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David Lee Shire is a Actor and Sound American born on 3 july 1937 at Buffalo (USA)
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award and Grammy-winning American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the soundtrack for Francis Coppola's The Conversation, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline", are some of his best-known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz, and the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
(1977)
(Original Music Composer)
(2007)
(Original Music Composer)
(1976)
(Original Music Composer)
(1984)
(Original Music Composer)
(1975)
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(1981)
(Original Music Composer)
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(2007)(Original Music Composer)
(1976)(Original Music Composer)
(1984)(Original Music Composer)
(1975)(Original Music Composer)
(1981)(Original Music Composer)
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, 3hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Joanna Kerns, Dan Lauria, Bonnie Bartlett, Lindsay Frost, Joe Spano, Michael T. Weiss
Rating59%
The movie begins with a small tremor beginning in the hills outside of Los Angeles near a United States Geological Survey (USGS) research post which cuts to a scene of a teenage girl on a date with her boyfriend at the Earthquake Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood. The girl is later revealed to be Heather, daughter of Clare Winslow (Joanna Kerns), who is a seismologist with the U.S.G.S.
, 1h55Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Buddy films, Heist films
Actors James Caan, Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Michael Caine, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren
Rating54%
Harry Dighby (Caan) and Walter Hill (Gould) are struggling vaudevillians who are sent to jail when Dighby is caught robbing audience members. They become roommates to a cultured, wealthy, and charming bank robber named Adam Worth (Caine). Worth plans to rob the Lowell Bank and Trust, both to avenge himself on the bank manager who had arranged his capture and because his ego cannot resist the temptation of robbing a bank reputed to be perfectly secure. Though in jail, he procures detailed diagrams of the bank's security systems.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
, 1h46Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Jesse Metcalfe, Amber Tamblyn, Michael Douglas, Joel Moore, Orlando Jones, Juli Erickson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57%
The film opens on a close-up of a frightened woman's eyes. The camera pulls back to reveal that she's undergoing a blind tasting of coffee by local TV reporter CJ Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe). He heads to the courthouse to watch Shreveport District Attorney Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) give his final argument on a murder case. CJ pigeonholes Assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) afterward and asks her for the videotape of the murderer's interrogation. He also presses her for a date. She reluctantly agrees to both.
Zodiac (2007)
, 2h37Directed by David Fincher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Serial killer films
Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating76%
On July 4, 1969, an unknown male attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun, at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Mageau survives; Ferrin dies.
Ash Wednesday (2002)
, 1h39Directed by Edward Burns
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Edward Burns, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt, James Handy, Michael Mulheren
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57%
Hell's Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983; rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan's (Edward Burns) younger brother Sean (Elijah Wood), dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn't killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting both Francis and Sean in danger. An upstart is pressuring the local mob boss, who's Francis's protector; Sean's wife, Grace (Rosario Dawson), believes she's a widow and has gotten on with her life, but Sean has come back for her. The parish priest, part of the initial deception, is frightened. Bad guys with guns are closing in.
These Old Broads (2001)
, 1h29Directed by Matthew Diamond
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman, Pat Crawford Brown
Roles Songs
Rating58%
Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical Boy Crazy is re-released to wide public acclaim in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
Double Platinum (1999)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Christine Ebersole, Allen Payne, Diana Ross, Brandy, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Harvey Fierstein
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
The film tells the story of a woman feeling unfulfilled and unappreciated in her life so she decides to abandon her husband and infant daughter in order to pursue her dreams of superstardom. The story starts off by showing aspiring vocalist, Olivia King (Diana Ross) performing at small lounge in Atlanta, 1981. As she takes a break from her performance she heads backstage to see her infant daughter, Kayla (Jayda Brown). A music executive approaches King at the bar and tells her she is talented and should move to the bigger market of New York City to fulfill her dreams. Olivia King initially denies his request and goes home to her husband ((Brian Stokes Mitchell)). King is shown trying to explain her night to her husband and tell him about the music executive but he brushes her off and tells her moving to New York City is a bad idea. Feeling depressed, conflicted and trapped in her marriage, Olivia King leaves her home in the middle of the night whispering to her daughter that she can't take her along, but will be back for her. The movie then picks back up in St.Louis, Missouri 18 years later and it is shown that Kayla Harris (Brandy Norwood), now 19 years old, has won a contest to meet famous superstar Olivia King. Kayla at this time does not know that Olivia is her mother, but she grew up being a huge fan of Ms. Olivia King and is extremely excited to meet her idol, completely ignorant to the truth. After enjoying the concert, Kayla then gets the second part of her prize which includes having dinner with Olivia King, at dinner Kayla lets Olivia know that she also would like to be a singer and invites Olivia to a small performance she would be doing. When Kayla gets home from dinner, her father asks her how it went and he is shocked to hear that the star Kayla got to meet was Olivia King, though he knows the truth he does not press the issue further as he sees his daughter is still in the dark. Next, Kayla is shown getting ready to perform, and she begins to worry that Olivia will not show up but sure enough Olivia shows up as Kayla starts to sing. Kayla is ecstatic that her idol has shown up but after the show Olivia pulls her aside and reveals to Kayla who she really is. Kayla is stunned and upset, she quickly leaves. Kayla is shaken, she argues with her father and refuses to speak to her mother even when Olivia offers to help her with her career. Kayla's best friend advises her to accept Olivia's help with her music career as it is the least she owes her.
