Gary Goetzman
Gary Michael Goetzman is an American film and television producer, and co-founder of Playtone with actor Tom Hanks.
Works
The Bloody Hundredth
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
Release Date: 2024-03-14
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 29
A Man Called Otto
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.
Release Date: 2022-12-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2941
'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
CNN Documentary Covering the History and Impact of Christmas Movies and TV
Release Date: 2022-11-27
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2
Mama's Boy
Traveling back to the places where he grew up, Dustin Lance Black explores his childhood roots, gay identity and close relationship with his mother, who overcame childhood polio, abusive marriages and Mormon dogma, while becoming Black’s emotional rock and, ultimately, the inspiration for his activism. With a wealth of personal photographs and candid memories from Black’s family, colleagues, and friends, this documentary embraces the personal to tell a universally hopeful tale of resilience and reconciliation through the power of love and shared stories.
Release Date: 2022-10-18
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 3
The Circle
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
Release Date: 2017-04-27
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4426
Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
On the final nights of a world tour, director Jonathan Demme captures what makes the show soar: gifted musicians, deft dancers and a magnetic star.
Release Date: 2016-09-13
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 46
A Hologram for the King
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Release Date: 2016-04-22
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1148
Ithaca
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
Release Date: 2015-10-29
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 96
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The 29th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony took place on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The 2014 Ceremony was open to the public, as it had been for the Induction Ceremonies in Cleveland (2009, 2012) and Los Angeles (2013). This was the first time that the event was held in New York. With performances by Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens.
Release Date: 2014-05-31
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
Parkland
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.
Release Date: 2013-10-02
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 364
Larry Crowne
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
Release Date: 2011-06-30
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1316
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
On October 29th and 30th, 2009, rock 'n' roll royalty held court at Madison Square Garden for what have been called 'the best concerts ever,' and 'where rock 'n' roll history was made.' The concerts featured a who's who of rock 'n' roll from the '50s to the '90s and included artists performing together in unprecedented combinations that will most likely never be witnessed again. 'The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary Concerts' included sets by Crosby, Stills & Nash; Stevie Wonder; Paul Simon; Simon & Garfunkel; Aretha Franklin; Metallica; U2; Jeff Beck and Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band. Joining this iconic line up on stage were special guests including: Jerry Lee Lewis, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Smokey Robinson, B.B. King, Annie Lennox, Lou Reed, John Fogerty, Mick Jagger, Fergie and others. A 4-hour special of the concerts aired on HBO to high ratings, and was seen by tens of millions. Now this historic event is available on DVD.
Release Date: 2009-11-29
Department: Production
Job: Executive Co-Producer
Vote Count: 15
Where the Wild Things Are
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Release Date: 2009-10-16
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1856
My Life in Ruins
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Release Date: 2009-06-05
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 416
City of Ember
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.
Release Date: 2008-10-07
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1748
Mamma Mia!
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.
Release Date: 2008-07-03
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 6587
The Great Buck Howard
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.
Release Date: 2008-01-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 246
Charlie Wilson's War
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against invading Soviets. The trio's successful efforts to finance these covert operations contributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Release Date: 2007-12-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1507
Evan Almighty
God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Release Date: 2007-06-09
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 4313
The Ant Bully
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
Release Date: 2006-07-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1382
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
In March 2005, Neil Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Four days before he was scheduled for a lifesaving operation, he headed to Nashville, where he wrote and recorded the country folk album Prairie Wind with old friends and family members. After the successful operation and recovery period, he returned to Nashville that August to play at the famed Ryman Auditorium, once again gathering together friends and family for this special performance.
Release Date: 2006-02-17
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 36
The Polar Express
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Release Date: 2004-11-10
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 6434
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Release Date: 2002-04-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2137
Storefront Hitchcock
Live performance by Robyn Hitchcock, in... well, a storefront.
Release Date: 1998-11-18
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 4
Beloved
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Release Date: 1998-10-16
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 101
That Thing You Do!
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Release Date: 1996-10-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 844
Devil in a Blue Dress
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Release Date: 1995-09-29
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 410
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: The Complex Sessions
This half-hour documentary by acclaimed director Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs") captures singer-songwriter Neil Young and his hard-rocking backing band Crazy Horse "live" in the studio playing a set of four songs. These sessions took place at the Complex Recording Studios in Los Angeles on October 3, 1994, just one day after Young's critically-lauded Bridge School Benefit concert. Earlier that year, Young and his band had recorded the studio album "Sleeps with Angels" at the Complex studios and came back to film a series of music videos. Jonathan Demme was there to document the recording session, which began at 6:30 pm on a Monday evening and concluded at 4:30 am the next day. "The Complex Sessions" is the result of these sessions. Set List: 1. My Heart (3:08), 2. Prime of Life (4:44), 3. Change Your Mind (14:56), 4. Piece of Crap (3:08).
