Howard Hesseman Movies

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on...

Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.

The magical Munchie is back, and if he gets in any more trouble it's off to the dullest constellation in the galaxy. Staying out of trouble has never...

A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.

"Likely Stories" was one Pay-TV's first original comedy programs. The one-hour shows were a mixed-bag of short films, videos, and animation that...

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still...

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of...

B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory,...

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit....

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...

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later...

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

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

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...

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the...

A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin...

This short film satirizes French auteur theory. An earnest critic rediscovers washed-up director Seymour Z. Fishko ("Revenge of the 80-Foot...

A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system...