Movies by Norman Jewison
As a director:
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Classical Baby: The Art Show (2005)
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Some of the greatest, most iconic artworks ever created are on display in this fun and educational program for kids. A soothing (and appropriate) backdrop of classical music provides a…
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The Statement (2003)
Cast: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
During World War II, Frenchman Pierre Brossard's Nazi sympathizing led to the deaths of 14 Jews. Years later, it's his turn to be the prey when a Nazi hunter, the police and hired…
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Dinner with Friends (2001)
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
The main course is angst when married couple Gabe (Dennis Quaid) and Karen (Andie MacDowell) learn their best friends (Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear) are divorcing after 12 years of marriage…
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The Hurricane (1999)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Denzel Washington lands a knockout punch as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a prizefighter who -- at the zenith of his boxing career -- finds himself wrongly convicted of a triple homicide and…
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Bogus (1996)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Seven-year-old Albert (Haley Joel Osment) is orphaned when his mom dies tragically in a car accident. So, Harriet (Whoopi Goldberg), who's Albert's godmother, takes him into her own…
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Only You (1994)
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
As a child, Faith Corvatch was told she'd marry a man named Damon Bradley. Years later, she receives a call from her fiancé's friend -- named Damon Bradley -- and sets off for…
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Other People's Money (1991)
Cast: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Danny DeVito stars as Lawrence Garfield, a pint-sized, rapacious corporate raider conspiring to take over a business run by upright Andrew Jorgenson (Gregory Peck) -- all while putting the…
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In Country (1989)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Although her father was killed in Vietnam when she was a baby, Kentucky girl Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) vows to learn more about him -- against the wishes of her remarried mother (Joan…
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Moonstruck (1987)
Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
In this slice-of-life comedy about the Italian American residents of a Brooklyn neighborhood, an independent-minded widow falls in love with a one-handed misfit baker, much to the chagrin of…
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Agnes of God (1985)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly star in Norman Jewison's riveting adaptation of the hit Broadway drama. When the infant of a young nun, Agnes (Tilly), is found strangled, a…
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A Soldier's Story (1984)
Cast: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Racial tensions flare in this gripping drama set in Louisiana at the end of World War II. When Army attorney Capt. Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) is sent to Fort Neal to investigate the…
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Best Friends (1982)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Richard Babson (Burt Reynolds) and Paula McCullen (Goldie Hawn) have lived and worked together as a seamless screenwriting team for five years. But trouble starts to brew after they finally…
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...And Justice for All (1979)
Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
America's justice system comes under indictment in director Norman Jewison's penetrating film starring Al Pacino as upstanding attorney Arthur Kirkland, who's tasked with…
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F.I.S.T. (1978)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Jimmy Kovak (Sylvester Stallone) is a hardworking 1930s factory employee pursuing the American Dream. But when factory conditions push him too far, he pushes back. As he unionizes his…
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Rollerball (1975)
Cast: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
In the future, global megacorporations maintain their power by channeling and releasing human hostility through rollerball -- an anything-goes, worldwide sport designed to show the forcibly…
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Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Cast: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
The Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice Broadway collaboration gets the Hollywood treatment from director Norman Jewison with a format inspired by Shakespeare's "Henry V." In this version, a…
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Cast: Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Paul Mann …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Director Norman Jewison chronicles the trials of Jewish peasant Tevye, the humble father of three strong-willed daughters and husband to oft-objecting wife Golde in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Gaily, Gaily (1969)
Cast: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Blowing into the Windy City by train with a noble but naïve plan to "seek his destiny," small-town youth Ben Harvey (Beau Bridges) finds himself apprenticing under a curmudgeonly reporter…
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Rich, bored playboy Thomas Crown has a new hobby: pulling off the perfect crime. When he masterminds a bank robbery from behind the scenes, insurance investigator Faye Dunaway sets out to…
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Black Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs helps a redneck Southern sheriff solve a murder in this riveting study in racism that still strikes a chord. Rod Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar for…
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The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)
Cast: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
A Russian submarine runs aground near a small New England town, and it's up to Lt. Rozanov (Alan Arkin) as the Russians' second-in-command to covertly secure a towboat to avoid an…
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
In Depression-era New Orleans, cocksure stud poker player Eric Stoner (Steve McQueen) -- the titular Cincinnati Kid -- challenges longtime champ Lancey "The Man" Howard (Edward G. Robinson)…
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Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
George Kimball. George's error leads to a whole sequence of hilarious mix-ups. Doris Day sings the title song in this Hudson-Day comedy classic.
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The Thrill of It All! (1963)
Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Beverly Boyer (Doris Day) is a happily married housewife whose life changes dramatically when the president of a soap company decides she's the perfect TV pitchwoman for his product.…
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Judy, Frank and Dean: Once in a Lifetime (1962)
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
This CBS special, filmed in 1962 and colorized in this version, brings together three legends in a once-in-a-lifetime concert. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin indulge in their usual Rat Pack…