Michael Roemer

The tale is a familiar one for American moviegoers; devil-may-care young man drawn to a grounded young woman, they part, he realizes he prefers stability to freedom, they reconcile. interest for viewers now as well as 40 years ago lies in the protagonists' skin color...

A small-time Jewish racketeer, just out of prison, finds himself in a quandary. (imdb)

In 1961, Robert Young and Michael Roemer shot a gritty documentary in Palermo's Cortile Cascino, a slum reserved for rag pickers and scavengers. Thirty years later, Young's son and daughter-in-law go back to Sicily to pick up the story of Angela Capra, her now ex-husband, and their children. Black and white footage from 1961 is intercut with color footage from the '90s. Much has changed: Angela's leaving her husband gives her a sense of rebirth. (jhailey)

Michael Roemer was asked by a local television station whether he would be interested in making a film about death. He was interested but instead of presenting death from the perspective of society as a whole, he decided to focus his film on three people who were in the process of dying. He followed them and their families over a period of three years. (arsenal-berlin.de)

Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, troubled Jo (Brooke Adams) finds her new friendship with neighbor has her stuck in another family drama. (imdb)