Joyce Van Patten

A man returns to his Appalachian hometown to face his grandmother's Alzheimer's disease and discovers that his painful memories are holding him back.

Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.

A Little League coach turns a losing team into pennant contenders by signing up two of the toughest players around.

The true story of childhood friends from affluent American families who decide to betray their country by selling government secrets to the Russians.

Injected with human brain cells, a superintelligent female monkey is enlisted to help a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic get on with his life.

A middle-aged lawyer's disenchantment with his conventional lifestyle leads him to join the hippie counterculture.

A poultry farmer becomes a novice private eye and solves various capers around his small town, including the murder of the local milkman.

An American playwright living abroad consults with a quack psychiatrist to help him overcome some fears and help save his marriage.

Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she'd sooner forget than face.