Amanda Peterson Filmography
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- DirectorJohn HustonStarsAileen QuinnAlbert FinneyCarol BurnettA spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsPatty DukeFrederic ForrestPeter CoyoteLaura Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Officer Dietz is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Laura (Patty Duke) battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendos and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
- StarsThomas ByrdGreg WebbElizabeth Huddle NybergIn 1953, Boone Sawyer dreams of becoming a country music star, but his father has other ideas for his future.
- DirectorMichael PressmanStarsDanny GloverAndrew PrineLeVar BurtonMississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
- DirectorJoe DanteStarsEthan HawkeRiver PhoenixBobby FiteA boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?
- CreatorJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStu KriegerStarsRichard KileyTrey AmesAdam ArkinMini series that follows a family, a year after the death of the matriarch. Her husband tries to cope by cycling. And one of the daughters is going through a rough patch in her second marriage. And the other daughter is about to give birth. And one son is still trying to find himself. And the younger son is engaged but when he meets a girl who makes him feel things he doesn't feel for his fiancée.
- DirectorRod DanielStarsKate MulgrewJack BannonMatt AdlerKate Mulgrew plays a traditional, old-fashioned mother who has chosen to be a homemaker and raise her four children with her overworked college-professor husband (Jack Bannon), because it's what she wants to do.
- DirectorSteve RashStarsPatrick DempseyAmanda PetersonCourtney GainsAn outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month.
- DirectorJon HessStarsJsu GarciaLeonXander BerkeleyAction-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find.
- CreatorJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStu KriegerStarsRichard KileyTrey AmesAdam ArkinJoe Gardner, a child of the Depression, is a successful plastics manufacturer in Seattle, Washington. After his wife dies, his four adult children move back in.
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsStefanie PowersDavid BirneyFran DrescherCaroline Landry's husband has a sudden mid-life crisis and their idyllic 20-year marriage breaks apart when he leaves her for a younger woman. With the help of her friends and children, Caroline learns to pick herself up again and do the impossible: move on with her life.
- DirectorDouglas Day StewartStarsKirk CameronJami GertzRoy ScheiderA group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family in this warm, endearing drama.
- DirectorFritz KierschStarsChristopher AtkinsAmanda PetersonMary FrannHe may have been convicted of raping and murdering six young women, but to a smitten teenage girl who's initiated a relationship-by-mail, he's just a cute guy who couldn't possibly be guilty. Did he...or didn't he?
- DirectorThomas J. WrightStarsBarbara EdenLoretta SwitDavid AckroydA woman is simultaneously framed for the murder of her husband and terrorized by the deranged woman who actually killed him.
- DirectorSteve StaffordStarsLynda CarterMichele GreeneAmanda PetersonAlthough this movie is about the Playboy magazine, there are no erotic scenes. Instead it tells the story of three women, who seem to have nothing in common: Abigail is college student at Yale and daughter of one of the professors; Meredith is a married mother and owner of a bowling alley; Janet is a successful broker -- yet all of them decide to pose for the Playboy adult magazine, shocking their peers, friends and co-workers. They have to suffer the consequences, but manage to turn it into a precious experience of life.
- StarsHal LindenFinola HughesJohn DyeJack Evans, a former jazz musician, opens a restaurant where Chelsea is the waitress and Greg is the bartender. Romance is served along with food.
- DirectorWilliam ClarkWilliam TannenStarsJason WilesRussell MeansMargot KidderA young man in high school moves with his mother to a town in the U.S. Southwest where his father is serving time in a penitentiary. There, he is discriminated against by his peers because he is the son of a convict; this discrimination includes the football coach keeping him on the bench. He receives special training from the ghost of Jim Thorpe, a Native American football star.