Melinda Dillon Movies

Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of...

The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children...

Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born. Minnie, too, has built doll houses for years,...

"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely...

When his drinking problem takes control of his life, a father tries to leave the bottle behind while putting his and his family's lives back together.

The firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day co-founds The Catholic Worker with Peter Maurin, an eccentric philosopher.

This is a true story about the relationship between a mother and her daughter, and their struggle to make it to the top in the music world. It is...

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an...

A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. A dramatized account of the life...

Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This...

Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is...

After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered...

Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's,...

Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an...

Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.

Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck,...

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that...