Jerrold Freedman

Directing

Jerrold Freedman

Born

1941-10-29 (84)

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Borderline poster
6.0

Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

Borderline

1980

Borderline poster
6.0

Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

Borderline

1980

Native Son poster
5.2

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Native Son

1986

Kansas City Bomber poster
5.8

Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Kansas City Bomber

1972

The Seduction of Gina poster
5.9

Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.

The Seduction of Gina

1984

The Last Angry Man poster
7.0

In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.

The Last Angry Man

1974

The Last Angry Man poster
7.0

In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.

The Last Angry Man

1974

Lawman Without a Gun poster
9.0

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Lawman Without a Gun

1979

Lawman Without a Gun poster
9.0

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Lawman Without a Gun

1979

The Boy Who Drank Too Much poster
4.7

A high school athlete is well on the road to becoming an alcoholic like his ex-hockey pro father until his teammate and best friend commits himself to saving him from his self-destructive habit.

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

1980

Seduced poster
3.5

Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gregory Harrison plays Mike Riordon a district attorney, who is young, handsome and living at home with his Irish mom for the most. Vicky's husband Arthur gets Mike involved in a merger of two companies...or something like that even though he knows that Mike and Vicky were a couple and that she had dumped him. Whilst Mike and Vicky are attending a party, Arthur is alone at home when a burglar appears out of nowhere and shoots him point blank.

Seduced

1985

The O.J. Simpson Story poster
3.4

Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder.

The O.J. Simpson Story

1995

Thompson's Last Run poster
6.7

A hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life sentence as a habitual criminal is freed at gunpoint by his niece. The police man, who was transferring him and has been the con's adversary for over 30 years, vows to catch the twosome.

Thompson's Last Run

1986

Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston poster
5.8

Dramatic recounting of the true story of Bostonians Charles and Carol Stuart and the events before and after October 23, 1989, the night of the latter's murder, supposedly, as the husband related to police, by a young black man out to rob them while they were spending a night on the town.

Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston

1990

Blood Sport poster
7.9

A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to escape with a college scholarship and a pro career. David's father is the overbearing taskmaster vicariously living through his son. The third side of the triangle is Coach Marshall, a hypercritical and cruel man who sees David as the key to his future success. David's lockstep commitment to his father and coach is altered when he witnesses a teammate die after a grueling practice.

Blood Sport

1973

Blood Sport poster
7.9

A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to escape with a college scholarship and a pro career. David's father is the overbearing taskmaster vicariously living through his son. The third side of the triangle is Coach Marshall, a hypercritical and cruel man who sees David as the key to his future success. David's lockstep commitment to his father and coach is altered when he witnesses a teammate die after a grueling practice.

Blood Sport

1973

Family Sins poster
5.7

Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and he takes it out on beings who can't defend themselves until he goes way too far one day during a summer camping trip.

Family Sins

1987

Unholy Matrimony poster
8.2

Drama based on the true story of a police detective's relentless investigation into an insurance fraud involving a woman's murder. He's soon convinced he's hot on the trail of those responsible - a doctor and a minister - but his attempts to prove his suspicions look set to be foiled.

Unholy Matrimony

1988

The Streets of L.A. poster
7.0

A woman embarks on a lone pursuit of three teenaged hoods in the Los Angeles barrio after becoming incensed at their malicious tire-slashing on parked cars including hers.

The Streets of L.A.

1979

A Cold Night's Death poster
6.1

Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.

A Cold Night's Death

1973

Legs poster
7.0

Three ambitious young women risk it all when they compete for a chance to dance with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.

Legs

1983

Legs poster
7.0

Three ambitious young women risk it all when they compete for a chance to dance with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.

Legs

1983

Best Kept Secrets poster
7.3

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.

Best Kept Secrets

1984

Betrayal poster
7.0

Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of therapy.

Betrayal

1978

The Comeback poster
6.5

Scotty Malloy is a former NFL football player who travels around the world without a care. He decides to come back to Minneapolis to settle down and start a life for himself.

The Comeback

1989

Some Kind of Miracle poster
10.0

The story of a TV newscaster who is paralyzed in a surfing accident and how he, and his fiance, have to adjust to his being in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Some Kind of Miracle

1979

Victims poster
6.2

A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him.

Victims

1982

Condition: Critical poster
5.5

Medical drama about a killer virus on the loose in Los Angeles.

Condition: Critical

1992

Night Walk poster
7.0

A woman witnesses a murder, reports the crime and become a target for the murderer.

Night Walk

1989