Writing
Fred Parnes
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Known For
Matilda · 1996Matilda
★ 7.21996
MovieComedyFamily
Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done · 2010My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
★ 6.12010
MovieCrimeDrama
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
For the Boys · 1991For the Boys
★ 6.41991
MovieDramaMusic
Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
James Dean · 2001James Dean
★ 6.82001
MovieDramaTV Movie
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.
Breakable You · 2017Breakable You
★ 5.42017
MovieComedyDrama
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
Crime of the Century · 1996Crime of the Century
★ 6.41996
MovieCrimeDrama
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
Starting Out in the Evening · 2007Starting Out in the Evening
★ 6.72007
MovieDrama
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
A Man Is Mostly Water · 2000A Man Is Mostly Water
★ 4.32000
MovieMusicComedy
The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives.


