Movies: Michael Lerner

A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Richard Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself - a young New York comic who comes out to Los Angeles to seek his fame and fortune....

A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt....

Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD....

A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer....

An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents....

Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into his life....

The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness ano...

In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the ...

When Zack, a 20-something writer, moves from Maine to Hollywood to pursue his career dreams, he meets his favorite actress, Sally Kirkland, who hires him on the spot to be her personal assistant, and so much more....

A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece of land he won in a poker game....

David can inherit his father’s vast fortune on one condition: he has to get married. The problem is he only has mere hours to find his bride-to-be....

The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife....

An ex-child star (Judy Tenuta) tries to reclaim her former fame....

A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention....

A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run....

A dangerous campus radical may go free if the District Attorney's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution....

A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge....

Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to g...

A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly....

When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into wa...