-the intimate story of a friend who became a stranger, and the stranger who became one of the most notorious serial killers in the annals of American crime. Ann Rule (Emmy and Golden Globe winner Barbara Hershey, Beaches)is an ex-cop working the suicide hotlines in Seattle. To make ends meet, she indulges in another ...
She's taking to the road to make a lifelong dream come true. And not a soul could stop her. A mother and son, and a father and daughter - explore the family memories that bind them and the sweet hope that drives them toward tomorrow. Widowed only six months, with her late husband's urn never far from her side, sassy sixty-nine-year-old Annie Eason (Emmy winner Betty White, The Golden ...
I was smart, pretty, and had a quick wit. Look what it got me. My sister's two children and a crazy woman. Meet Audrey Walker, a woman secretly searching for a reason to be. Since the suicide of her sister Bess, Audrey (Emmy winner Jean Smart, Designing Women) has become grudgingly resigned to her new fate as caretaker of her emotionally fragile sister Marguerite (Kathleen Wilhoite, E.R.) and ...