Goldengirl

Joseph Sargent

Gorgeous Susan Anton ('Cannonball Run II') stars as an untried female sprinter who enters the Olympics, claiming that she will win an unprecedented three gold medals. But when one man (legendary James Coburn) falls in love with her, he unravels the bizarre history of her training and the tough money men who stand to make millions...if she survives! Directed by Joseph Sargent ('The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'), scored by Bill Conti ('Rocky') and co-starring Leslie Caron ('Gigi'), Robert Culp (TV’s 'I Spy'), Harry Guardino ('Dirty Harry'), Curt Jürgens ('The Spy Who Loved Me'), Michael Lerner ('Barton Fink') and tennis great John Newcombe, 'Goldengirl' is a winning sports story with a unique sci-fi twist.


Sweet Nothing in My Ear

Joseph Sargent

A Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie. Dan (Jeff Daniels) and Laura Miller's (Marlee Matlin) marriage begins to change when their only son, Adam, loses his hearing at the age of four. Dan begins to explore the idea that with a surgical procedure and cochlear implants his son may be able to hear once again. A rift forms between Dan and Laura when Dan starts to favor the procedure and Laura and her deaf parents oppose it and the issue escalates to a child custody hearing.


Something the Lord Made

Joseph Sargent

Two men—one a wealthy white chief surgeon, the other a poor black lab technician—achieve a monumental medical breakthrough that earned one accolades...and the other a painful lesson in racism and unequal opportunity. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies," Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab tech Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) form an impressive team. But even as the two invent a new field of medicine—saving thousands of lives in the process—social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear their friendship apart. Mary Stuart Masterson, Gabrielle Union. With Charles Dutton, Kyra Sedgwick. Directed by Joseph Sargent; written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell.


Warm Springs

Joseph Sargent

As the only U.S. president re-elected three times, he brilliantly led America through the Great Depression and World War II. But the toughest challenge Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever faced was one the country never saw. Kenneth Branagh stars in this stirring true story of Roosevelt’s battle after being left a paraplegic by polio in 1921. Cynthia Nixon plays his dedicated wife Eleanor, who took up the mantle of the public FDR while her husband sought out a "miracle" cure in a rural Georgia health spa. Also with Kathy Bates and David Paymer. Directed by Joseph Sargent (HBO’s Something the Lord Made).


The Spy in the Green Hat

Joseph Sargent

The "Man from U.N.C.L.E.," Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and his intrepid partner, Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum), must foil an evil THRUSH plot to alter the course of the Gulf Stream and change global climate.


One Spy Too Many

Joseph Sargent

The men from U.N.C.L.E. must stop a megalomaniacal Greek tycoon with plans of world domination in the comic espionage caper One Spy Too Many. Mr. Alexander (Rip Torn--Men in Black films, Marie Antoinette) plans to restore the ancient empire of Alexander the Great by overthrowing a small Asian nation with the use of a nerve gas that paralyzes the will of anyone who breathes it. But his wife (Dorothy Provine--The Great Race) has different plans for her own greatness. Now, it's up to the two agents from U.N.C.L.E., Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn--"The Man from U.N.C.L.E.") and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum--"The Man from U.N.C.L.E."), to thwart this evil couple.


Never Forget

Joseph Sargent

1944.Inside a Nazi concentration camp, Mel Mermelstein promises his father that if he survives he will tell the world what happened inside Auschwitz and Buchenwald. It is the last time Mermelstein will ever see his family, but the promise he makes will lead to the extraordinary, true chain of events dramatized in Never Forget. Years later in Los Angeles, happily married and successful, Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) learns of the Institute for Historical Review, which claims the Holocaust never occurred. Now, honoring a promise made 40 years earlier, Mermelstein risks everything for which he has worked to prove to the neo-Nazi organization that millions of Jews--including his own mother and sisters--were murdered by the Third Reich.


Jaws: The Revenge

Joseph Sargent

Mankind’s deepest fear rises again in this suspense-packed fourth installment of the terrifying Jaws saga. Police Chief Brody’s widow, Ellen (Lorraine Gary), faces her worst nightmare when her son, Sean, is killed by a colossal, bloodthirsty shark. Determined to be with the rest of her grieving family, she flies to the Bahamas, where she meets a charming airplane pilot (Michael Caine). Just as it looks like she might have a chance to start anew, her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the terror once and for all, Ellen heads out on the waters for a showdown to the death. Filled with chills, spills and some of the most shocking action sequences ever filmed, Jaws: The Revenge is one of the most stunning adventures ever… and this time it’s personal.


MacArthur

Joseph Sargent

General Douglas MacArthur (Gregory Peck), one of the most controversial public figures of our time, is the subject of this superb biographical drama which traces his outstanding career. In 1942, with his position in the Philippines made hopeless by Japan's destruction of more than half the planes in his Far East Command, MacArthur leaves pledging "I shall return!" MacArthur does return, with riveting victories in the Pacific and the deft handling of the democratization of Japan; he is also armed with Presidential aspirations. While serving in Korea, it is there that his colossal ego and insubordination results in dismissal by Truman in 1951. MacArthur is a compelling story which explores the many facets of his ambitious character. It clearly demonstrates his brilliance as a strategist; his lust for publicity and flair for dramatics.


White Lightning

Joseph Sargent

Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) has been convicted of running moonshine whiskey. He is offered a chance of release--if he will serve as an informer and help catch his one-time cohorts. Gator accepts, but only to get out of jail. He has another motive…he believes that the crooked sheriff (Ned Beatty) murdered his younger brother, a civil rights activist. With the help of fellow "informant" (Matt Clark) and a daredevil driver (Bo Hopkins), a few fights and some astonishing stunt-driving chases, Gator will eventually prove his case against the sheriff. A bonus: Gator will also acquire the daredevil driver's beautiful girlfriend (Jennifer Billingsley). With Louise Latham, Diane Ladd and a young Laura Dern (Diane lad's real-life daughter) in her film debut. Joseph Sargent directed with his usual skill and zest.


The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Joseph Sargent

Walter Matthau stars as a New York transit cop who must keep four ruthless terrorists who've hijacked a Bronx subway car from killing hostages (a pimp, a pregnant Puerto Rican woman, a hippie, a prostitute, a WASP, a wino, and a gay man) one by one if their $1,000,000 ransom demand is not met within an hour.