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Released at a time when psychic auras, near-death experiences, and Kirlian photography were all the rage among early New Age proponents, Resurrection achieves a spiritual depth rarely found in Hollywood movies. In one of her finest performances, Ellen Burstyn stars as Edna McCauley, a transplanted farm girl who develops healing powers following an accident that left her widowed and ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom, Clifford David
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

The word classic can readily be applied to the story of what became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, which led to the Broadway hit that has now been filmed for the third time. With Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott playing adversarial attorneys, this period piece deals in ideas and ideals in a masterful courtroom drama. In 1925, a schoolteacher is arrested for teaching Darwinism in the ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, David Wells, Beau Bridges, Tom Everett Scott
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Jane Fonda, Christine Ebersole, Levon Helm, Geraldine Page, Dan Hedaya
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

Here's another example of TV giving James Woods the chance to stretch out from the intense-psycho roles he seems restricted to in too many of his movies. In My Name Is Bill W. he plays Bill Wilson, the overreaching businessman from the Roaring '20s who went on to found Alcoholics Anonymous. Woods gets plenty of chances to stretch out here in Bill's headlong slide to the bottom, through the ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner, Gary Sinise, George Coe
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Sam Elliott, Anne Archer, Stephen Young, Parker Stevenson, Kathleen Quinlan
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Joan Goodfellow, Pamela Sue Martin, Clifton James, Robert Englund
Directed By: Daniel Petrie, Sidney Sheldon

Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Starring: Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Edward Judd, Paul Rogers
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

Manufacturer: CBS FOX
Starring: Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Brad Davis
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

Adapted from a Harold Robbins potboiler, The Betsy offers power struggles, incest, adultery, gold digging, and car racing. Laurence Olivier plays a ruthless but fallible auto tycoon with a tortured family history including a weakling son (Paul Rudd), a daughter-in-law he loves too much (Katharine Ross), a resentful grandson (Robert Duvall), and a devoted great-granddaughter (Kathleen ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander
Directed By: Daniel Petrie

Lorraine Hansberry's play is given sensitive treatment by filmmaker Daniel Petrie (The Bay Boy). Sidney Poitier heads a fine cast in the story of an African American family in Chicago who are struggling with mixed aspirations, not enough money, conflicts over religion, and institutional racism. The film is pretty much set-bound (as plays adapted for the screen sometimes are), but the drama ...

Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
Starring: Diana Sands, Louis Gossett Jr.
Directed By: Daniel Petrie