Howard Hesseman Movies

A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her...

A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his...

In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual...

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you...

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still...

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later...

Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig...

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!

Del Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From Bill Murray to Chris Farley to Amy Poehler, many of the...

There was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as Your Seriousness...

Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit....

Based 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...

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

This documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in the creation of the psychedelic dancehalls that...

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot."...

Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on...