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David V. Picker is a Actor and Producer American born on 14 may 1931 at New York City (USA)
David V. Picker is a motion picture executive and producer, working in the film industry for more than forty years. He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer for United Artists, Paramount, Lorimar and Columbia Pictures. He is currently an independent producer. Picker has been a member of the Writers Guild of America East, is currently a member the Producers Guild of America, and he is Chairman Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America East. Picker's memoir about his career in the film industry, Musts, Maybes and Nevers, was released in 2013.
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David V. Picker
David V. Picker is a motion picture executive and producer, working in the film industry for more than forty years. He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer for United Artists, Paramount, Lorimar and Columbia Pictures. He is currently an independent producer. Picker has been a member of the Writers Guild of America East, is currently a member the Producers Guild of America, and he is Chairman Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America East. Picker's memoir about his career in the film industry, Musts, Maybes and Nevers, was released in 2013.
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Harry Saltzman: Showman (2000)
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors George Lazenby, Peter Hunt, David V. Picker, Michael G. Wilson, Albert R. Broccoli, John Stears
Roles Self
Rating72%
Producer
Fidel (2002)
, 3h20Directed by David Attwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Gael García Bernal, George Lopez, Patricia Velásquez, Cecilia Suárez, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Maurice Compte
Roles Executive producer
Rating65%
The film is almost documentary in its portrayal of facts. It claims to be based strongly on facts, apart from some adaptations like merging various characters into one.
David Copperfield (2001)
, 3hDirected by Peter Medak
Genres Drama
Actors Hugh Dancy, Sally Field, Michael Richards, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Andrews, Edward Hardwicke
Roles Executive Producer
Rating69%
David Copperfield, orphelin de père, est confronté à une dure réalité avec l'arrivée de Murdstone, le fiancé de sa mère, un homme opportuniste et calculateur. Envoyé chez un négociant de vin à Londres, David doit surpasser ses limites et apprendre les cruelles lois de la vie. Pour échapper à cet enfer, le petit garçon quitte la capitale et commence une nouvelle vie pleine de danger et d'amitié.
In the Beginning (2000)
, 3h9Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Billy Campbell, Eddie Cibrian, Diana Rigg, Fred Weller
Roles Executive Producer
Rating62%
In the Beginning is the story about the travels and travails of the tribe of Abraham (Martin Landau). Set around the year 2000 B.C., the narrative opens with "Genesis 12," wherein the LORD has told Abraham and company to leave their country to a land of milk and honey to be named later. In order to keep up the morale of his followers while on the road, Abraham gives a sermon that sums up God's creation of the universe. By illustrating this sermon with stock footage and special-effects shots, the producers attempt to make a connection between sermons of old and popular entertainments of today. From there, the twists and turns of the Old Testament are treated like a soap opera. Family dramas take center stage, whether it's God testing Abraham by telling him to kill his son in sacrifice, Joseph gaining power in Egypt after being sold to slave traders by his brothers, or one of the many other stories of brothers fighting (Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, etc.). Many events are visualized such as the plagues and the parting of the Red Sea, to name but two.
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 Executive Producer
Rating55%
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...
The Temptations (miniseries) (1998)
Directed by Allan Arkush
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charles Malik Whitfield, D.B. Woodside, Terron Brooks, Leon Robinson, Jenifer Lewis, Christian Payton
Roles Executive producer
Rating84%
The story begins in 1958 when Otis Williams, a black teenager living in Detroit, Michigan, is running to meet his friend Elbridge "Al" Bryant at a musical performance by The Cadillacs, where Otis and the singer lock eyes, which he credits as the moment he devoted his life to music. Otis' stepfather Edgar is less than pleased with Otis' plans to become a singer instead of an assembly line worker, but his mother Haze is supportive.
The Crucible (1996)
, 2h4Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Prison films, Films about religion, Witches in film, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Jeffrey Jones, Peter Vaughan
Roles Producer
Rating67%
Early morning in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, some young village girls meet in the woods with a Barbadian slave named Tituba (Charlayne Woodard). One of the girls, Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder), kills a chicken and drinks the blood, wishing for John Proctor's wife to die. They are surprised by Abigail's uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris (Bruce Davison), who discovers them. As the girls run away, Parris' daughter, Betty (Rachael Bella), falls over unconscious.
