Lawrence Pressman Movies

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the...

David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."

A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.

A middle-aged mom and her teenage daughter adjust to life together after Dad's affair breaks up the family.

Two Christmases have passed and widow Kate Thornton has taken over Thornton Industries and is wooed by a courtly financier.

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that...

Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.

A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished whe...

Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American serviceme...

Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.

A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.

Pilot TV-Movie for the sitcom Mulligan's Stew. Michael and Jane Mulligan have three children: Mark, Melinda and Jimmy. They find making ends meet difficult, but manageable. Things get tighter moneywise and spacewise when the Mulligans take in their nephews aft...

The little coastal town of Clark's Harbor seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad Russell and his wife to get a little peace and spend more time with each other. But the locals don't seem very friendly and every time a storm rolls in another mysteri...