Movies by Alan Metzger

Take My Advice:  The Ann and Abby Story

Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Biography of feuding advice columnist twins, Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren, starts with their early lives in Sioux City, Iowa when they were known as Esther and Pauline through their double wedding and follows them into their columnist successes. However, much of the film also concentrates on their personal and professional feuds that ran the course of their lives. Written by John Sacksteder

For My Daughter's Honor

For My Daughter's Honor

Fourteen-year-old high school student, Amy Dustin, becomes an object of romantic affection to the school's biology teacher and football coach, Pete Nash. They take a sudden interest in each other, sending each other notes and talking on the telephone. Although Pete has a family, the two begin a secret relationship. People then begin to suspect that Pete and Amy are having an affair.

New Eden

New Eden

Prisoners are dumped on a sand planet dubbed Earth 21-523 where most are immediately killed by the sand people and the remainder struggle for existence. That is until a new prisoner arrives with ideas of providing irrigation of the desert. But he still must first fight the nomadic sand people.

Roommates

Roommates

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.

Red Wind

Red Wind

A psychotherapist who specializes in treating people in abusive relationships inadvertently causes a patient to kill her abusive husband.

Circle of Deceit

Circle of Deceit

A woman finds out that her husband has been cheating on her and, as she tries to get custody of her son, events spiral out of control, leading to blackmail and murder.

My Husband's Double Life

My Husband's Double Life

A woman discovers that her husband faked his death and assumed a new identity, while she struggled for 10 years as a single mother.

Murder C.O.D.

Murder C.O.D.

Someone is killing people in Portland, Oregon, and later blackmails the relatives, who profit most from the death, to pay him for this "service". Captain Murtaugh leads the police investigation. When his wife starts feeling stalked, he suspects his current case is related to his last one in Chicago. He never told his wife the whole truth about what happened - now he has to fear for her life.

From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One

From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One

In the first of a potential series of films inspired by the real-life experiences of Los Angeles police officer turned bestselling author Joseph Wambaugh, an on-the-skids detective, with memories of having accidentally shot and killed his partner while they were pursuing a pair of bank robbers, tries to put his life back in order.

Fatal Exposure

Fatal Exposure

Mare Winningham stars in this thriller about a photo store mix-up of a single mom's family vacation snapshots with the pictures of an assassination target leading to murder on a sleepy Pacific Northwest island, and forcing her to team up with the hitman's quarry.