Melinda Dillon Movies

An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Cruise

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Billingsley

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adam Sandler

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nick Nolte

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winona Ryder

Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Lithgow

After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sean Astin

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvester Stallone

During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Matt Salinger

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering...

Genre: Music

Cast: David Carradine

A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Scott Glenn

Adam and Steve are two gay youths who have a one-night stand that ends embarrassingly. Nearly two decades later, Adam, now a Manhattan tour guide,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Craig Chester

Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willie Nelson

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sally Field

Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Lemmon

"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiefer Sutherland

Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melinda Dillon

The firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day co-founds The Catholic Worker with Peter Maurin, an eccentric philosopher.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Moira Kelly

The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Blake

Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Mantegna

Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Sheen

This is a true story about the relationship between a mother and her daughter, and their struggle to make it to the top in the music world. It is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kathleen York

A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. A dramatized account of the life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jonna Lee

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Brad Dourif

A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Letterle

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kathy Bates

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Newman

Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born. Minnie, too, has built doll houses for years,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steven Spielberg

A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Telly Savalas

Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Joanne Woodward

When his drinking problem takes control of his life, a father tries to leave the bottle behind while putting his and his family's lives back together.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Martin Sheen

Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patrick Swayze

A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jim Henson

A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Namath

Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hal Ashby

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Waller

Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jason Bateman

Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harry Smith