Movies directed by Jeff Bleckner

My Father, My Son (1988)

100 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - My Father, My Son (1988) Keith Carradine stars as Lt. Elmo Zumwalt III who discovers he has cancer which might be linked to the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. But that complicates matters as it was...

High Lonesome (1995)

90 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

With the imagery on the cover featuring a burning cross "High Lonesome", which also goes by the name of "A Father for Charlie", looks like a movie in the same manner as "Mississippi Burning" with a story of racism in a southe...

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)

91 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

I have conflicted feelings over "Serving in Silence" as on one hand the true story on which it is based is very much one worth telling. But on the other it comes across like a dry re-enactment rather than a drama with passion...

Rear Window (1998)

89 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Rear Window (1998) Christopher Reeve stars as Jason Kemp, a paralysed architect who is convinced he saw out of his window the man in an apartment opposite commit murder. Now with the help of a friend, Claudia (...

Flowers for Algernon (2000)

92 mins     Drama, Sci-Fi, TV Movie      

Flowers for Algernon: Matthew Modine stars as Charlie, a mentally challenged young man whose life gets changed when he has an operation to correct his brain...

The Music Man (2003)

150 mins     Comedy, Family, Musical, TV Movie      

Movie Review - The Music Man (2003) Matthew Broderick stars as Professor Harold Hill who tries to con the people of River City, Iowa into handing over money to fund a marching band...

The Russell Girl (2008)

98 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Let me just say now that you will find other reviews of "The Russell Girl" on the net which put more detail in to their plot outlines than I did. I don't usually do this but I suggest avoiding them as "The Russell Girl" works...

Loving Leah (2009)

95 mins     Drama, Romance, TV Movie      

I have had very little to do with the Orthodox Jewish religion in my time on this planet and I have to admit I was confused and frankly at times bemused by some of the traditions which are shown in "Loving Leah". I imagine th...

Beyond the Blackboard (2011)

95 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Beyond the Blackboard (2011) Emily VanCamp stars as Stacey Bess, a newly qualified teacher who visions of a pretty classroom are shattered when she is put in charge of teaching homeless children in a dirty rail...

Remember Sunday (2013)

96 mins     Drama, Romance, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Remember Sunday (2013) romantic drama starring Alexis Bledel as Molly who falls for Gus (Zachary Levi) unaware that he suffers from short term memory loss which means each day he has forgotten yesterday...

Away and Back (2015)

96 mins     Comedy, Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Away and Back (2015) Jason Lee stars as Jack, a widow and father of three who is trying to be a single parent and keeping the tree farm going. But he finds himself dealing with Jennie (Minka Kelly), an ornithol...