David Shire Movies

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at...

Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother...

An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Network television executive Gavin hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne, and Addie Holden in a TV special after...

Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.

Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him...

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel...

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the...

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.

Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.

Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming...

Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the...

In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring...

George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to...

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...

Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most...