Product Details

• Actors: Harrison Ford, Dave Mann, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Jon Voight
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Winstar
• VHS Release Date: February 22, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: 1572527749
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #690,741 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The American Film Institute's series on today's most acclaimed Hollywood directors focuses this time on Oscar-winner Norman Jewison, helmsman of such movies as In the Heat of the Night, The Hurricane, and Moonstruck. The documentary features extensive interviews with Jewison and actors he has worked with over the years--from Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger to Goldie Hawn and Whoopi Goldberg--and clips from his major films. Although the piece doesn't go into depth on any one film, it does provide a good overall picture of Jewison's character, philosophy, and style. He emerges as a kind and sincere man, beloved by his actors and dedicated to making films with important social messages. In the Heat of the Night was, according to Poitier, "revolutionary, unheard of" in its significance for the civil rights movement. When no studio was willing to take a chance on financing his film, A Soldier's Story, a murder mystery about six African American soldiers set during World War II, Jewison offered to make the movie for nothing. And there are some great inside-Hollywood stories here, such as Jewison's wry tale of his meeting with the studio executives who wanted him to direct the screen adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. --Laura Mirsky

Product Description

Norman Jewison has been a vibrant force in the Motion Picture Industry for over three decades. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards® as well as three Best Director awards from the Directors Guild of America and a number of international awards. His films endure from generation to generation and include such blockbusters as IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, A SOLDIER'S STORY, MOONSTRUCK, OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY and many more. Actors and collaborators who have worked with Jewison and are interviewed here include Whoopie Goldberg, Rod Steiger, Sylvester Stallone, James Caan, Goldie Hawn and Sidney Poitier.