Daniel Petrie

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter ...

A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Movie based on the true story of Helen Keller, now an adult, and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Their close relationship is threatened when John ...

Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard ...

Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the ...

A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to ...

On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the ...

An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of ...

During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel “Mark Twain” Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.

Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20’s and ...

The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one ...

A man’s family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don’t ...

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and self-reflection.

A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family ...

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a ...

During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly ...

Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been ...

From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York’s infamous South Bronx. In the center is “Fort ...

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. She ...