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Michael Pressman (born July 1, 1950 in New York City, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television.
Some of the films he has directed are The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976), Doctor Detroit (1983), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996).
For television, he has directed episodes of Picket Fences, The Practice, The Graudian, Boston Legal, The Closer, Law & Order, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy and other series.
He is an alumni of Camp Rising Sun and studied filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts.
Most Popular Michael Pressman Trailers
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08 November 1984
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get hired as the principal of the school where she teaches, in the hopes of winning her back.
14 October 1991
This short documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action film adaptations of the popular comic book and animated series.
04 December 1989
When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him.
22 November 1998
A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful.
15 July 1999
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast.
28 November 1988
Nan Moore is a U.S. government employee whose son is killed when Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviets on September 1, 1983.
22 March 1991
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
06 May 1983
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago.
20 April 2016
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
29 May 1988
The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky, he begins to find a new life for himself, and a personal goal when he agrees to begin a determined campaign to raise funds for a veteran's memorial.
08 November 2003
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess.
22 October 1978
A middle-aged mom and her teenage daughter adjust to life together after Dad's affair breaks up the family.
23 March 1979
Raymond Avila is an ex-gang member trying to build a future. His kid brother Chuco is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life.
26 February 1989
After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.
02 April 1982
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
01 January 1989
Honest cop in corrupt 1940s Los Angeles fights against gangsters who are kidnapping and selling women into prostitution.
25 October 1996
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night.
12 December 1999
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel.
01 July 1976
Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
18 March 1985
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently there is nothing wrong with him psychologically.
08 July 1977
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.
06 April 1993
A despairing young widow who abandons her baby at pond-side among bulrushes and a man who's fighting to reclaim his own son are drawn together.
10 September 1990
A woman is torn between her boyfriend's ending their relationship and being separated from his young son with whom she has bonded.
04 March 1992
A hard-working architect is pulled into intrigue when his wife hires a private investigator to make sure he's just working late.
08 December 1985
A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of murderous criminals with names like DOA, Ice and Slash.
05 October 1987
While staying at an inn in a colonial-recreation village for her anniversary, a young woman becomes possessed by her murderous ancestor through an antique mirror and compelled to murder her husband.
21 December 1986
A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.
15 August 1980
A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.
01 January 1985
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
19 October 2021
The life and legacy of Helen Keller, including how she used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice for women, the poor and people with disabilities.
01 January 1973
A woman has a late night tryst with a dark turn
01 January 2004
Mackendrick on Film is an educational project constructed around the film teachings of legendary pedagogue Alexander Mackendrick.
