Robert Elswit Movies

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life...

Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets...

The gory ax-murder of one suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney:...

When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money...

A special presentation set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Disney+. Plot TBA

Family celebrations and tensions, Independence Day, Texas 1948

A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.

Cadillac Dreams is a 1988 American short film directed by Matia Karrell. In the film, a young drug runner's dreams of being a great inventor give way...

In the 1950s, three young sorority women re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.

A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization.

Facing his final season with the Detroit Tigers baseball team, veteran outfielder Billy Young sees his dream of playing in the World Series slipping...

A mayoral candidate (Barbara Eden) for a California town gets romantically involved with her opponent (John Forsythe), a former cowboy star.

A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film...

Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent,...

A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always neglected.

Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league...

Zac is an idealistic student who, after arriving at college, decides to pledge the Gamma Nu Pi fraternity. Unhappy with what he sees as the bigotry...

Spans 20 years in multiple locales with a myriad of characters in interwoven stories that follow a union foreman, a young entrepreneur, an indoor...

A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.

Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their...