Robert Getchell

Robert Getchell
Total Credits at Criticker: 8 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Alice Doesn\
A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer. (imdb)
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Mommie Dearest
An account of the life and times of one of our greatest actresses as seen through the eyes of an adopted darling daughter... (imdb)
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Point of No Return
A gang of armed drug-addicts break into a chemist shop to try and steal drugs to fuel their habit. However... (imdb)
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This Boy\
In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. (imdb)
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Stella
Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny...ending in an selfless, unforgettable sacrifice. (imdb)
Bound for Glory
This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Oklahoma home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class. (imdb)
Sweet Dreams
Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country singer who died in a tragic plane crash. (imdb)
Alice
Alice (1976) - TV Series
A greasy-spoon diner in Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this long-running series. The title character, Alice Hyatt, is an aspiring singer who arrives in Phoenix with her teenaged son, Tommy, after the death of her truck-driver husband. Alice is hired at a diner owned by Mel Sharples, a gravel-voiced, male-chauvinist fry cook. She works at Mel's Diner as a waitress while awaiting her big break at fame.
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