Joanna Merlin

City of Angels

Admin — Fri, 10 Apr 1998 00:00:00 +0000

When guardian angel Seth — who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles — becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

Class Action

Admin — Fri, 15 Mar 1991 00:00:00 +0000

A Liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

Mystic Pizza

Admin — Thu, 13 Oct 1988 00:00:00 +0000

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.

Fame

Admin — Fri, 16 May 1980 00:00:00 +0000

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Hester Street

Admin — Sun, 19 Oct 1975 00:00:00 +0000

Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he’s molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York’s Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife (Carol Kane) finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do. This causes the tension which drives the movie along, though it maintains a fairly light atmosphere most of the time.