Michael Chernus Movies

The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.

Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search...

When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that...

Follows the true story of the 2003 death of Brian Wells, a notorious case known as the “collar bomb” or “pizza bomber”...

When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin new chapter. But when a...

Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, a tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own...

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing...

Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students,...

After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his...

A man and a woman find their orbits repeatedly colliding over the course of 12 years, four planets, three dimensions and one space cult.

In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked...

The romance between two teenage girls quickly manifests as terrifying, violent and inexplicable.

The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize the greatest solo concert in...

After mistakenly registering to vote, a Filipina immigrant faces deportation and permanent separation from her American husband and newborn child....

A vast and detailed look into the behind the scenes of Captain Phillips (2013). Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks, cast and crew members of the film takes...

After being dumped by his girlfriend, Nick Scanlon, an unemployed Manhattan slacker, realizes that coasting by on his bed-head charm won't get him...

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.

When a bipolar woman commits suicide, her sister and her sister's fiancé become entangled in an attempt to discover what pushed her to the...

A psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.

Follows the journey of Joe Peterson, a burned out children's book writer who's approaching a midlife crisis.