Screenplay: Robert L. Freedman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Robert L. Freedman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


What Makes a Family (TV)

2001 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Maggie Greenwald

Cast Brooke Shields · Cherry Jones · Anne Meara · Al Waxman

Synopsis Co-produced by Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg, the made-for-TV What Makes a Family stars Brooke Shields, cast against type as a woman happily committed to a lesbian relationship. Yearning for a family of their own, Janine Nielsen (Shields) and her...

5.4

141 votes

5.4

141 votes

Cinderella (TV)

1997 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Iscove

Cast Brandy Norwood · Bernadette Peters · Whitney Houston · Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis In this Rogers & Hammerstein musical version of the classical fairy tale, where only the genetic miscasting surpasses the implausibility of most colors and sets, a royal heir is as bored with court life as fascinated with commoners lives, but...

4.2

121 votes

4.2

121 votes

The Pastor's Wife (TV)

2011 · Movie · 87 min. · Canada

Direction Norma Bailey

Cast Rose McGowan · Martin Cummins · Julia Sarah Stone · Lilah Fitzgerald

Synopsis Based on the true story of Matthew Winkler, a beloved minister who, in 2006, was found shot and killed in his Selmer, Tennessee home, his wife and young daughters missing. Authorities soon zeroed in on Matthew's wife, Mary, as the...

3.8

242 votes

3.8

242 votes

Murder in the Hamptons (TV)

2005 · Movie · 120 min. · Canada

Direction Jerry Ciccoritti

Cast Poppy Montgomery · David Sutcliffe · Shawn Christian · Peter Outerbridge

Synopsis When multi-millionaire financier Ted Ammon was bludgeoned to death in his sprawling East Hampton estate in October 2001, the story received a storm of public attention. The tale had all the elements of great opera: passion, obsession, love, hate, money,...

3.7

40 votes

3.7

40 votes

Unlikely Angel (TV)

1996 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Michael Switzer

Cast Dolly Parton · Roddy McDowall · Brian Kerwin · Allison Mack

Synopsis Dolly Parton portrays a country music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on earth - to get a workaholic widower and his children back together again for Christmas.

2.9

24 votes

2.9

24 votes

Locked Up: A Mother's Rage (TV)

1991 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Bethany Rooney

Cast Cheryl Ladd · Jean Smart · Dean Norris · Ariana Richards

Synopsis A recently-divorced woman with children meets a man who seems nice and gives her some cash to hold for him. What she doesn't know is that he is a drug dealer being watched by authorities. He is arrested along with...

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Woman with a Past

1992 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Mimi Leder

Cast Pamela Reed · Dwight Schultz · Richard Lineback · Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashbacks her stations of life until the day the...

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Our Son, the Matchmaker (TV)

1996 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Lorraine Senna

Cast Ann Jillian · David Andrews · Deirdre O'Connell · Drew Ebersole

Synopsis Twenty-three years after being put up for adoption, a young minister finds and reunites his biological parents.

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Direction Jeff Bleckner

Cast Kelly McGillis · Harry Hamlin · Keith Carradine · Holland Taylor

Synopsis After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.

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Direction David Burton Morris · Jesús Salvador Treviño · Juan José Campanella

Cast Craig Wasson · Calista Flockhart · Ben Affleck · Ernie Hudson

Synopsis Based on true stories, this series depicts a variety of important and critical events that can happen in the lives of teenagers.

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Direction Robert Allan Ackerman

Cast Judy Davis · Victor Garber · Hugh Laurie · John Benjamin Hickey

Synopsis The movie starts off at the beginning of Judy Garland's life singing when she was two years old. It jumps to when she was 12 and was signed by MGM and later when her father dies. The movie tells about...

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Honor Thy Mother

1992 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Sharon Gless · William McNamara · Paul Scherrer · Christian Hoff

Synopsis Lieth Von Stein and his wife, Bonnie Von Stein are attacked while sleeping in their Smallwood home in North Carolina. Bonnie Von Stein survived. Lieth was not so lucky. Bonnie has trouble dealing with the fact that her own son,...

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