David Shire Movies

A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at...

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional...

Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for...

A couple of bumbling 1920s hustlers attempt to obtain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay...

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in...

A retired pilot finds out his young wife is lying to him, hiding a meeting with a military man, withdrawing money from the bank...

Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a...

The unfulfilled dreams of his parents and the tensions created at home cause life to become a nightmare for a youngster who seeks release in a...

A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a...

A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the...

Jason Kemp, a recently paralyzed architect, lives in a high-tech apartment filled with assistive technology. As a quadriplegic confined to his home,...

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto...

As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the...

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.