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Jack Palance, Lexi Randall, George Hearn, Emily Osment
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67%
Un soir d'hiver de 1918, John Witting, le père de Jacob qui a abandonné son foyer lorsque Jacob était encore un enfant, réapparaît à la ferme des Witting. Jacob ne veut rien avoir à faire avec lui mais Sarah va tout faire pour les réconcilier.
Rear Window (1998)
, 1h29Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Christopher Reeve, Daryl Hannah, Robert Forster, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ritchie Coster, Anne Twomey
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating56%
Jason Kemp est un ancien architecte, aujourd'hui tétraplégique. Cloué dans son fauteuil roulant, il passe son temps à espionner ses voisins depuis la fenêtre de son appartement. Lorsqu'un jour Julian Thorpe bat sa femme Ilene, Jason décide d'appeler immédiatement la police. Mais Thorpe est finalement libéré un jour plus tard. Cette nuit-là, Jason entend un cri perçant. Le lendemain, il s'aperçoit qu'eIle n'est plus à son domicile, et qu'elle a semble-t-il été remplacée par une autre femme. Certain de la culpabilité du mari, Jason tente de convaincre sa petite amie Claudia, son infirmier Antonio et son ami Charlie...
Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
, 1h29Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Tom Selleck, Suzy Amis, Haley Joel Osment, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Harry Carey, Jr.
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating67%
As America recovers from the Civil War, Paul Cable (Tom Selleck) returns home to Texas after being away from his family for years while fighting for the Confederacy. His wife, Martha (Suzy Amis), is a pretty but strong-willed frontier woman, whose independence makes her a force in and of herself. She had been told that he was killed in action. Upon her husband's unexpected return, she once again devotes herself to being his wife, but resents him for having left her and their children behind to fight a war she didn't care to understand.
My Antonia (1995)
, 1h30Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint, Jan Tříska, Norbert Weisser, Anne Tremko
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating61%
The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
, 1h40Directed by Paul Bogart
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Hulce, Roma Maffia, Peter Friedman, Kim Cattrall, Eve Gordon
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian over 20 years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism during the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s.
, 1h31Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, William Allen Young, William Converse-Roberts
Rating69%
The film recounts the events in the life of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer which led to her retirement from the Washington National Guard under the U.S. military's gay exclusion policy.
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1994)
, 1h38Directed by Bill Condon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Serial killer films
Actors Roger Moore, Nancy Allen, Malcolm McDowell, Eric McCormack, Jackson Davies, Roger Cross
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating54%
In The Man Who Wouldn't Die art imitates life for Thomas Grace (Roger Moore), a famous British ex-novelist who wrote a series of acclaimed crime stories featuring a villain patterned after real-life criminal Bernard Drake (Malcolm McDowell). Now living in America, Grace works as a hack reporter for a city newspaper. After reading one of Grace's books, Jessie Gallardo (Nancy Allen), a waitress with burgeoning psychic abilities, predicts several murders—with Grace as one of the victims. Her visions identify the enemy as Drake, who has escaped from prison by faking his own death in a fire. As Drake sets out to frame the author for a series of grisly murders based around his novels, it is up to Thomas and Jessie to clear their names, stop him, and stay alive in the process. Eric McCormack co-stars as a doubtful newspaper colleague.
Once in a Lifetime (1994)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Duncan Regehr, Amy Aquino, Rex Smith, Fran Bennett
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
Daphne Fields is a world famous novelist from New York City who one night is hit by a car. She falls into a coma and her memory flashes back to eight years earlier, when she was happily married to Jeffrey and had a loving daughter, Aimee. Her perfect life had subsequently fallen into pieces when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a fire. Nine months later, she gives birth to a son, Andrew, who turns out to be deaf. Daphne decides to learn sign language and is tutored by Dr. Matthew Dane, an educator for the deaf. Inspired by her loss, she starts writing a novel called Autumn Years.