Laura Esterman

Addams Family Values (1993)

FunnyDarkWeirdLighthearted

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Sonnenfeld
CAST:  Joan Cusack  •  Anjelica Huston  •  Raúl Juliá  •  Christopher Lloyd

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Sonnenfeld
CAST:  Joan Cusack  •  Anjelica Huston  •  Raúl Juliá  •  Christopher Lloyd

The Doors (1991)

Epic

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Oliver Stone
CAST:  Val Kilmer  •  Kyle MacLachlan  •  Kevin Dillon  •  Frank Whaley

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Oliver Stone
CAST:  Val Kilmer  •  Kyle MacLachlan  •  Kevin Dillon  •  Frank Whaley

Awakenings (1990)

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Penny Marshall
CAST:  Robert De Niro  •  Robin Williams  •  Julie Kavner  •  Ruth Nelson

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Penny Marshall
CAST:  Robert De Niro  •  Robin Williams  •  Julie Kavner  •  Ruth Nelson

Chinese Coffee (2000)

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Al Pacino
CAST:  Al Pacino  •  Jerry Orbach  •  Susan Floyd  •  Ellen McElduff

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Al Pacino
CAST:  Al Pacino  •  Jerry Orbach  •  Susan Floyd  •  Ellen McElduff

Alone in the Dark (1982)

A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Sholder
CAST:  Jack Palance  •  Donald Pleasence  •  Martin Landau  •  Dwight Schultz

A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Sholder
CAST:  Jack Palance  •  Donald Pleasence  •  Martin Landau  •  Dwight Schultz

Road Movie (1974)

Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Strick
CAST:  Robert Drivas  •  Regina Baff  •  Barry Bostwick  •  David Bauer

Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to be able to keep ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Strick
CAST:  Robert Drivas  •  Regina Baff  •  Barry Bostwick  •  David Bauer

From Other Worlds (2004)

FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Strugatz
CAST:  Cara Buono  •  Isaach De Bankolé  •  David Lansbury  •  Quinn Shephard

FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Strugatz
CAST:  Cara Buono  •  Isaach De Bankolé  •  David Lansbury  •  Quinn Shephard

Me and Him (1988)

A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Doris Dörrie
CAST:  Griffin Dunne  •  Ellen Greene  •  Kelly Bishop  •  Carey Lowell

A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Doris Dörrie
CAST:  Griffin Dunne  •  Ellen Greene  •  Kelly Bishop  •  Carey Lowell

Children of the Night (1985)

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers her own apartment to teenage prostitutes seeking refuge from the streets, many of whom are rejected by their parents ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Markowitz
CAST:  Kathleen Quinlan  •  Nicholas Campbell  •  Mario Van Peebles  •  Lar Park Lincoln

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers her own apartment to teenage prostitutes seeking refuge from the streets, many of whom are rejected by their parents ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Markowitz
CAST:  Kathleen Quinlan  •  Nicholas Campbell  •  Mario Van Peebles  •  Lar Park Lincoln

Suspended Animation (2001)

Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabited by two sisters (Laura Esterman and Sage Allen). Initially grateful to them, Tom soon realizes that the women ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John D. Hancock
CAST:  Alex McArthur  •  Rebecca Harrell Tickell  •  Laura Esterman  •  Fred Meyers

Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabited by two sisters (Laura Esterman and Sage Allen). Initially grateful to them, Tom soon realizes that the women ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John D. Hancock
CAST:  Alex McArthur  •  Rebecca Harrell Tickell  •  Laura Esterman  •  Fred Meyers

Arranged (2007)

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stefan C. Schaefer  •  Diane Crespo
CAST:  Zoe Lister-Jones  •  Francis Benhamou  •  Marcia Jean Kurtz  •  Mimi Lieber

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stefan C. Schaefer  •  Diane Crespo
CAST:  Zoe Lister-Jones  •  Francis Benhamou  •  Marcia Jean Kurtz  •  Mimi Lieber

Ironweed (1987)

Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Héctor Babenco
CAST:  Jack Nicholson  •  Meryl Streep  •  Carroll Baker  •  Tom Waits

Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Héctor Babenco
CAST:  Jack Nicholson  •  Meryl Streep  •  Carroll Baker  •  Tom Waits

The Confession (1999)

After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctors responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie, looking only to win a case and not caring of the matters involved, is assigned Fertig's case. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Hugh Jones
CAST:  Ben Kingsley  •  Amy Irving  •  Alec Baldwin  •  Richard Jenkins

After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctors responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie, looking only to win a case and not caring of the matters involved, is assigned Fertig's case. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Hugh Jones
CAST:  Ben Kingsley  •  Amy Irving  •  Alec Baldwin  •  Richard Jenkins

Human Affairs (2018)

This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charlie Birns
CAST:  Dominic Fumusa  •  Kerry Condon  •  David Harbour  •  Julie Sokolowski

This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charlie Birns
CAST:  Dominic Fumusa  •  Kerry Condon  •  David Harbour  •  Julie Sokolowski

Can Hitler Happen Here? (2017)

Meddling neighbors, ambitious social-workers and real-estate vultures conspire to torment an eccentric old lady. Or maybe they're just trying to help.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saskia Rifkin
CAST:  Laura Esterman  •  John Pirkis  •  Karin Collison  •  Alexander Quiroga

Meddling neighbors, ambitious social-workers and real-estate vultures conspire to torment an eccentric old lady. Or maybe they're just trying to help.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saskia Rifkin
CAST:  Laura Esterman  •  John Pirkis  •  Karin Collison  •  Alexander Quiroga

Lullaby (2024)

After she is forced to move in with her estranged daughter, an elderly religious woman begins to connect with her young grandson.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Parra
CAST:  Laura Esterman  •  Piper Goodeve  •  Matthew Upbin

After she is forced to move in with her estranged daughter, an elderly religious woman begins to connect with her young grandson.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Parra
CAST:  Laura Esterman  •  Piper Goodeve  •  Matthew Upbin