Howard Hesseman Movies

A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is imprisoned at Quai Dong, on the South China Sea,...

Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through...

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot."...

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still...

Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind...

Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on...

An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who...

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...

This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that...

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of...

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you...

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to...

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit....

Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig...

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on...

Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.