Richard Portnow Movies

A talented team of basketball players made up of little people enters a tournament to help a teammate's son go to college.

A hit woman allows a college film student and his roommate to make a documentary about her.

Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".

During her traumatic childhood with an abusive father, Emma relied on an imaginary friend for strength. She is now an artist struggling with mental...

In a twist on a Dickens novel, we meet Holly, a tightly-wound businesswoman who's spent her life running from the ghosts of her past. But this...

A filmmaker picks a "real" subject to shoot, and when she sees Guy on the street, she latches onto him. At first, Guy is enraged that someone is just...

The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people...

The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion...

A group of television writers struggles to keep their demanding comedian’s live comedy show on the air as network interference, personal...

"The Indian" is a touching drama about a negligent father who must face the son he abandoned years earlier, and the emotional wreckage he caused, in...

A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia.

In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good...

Vera Parks, an overly intense and demanding Broadway director, gets fired from yet another job, leaving her no choice but to take a gig directing a...

When the world is infected by a devastating disease a man is forced to take shelter in his home.

An elderly couple will stop at nothing to make it to the bank.

A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.

Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to...

In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against...

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.