Michael Laskin Movies

Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.

Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But a sudden fatal heart attack derails those plans, and Halligan makes a deal with the Archangel of Heaven to return to Earth for a week until Christmas in order...

After a one-night stand with her coach, a pressured swimming phenom finds the lives of herself and her loved ones in danger.

When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife.

Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most wanted terrorist, the Imam Abdul Mohammed Zaleeka.

An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret.

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson is a mockumentary on the disappearance of a fictitious wealthy British film producer, Kevin Johnson, who is dealing in sex, lies and blackmail in Hollywood.

Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her father's restaurant. It is here that she gets him...

After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern boarding school. Daphne finally seems to have...

An ex cop turned insurance investigator tries to hold his life together as he investigates the death of a music producer who may have been murdered.

A grumpy microbiologist is forced into sensitivity training at work and forms an unlikely friendship with her overly vivacious coach.

Teenage girl who advocates sex education at her school finds herself butting heads with her mother who is seeking a spot on the school board.

Dr. Alexander Brown arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man uncover the truth? In 1950's Nevada, Brown is a young psychiatrist and...

Three siblings attempt to reconcile over their mother's suicide, torn between mourning and greed.

Follows the employees of a dying movie theatre in the San Fernando Valley.

A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.

Two brothers reunite when one of them finds himself in deep with a powerful crime lord.

When Zach finds his relationship and musical career in tatters he looks to a chance meeting with his rock idol Ryder Lane for answers.

A struggling grocery-store owner makes a deal with Satan that gives him the power to gamble in Las Vegas and Atlantic City casinos without losing. However, his deal is threatened with exposure when a casino boss suspicious of his "winning streak" begins to investigate him.

A touching yet humorous tale of a divorced man searching for love in the personals column and finding out about life in the process.