Direction: Richard Pearce

Direction Richard Pearce

Synopsis Director Richard Pearce (The Long Walk Home, Leap of Faith, A Family Thing) traces the musical odyssey of blues legend B.B. King in a film that pays tribute to the city that gave birth to a new style of blues....

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Sissy Spacek · Whoopi Goldberg · Dwight Schultz · Ving Rhames

Synopsis Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King. The story focus is on a white middle class family whose...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Rip Torn · Conchata Ferrell · Barry Primus · Lilia Skala

Synopsis A recent widow (Ferrell) and her daughter travel to Wyoming in 1910, to work as housekeeper for a stern rancher (Torn). Once there she decides to try and homestead a piece of land of her own, but the year that...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Robert Duvall · James Earl Jones · Michael Beach · Irma P. Hall

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Jessica Lange · Sam Shepard · Wilford Brimley · Matt Clark

Synopsis Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Donald Sutherland · Jeff Goldblum · Allan F. Nicholls · Sharon Acker

Synopsis The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics Committee.

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Steve Martin · Debra Winger · Lolita Davidovich · Liam Neeson

Synopsis Jonas is a fraudulent faith healer, who uses all the tricks in the book to con the people attending his shows. Jonas and his team of helpers, including Jane who is in need of some romance, travel the country stopping...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Tom Sizemore · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · Shawn Hatosy · Skye McCole Bartusiak

Synopsis Bobby "Bats" Batton, a South Boston mobster, barely escapes a hit man sent by his boss who's learned that Bobby is cooking the books. Bobby goes to the FBI to trade what he knows for a new identify for himself,...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Glenn Close · Harry Connick Jr. · Rade Serbedzija · Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical about war, love, and racial bigotry is adapted for television in ABC’s entertaining version of SOUTH PACIFIC. Based on the novel TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by James A. Michener, the musical stars Glenn Close...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Richard Gere · Kim Basinger · George Dzundza · Jeroen Krabbé

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Joely Richardson · Ann Cusack · Stacy Keach · Scott Cohen

Synopsis Ripped from the headlines, Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America follows an outbreak of Avian Flu from Hong Kong as it spreads across the globe, mutating into a strain that is passed from human to human - and its spreading...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Mickey Rourke · Dan Futterman · Carlo Alban · Lauren Vélez

Synopsis Griffin Byrne is a newly assigned teacher to a Catholic high school in a inner-city near slum neighbourhood of New York, which is run down by headmaster Father Frank Larkin. There, he meets and tries to help Lee Cortez, a...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Danny Glover · Tom Atkins · Rubén Blades · Jon Cuthbert

Synopsis Ben is prisoner, whose behavior is so violent and erratic that he may be too sick to execute. Dr. Alex Marsh is brought in to calm Ben down, and if he does so, he will certify that he is ready...

Direction Dick Wolf · Caleb Deschanel · Joe Ann Fogle · Constantine Makris

Cast Amy Carlson · Bebe Neuwirth · Kirk Acevedo · Thomas Daniel

Synopsis The series shows the workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment and continuing through the lawyers process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses and defendants for trial. Lennie Briscoe, now retired from the NYPD, joins...

Direction Tom Cohen · Richard Pearce

Direction Dave Mason · Sarah Pia Anderson · Richard Pearce · James Hayman

Cast Kevin Anderson · Ann Dowd · Bruce Altman · Scott Michael Campbell

Synopsis TV Serie (1997-1998). 1 Season. 20 episodes. Kevin Anderson plays Father Ray, a passionate priest/teacher who questions his calling, his existence, and his faith as he deals with the problems of the poor and the troubled.

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Richard Thomas · Julie Kavner · Frances Lee McCain · Norman Alden

Synopsis Two marginally intellectually disabled young adults fall in love and wish to marry.

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Aidan Quinn · Rachel Griffiths · America Ferrera · Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis Tom, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie, a fellow teacher, tries to provide comfort and support. Gradually, they grow to need and depend on each other.

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Lane Smith · Richard Kiley · David Ogden Stiers · Ed Flanders

Synopsis Chronicle of Nixon's last months in the White House. A paranoid power-abuser, but also all too human--a confused, pathetic individual who cannot fully comprehend how, in less than one year, he can lose everything he has worked for in life.