Margery Simkin Movies

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make...

Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into...

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare...

Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a...

Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe...

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by...

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting...

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.

Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually...

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has...

Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh...

Rebellious footballer Johnny falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds: Tracy has a comfortable, well-off family, whereas...

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of...

An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.

Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a...

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own...