Howard Hesseman Movies

In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five...

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born-again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his...

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

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not...

A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his...

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.

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

Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat...

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

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

A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her...

Del Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Murray to Chris Farley to Amy Poehler, many of the...

A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male...

In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual...

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

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...

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