Robert Elswit Movies

Facing his final season with the Detroit Tigers baseball team, veteran outfielder Billy Young sees his dream of playing in the World Series slipping...

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug...

Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets...

A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization.

Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league...

An idealistic young politician juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the...

A biographical account of pioneering photographer Margaret Bourke-White's career.

A tribute to Richard Lester, Philadelphia-born filmmaker who moved to England to direct the modern classics "A Hard Day's Night," "Petulia," and...

A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.

In the 1950s, three young sorority women re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.

A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.

Zac is an idealistic student who, after arriving at college, decides to pledge the Gamma Nu Pi fraternity. Unhappy with what he sees as the bigotry...

Young girl is locked at the library after it closes. Soon after, four storybook characters come to life in front of her.

The Great Valley in Africa - a crack of more than 6,500 kilometers in the earth's crust - is the result of the continental fracture that began about...

Ruth Duffy is getting by on an assistant's salary at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan, managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her...

In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves...

A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always neglected.

A mayoral candidate (Barbara Eden) for a California town gets romantically involved with her opponent (John Forsythe), a former cowboy star.

Family celebrations and tensions, Independence Day, Texas 1948

Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their...