Daniel Petrie Movies

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

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

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...

After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.

Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced...

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 desperately...

From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers...

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

Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even...

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 has a...

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 life...

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 becomes an...

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

A pitcher of a major-league baseball team finds out that his teammate and pal is desperately trying to hide that he is dying of a terminal disease so...

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

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

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...

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 exactly connect....

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

A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a...