Movies: John Updike

Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives....

Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off ...

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Ric...

A retrospective documentary on the life and career of Ohio-born actress, singer and TV star Doris Day....

An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man." One day, their wish comes true when a seemingly perfect man named Darryl Van Horne moves into town and sweeps them off their f...

From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("Witches of Eastwick," "Rabbit Run"), comes the story of a young man's search through the questions of life and death, and the wondrous discovery of living in the soaring beauty of one of nat...

Set in 1952, this tells of two young men who are polar opposites being assigned to the same dorm room at Northwestern University....

Born in 1918 in San Diego, Williams was a latchkey child from a broken home, raised by a mother more dedicated to the Salvation Army than to her two sons, and by a father who spent more time away from home than in it. Williams found salvation by doin...

Set in the 1960s, grocery store clerk, Sammy, witnesses three girls walk into the local A&P wearing nothing but bikinis. Things go awry, as the very act leads to a day that Sammy will never forget....

This drama is based on a John Updike story and is narrated by the author. It is the tale of an angst-filled hero attending music school....

The lesson shown in the film is an allegory of the relationship between teacher and student, father and children, God and people....

Top Hat and Tales chronicles the early years of The New Yorker, from its fledging beginnings under its legendary creator and editor Harold Ross, to its rise as an indispensable American institution. - Roy Blount Jr., Stuart Hemple, John Updike...

A love quadrangle story set in a luxurious setting, sometimes frivolous, sometimes bitter. The TV film gives us a glimpse into a seemingly distant world, while at the same time - unnoticed - confronting us with the emotional/emotional conflicts of ou...