Jeff Kanew Filmography

Occupation:
Director, Editor, Screenwriter
  • Goodnight Vagina

    Crew: Editor

    Actors: Cheryl Hines, Gary Cole, Magda Szubanski

    Synopsis: A woman decides to have some very specific work done in this short comedy satirizing America's obsession with plastic surgery. Meg March (Cheryl Hines) is an egocentric woman in her forties who, while getting her regular bikini wax, discovers that one of her waxer's other customers will soon be Read More

    2007
  • Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy

    Crew: Co-producer, Editor

    Actors: Paul Mazursky, David Miretsky, Shmuel Levy, Ezriel Tauber

    Synopsis: Filmmaker Paul Mazursky was having his annual eye checkup when his ophthalmologist told him about an annual religious celebration in the Ukrainian village of Uman, where twenty-five thousand Hassidic Jews from around the world come to observe Rosh Hashanah in the town that is the final resting Read More

    2006
  • Adam and Eve

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A sex-starved college student falls for a beautiful virgin in the National Lampoon comedy that seeks to find out just how long the campus player will wait to get the girl of his dreams. Adam (Cameron Douglas) is a textbook example of the typical college male; a struggling student who never lets Read More

    2004
  • Babij Jar

    Crew: Director, Editor

    Actors: Michael Degen, Barbara de Rossi, Katrin Sass, Axel Milberg, Evkilidis Kiourtzidis Kiriakos

    Synopsis: On the eve of the Nazi invasion of Kiev in 1941, two families -- one Jewish and the other Ukrainian -- ponder what the future may hold for them in director Jeff Kanew's 2003 war drama Babij Jar. Genady Lerner (Michael Degen), a Jew and the patriarch of a relatively large extended family, watches Read More

    2003
  • Touched by an Angel: The Sign of the Dove

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye) is unhappy about his latest assignment, which requires him to "collect" young Ben Mason, the last member of a venerable Virginia family, on Ben's wedding day. As his Heavenly predecessor Adam (former series regular Charles Rocket) listens sympathetically, Andrew Read More

    2001
  • Touched by an Angel: The Empty Chair

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The popular daytime TV show "Breakfast with the Baxters" has been cancelled, and hosts Betsey and Bud Baxter (Tess Harper, George Dzundza) are out of work. As they sit in their home ruminating over their bad luck, Betsey and Bud are visited by their two biggest fans--who bear a remarkable Read More

    2000
  • Touched by an Angel: Bar Mitzvah

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas is ideally cast as Ross Berger, an 83-year-old tycoon who owns a chain of fitness gyms. There is no room for God in Berger's life: he regards all "true believers" as weaklings, and even attributes his recent miraculous recovery from a stroke to his tireless exercise Read More

    2000
  • V.I. Warshawski

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning, Angela Goethals, Nancy Paul

    Synopsis: Kathleen Turner stars as V.I. Warshawski in Jeff Kanew's film version of the hard-boiled detective character from Sara Paretsky's series of crime novels. Warshawski is a freelance private investigator in Chicago, who lives the part of the hard-boiled detective. But in her heart of hearts, she is a Read More

    7/26/91
  • Troop Beverly Hills

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Stephanie Beacham

    Synopsis: Shelly Long stars in this comedy as a spoiled Beverly Hills wife who decides--wanting to prove her husband's accusation of her selfishness wrong--to become the leader of her daughter's wilderness group. Though taking them on outings at the mall rather than in the woods, she later must prove her Read More

    3/22/89
  • Tough Guys

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Dana Carvey, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach

    Synopsis: Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas team up one last time in Tough Guys. Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust Read More

    10/3/86
  • Gotcha!

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino

    Synopsis: "Gotcha!" is a puerile but popular campus game at UCLA in which students stalk one another armed with paint-spewing pellet guns. Veterinary student Anthony Edwards may not be any great shakes in the classroom, but he's a whiz at Gotcha. His skills come in handy when Edwards, on vacation in Paris Read More

    1985
  • Revenge of the Nerds

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, Bernie Casey, Julia Montgomery

    Synopsis: Revenge of the Nerds is the juvenile sex comedy perhaps most synonymous with the 1980s, alternating gags and scantily clad women with a power to the underdogs mentality that prompted three sequels. The handsome jocks of Alpha Beta, led by Stan (Ted McGinley), run Adams College, which means that Read More

    1984
  • Eddie Macon's Run

    Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Kirk Douglas, John Schneider, Lee Purcell, Leah Ayres, Lisa Dunsheath

    Synopsis: The film may be called Eddie Macon's Run, but the title character (John Schneider) takes a back seat during most of the proceedings. Most of the footage is devoted to Eddie's chief nemesis, small-town lawman Marzack (Kirk Douglas). Arrested on a trumped-up charge, Eddie breaks out of prison and Read More

    1983
  • Ordinary People

    Crew: Editor

    Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

    Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Read More

    1980
  • Natural Enemies

    Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Hal Holbrook, Louise Fletcher, Peter Armstrong, Steve Austin

    Synopsis: The bizarre premise for this often remote and uninvolving drama is that an otherwise apparently normal man can become so alienated from his own feelings and his own wife and children that he plans their murder. Paul Steward (Hal Holbrook) and his wife (Louise Fletcher) are about as interesting as Read More

    1979
  • Black Rodeo

    Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

    Actors: Woody Strode

    Synopsis: This strange, disjointed feature film boasts a performance by Muhammed Ali as himself, clowning his way around a Black rodeo held near Harlem at Randall's Island, NY. Among the features of this film is an extended discussion by actor Woody Strode on the long-suppressed history of the Black Cowboy. Read More

    1972
  • The Wicked Die Slow

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In this western (filmed entirely in New Jersey), two mad hombres ride out to get revenge upon the Indians who raped one of their girlfriends. Along the way they encounter bad guys bullying an old man and his lovely daughter. Later the heroes catch the crooks brutally sullying another girl and they Read More

    1968

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