Sentences with word «telefilm»

In 1997, she starred as Kevin Kline's mother in Frank Oz's In & Out, earned a 2000 Primetime Emmy Outstanding Guest Actress nomination for her recurring role as Debra Messing's mother in the hit comedy series Will & Grace, played Katherine Heigl's grandmother in 2012's One for the Money and, in 2013, portrayed Liberace's mother Frances (the Liberace family were longtime friends of Reynolds) in the award - winning HBO telefilm Behind the Candelabra.

This original telefilm from Lifetime Television is titled Matters of Life & Dating, with a subtitle of The Irreverent Story of Searching for Mr. Right.

According to Fangorai, director John Harrison, who adapted Clive Barker's Book of Blood, is currently writing a four hour telefilm based on the contents of the novel.

Dennis Waterman is his partner, Cockney cop DS George Carter who is assigned to help him navigate the gangs of South London in the original pilot telefilm «Regan.»

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)-- 6:30 PM, 35 mm «it delivers a good time; and while TV - trained Joseph Sargent directs it crisply enough, what lifts it above telefilm - level expectations is Peter Stone's very bright job of scripting.

On television, Mihok played the true - life character Paul Janszen in the Pete Rose biopic HUSTLE, and was featured in the CBS telefilm MURDEROUS INTENT.

In 2009, she co-executive produced, co-wrote and starred in the original telefilm AMERICA.

His other telefilm credits include George C. Wolfe's LACKAWANNA BLUES and John Erman's THE SUNSHINE BOYS, opposite Woody Allen and Peter Falk.

The general approval of The Haunting runs all the way to horror author Stephen King, whose telefilm Rose Red is a quasi-official remake, right down to actually picturing the childhood rain of stones only described here.

After she finished Full House, Loughlin continued to appear on TV, starring in the single - season show Hudson Street (1995 - 1996), and several telefilms, including Abandoned and Deceived (1995), In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory (1997), and Tell Me No Secrets (1997).

The first adaptation of Christie's story was for a 1949 BBC telefilm.

Three feature - length telefilms on two discs, plus an alternate 60 - minute version of the pilot, a half - hour featurette and commentary on two episodes.

Strapped for cash, the director found his angel of mercy in Peter Falk, who hired Demme to direct a Columbo telefilm (1978)(3).

She has starred in three projects directed by Mike Nichols: Primary Colors (1998), the HBO telefilms Wit (2001, in a Golden Globe - nominated performance) and Angels in America (2002, Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and EMMY Award nomination).

This HBO telefilm arrives nearly three decades aft...

This low - budget telefilm rarely gets any attention by Spielberg fans or horror enthusiasts who seem to prefer DUEL (1971) or his later attempt at producing a supernatural thriller, POLTERGEIST (1982).

Unfortunately, this played like a bad, phony U.S. cable telefilm that was as boring as it was predictable and if these actors had anything to offer, the script and directing flattens them out.

David Haig plays literary legend Rudyard Kipling, and Daniel Radcliffe (famed for playing Harry Potter in the big - screen series) is his son Jack in the British telefilm about the son's determination to join the armed forces in World War I to make his patriotic papa proud.

But it was the experience of playing James Dean, a Golden Globe - winning portrayal in 2001's TNT telefilm, that made the most impact on him, and still does.

(That's mandatory now for famous movies) AV Club HBO going further back with its gay content and planning a 1960s based gay telefilm Open City about gays and the mafia... not to be confused with the modern term «the gay mafia» i09 talks to production designer turned director Robert Stromberg about his world - building on movies and Maleficent

The two - hour telefilm will reintroduce the recently engaged Brad and Janet (originally played by Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon, respectively) to the «sweet transvestite» just before Frank - N - Furter's latest creation is unveiled: the flaxen - haired Rocky Horror.

The psychological profiles of Holmes and Watson are a little overplayed in the pilot telefilm, «A Study in Pink» (a reworking of «A Study in Scarlet») and the running joke that everyone assumes these roommates and partners in detection are a gay couple (is it all that bickering?)

He also directed numerous miniseries, telefilms, and episodes from a wide variety of series ranging from Bewitched to M * A * S * H to Murder, She Wrote.

Such subtlety is not all that common in today's movies, and The Guardians can seem so discreet and episodic that it takes on the guise of a telefilm whereas it's really something much stronger: a serious - minded and, in its closing reels, rather powerful portrait of women getting by in a world where all the men are either gone or gone mad.

McKellen has also been honored for his extensive television work, from the miniseries The Prisoner to his monumental performance in King Lear: from his reincarnation of Tsar Nicholas II in the telefilm Rasputin, to his classic guesting as himself in HBO's Extras.

THE DVD Released by Fox in a DVD transfer that can only be described as low - rent and murky (excuses for this are perhaps provided by The Rats» origin as a telefilm), shadow detail within the 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen image is incredibly soft and undefined.

Based on Adrian Blackburn's book Radio Pirates, the telefilm debuted on TV One on 27 July 2014.

A graduate of Queensland University of Technology, Thwaites began his acting career on the Australian television series «SLiDE» and «Home and Away» before his breakout role in the telefilm «Blue Lagoon: The Awakening.»

There's so much outrage to go around in Flint, both the city and the story in the telefilm, that the over-reliance on one - dimensional baddies is draining.

That means we just need to get through 294 days of internet hyperbole BEFORE ANYONE SEES IT about how the new Annie (the third filmed version after a 1982 feature and a 1999 telefilm) is the worst thing that ever existed and musicals suck and it's going to kill everyone's career... Give me strength!

The first of the telefilms, «Alien Nation: Dark Horizon» (originally broadcast in 1994), begins with the intergalactic slavers following a beacon to Earth, where an ambitious overseer (Scott Patterson of «Gilmore Girls») prepares the way to retrieve their slaves and cart off the humans as a bonus.

A few of the numbers find the cast showing off the telefilm's choreography while video clips are also occasionally displayed on a massive LCD display.

Old school musical scares also swirl out the box with its debut of Bob Colbert's «The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» a score that should please the composer's «Dark Shadows» fans in his telefilm work for its Goth - obsessed creator Dan Curtis.