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Charles Kaufman

Charles Kaufman
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Charles Kaufman est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste américain.

Il est le frère du beaucoup plus célèbre Lloyd Kaufman, avec lequel il a travaillé sur quelques projets de la firme Troma Entertainment.

Biography

Charles Kaufman est né et a grandi à New York. Il a étudié le cinéma à l'université du Connecticut avant d'obtenir un master à l'UCLA. Il a ensuite écrit et produit des shows télé, et a travaillé en tant qu'auteur comique pour Bob Hope. À cette époque il était également le plus jeune professeur de cinéma et de télévision à l'école des arts visuels de New York. Après avoir écrit, produit et réalisé quelques films de cinéma indépendant, il a délaissé le cinéma et fondé en 1994 une boulangerie à San Diego : Bread & Cie.

Best films

When Tomorrow Comes
When Tomorrow Comes
(1939)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman
(5 films)
Mike Starr
Mike Starr
(1 films)
Jim Metzler
Jim Metzler
(1 films)
Matthew Diamond
Matthew Diamond
(1 films)
Irwin Keyes
Irwin Keyes
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Charles Kaufman (13 films)

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Actor

Squeeze Play
Squeeze Play (1979)
, 1h28
Directed by Lloyd Kaufman, Matthew Diamond
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Erotic films, Baseball films
Actors Jennifer Hetrick, Al Corley, Jim Harrison, Jim Metzler, Lloyd Kaufman, Melissa Michaelsen
Roles Man with Popcorn in His Nose (uncredited)
Rating41% 2.077042.077042.077042.077042.07704
A group of New Jersey women, upset over their boyfriends' tendency to pay more attention to softball than their love lives, decide to beat them at their own game...literally. The girls form their own softball team and challenge the men to a match out on the field. The men initially scoff at the idea, but soon grow nervous when they worry that they'll lose face if they refuse to play.

Director

Mother's Day
Mother's Day (1980)
, 1h30
Directed by Charles Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Nancy Hendrickson, Beatrice Pons, Frederick Coffin, Michael McCleery
Rating53% 2.6538352.6538352.6538352.6538352.653835
The plot begins with the long-time friendship of three women, Abbey (Nancy Hendrickson), Jackie (Deborah Luce), and Trina (Tiana Pierce), who reunite every year to take a camping trip. Once while setting up their vacation in the woods, they find their trip turns into their worst nightmare when they are captured by a group of two partially insane punk/"hillbilly" hybrids: Ike (Holden McGuire) and Addley (Billy Ray McQuade). The punks lead a comfortable life, living along with their mentally abnormal mother (Rose Ross) in an occult hovel situated amidst the wood. All through the movie, their mother goads her sons into acts of rape, violence, and murder. Eventually one of the women is severely brutalized by Ike and Addley, and the remaining two escape before the first dies from her sustained injuries. They soon regroup, arm themselves, and set out for bloody revenge against Ike, Addley, and Mother. After the girls take their revenge at the end of the film, as they are about to leave the woods they are attacked by the mother's deformed sister, Queenie.

