Complete Filmography

A Smile as Big as the Moon
2012
Teleplay
Mike Kersjes is a special-education teacher and football coach in Michigan. Mike doesn’t talk down to his "special" students. He respects them, and he...

Front of the Class
2008
Writer
A boy with Tourette's syndrome overcomes criticism and discrimination to achieve his dream of becoming a teacher.

The Reagans
2003
Writer
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in...

A Mother's Fight for Justice
2001
Co-Executive Producer, Director, Writer
A mother's quest for justice when her son is critically injured by a drunk driver.

Bless the Child
2000
Screenplay
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed f...

Tuesdays with Morrie
1999
Teleplay
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in r...

Eye of God
1997
Thanks
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the loca...

Truman
1995
Teleplay
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...

Everybody's All-American
1988
Screenplay
Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, a...

The River Rat
1984
Writer, Director
On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabou...

Coal Miner's Daughter
1980
Writer
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

Hooper
1978
Screenplay
Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop paink...
Delta County, USA
1977
Writer
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sis...

Bethune
1977
Writer
Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, ...

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
Writer
W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he hijacks...

The White Dawn
1974
Screenplay
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three st...

The Laughing Policeman
1973
Screenplay
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to...

The Hands of Cormac Joyce
1972
Writer
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.

Kansas City Bomber
1972
Screenplay
Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.