Michael Tuchner Movies
British director Michael Tuchner's first two films, Villain (1971) and Fear is the Key (1972), dealt (none too successfully) with the evil side of life; he changed direction (and quality of production) with Mr. Quilp (1975), a musical version of The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens' most sentimental novel) and the TV movie Summer of My German Soldier (1979), about a Jewish girl in... (read more) love with a Nazi P.O.W. in the American South, complete with a sympathetic black housekeeper. Among Tuchner's other credits include the film of Brooke Hayward's memoir of her family (Haywire [1980]), and a respectable version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1981), featuring Anthony Hopkins as Quasimodo. ~ Rovi
A Place Called Home
2004
Michael Tuchner's A Place Called Home stars Ann-Margret as Tula Jeeters, a woman who is going blind. Her conniving nephew and niece are attempting to take possession...
Back to the Secret Garden
G 2000
Although Frances Hodgson Burnett did not feel the need to write a sequel to her classic fantasy novel The Secret Garden, this did not prevent producer Norman Rosemont...
30-Years-to-Life
1998
In this drama, an adolescent grows up in a hurry after he is wrongfully convicted of his stepfather's murder and sent to an adult correctional facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
Awake to Danger
PG 1995
Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl (Tory Spelling) fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the details...
Hart to Hart: Two Harts in Three-Quarter Time
1995
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Good King Wenceslas
1994
Virtue battles treachery in this made-for-TV peroid drama. Prince Wenceslas (Jonathan Brandis) is the seventeen-year-old heir to the Czech crown, who has been pledged to...
The Conviction of Kitty Dodds
1993
It is Veronica Hamel's show all the way in the fact-based CBS TV movie The Conviction of Kitty Dodds. Driven to desperation by her abusive policeman husband Charlie...
Rainbow Warrior
1993
"Rainbow Warrior" was the name of a real-life Greenpeace vessel, which embarked upon a worldwide pro-ecological mission in the early 1980s. While docked in New Zealand in 1985,...
Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland
1993
In 1991, Oakland, California was ravaged by brush fires. This made-for-television feature tells some of the harrowing and heroic stories of those that fought and survived the...
With Murder in Mind
1992
In this fact-based drama, a real estate agent is horrified to learn that a home buyer is the one who killed her policeman husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
The Summer My Father Grew Up
1991
Matthew Lawrence plays an 11-year-old boy whose life is torn asunder by the divorce of his parents. John Ritter plays Lawrence's doctor father, who finds himself with only...
Captive
1991
The quiet family life of an Oregon couple and their infant is shattered when two criminals whacked-out on drugs burst into their home and hold them hostage. The film is based on a...
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
In this comedy drama, three women meet each other in a divorce attorney's waiting room and soon become fast friends as they try to help each other through the pain of their...
Desperate for Love
1989
Friends in Georgia are broken up when an enticing teenager comes between them as told in this true story. ~ Rovi...
The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt
R 1989
Produced for London Weekend Television, Wilt is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Sharpe. Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, stars of the internationally popular...
Internal Affairs
1988
Internal Affairs is the second TV-movie based on the works of detective novelist William Bayer. Richard Crenna, who first played NYPD detective Richard Janek in 1985's...
At Mother's Request
1987
There were two rival TV dramatizations of the sensational murder case involving "monster Mom" Frances Schreuder. Stephanie Powers was the star of the two-part 1987 TV movie...
Mistress
1987
A kept woman learns to live independently in this made-for-TV melodrama. Her troubles begin after her successful and much loved "sugar daddy" suddenly dies, leaving her with...
Trapped in Silence
1986
A young boy retreats into a world of silence in this made-for-television drama. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Kevin Richter, an adolescent boy who has suffered from years of...
Amos
1985
Stars Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Montgomery manage to rise above the melodramatic trappings of Amos. Douglas plays the title character, a fiercely independent...