Daniel Petrie Movies

In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush....

The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a...

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.

A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a...

A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately...

Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance.

A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to the...

A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a...

A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.

Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many...

Set in Ireland, the story centers on a day in the life of Shevawn, an innocent, 30-year-old dreamer who is domineered by her innkeeper brother. An...

This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4...

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed sixteen different personalities is treated by a doctor.

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting...

A pitcher of a major-league baseball team finds out that his teammate and pal is desperately trying to hide that he is dying of a terminal disease so...

An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great...