
Directing
Melanie Mayron
Born 1952-10-20 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as photographer Susan Weinblatt in the 1978 comedy-drama film Girlfriends.
Acting credits
5.8A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
Drop Zone
1994
7.2Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Missing
1982
6.7New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
The Gambler
1974
5.3Until now, Zak Gibbs' greatest challenge has been to find a way to buy a car. But when he discovers an odd wristwatch amidst his father's various inventions and slips it on -- something very strange happens. The world around him seems to come to a stop, everything and everybody frozen in time. Zak quickly learns how to manipulate the device and he and his quick-witted and beautiful new friend, Francesca, start to have some real fun.
Clockstoppers
2002
6.1The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.
The Earth Day Special
1990
6.1FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
My Blue Heaven
1990
5.4Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
The Baby-Sitters Club
1995
5.0Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.
The Boss' Wife
1986
5.5A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
Toothless
1997
5.4A naive college student loses a scholarship at the hands of a classmate and makes a pact with a mysterious friend to kill off each other's enemies.
Breaking the Girls
2013
6.0This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Car Wash
1976
7.1Harry Coombes is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Harry and Tonto
1974
6.7A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
Girlfriends
1978
6.9When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
Playing for Time
1980
4.5Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Heartbeeps
1981
An aspiring singer, a troubled rich boy, and an ex-seminarian share an apartment in the East Village in this story dealing with AIDS, sexuality, and living in NYC of the late '80s.
East of A
2000
4.4When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.
Checking Out
1988
5.7Fun-loving Annabelle Andrews and her uptight mother, Ellen, have a hard time getting along with each other. One Friday the 13th, they both wear magical necklaces that make them switch bodies for the day.
Freaky Friday
1995
5.5High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
2007
5.7An old trucker steals his truck for one last cross-country run, with a madam and her crew on board.
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
4.7Based on a true story. A Canadian military flight from Greenland to Canada crashes in the frozen arctic, only miles away from Alert base in Nunavut, and the 14 survivors must endure a storm and freezing cold until they can be rescued.
Ordeal in the Arctic
1993
7.0This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
5.0After making it to the top of the charts, members of the Silver Boulders, a popular tween rock band, find themselves undermined by internal squabbling as the bandmates seek different creative directions.
The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
2005
5.8Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
Hustling
1975
Behind the camera
5.2Confident senior Jo begins the new school year by breaking her own cardinal rule: don't get involved in girl drama. but when she sees timid Abby preyed upon by Queen Bee Mandi and her minions, she takes sides in a viciously funny girl-world-war that turns North Shore High School upside down.
Mean Girls 2
2011
5.4Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
The Baby-Sitters Club
1995
5.5A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
Toothless
1997
4.7Welcome to Splendona High School, Texas, where football players, cheerleaders and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady, the most popular girl in school, is on top of it all. That is, at least until Genevieve LePlouff, a French foreign exchange student arrives and turns her life upside down.
Slap Her... She's French
2002
7.1Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not sell. There are memories here that she doesn’t want to leave. These come flooding back one weekend during a visit from Patti and granddaughter Allison, when a long-forgotten roll of film reminds Rose of the summer she met and fell in love with the bold and beautiful Louise.
Snapshots
2018
5.7Fun-loving Annabelle Andrews and her uptight mother, Ellen, have a hard time getting along with each other. One Friday the 13th, they both wear magical necklaces that make them switch bodies for the day.
Freaky Friday
1995
4.9School... there is the popular crowd. Teachers favor some students over others. Because of this, Violet decides to start a school paper, which exposes many embarrassing secrets of popular kids who think they run the campus.
Campus Confidential
2005
5.8Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
Sticky Fingers
1988
5.8Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
Sticky Fingers
1988
1.7The women of Cherry Branch Elementary are back and contemplating the idea of beauty. Barbara and AJ's exes, Richard and Doro spark a short lived romance that makes the other couples question many of their life choices from letting their daughters participate in beauty pageants to the idea of breast implants.
Little Women Big Cars 2
2014
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Zeyda and the Hitman
2004
7.2New Mom, Amy, is not only new to the suburban life, (having left her high powered job in the city to focus her attention on raising her daughter) she's also new to the mommy politics that come with it. Lonely and struggling to navigate the dog eat dog world of pre-school, playdates and playgrounds Amy is thrilled to meet fellow mommy Grace- the new next-door neighbor - who seems to be the answer to her prayers. Falling into fast friendship the two women and their little girls are inseparable - doing everything together from carpool to baby yoga.
Playdate
2013
2.0Four soccer moms struggle to balance their busy schedules, family lives, and sanity: Meg, an overachieving people pleaser; Barbara, a recent divorcee; Rocky, a high-maintenance diva; and Connie, a curvaceous and big-hearted mother.
Little Women Big Cars
2012