Donna Deitch Movies
Openly gay filmmaker Donna Deitch made documentaries and shorts before releasing her independent feature film debut Desert Hearts in 1985. After winning an honorable mention at Sundance, the romantic drama remains a lesbian cult classic and has inspired another generation of gay filmmakers. However, the film didn't open too many doors for Deitch in Hollywood, so she took her... (read more) talents to television. In 1989, she directed the Emmy-nominated ABC miniseries The Women of Brewster Place. Several TV movies and straight-to-video releases followed, including a segment in the TV anthology Prison Stories: Women on the Inside. She has directed episodes of NYPD Blue, ER, Murder One, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 1997, she was met with festival acclaim for her documentary Angel on My Shoulder, a story about actress Gwen Welles' struggle with cancer. After making the Showtime movie Common Ground, she directed the popular TV dramas Judging Amy, Crossing Jordan, and Dragnet. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
NYPD Blue: Bottoms Up
2003
Arrested on a trumped-up drug charge, John Clark Jr. (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) turns down the helping hand extended by his detective father (Joe Spano). Meanwhile, {%John...
NYPD Blue: Baby Love
2001
The firebombing of a shop owned by Arabs has the odious aroma of a post-9/11 hate crime. Investigating the kidnapping of a baby from a hospital, the detectives follow the trail of...
NYPD Blue: Under Covers
2001
Still investigating the murder of a stripper, Danny (Rick Schroder) boozily spends the night with the dead woman's co-worker Kristin (Jenna Gering), who is being...
Common Ground
2000
Harvey Fierstein, Terrence McNally, and Paula Vogel each wrote episodes for this three-part made-for-cable drama which examines changing attitudes and issues facing the...
NYPD Blue: Stressed for Success
2000
Despite the best efforts of Danny Sorenson (Rick Schroder), street informant J.B. Murphy is unable to kick his drug habit; when J.B. is found dead at the scene of a...
NYPD Blue: I'll Draw You a Mapp
1999
Worried that Andy (Dennis Franz) may be too emotionally strung out, Sylvia (Sharon Lawrence) considers using Danny (Rick Schroder) as the main witness against...
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999
Kirsten Dunst stars in this drama as a Jewish teenager who doesn't care much about her family's religious heritage until she's transported back in time to Poland in 1941, where...
NYPD Blue: Brother's Keeper
1998
The mutilated body of a woman is found, and the principal suspects are her two sons. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) tries to figure out if the guilty party is the son who...
Angel On My Shoulder
1997
Donna Deitch directed this documentary about the illness and death of her friend, actress Gwen Welles (Nashville). Diagnosed with an cancerous tumor in 1992, Welles chose...
NYPD Blue: Dead Man Talking
1997
During a home invasion, a wife and baby are killed, but the husband is only wounded. Smelling a rat, Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) work hand in hand...
NYPD Blue: Caulksmanship
1996
Awakening in bed with hoodlum Jimmy Liery (Christopher Meloni), Diane Russell (Kim Delaney) can remember nothing that happened after Jimmy drugged her. Back at the...
NYPD Blue: These Old Bones
1996
Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is receptive when a woman provides new information on a gruesome eight-year-old murder. As Sipowicz and Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits)...
ER: Home
1995
Rushing to Milwaukee after his wife, Jenn (Christine Harnos), and daughter, Rachel (Yvonne Zima), are injured in a car accident, Greene (Anthony Edwards) is...
ER: Full Moon, Saturday Night
1995
Michael Ironside makes his first appearance as new ER chief Dr. William Swift, who immediately sets the staff on its ear with his bizarre management style and intense...
NYPD Blue: Torah!
1995
Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) pose as Hassidic Jews in hopes of nabbing a gang specializing in stealing Torahs. Though Lt. Fancy (James...
NYPD Blue: A Murder With Teeth in It
1995
An old cop friend of Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is the chief suspect in the murder of a pimp. Simone (Jimmy Smits) inadvertently passes this information on to his...
NYPD Blue: In the Butt, Bob
1995
Thanks to an expensive lawyer, Lesniak (Justine Miceli) has trouble prosecuting the man who "flashed" her. Simone (Jimmy Smits) collars a suspected serial killer, only...
A Change of Place
1994
In this frothy outing, a helpful twin temporarily leaves college to pretend to be a fashion model in order to help keep her sister out of trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
Criminal Passion
1993
Joan Severance stars in this erotic thriller as Melanie Hudson, a police officer involved with a man suspected of several sex-related killings. Her partner, who is also her...
Sexual Advances
1992
Treatment of a problem only recently addressed, the promotion manager of a sporting equipment firm becomes the victim of sexual harassment. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...