Michael Schiffer
1) Colors
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Stand and deliver (side A): Look at the too-cool-to-cope kids in Jamie Escalante's class at East L.A.'s tough Garfield High and many will say they see a bunch of losers. Escalante sees scholars. He cajoles, instructs, challenges and inspires his no-expectations barrio kids to pass the daunting Calculus Advanced Placement Test.
Lean on me (side B): A bat-and-bullhorn-toting Principle Joe Clark, whose controversial methods turned the failing school...
3) Lean on me
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Based on the true story of New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark, who wins the support and respect of his students for his controversial methods in ridding the school of violent students and drug dealers.
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Description
The rock: A general and his men take over Alcatraz Island and threaten to gas bomb San Francisco. A biochemical weapons expert and John Patrick Mason, the only man who ever successfully escaped from the prison, are called in to disarm the rockets.
Crimson tide: On board a nuclear submarine headed for Russia where radicals are threatening to start World War 3, Captain Ramsey and First officer Hunter clash over the validity of an unverified message...
7) Le divorce
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Isabel Walker travels to Paris to visit her pregnant stepsister Roxy, by chance arriving on the same day that Roxy's husband Charles-Henri leaves the marriage, apparently for another woman. As Isabel stays to offer help and support, the two young women start living it up with the locals and American expatriates, and Isabel finds herself being wooed by an older French man- who happens to be related to Roxy's ex-husband.