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It premiered on January 12, 1982, with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart. Its final broadcast, In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway, a rerun of a behind-the-scenes look at Tony Kushner 's award-winning play in two parts, aired on January 1, 1994.
With Caitlin Hart, Les Podewell, Aaron Freeman, Jerry Vile. From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Jonathan Demme
- 1982-02-02
Into the Woods: Directed by James Lapine. With Joy Franz, Edmund Lyndeck, Philip Hoffman, Kay McClelland. In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought isn't necessarily so happy after all.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- James Lapine
- 1991-03-15
American Playhouse: With Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson. Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
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- 1982-01-12
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Golden Gate is a 1994 American drama film produced by American Playhouse. Set in San Francisco, California , it tells the story of a 1950s G-Man (played by Matt Dillon ) who ends up in the Federal Bureau of Investigation 's Communist prosecutions, which leads him to become involved with a young Chinese American woman (played by Joan Chen ...
The Thin Blue Line was voted the best film of 1988 in a Washington Post survey of 250 film critics. Premiere magazine, in a survey of films of the 1980s, described it as one of the most important and influential movies of the decade. An AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE Theatrical Presentation. Director...ERROL MORRIS. Producer...MARK LIPSON.
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Although Goldwyn greenlighted the picture without any partners, American Playhouse Theatrical Films and Columbia TriStar Home Video later provided funding when Playhouse paid $550,000 for initial television broadcast rights, and Columbia purchased home video rights for an estimated $1.65 million.