Release Date: 1995-03-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3
Philadelphia
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Release Date: 1993-12-22
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Character: Guido Paonessa
Vote Count: 4288
Point Break
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Release Date: 1991-07-12
Department: Sound
Job: Music Supervisor
Vote Count: 3622
The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Release Date: 1991-02-14
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Character: Guido Paonessa (uncredited)
Vote Count: 16576
The Hot Spot
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Release Date: 1990-10-12
Department: Sound
Job: Music Supervisor
Vote Count: 267
Miami Blues
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.
Release Date: 1990-04-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Vote Count: 183
Little Monsters
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.
Release Date: 1989-08-25
Department: Sound
Job: Music Supervisor
Vote Count: 200
Lost Angels
Rich L.A. party brat Tim spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist who has taken an interest in him, will Tim try to pull himself out of the muck of teenage rebellion and ennui?
Release Date: 1989-05-05
Department: Sound
Job: Music Supervisor
Vote Count: 12
Stop Making Sense
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
Release Date: 1984-11-16
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 294
Untitled Cher Biopic
Plot unknown at this time.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
The Prince of Pennsylvania
Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.
Release Date: 1988-10-10
Department: Sound
Job: Music Supervisor
Vote Count: 35
Something Wild
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
Release Date: 1986-11-07
Department: Sound
Job: Music Consultant
Character: Guido Paonessa
Vote Count: 336
Caged Heat
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Release Date: 1974-04-19
Department: Production
Job: Unit Manager
Character: Sparky
Vote Count: 65
Untitled The Polar Express Sequel
20 years after the release of Robert Zemeckis’ The Polar Express, it’s been confirmed that a sequel is now in development.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Beautiful
Film adaptation of the stage musical "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical".
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Carrie Underwood: Reflection
A showcase of Underwood's greatest hits from her nearly 20-year career as an award-winning artist, utilizing extravagant production elements like special effects, pyrotechnics, and state-of-the-art visuals and audio technology.
Release Date: 2025-01-24
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Hung Up on a Dream
A journey trough the 60 year career of The Zombies documenting the formation of the band in the 1960s and their hits “She’s Not There” and “Time Of The Season”. It will also follow the solo careers of the band members and their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Scheduled to be released in the summer of 2023.
Release Date: 2024-11-08
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Masters of the Air
During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
Release Date: 2024-01-25
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 439
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver Gus' journal to his old friends.
Release Date: 2023-09-07
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 167
The 2010s
Audiences are invited to look back at The 2010s, a turbulent era marked by political and social upheaval, culminating in the single most dramatic year of the 21st century: 2020. It was a decade in which social media transformed society and streaming upended entertainment, resulting in genre-defying music and ushering in the era of "peak TV".
Release Date: 2023-05-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 3
Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
A panoramic celebration of the beloved genre of holiday films and television specials, featuring decades of rich archival footage and lively interviews with notable celebrities, directors, producers, film critics, historians, and pop culture experts.
Release Date: 2022-11-27
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1
News of the World
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
Release Date: 2020-12-25
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1774
Greyhound
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
Release Date: 2020-07-09
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2973
The Movies
Explore American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution.
Release Date: 2019-07-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 43
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
Release Date: 2018-07-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3376
The 2000s
Explore the cultural and political milestones of the 2000s decade, including technological triumphs like the iPhone and social media, President George W. Bush’s war on terror and response to Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama’s presidential election and the financial crisis, hip-hop’s rise to dominance and a creative renaissance in television.
Release Date: 2018-07-08
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 13
1968: The Year That Changed America
A half century look back at a year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK, a contentious presidential election, escalating anti-Vietnam War sentiment and more.
Release Date: 2018-05-27
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 8
Notes from the Field
A dramatization of the accounts of the students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline, which pushes underprivileged, minority youth out of the classroom and into incarceration.
Release Date: 2018-02-24
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 5
Electric City
In a post-apocalyptic world, humanity lives in small settlements whose main activity is to produce electricity.
Release Date: 2016-01-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Character: Voice Actor (voice)
Vote Count: 5
Ricki and the Flash
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
Release Date: 2015-07-10
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 706
Game Change
During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.