Scriptwriter

Mother's Day
Mother's Day (2011)
, 1h52
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about families, Serial killer films
Actors Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Briana Evigan, Patrick J. Flueger, Deborah Ann Woll, Shawn Ashmore
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating62% 3.103253.103253.103253.103253.10325
An unknown woman enters a Maternity Ward and, with help from an accomplice, steals a newborn baby. Beth Sohapi (Jaime King) is having a birthday party for her husband, Daniel Sohapi (Frank Grillo) with the help of their friends, married couple Treshawn (Lyriq Bent) and Gina Jackson (Kandyse McClure), Dave Lowe (Tony Nappo) and his fiancee, Annette Langston (Briana Evigan), George Barnum (Shawn Ashmore) and his girlfriend, Melissa McGuire (Jessie Rusu), and Daniel's co worker, and friend, Julie Ross (Lisa Marcos). The news reports a tornado is heading their way; Daniel assures his guests that the basement is tornado proof.
Mother's Day
Mother's Day (1980)
, 1h30
Directed by Charles Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Nancy Hendrickson, Beatrice Pons, Frederick Coffin, Michael McCleery
Rating53% 2.6538352.6538352.6538352.6538352.653835
The plot begins with the long-time friendship of three women, Abbey (Nancy Hendrickson), Jackie (Deborah Luce), and Trina (Tiana Pierce), who reunite every year to take a camping trip. Once while setting up their vacation in the woods, they find their trip turns into their worst nightmare when they are captured by a group of two partially insane punk/"hillbilly" hybrids: Ike (Holden McGuire) and Addley (Billy Ray McQuade). The punks lead a comfortable life, living along with their mentally abnormal mother (Rose Ross) in an occult hovel situated amidst the wood. All through the movie, their mother goads her sons into acts of rape, violence, and murder. Eventually one of the women is severely brutalized by Ike and Addley, and the remaining two escape before the first dies from her sustained injuries. They soon regroup, arm themselves, and set out for bloody revenge against Ike, Addley, and Mother. After the girls take their revenge at the end of the film, as they are about to leave the woods they are attacked by the mother's deformed sister, Queenie.
Squeeze Play
Squeeze Play (1979)
, 1h28
Directed by Lloyd Kaufman, Matthew Diamond
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Erotic films, Baseball films
Actors Jennifer Hetrick, Al Corley, Jim Harrison, Jim Metzler, Lloyd Kaufman, Melissa Michaelsen
Rating41% 2.077042.077042.077042.077042.07704
A group of New Jersey women, upset over their boyfriends' tendency to pay more attention to softball than their love lives, decide to beat them at their own game...literally. The girls form their own softball team and challenge the men to a match out on the field. The men initially scoff at the idea, but soon grow nervous when they worry that they'll lose face if they refuse to play.
The Story of Esther Costello
The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
, 1h43
Directed by David Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears, Lee Patterson, June Clyde, Bessie Love
Rating63% 3.198883.198883.198883.198883.19888
With her marriage to womaniser Carlo Landi (Rossano Brazzi) in ashes, wealthy and childless Margaret Landi (Joan Crawford) finds an emotional outlet in patronizing a 15-year-old deaf, dumb, and blind Irish girl named Esther Costello (Heather Sears). Esther's disabilities are the result of a childhood trauma and are psychosomatic rather than physical. As Costello makes progress with Braille and sign language, she is seen as an example of triumph over adversity. Carlo gets wind of Margaret's new life and re-enters the scene. He views Esther as a source of cheap financial gain and arranges a series of exploitative tours for her under a mercenary manager Frank Wenzel (Ron Randell). One day when Margaret is absent from the Landi apartment, Carlo seduces and rapes the now 16-year-old Esther. The shock restores the girl's sight and hearing. When Margaret learns of her husband's business duplicities and the rape, she consigns Esther to the care of a priest and a young reporter who loves her (Lee Patterson). Margaret then kills Carlo and herself.
Return to Paradise
Return to Paradise (1953)
, 1h40
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, John Hudson
Rating59% 2.999382.999382.999382.999382.99938
Mr. Morgan (Cooper) washes up on an island in the South Pacific, ruled by Pastor Corbett (Barry Jones), a missionary who rules as a religious despot. Morgan stays on the island despite his conflicting with Corbett and has an illegitimate child, Turia (Moira Walker), by island native Maeva (Haynes). After her death, he leaves the island, but also leaves her daughter behind. He returns to the island shortly before World War II, and his daughter falls in love with an American pilot who crash-lands on the island. An interesting irony is that when Morgan first arrived, Corbett tried to force him to leave the island before getting one of the girls pregnant. Then the same thing happens again when his daughter, Turia, tries to have an affair with the American pilot. Morgan intervenes, and makes the pilot leave. In the last scene his daughter forgives him.
Let There Be Light
Let There Be Light (1946)
, 58minutes
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Walter Huston
Rating73% 3.694153.694153.694153.694153.69415
Bouleversant témoignage sur les horreurs de la guerre censuré jusqu’en 1980, Que la lumière soit est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des meilleurs films jamais réalisés sur les conséquences psychologiques de la guerre.
When Tomorrow Comes
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
, 1h30
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens, Nydia Westman, Nella Walker
Rating66% 3.337963.337963.337963.337963.33796
Un célèbre pianiste français en tournée s'arrête dans un bar et tombe amoureux d'une serveuse.