Peter Riegert

Date of Birth: Apr 11, 1947
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 35 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family. (imdb)
Show Me a Hero (2015) - TV Mini-Series
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis. When federal courts ordered public housing be built in the white, middle class side of town, it divided the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics. (imdb)
Dads (2013) - TV Series
Two successful guys in their 30's have their lives turned upside down when their nightmare dads unexpectedly move in with them. (imdb)
A man and a woman fall in love while taking their kids on a college admissions tour. (imdb)
The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
Brooklyn, 1975: two brothers looking for a way out of their working-class neighborhood make a pact to rob a local theater on the night of a Rolling Stones concert.
Paul is an ordinary man who is at the end of his rope. He hates his job, his beautiful wife has left him, and his mother and gay, Buddhist-monk brother constantly remind him of his shortcomings. Although Paul doesn't know it yet, his life is about to change in a big way.
A documentary on professional basketball's influence on Jewish culture. (imdb)
A humorous, honest, multi-faceted look into how one man turns his midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. (Eleveation Filmworks)
Bojangles (2001) - TV Movie
The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen.
Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter... (imdb)
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. (Tony Fontana)
A whimsical saga of a young man whose two life-consuming passions are unraveling traffic gridlock and an avant garde dancer. A romantic comedy written and directed by Bryan Gordon, Pie in the Sky provides funny situations and a story that keeps us guessing until the final fade-out. (imdb)
Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned killer. He falls in love with a yoga teacher, Jasmine, and must figure out a way to leave the mob so they can be together. (imdb)
The Infiltrator (1995) - TV Movie
A Jewish freelance journalist goes to Germany to write an article on neonazism, where he realizes that the roots of this movement go deeper than he thought.
An ancient mask transforms a mild-mannered bank clerk.
Barbarians at the Gate (1993) - TV Movie
The president of a major tobacco company decides to buy the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as other companies make their own offers. (imdb)
Gypsy (1993) - TV Movie
Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother. (imdb)
An art dealer goes to Prague after the death of a friend, Baron von Utz, to obtain the Baron's priceless Meissen porcelain collection. He meets an old friend, Orlik, who tells him about the Baron's past while he struggles to discover what happened to the collection. (Wikipedia)
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral. (imdb)
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman... (imdb)
Jak & Tina are an American couple staying in London. Faced with a hotel bill they can't pay Jake proposes to sell Tina's Henry Moore sculpture. Tina refuses but comes up with a different way of making money. (Own summary)
An ancient stone, buried in North America by Norsemen, is unearthed, and promptly turns an archaeologist into an elaborate but unconvincing monster, who slaughters a lot of people with no apparent goal in mind. {Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
Graham Marshall already celebrates his anxiously awaited promotion in an advertising company, when he learns that Roger Benham, one of his subordinates, will be promoted instead of him. Frustrated that his hated life will never change, he starts a cunning ploy to take bloody revenge on everyone who humiliated him - starting with his unnerving wife. (imdb)
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with. (Jeremy Perkins -imdb)
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship. (imdb)
A woman suffering from amnesia discovers that she is the sole surviving witness to a brutal murder. Although the police can find no clues about any murder, the killers begin to hunt her. (imdb)
Ellis Island (1984) - TV Mini-Series
The lives and struggles of some of the countless immigrants who arrived on Ellis Island during the 19th century in search of the American Dream.
A female photographer who is engaged to a businessman investigates a cult in the local club scene. By living out some of her sexual fantasies, she faces the truth about her life and helps one of the cults victims escape.
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected. (imdb)
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories. (imdb)
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans. (imdb)
Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox... (imdb)
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him. (imdb)