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Jeff Kanew

Born December 16, 1944 · New York City, New York, USA (age 81)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jeffrey Roger Kanew (born December 16, 1944) is an American film director, writer and editor who early in his career made trailers for many films of the '70s and is probably best known for directing the film Revenge of the Nerds (1984). Kanew directed Tough Guys (1986), the final film pairing actors Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. He also directed Dougl…

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Ordinary People

Ordinary People · 1980

Ordinary People

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Revenge of the Nerds

Revenge of the Nerds · 1984

Revenge of the Nerds

At Adams College, the jocks rule from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own frat to protect their outcast brothers, the nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.

Tough Guys

Tough Guys · 1986

MovieComedyCrime

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

Troop Beverly Hills

Troop Beverly Hills · 1989

Troop Beverly Hills

MovieFamilyAdventure

A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.

V.I. Warshawski

V.I. Warshawski · 1991

V.I. Warshawski

MovieCrimeMystery

Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.

Gotcha!

Gotcha! · 1985

MovieActionComedy

A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus · 2011

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

A clueless Trojan general must meet an unbeatable Greek warrior on the battlefield.

Eddie Macon's Run

Eddie Macon's Run · 1983

Eddie Macon's Run

MovieDramaAction

Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. Relentlessly pursued by ruthless truant officer, Carl Marzack, who feels he must prove he can still 'get his man' by returning Macon to jail at any cost.

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Ordinary People

Ordinary People · 1980

Ordinary People

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Editor

Revenge of the Nerds

Revenge of the Nerds · 1984

Revenge of the Nerds

At Adams College, the jocks rule from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own frat to protect their outcast brothers, the nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.

Director

Tough Guys

Tough Guys · 1986

MovieComedyCrime

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

Director

Troop Beverly Hills

Troop Beverly Hills · 1989

Troop Beverly Hills

MovieFamilyAdventure

A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.

Director

V.I. Warshawski

V.I. Warshawski · 1991

V.I. Warshawski

MovieCrimeMystery

Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.

Director

Gotcha!

Gotcha! · 1985

MovieActionComedy

A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

Director

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus · 2011

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus

A clueless Trojan general must meet an unbeatable Greek warrior on the battlefield.

Director

Eddie Macon's Run

Eddie Macon's Run · 1983

Eddie Macon's Run

MovieDramaAction

Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. Relentlessly pursued by ruthless truant officer, Carl Marzack, who feels he must prove he can still 'get his man' by returning Macon to jail at any cost.

Director

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve · 2005

MovieComedyRomance

Adam is a typical college-aged guy... which is to say he wants sex 24 hours a day. But when he meets - and falls for - Eve, a scorchingly hot coed who's still very attached to her virginity, the waiting game is on! While his college buddies score left and right, and campus hotties make tempting passes, Adam ponders an explosive question: Will Eve say "It's the right time"... before he completely goes out of his mind?

Director

Black Rodeo

Black Rodeo · 1972

MovieDocumentary

Documentary about a rodeo that takes place, for the most part, in Harlem.

Producer

Nadine in Dateland

Nadine in Dateland · 2005

Nadine in Dateland

MovieTV MovieRomance

Nadine is a contradiction in terms; she runs a dating service despite being incredibly unlucky in love. Now, facing serious business problems, she needs to find the right guy to turn her fortune around.

Editor

Natural Enemies

Natural Enemies · 1979

Natural Enemies

MovieDramaThriller

Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a decision: this evening he will take a rifle and shoot and kill his wife, their three children and then himself.

Director

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget · 2009

Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget

MovieDocumentary

Kirk Douglas recounts his remarkable life in a celebrated one-man theater performance augmented with rare film highlights. He shares memories of family, marriages, other Hollywood greats, breaking the blacklist and his life-altering stroke – all with honesty and humor.

Producer

Counting for Thunder

Counting for Thunder · 2015

Counting for Thunder

MovieComedyDrama

Counting for Thunder is inspired by the three years when Phillip Irwin Cooper, unlucky in work, money and love, went home to the Gulf Coast of Alabama to help out with a family crisis. Working through his past with his complicated family, some old high school chums, and the desperate and hilarious southern characters who grace his hometown, Phillip ultimately finds his own voice as his mother is regaining hers for possibly the last time.

Editor

Babiy Yar

Babiy Yar · 2003

MovieDramaHistory

Autumn 1941. The Soviet army flees Kyiv, chaos reigns, soldiers attempt to trade their uniforms for civilian clothes in order to escape unnoticed. The war and pending capture of Kyiv by the Germans is the only topic of discussion. Everyone has heard of the horrible things that have happened in other areas, where Jews were brutally and inhumanely murdered. Indecision and despair spread like wildfire among the population. As the German army marches in, fear and horror take over.

Director

The Wicked Die Slow

The Wicked Die Slow · 1968

The Wicked Die Slow

“The Kid,” a notorious gunfighter, and his Mexican sidekick Armadillo ride through the post-Civil War West looking for four Indians who raped the Kid’s girl friend.

Screenplay

Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy

Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy · 2007

Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy

MovieDocumentary

Paul Mazursky journeys to a small town in the Ukriane, to witness and participate in a three day celebration by over 25,000 singing, dancing, praying, and emotionally elevated Chassidic Jews.

Editor

Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel · 1994

Touched by an Angel

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

Director

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents · 1985

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

SeriesDramaMystery

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Director