David Shire Movies

  • 1988
    Jesse

    Jesse

    Jesse

    71988HD

    Based on the true story of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state.

    Jesse
  • 1982
    The World According to Garp

    The World According to Garp

    The World According to Garp

    6.6581982HD

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

    The World According to Garp
  • 1971
    The Priest Killer

    The Priest Killer

    The Priest Killer

    01971HD

    A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of...

    The Priest Killer
  • 1991
    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    7.1031991HD

    Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...

    Sarah, Plain and Tall
  • 1993
    Skylark

    Skylark

    Skylark

    7.0251993HD

    Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the...

    Skylark
  • 1983
    Max Dugan Returns

    Max Dugan Returns

    Max Dugan Returns

    6.51983HD

    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.

    Max Dugan Returns
  • 1979
    Norma Rae

    Norma Rae

    Norma Rae

    7.1991979HD

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

    Norma Rae
  • 1988
    Backfire

    Backfire

    Backfire

    4.81988HD

    Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him...

    Backfire
  • 1976
    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    Harry and Walter Go to New York

    5.71976HD

    Two hopelessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the 19th century — by gaining the enmity of the most...

    Harry and Walter Go to New York
  • 1984
    Oh, God! You Devil

    Oh, God! You Devil

    Oh, God! You Devil

    5.61984HD

    George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to...

    Oh, God! You Devil
  • 1995
    One Night Stand

    One Night Stand

    One Night Stand

    1.6671995HD

    Michelle Sanderson is a woman who seems to have everything -- great looks, a promising career, a large circle of friends. But the one thing she...

    One Night Stand
  • 1981
    Only When I Laugh

    Only When I Laugh

    Only When I Laugh

    5.71981HD

    A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the...

    Only When I Laugh
  • 1994
    Texan

    Texan

    Texan

    61994HD

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

    Texan
  • 1997
    Alone

    Alone

    Alone

    6.51997HD

    John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann,...

    Alone
  • 1991
    Paris Trout

    Paris Trout

    Paris Trout

    5.21991HD

    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...

    Paris Trout
  • 1990
    Common Ground

    Common Ground

    Common Ground

    101990HD

    Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story...

    Common Ground
  • 2009
    My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

    My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

    My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

    8.52009HD

    Famous New Yorkers and the pooches they love are the focus of this refreshingly honest and endearing series of interviews that celebrates the...

    My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
  • 1979
    Fast Break

    Fast Break

    Fast Break

    4.81979HD

    David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along...

    Fast Break
  • 1971
    Skin Game

    Skin Game

    Skin Game

    6.61971HD

    Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel...

    Skin Game
  • 1999
    Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

    Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

    Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs

    01999HD

    Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, hosted by Sam Waterston, tells the compelling stories behind some of the world's most...

    Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs