Most Popular David Shire Trailers
Total trailers found: 125
01 March 1993
Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.
16 May 1999
The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.
02 March 2007
Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer.
07 December 1992
Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombstone, Arizona.
17 October 2009
Famous New Yorkers and the pooches they love are the focus of this refreshingly honest and endearing series of interviews that celebrates the meaningful connections people share with their pups.
24 October 1993
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.
10 December 1997
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly.
05 December 1977
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
19 April 1995
Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of characters snake handler, daughter, baton twirler, washed-up rodeo cowgirl, tattoed woman, and older woman in the twilight of her years talking with us about their experiences, in the poetic language that Jane Martin is known for bringing to all her stage characters.
08 May 1974
A high school teacher's career is threatened because of a student's death when the rumor is spread that his negligence killed the boy.
22 May 1974
The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.
23 September 2021
A captivating and hilarious song cycle which delves into the trials and tribulations of modern love, Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever will take audiences on a journey of lust and romance, marriage and ageing, unrequited love and obsession.
22 March 1992
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.
11 December 1974
A family tribe of Cro-Magnons faces hardships, such as hunger, animal attacks, Neanderthal attacks, and death from injuries as they migrate to find a more bountiful land to live on.
02 January 1996
Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with.
26 March 1992
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
08 January 2008
An exhaustive behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Zodiac (2007).
19 February 1971
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's.
14 October 1994
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin.
02 October 1981
Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia.
02 March 1979
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college.
25 October 1976
Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.
10 November 1985
A young boy, who dreams of meeting the grandfather he never knew gets his chance, when an inventor friend constructs a time machine.
16 December 1977
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
22 April 1994
This film concerns a writer of mystery stories who bases his villain on a criminal, played by Malcolm McDowell, who is incarcerated in prison.
06 December 1984
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
12 February 2001
Network television executive Gavin hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne, and Addie Holden in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical Boy Crazy is re-released.
01 January 1995
Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleared by the overwhelming white supremacist beliefs.
09 May 1986
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab.
09 April 1976
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
26 December 1976
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
22 September 1991
Life changes for three women who run a failing hotel when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.
12 April 1974
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
02 March 1979
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer.
18 March 1978
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules.
03 February 1991
Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone.
10 December 1994
The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.
07 November 1984
George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige.
21 May 1985
Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional turmoil it causes for her.
04 September 1995
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
21 March 1974
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the capture of an outlaw.
06 August 2007
A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern greats.
02 October 1973
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
21 June 1985
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
02 October 1974
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers while the authorities question about the method of their escape.
23 January 1978
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States.
20 January 1992
Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.
07 February 1993
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
08 March 1979
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
19 January 1997
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier.
13 June 1971
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him.
12 July 1978
The unfulfilled dreams of his parents and the tensions created at home cause life to become a nightmare for a youngster who seeks release in a withdrawal to his own world.
25 March 1990
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation.
23 July 1982
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
19 March 1989
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
08 August 1975
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer.
20 November 1999
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity.
29 July 1988
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
05 February 2009
Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.
21 December 1986
Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic.