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Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.
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23 August 1991
A Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain.
28 December 2001
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
01 September 2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of some of the most representative figures of the American culture itself.
25 June 2004
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
06 August 2000
A divorced female marine officer with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer.
01 June 1972
Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta!" is a series of musical numbers about sex and sexual mores.
16 July 1984
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
02 December 2009
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead.
26 April 2013
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.
18 June 2017
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
15 November 1989
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
12 December 1986
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
20 January 2016
A screenwriter gets conned out of selling a script to a Hollywood producer by his brother, who pitches his own idea for a movie.
27 July 2005
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control .
08 June 2001
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account.
08 February 2012
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him.
13 June 2004
Joe, an overwrought rancher is striving from his harsh upbringing, trying make a better life for his family.
09 June 1996
In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement.
20 September 2007
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
04 January 1997
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
07 December 2006
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table.
17 July 2008
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
17 September 1993
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
29 February 2008
Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her wedding, she learns she's already married to Patrick, a charming but irresponsible fireman.
18 May 1970
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor.
27 April 2006
A small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.
11 December 2000
The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life.
19 January 2001
A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
01 July 2011
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
14 August 2020
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
20 October 1983
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space.
18 January 2006
When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.
28 May 2002
Filmed play about two very different brothers, one a criminal and the other a screen-writing family man who becomes appalled by his wayward brother's relationship with a producer.
09 November 1988
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
18 February 2016
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
25 August 2005
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women.
14 December 2003
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back.
30 July 2012
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
14 November 2013
Produced by multiple EMMY® Award-winning executive producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (HBO’s John Adams and The Pacific), and EMMY® Award-winning producer Mark Herzog (History’s Gettysburg) of Herzog & Company (HCO), on Thursday, Nov.
12 November 2013
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison.
20 May 2010
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk.
10 August 1982
A performance piece written by Sam Shepard, enacted by Joseph Chaikin and directed by Shirley Clarke, a dying man reflects on his life while delivering his own last rites.
13 September 1978
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
10 January 1999
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears.
04 October 2001
The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.
26 December 2013
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
20 January 2005
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances, and politics.
07 October 1987
J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm.
03 December 1982
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
29 September 1984
Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus.
03 April 1992
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
23 May 2014
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar.
26 September 1980
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people.
21 March 1991
April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938.
22 December 1999
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case.
08 October 2016
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners.
11 June 2019
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
25 September 1993
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
26 March 1970
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
11 September 2012
An indelible portrait of the complex relationship between playwright and actor Sam Shepard and his close friend Johnny Dark as they prepare forty years of their correspondence for publication, stirring up old memories both good and bad.