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
, 1h39Directed by Tim Hunter
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Danny Glover, Kevin Corrigan, Matt Dillon, Rick Aviles, Nina Siemaszko, Ving Rhames
Roles Producer
Rating69%
Matthew is a young man with a good heart that suffers from sporadic schizophrenic tendencies. He ends up with nowhere to live after a slumlord tears down his tenement. Bullied by punks, Matthew turns to a homeless military veteran, Jerry, for help on how to survive. Together they form a friendship that changes both of their lives forever.
Leap of Faith (1992)
, 1h48Directed by Richard Pearce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich, Liam Neeson, Lukas Haas, Meat Loaf
Roles Producer
Rating60%
Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) is a faith healer, loosely based on televangelist Peter Popoff, who makes a living traveling across America holding tent revival meetings and conducting purported miracles. He is helped by his friend and manager Jane Larson (Debra Winger) and an entourage of fellow con artists.
Traces of Red (1992)
, 1h45Directed by Andy Wolk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors James Belushi, Lorraine Bracco, Tony Goldwyn, William Russ, Faye Grant, Joe Lisi
Roles Producer
Rating52%
The movie begins with Jack Dobson, a homicide detective from Palm Beach, flat on his back with a bullet in his chest. The movie is then told in flashback form, leading up to the events that led him to this fate.
A Shock to the System (1990)
, 1h28Directed by Jan Egleson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Riegert, John McMartin, Will Patton
Roles Executive Producer
Rating65%
A family man named Graham Marshall, a long-time executive in a large advertising company, is unexpectedly passed over for promotion. Marshall himself can live with it, but his nagging wife Leslie is devastated and continually reproaches her husband for his apparent lack of ambition and willpower.
Stella (1990)
, 1h49Directed by John Erman, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan
Roles Executive Producer
Rating60%
Stella (Bette Midler) is a feisty woman working in a bar when she meets and falls for the suave charms of the young Dr. Steve Dallas (Stephen Collins). Although from opposite ends of the social spectrum, they start an affair resulting in Stella becoming pregnant. After he proposes half-heartedly, she rejects him and embarks upon raising their child Jenny as a single mother but is always helped and encouraged by her stalwart friend, a local good natured barfly, Ed Munn (John Goodman). Stella is fiercely independent and proud and is determined to do well by this child and take on whatever jobs she must to raise her daughter properly. When Jenny is 4 years old, her father suddenly reappears on the scene and is determined to get to know his daughter. At first reluctant to allow this, Stella is persuaded to allow contact, and a happy bond develops between the father and daughter. As Jenny (Trini Alvarado) grows up, she becomes torn between her fathers rich and well-connected background, and her loyalty and love for her mother who is poor and vulgar but devoted to her daughter. She also despises the perceived relationship she sees developing between Stella and Ed Munn who is now a broken alcoholic. Jenny eventually meets and falls for a boy from her fathers 'world' and Stella realizes that now, the disparities in her own and Jennys father's backgrounds might jeopardize her daughters future happiness. So she makes a heart rending decision towards the end of the film to ensure that this is not going to happen.
, 29minutesDirected by Dean Parisot
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Steven Wright, Rowan Atkinson, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Durang, Joe Grifasi, Dana Ivey
Roles Executive Producer
Rating70%
Dennis Jennings (Steven Wright) is an introvert, showing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, paranoia, and a troubled youth. He works as a waiter and has an indifferent girlfriend, Emma, who only seems to patronize him. The "appointments" are with his psychiatrist (Rowan Atkinson), who is annoyed with him and uninterested in what he has to say. After finding his doctor sharing his (Dennis's) intimate secrets with a group of fellow psychiatrists at a bar, and then finding that his girlfriend is cheating on him with the doctor, Dennis decides he has had enough.
Beat Street (1984)
, 1h45Directed by Stan Lathan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Rae Dawn Chong, Robert Taylor, Saundra Santiago, Guy Davis, Antonia Rey, Mary Alice
Roles Producer
Rating65%
Set in the South Bronx, the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends, all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip hop culture. Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis) is a budding disc jockey and MC, and his younger brother Lee (Robert Taylor) is a hardcore b-boy who dances with Beat Street Breakers (the New York City Breakers). Kenny's best friends are Ramon (Jon Chardiet), a graffiti artist known by his tag, "Ramo", and Chollie (Leon W. Grant), his self-styled manager/promoter.
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
, 1h33Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, James Cromwell, Paul Benedict, George Furth
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin), a widowed brain surgeon, is renowned for inventing a method of "cranial screw-top" brain surgery. He saves the life of Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner), a gold-digging femme fatale who is accidentally run over by Hfuhruhurr when fleeing the scene of her latest husband's fatal coronary (which her malicious mind-games and scheming caused).