Austin Pendleton Movies

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs,...

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

A former pro-wrestler is hired to be the bodyguard/nanny for a couple of bratty kids whose inventor father is being stalked by a rival.

Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his...

An old trucker steals his truck for one last cross-country run, with a madam and her crew on board.

In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to...

The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when...

Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was...

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are...

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve...

Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset...

Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the...

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is...

How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going...

The story of three art-school grads realizing that their degrees and artistic ambitions haven't necessarily prepared them for the real world and...

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who...

A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them...

An unemployed ex-office worker searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous...