David Shire Movies

A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern...

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

Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion...

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...

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

A career overview of tv/film composer Billy Goldenberg.

Starting Here, Starting Now is a thrilling and touching musical using the songs of Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire (Big, Baby, Closer Than...

Lily Covington, a Manhattan housekeeper, embarks on a trip to the rural Alabama town of her youth. To Lily's surprise, her employer's nine-year-old...

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?

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...

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of...

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage,...

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

The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

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...

Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the East Coast blackout of 1965.

Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number and reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.

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

Her first television special to feature guest-stars, The Belle of 14th Street celebrates, in ways both comedic and heartfelt, "The Golden Age of...