Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Katherine Wenning

1. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

PG | 105 min | Drama

After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry

Votes: 154,666 | Gross: $106.26M

2. Maurice (1987)

R | 140 min | Drama, Romance

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 23,568 | Gross: $3.13M

3. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A teen drama anthology that often touched on social issues of the day.

Stars: Lance Kerwin, Samaria Graham, Mara Hobel, Alexa Kenin

Votes: 1,264

4. Reds (1981)

PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski

Votes: 24,713 | Gross: $40.38M

5. The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

PG | 110 min | Drama

Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.

Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright

Votes: 20,203

6. Lenny (1974)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.

Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck

Votes: 17,540 | Gross: $8.43M

7. Longtime Companion (1989)

R | 96 min | Drama, Romance

The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.

Director: Norman René | Stars: Stephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Cousins, Bruce Davison

Votes: 6,129 | Gross: $4.61M

8. American Playhouse (1980–1994)

61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.

Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson

Votes: 413

9. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

CBS late afternoon specials designed for middle school and high school students, dramatizing issues affecting teenagers.

Stars: Monica Calhoun, Tammy Lauren, Nick Angotti, Beau Dremann

Votes: 353

10. Hester Street (1975)

PG | 89 min | Drama, Romance

In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.

Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh

Votes: 1,876 | Gross: $5.00M

11. The Bostonians (1984)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, Romance

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter

Votes: 2,440 | Gross: $1.01M

12. Slaves of New York (1989)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama

Benadette Peters stars in this ironic film based on Tama Janowitz's best-selling collection of short stories that defined the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Bernadette Peters, Adam Coleman Howard, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt

Votes: 1,115 | Gross: $0.46M

13. Ethan Frome (1992)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly wife Zeena.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Gil Rood, Tate Donovan

Votes: 2,281 | Gross: $0.30M

14. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)

TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A youth anthology series focusing primarily on adaptations of children's literature.

Stars: Willie Tyler, Frank Welker, Hal Smith, Janet Waldo

Votes: 351

15. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)

PG | 100 min | Drama

A middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.

Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach, Judith Lowry

Votes: 2,659 | Gross: $0.18M

16. Staying Together (1989)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.

Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Jim Haynie

Votes: 947 | Gross: $4.35M

17. My Little Girl (1986)

R | 118 min | Drama

A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.

Director: Connie Kaiserman | Stars: James Earl Jones, Geraldine Page, Mary Stuart Masterson, Anne Meara

Votes: 384

18. Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes

Votes: 527 | Gross: $6.10M

19. The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Music

A woman tries to reunite the swing band with which she played during World War II.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Olympia Dukakis

Votes: 1,664

20. The Pope Must Diet (1991)

R | 97 min | Comedy

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.

Director: Peter Richardson | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Bartel, Damir Mejovsek

Votes: 1,654 | Gross: $2.98M

21. Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Drama

Three short stories about women and men relationship. The first about a successful boxer in New York City, whose wife only wants to return to her home town in Kansas. The second about a man... See full summary »

Directors: Walter Bernstein, Mike Figgis, Kristi Zea | Stars: Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick, Jerry Stiller, Kevin Rooney

Votes: 337

22. The Sporting Club (1971)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

The new groundskeeper at the Centennial Sporting Club decides to do something about the very odd goings-on there.

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Robert Fields, Margaret Blye, Nicolas Coster, Jack Warden

Votes: 120

23. Criminal Justice (1990 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Drama

Denise Moore is robbed and her face is slashed as she is leaving a crack house. At the police station she picks Jessie Williams mug shot and ID's him at a line up. Jessie Williams says he ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Wolk | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Anthony LaPaglia, Rosie Perez, Jennifer Grey

Votes: 380

24. Kojak: The Belarus File (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Lieutenant Theo Kojak teams up with Dana Sutton, a comely federal agent, to uncover a conspiracy reaching back to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union.

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Telly Savalas, Suzanne Pleshette, Max von Sydow, Herbert Berghof

Votes: 308

25. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Predecessor to CBS Schoolbreak Specials, this late-afternoon anthology series features stories designed to appeal to the preteen after school audience.

