John Erman — Director (28)

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This Year's Blonde (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
This Year's Blonde
other title: Moviola: Este año es rubia / Moviola – Marilyn: Die Geburt einer Legende
First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic.

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Roots (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Roots
★ 7.6 (5 ratings) director: Marvin J. Chomsky / John Erman …
other title: 뿌리 / Racines …
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.

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Who Will Love My Children? (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Who Will Love My Children?
director: John Erman actor: Ann-Margret / Frederic Forrest …
other title: 兒女繞心間 / ファミリー (1983年の映画)
Lucile Fray has 10 children and terminal cancer. As her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, isn't capable enough to handle raising them, there's only one option left. As her last act on earth, Fray is determined to make sure her children have a secure future.

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Victoria & Albert (2001) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Victoria & Albert
other title: Victoria y Alberto / 皇室情緣 …
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert's frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.

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Carolina Skeletons (1991) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Carolina Skeletons
director: John Erman actor: Louis Gossett Jr. / Bruce Dern …
other title: 铁案风云 / Un Coupable Idéal …
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past...

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The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988) IMDb
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
director: John Erman actor: Lisa Jacobs
other title: 安妮躲藏的阁楼 / 安妮的阁楼 …
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.

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Candles on Bay Street (2006) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Candles on Bay Street
director: 约翰·厄曼 actor: 艾丽西亚·希尔维斯通 / 艾恩·贝利 …
other title: 海街的蜡烛 / 베이 스트릿의 촛불 …
DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary about DeeDee after Sam tells her that they were best friends growing up and DeeDee was his first crush. But DeeDee and Trooper find their way into many hearts of the townspeople with their sweet helpfulness and friendships. DeeDee sets up a candle making business in town square and invites many of the ladies of the town to weekly candle making parties, and through these parties she and Lydia become good friends. One evening after dinner with Lydia and Sam, DeeDee tells Sam she's very sick and she doesn't have much longer to live and she needs his help to find a good family in town to adopt Trooper. Sam later tells Lydia everything and they decide to adopt Trooper themselves if/when something happens to DeeDee.

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Ellen Foster (1997) Douban
director: 约翰·厄曼 actor: 朱丽·哈里斯 / 吉娜·马隆 …
On December 14, 1997, a made-for-television film based on the book was aired on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, and is now on DVD. The movie was directed by John Erman, screenplay by Maria Nation and William Hanley. The movie is rated PG-13 for some abusive treatment of a child, and is 120 minutes including commercials. The movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Cast:
Julie Harris - Lenora Nelson
Jena Malone - Ellen Foster
Ted Levine - Bill Hammond
Glynnis O'Connor - Charlotte Nelson Hammond
Debra Monk - Aunt Nadine
Kimberly J. Brown - Dora
Barbara Garrick - Aunt Betsy
Kate Burton - Abigail
Zeljko Ivanek - Chief Inspector
Lynne Moody - Mrs. Douglas
Bill Nunn - Mr. Douglas
Allison Jones - Starletta Douglas
Amanda Peet - Julia Hobbs
Timothy Olyphant - Roy Hobbs
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Stella (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Stella
director: 约翰·厄曼 actor: 贝特·米德勒 / 翠尼·阿瓦拉多 …
other title: 吧女斯特拉 / 史黛拉 …
Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny...ending in an selfless, unforgettable sacrifice.

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The Blackwater Lightship (2004) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Blackwater Lightship
director: John Erman actor: Dianne Wiest ... Lily / Angela Lansbury ... Dora …
other title: 暗水船灯 / 黑水灯塔船
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

TV

维多利亚与艾伯特 (2001) Douban
Victoria & Albert
director: 约翰·厄曼 actor: 维多利亚·汉密尔顿 / 乔纳森·佛斯 …
英国一代女王维多利亚与丈夫艾伯特的婚姻一直被普通百姓认为是一段幸福美满的生活,但这对于女王来说,更像是一段错误的选择,一直到维多利亚的晚年,她还常常回忆起那段往事,心中充满了悔恨。
维多利亚在十八岁之前一直受到性格乖张的母亲的严厉限制,她没有自己的房间,每天的日记都要给 母亲过目,她几乎没有自己的生活,所有的事情都被母亲操纵着。而家里的私人军师乔爵士更是在母亲的娇纵下无视公主的权利,肆意的侮辱她,这让维多利亚痛苦不堪。
终于舅舅男爵一家的前来拜访给了维多利亚一个稍稍放松的机会,那次她是第一次见到她的表弟艾伯特。艾伯特因为性格直率、怪异而给维多利亚留下了不好的印象。时间转眼即逝,转眼之间,维多利亚马上就要年满十八周岁。因为现任国王身体情况很糟糕,所以维多利亚的继任成为了宫廷上下最重要的事务。
但其母公爵夫人的从中阻扰,却使此事困难重重。她一直妄想执政,担心女儿正式继任国王一职后,自己会失去机会。在用心险恶的乔爵士的怂恿下,她甚至逼自己的女儿写下了委任书。但聪明的维多利亚自有一套办法,在家庭老师的帮助下,她成功登基,摆脱了母亲的控制,并把令人厌恶的乔爵士赶出了家门。
在墨尔本大人的帮助下,维多利亚女王对政务很快熟悉起来,她再也不是当年那个唯唯诺诺的小女孩了。而如今,女王的终身大事也顺理成章成为了宫廷内的头等大事。英国王室一向有与表姐弟成婚的习惯,而舅舅与母亲因为需要扩充势力也不断要求维多利亚应与其表弟艾伯特成亲。在各方势力的压力下,维多利亚决定接见艾伯特,没想到已年过三十的他早已不是当年那个毛头小子,女王对他一见钟情。
很快,维多利亚与艾伯特王子就结婚了,但艾伯特很清楚,他并不爱女王。在接下来的婚姻生活中,两人的关系更是屡屡面临危机。尤其是英国宫廷内荒唐的内务更是让艾伯特难以忍受,但女王却丝毫不听丈夫的建议,二人的婚姻终于拉响了警报。