Susan Lyall Movies

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay...

Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a...

Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having...

Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With...

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon.

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency...

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a...

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.

Upon hitting puberty, a high school boy realizes that he is homosexual and faces prejudice from his homophobic parents and friends.

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend,...

Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He...