Ava Haddad Movies
- 1997
The victim of a probable mugging dies, whereupon the detectives launch a homicide investigation. The trail of clues leads to the planned circumcision of Alison Martin (Emmy Rossun), the daughter of an American father (Cotter Smith) and an Egyptian mother (Ava Haddad). The outcome of the story is triggered by the ethnic and religious schism between Alison's parents. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1997
A group of party cruisers is besieged by a gunman, resulting in several fatalities. The subsequent investigation leads to a man who is leading a double life. When D.A. Adam Schiff (Steven Hill) refuses to seek the death penalty, he is removed from the case, leading to a tense judicial showdown between Schiff and the Governor of New York. This final episode of Law & Order's seventh season culminates in a devastating personal tragedy for the beleaguered Adam Schiff. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
An affectionate portrait of a family whose members are behaving at their worst. The story of There Was No War in '72 begins from the point of view of Yoni (Adam Abulafia), the beleaguered son of an overbearing businessman (Shmuel Edelman). To the intense disappointment of his father, Yoni has just been kicked out of his private school for poor grades, and his American mother (Ava Haddad) is trying to get him to go to the boarding school she has cajoled into accepting him. However, he would prefer just to hang around and make his father's life miserable. As the film progresses, the father's perspective about his son becomes understandable, as on the occasion when the boy snitches on his mother, who is having an affair. This film is in Hebrew and English. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1992
Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond made his directorial debut with this drama. Gabor (Michael York), a stage actor living in Eastern Europe, receives a message from his family -- his father Raphael (also played by York), a world-famous archeologist, has just died in Israel. Traveling to the Holy Land to attend the funeral, he meets Katherine (Liv Ullmann), the woman who was married to Raphael at the time of his death, as well as Abu (Babi Neeman), a director who was making a film about the scientist's life and career. Gabor bears a striking resemblance to his father -- so much so that Abu asks him to play Raphael in a small role in his film. Gabor agrees, but playing the role forces him to examine a part of his life that he's been trying to leave alone all these years, and he also finds that Katherine, struck by his resemblance to her late husband, has become strongly attracted to him. The Long Shadow was filmed in part in Hungary, where Zsigmond was born and lived up until fleeing the country in 1956 following the political unrest of the nation's Soviet takeover. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael York, Liv Ullmann, (more)
- 1991
- R
In this action film, Hammer (Rob Lowe) and Dean (Gale Hanson) meet and become fast friends at a Navy training school. When the impulsive Hammer marries the woman (Tracy Griffith) Dean is pining for, the two go their separate ways. However, when the United States suspects Iraq of possessing the capability of launching biological warfare, the two friends are brought together again for one last mission. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
