Janet Hirshenson Movies

Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With...

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a...

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants...

A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.

A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.

A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired...

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup...

A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.

Bobo, a feral man raised by wolves, is reunited with his family by a researcher. However, this disappoints his brother, Reggie, who has no intentions...

It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth...

A lawyer, defending a Mafia boss, falls for a beautiful woman with a sad story to tell. She says she's being abused by her brutal husband and she...

A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.

While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his...

Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and...

A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of...

Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each...

Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and...

A movie wannabe from Singapore and some of Hollywood's elite contribute to Storyville's illuminating view of the world of casting.

Allows casting directors Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson to describe the casting process and how each role was filled in the film The Sure Thing.