Jon Avnet Movies

The movie follows the journey of Joe Wayright, a retired rodeo champion, and his daughter Sally as they face a crisis that can only be solved if Joe competes in and wins a rodeo competition. Joe must reconnect with his old friend Charlie Williams and the bullfighter, whom he hasn't...

Fried Green Tomatoes is a movie starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, and Mary Stuart Masterson. A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she...

The War is a movie starring Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, and Mare Winningham. An emotionally fractured Vietnam vet returns to his family in rural Mississippi, counseling his kids when they have to fight their own neighborhood battle....

An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in television journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.

An American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.

Uprising is a TV movie starring Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, and David Schwimmer. Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.

Have a Little Faith is a TV movie starring Laurence Fishburne, Bradley Whitford, and Anika Noni Rose. Writer Mitch Alboms reluctantly agrees to pen the eulogy of his childhood rabbi.

Three Christs is a movie starring Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, and Bradley Whitford. Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of...

88 Minutes is a movie starring Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, and Ben McKenzie. On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call...

Righteous Kill is a movie starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Carla Gugino. Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.