
Fred Parnes
Writer
Movies7
Movie7.2ComedyFamilyMatilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.
Matilda
1996 · 5K votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaBrad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · 236 votes
Movie6.8DramaTV MovieThe man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.
James Dean
2001 · 117 votes
Movie6.4DramaMusicTalented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
For the Boys
1991 · 85 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaIn 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
Crime of the Century
1996 · 13 votes
Movie4.3MusicComedyThe lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives.
A Man Is Mostly Water
2000 · 3 votes
Movie5.2ComedyDramaA trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Sons
1990 · 4 votes
Series1
TV6.5Action & AdventureThe adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
Auf Achse
1980 · 18 votes