Release Date: 2012-02-28
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 322
Birthing Mamma Mia!
This short documentary is about the making of the 2008 film musical "Mamma Mia!".
Release Date: 2008-12-31
Character: Self
Starter for 10
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
Release Date: 2006-09-13
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 410
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Over a period of two years, Mark Cowen and his crew travelled to thirty U.S. states and ten European cities, to interview the veterans of Easy Company. The stories told by the veterans themselves, create a history of the Second World War from the point of view of this heroic company of men, made famous in the mini-series Band of Brothers.
Release Date: 2001-11-10
Department: Production
Job: Co-Executive Producer
Vote Count: 32
Amos & Andrew
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
Release Date: 1993-03-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 157
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
A man attending a funeral in his hometown comes face-to-face with his past when he is confronted with memories of mistrust, adultery, abuse, and a fantastical journey that couldn't possibly be real. It couldn't possibly be real, but the memory of a mysterious girl named Lettie Hempstock ties each bizarre childhood occurrence to the last.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
In the Garden of Beasts
A mild-mannered Chicago professor becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany just before the Nazis began to assert an iron grip across Europe.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
The Nineties
Hit rewind and explore the most iconic moments and influential people of The Nineties, the decade that gave us the Internet, DVDs, and other cultural and political milestones.
Release Date: 2017-07-09
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 20
The Eighties
The third installment from executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, following in the footsteps of critically-acclaimed series THE SIXTIES and THE SEVENTIES, tackles 10 years shaped by exceptionalism and excess. Like its predecessors, THE EIGHTIES intersperses rare archival newsreel footage, interviews, and comments by historians, journalists, politicians, celebrities and others, painting a perspective-rich picture of a vibrant decade. Episodes examine the age of Reagan, the AIDS crisis, the end of the Cold War, Wall Street corruption, the evolving TV and music scene, and everything in between.
Release Date: 2016-03-31
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 18
The Seventies
A documentary series focusing on the ongoing Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, evolving music industry, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the sexual revolution, and the rise of foreign and domestic terrorism.
Release Date: 2015-06-11
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 20
Olive Kitteridge
A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's approach to parenting; and other members of their community.
Release Date: 2014-11-02
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 268
The Sixties
The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today.
Release Date: 2014-05-29
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 17
The Pacific
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
Release Date: 2010-03-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 2358
John Adams
Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.
Release Date: 2008-03-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 300
Big Love
The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.
Release Date: 2006-03-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 53
Vote Count: 127
Band of Brothers
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
Release Date: 2001-09-09
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 3666
Family Prayers
This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s.
Release Date: 1993-03-19
Character: Irate Driver
Vote Count: 3
Married to the Mob
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
Release Date: 1988-08-19
Department: Sound
Job: Music Supervisor
Character: The Guy at the Piano
Vote Count: 287
And God Created Woman
In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, who runs for state governor.
Release Date: 1988-03-04
Character: Al Lawrence
Vote Count: 39
Modern Girls
Margo, Kelly, and CeCe have three things in common: they're roommates, they're gorgeous, and they're hooked on the glamour and excitement of L.A.'s rock and roll nightlife. When they get mixed up with a rock star, an arrogant ex-boyfriend, a pseudo-sadist, and the nicest nerd in the City of Angels, it's a full night to say the least!
Release Date: 1986-11-07
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Undercover Cop
Vote Count: 37
Swing Shift
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.
Release Date: 1984-04-13
Character: 'Swing Shift' Bandleader
Vote Count: 73
Bustin' Loose
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.
Release Date: 1981-05-22
Character: Store Manager
Vote Count: 49
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
Release Date: 1981-01-30
Character: Newscaster
Vote Count: 106
Melvin and Howard
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
Release Date: 1980-09-19
Character: Melvin's Cousin Fred
Vote Count: 66
Hot Rod
A freewheeling drag racer enters a local championship meet and finds himself head-to-head with the tyrannical town boss who has already arranged for his own son to win.
Release Date: 1979-05-25
Character: Security Guard
Vote Count: 3
Last Embrace
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Release Date: 1979-05-04
Character: Tour Guide
Vote Count: 66
Citizens Band
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Release Date: 1977-05-18
Character: RV Salesman
Vote Count: 15
Yours, Mine and Ours
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Release Date: 1968-04-24
Character: Greg Beardsley
Vote Count: 138
Divorce American Style
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Release Date: 1967-06-21
Character: Jonathan Harmon
Vote Count: 22