Michael Murphy Movies

A young, ambitious editor finds out she’s pregnant just as she lands her big break.

The historical account of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn of the last century exploits made headlines, led them to be pursued by Pinkerton detectives hired by…

A satirical, experimental “Spa Western” set in 1893.

Tess is a tom boy struggling to cope in a family full of boys.

A look at the life and work of American film-maker Robert Altman.

In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money…

An orphaned New Zealand girl married to an older, wealthy businessman learns to deal with his strange sexual desires.

Robert Altman’s jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. When Blondie O’Hara’s husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held…

Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world’s top Olympic divers. Some topics discussed were Greg’s childhood problems,…

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Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the…

After her mother, Karen (Melissa Leo) gets married for the third time, 17-year-old Greta (Hillary Duff), who had witnessed her father kill himself, withdraws within herself, and turns rebellious. In…

Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. The…

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster…

Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Donna’s just-dead…

A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He…

Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is…

Docudrama uses fictional reports of a crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR. “Looking Glass” is the code word for…

11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father doesn’t spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games–and even has an imaginary friend, a…

Widowed John Brady is the Chief of Police in small town Galesburg, Illinois, where he has lived most of his life. His only offspring, Pete Brady, is a bright high…