Michael Pressman — Director (15)

Movie

Shootdown (1988)
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other title: Shootdown (Derribado) / Flug ohne Rückkehr
Nan Moore is a U.S. government employee whose son is killed when Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviets on September 1, 1983. While the "official" story maintains that the flight accidentally veered too far into Soviet territory, was mistaken as a spy plane and shot down when it failed to identify itself, Ms. Moore suspects otherwise. However, in the course of her struggles to get to the bottom of what actually happened, she finds herself constantly stonewalled. Facing a conspiracy of silence and the increasing hostility of the authorities, Ms. Moore attempts to find out exactly what occurred, but with every answer she discovers, new questions arise...

Movie

A Season for Miracles (1999)
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other title: 奇迹之季 / Wenn nicht ein Wunder geschieht …
When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.

Movie

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
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迈克尔·普雷斯曼 actor: 克莱尔·丹妮丝 / 彼得·盖勒 …
other title: 夜未眠生死恋 / 阴阳错恋 …
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present in the real world....

Movie

Doctor Detroit (1983)
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迈克尔·普雷斯曼 actor: 丹·艾克罗伊德 / 霍华德·海瑟曼 …
other title: 双面博士 / 无中生有假博士 …
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.

TV

The Practice Season 2 (1997)
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Michael Pressman / Thomas Schlamme … actor: 迪伦·麦克德莫特 / 迈克尔·巴达鲁科 …
The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, & Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm's involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes' initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.