Stars: Chris Petersen, Ronny Cox, Guillermo San Juan, David Hollander

Votes: 70

26. 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s (1980)

91 min | Documentary

Linked by their desire for the unknown and an increasingly explorative use of materials, the artists featured in 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s strive to push boundaries and observe ... See full summary »

Directors: Michael Blackwood, Nancy Rosen | Stars: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Alice Aycock, Scott Burton

27. Hostages (1992 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Drama

This is the story of Peggy Say and her battle to free the hostages in Beirut. Witness the cruel abduction of innocent citizens thrown into the dark, insect infested cells and abandoned by their homelands.

Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Kathy Bates, Colin Firth, Ciarán Hinds, Natasha Richardson

Votes: 294

28. King Crab (1980 TV Movie)

105 min | Drama

Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Barry Newman, Julie Bovasso, Jeffrey DeMunn, Joel Fabiani

Votes: 23

29. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: Amy & the Angel (1982)

Not Rated | 45 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy how important she is to the people in her life.

Director: Ralph Rosenblum | Stars: Helen Slater, Albert Macklin, James Earl Jones, Gail Strickland

Votes: 61

30. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1984)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.

Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Lise Hilboldt, Ken Howard, James Pritchett, Dick Latessa

Votes: 71

31. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: Mom's on Strike (1984)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

An ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Afterschool Special, about an overworked housewife, who, as the title suggests, goes on strike, in order to persuade the rest of her family to share household chores.

Director: Joan Darling | Stars: Mary Kay Place, Stephen Keep Mills, Yeardley Smith, George Gaynes

Votes: 169

32. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: Don't Touch (1985)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A teenager babysitting a young girl discovers that she is being molested by a family friend when harrowing memories of her own past molestation by her uncle come to the surface.

Director: Beau Bridges | Stars: Kelly Wolf, Niki Scalera, Blair Brown, Lenny von Dohlen

Votes: 60

33. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: Stoned (1980)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Jack is a motivated high school student who smokes cannabis for the first time, and falls in with a fast crowd. Will he wake up and realize what he's doing with his future before it's too late?

Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Scott Baio, Vincent Bufano, Largo Woodruff, Jack Finch

Votes: 113

34. CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978–1983)
Episode: Revenge of the Nerd (1983)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Class brain Bertram Cummings is tired of being picked on at school. He decides to use his brainpower to exact revenge against his tormentors.

Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Manny Jacobs, Chris Barnes, Sara Inglis, Robert Weiler

Votes: 29

35. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: The Gift of Amazing Grace (1986)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Teenage girl is frustrated about her lack of singing ability in her gospel singing family. She writes a song about her problem, and soon finds where her musical talent lies.

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Tempestt Bledsoe, Della Reese, Samuel E. Wright, Kasi Lemmons

Votes: 17

36. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode: The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn (1985)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Two pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery.

Director: Joan Darling | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Brandy Ward, James Naughton, Alan North

Votes: 36

37. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode: Cougar! (1984)

TV-Y | 60 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Stranded on an island as a result of a flash flood, a boy and his sister gets saved by, among all things, a cougar--from kidnappers and a way of getting off the island.

Director: Stephen H. Foreman | Stars: Matthew Vipond, Kim Hauser, Angus MacInnes, Wayne Best

Votes: 42

38. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: A Very Delicate Matter (1982)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Teenage girl is shocked when a former boyfriend tells her he has gonorrhea. Not only does she get tested, she must tell her current boyfriend to get tested as well.

Director: Claude Kerven | Stars: Lori-Nan Engler, Zach Galligan, Marta Kober, John Didrichsen

Votes: 38

39. CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode: The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations (1984)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Teenagers from diverse backgrounds experience their freshman year in High School.

Director: Mark Cullingham | Stars: Kelly Wolf, Fisher Stevens, Elizabeth Halvorsen, Martha Gehman

Votes: 12

40. ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode: Horatio Alger Updated: Frank and Fearless (1983)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A boy must outwit a group of kidnappers to rescue a young boy in order to regain his family heritage.

Director: Stephen H. Foreman | Stars: Thor Fields, Blake Brocksmith, Denise Fergusson, James Edmond

Votes: 11