Movies: Michael Laskin

When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big auditio...

Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer — just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law....

Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme....

When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife....

Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles...

Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In ...

Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her f...

A young homeless woman is discovered by a successful photographer....

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson is a mockumentary on the disappearance of a fictitious wealthy British film producer, Kevin Johnson, who is dealing in sex, lies and blackmail in Hollywood....

After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...

Teenage girl who advocates sex education at her school finds herself butting heads with her mother who is seeking a spot on the school board....

An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret....

Two brothers reunite when one of them finds himself in deep with a powerful crime lord....

A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son....

A touching yet humorous tale of a divorced man searching for love in the personals column and finding out about life in the process....

A grumpy microbiologist is forced into sensitivity training at work and forms an unlikely friendship with her overly vivacious coach....

A struggling grocery-store owner makes a deal with Satan that gives him the power to gamble in Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos without losing. However, his deal is threatened with exposure when a casino boss suspicious of his "winning streak" beg...

A short sendup of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The film is overdubbed by the titular Norman Nurdelpick as he presents his film to Alfred Hitchcock himself!...

He'd gotten out of the clown life, that is, until they went and clipped his best friend. Welcome to Big Top, USA. Trading paint for blood, by the gallon....

A mysterious vixen cons two low-life thugs into crossing paths with a powerful crime lord....