Arthur Allan Seidelman

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Arthur Allan Seidelman

Arthur Allan Seidelman is an award-winning American television, film, and theatre director and an occasional writer, producer and actor. Most of Seidelman's career has been spent in television directing movies such as Macbeth, Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, Poker Alice, A Friendship in Vienna, Grace and Glorie, Harvest of Fire, Kate's Secret, The Runaway, and A …

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Hercules in New YorkHercules in New York · 1970
Hercules in New York
★ 4.11970
MovieComedyAdventure
Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.
The Summer of Ben TylerThe Summer of Ben Tyler · 1996
The Summer of Ben Tyler
★ 6.81996
MovieDrama
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
The CallerThe Caller · 1987
The Caller
★ 5.91987
MovieMysteryScience Fiction
One night, an unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.
A Christmas CarolA Christmas Carol · 2004
A Christmas Carol
★ 6.42004
MovieDramaFantasy
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Sex & Mrs. XSex & Mrs. X · 2000
Sex & Mrs. X
★ 6.02000
MovieDramaComedy
Joanna is a woman secure in the knowledge of who she is: a perfect wife, a successful magazine journalist and a woman who's just celebrated her 10th wedding anniversary with her husband, Dale. But when Dale suddenly leaves her for another woman, Joanna's world collapses. Her self-esteem shattered, Joanna questions her attractiveness as a woman and her value as a human being. How did this happen to her? Follow Joanna as she escapes to Paris and learns the many secrets of seduction under the tutelage of Madame Simone. Slowly, empowered by her newfound knowledge and self-confidence, Joanna comes to understand her true self-worth.
The KidnappingThe Kidnapping · 2008
The Kidnapping
★ 5.32008
MovieThrillerTV Movie
Two crooked cops kidnap the daughter of a bank-securities expert as a last resort to help with a robbery of a safe deposit box. A robbery that failed in the first attempt.
Rescue MeRescue Me · 1993
Rescue Me
★ 5.01993
MovieActionComedy
Fraser's unrequited love for the beautiful and rich Ginny gets a chance to prove itself, when she is suddenly kidnapped. He teams up with rebel Mac, who's got a score to settle with the kidnappers. Together they cross the country, looking for Ginny and the bad guys.
By Dawn's Early LightBy Dawn's Early Light · 2001
By Dawn's Early Light
★ 6.02001
MovieComedyDrama
When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, home, the Pacific and redemption.

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L.A. LawL.A. Law · 1986
L.A. Law
★ 7.01986
SeriesDramaWar & Politics
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

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