Melinda Dillon Movies

Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgrounds are investigating the strange appearance of items in remote locations, primarily desert…

Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom’s relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins…

Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music “mogul”, and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team…

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A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams…

Based on the lives of mother-daughter singers the Judds.

The phrase “entertaining angels” refers to the practice of treating all guests–be they kings or peasants–as if they were visiting angels. This is the challenge for all humble Christians and…

Two brothers, One is a bull rider, the other a rodeo bullfighter/stock contractor, clash over the love of barrel racer Celia Jones, while each comes into their own in their…

The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police find his wife Helen and their three children slain in their…

Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother’s immediate…

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his…

This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America’s greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the…

Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family’s car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine…

A HS grad leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the Sex industry. It ends in disaster.

Jake McDermott, after 25 years running a fast food business, proclaims one morning that he’s hated dealing with chickens the entire time and has finally sold the family restaurant. For…

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become…

Mike Gallagher is a Miami liquor wholesaler whose deceased father was a local mobster. The FBI organized crime task force have no evidence that he’s involved with the mob but…