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Actors: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond
Synopsis: Nora Ephron adapts Julie Powell's autobiographical book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen with this Columbia Pictures production starring Amy Adams as an amateur chef who decides to cook every recipe in a cookbook from acclaimed celebrity chef Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep Read More
Actors: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Marian Seldes
Synopsis: A lonesome widower and college economics professor finds his mundane existence suddenly shaken up when he befriends a pair of illegal immigrants, one of whom has recently been threatened with deportation by U.S. immigration authorities, in the sophomore feature from The Station Agent director Tom McCarthy Read More
Actors: Mark Webber, Zooey Deschanel, Harry Dean Stanton, Drea de Matteo, Patrick Fugit, Chris Klein
Synopsis: First-time helmer Steve Berra writes and directs the finely felt coming-of-age story The Good Life, a film à clef loosely based on Berra's experiences growing up in a Nebraskan small town during the '70s and '80s. Mark Webber stars as the director's alter ego, a more or less well-adjusted Read More
Actors: Brandon Routh, Steve Sandvoss, Courtney Ford, Shoshanna Bush, Nick Wechsler
Synopsis: Director/co-screenwriter John Stuart Muller helms this lively comedy concerning the quirks of modern romance, and the complications that come when an outwardly loving couple becomes polyamorous. Appearances would suggest that published novelist Mason (Steve Sandvoss) and twenty-something fashion Read More
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Tina Holmes, Jay O. Sanders
Synopsis: An inner-city teacher struggling with addiction forms an unlikely bond with a young student who catches him in a compromising position in director Ryan Fleck's feature-length adaptation of his own award-winning short film Gowanus, Brooklyn. Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who Read More
Actors: Amy Sedaris, Deborah Rush, Carlo Alban, Maria Thayer, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert
Synopsis: The cult-favorite television series which offered a fun-house version of '70s "after-school specials" returns in this big-screen prequel to the show Strangers With Candy. Middle-aged ex-prostitute, former drug addict and all-around lowlife Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) emerges from prison at the age Read More
Actors: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, January Jones, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott
Synopsis: Jesse Dylan's American Wedding rounds up the characters from the American Pie films for a trip to the altar. Jim (Jason Biggs) proposes to Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). Hoping to make the wedding day as special as possible for his bride, Jim enlists the help of his friends Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) Read More
Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, Zooey Deschanel
Synopsis: Director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White, who had previously collaborated on Chuck and Buck, turn an eye toward suburban boredom with the quirky comedy The Good Girl. Jennifer Aniston stars as Justine, a woman who is feeling constrained by her life. Her husband, Phil (John C. Reilly), is a Read More
Actors: Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott, Oliver Platt, Cylk Cozart, John C. McGinley, Bob Balaban
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy of mistaken identity, Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Oliver Platt) are a pair of struggling but talented Chicago architects given the chance of a lifetime: Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott), an extremely wealthy business tycoon, is considering hiring them Read More
Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre
Synopsis: Jerri (Amy Sedaris) and Orlando's (Orlando Pabotoy) friendship is put to the test when a new student arrives at Flatpoint High in this episode of the edgy Comedy Central series. Instantly attracted to new arrival Ricky despite the fact that everyone seems out to get him, Jerri quickly caves to Read More
Synopsis: Jerri (Amy Sedaris) struggles with a lesson in motherhood on this "painfully special" episode of Comedy Central's demented ode to the after-school special. Clueless as to how to care for the baby that was assigned to her in Coach Wolf's (Sarah Thyre) health education class, Jerri takes Principal Read More
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Stephen Dorff, Elisabeth Moss, Jay O. Sanders, Alan Pottinger
Synopsis: Susan Sarandon stars in this made-for-cable-TV adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel about a housewife who thinks her life is going nowhere. However, she suddenly gets a lot more adventure than she bargained for when she's taken hostage during a bank robbery. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Jerri's (Amy Sedaris) role in the Flatpoint High Shool production of A Raisin in the Sun leads her stepmother into an alcoholic haze in this installment of the irreverent and outrageous Comedy Central series. Passing over Flatpoint's African-American students to give the lead roles to the three Read More
Synopsis: The premier episode of Comedy Central's warped take on the after-school special introduces viewers to series protagonist Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) as she attends a high school anti-drug rally. Recently released from jail and having lived the life of a teenage runaway for 32 years, 46-year-old Read More
Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Deborah Rush, Greg Hollimon, Larc Spies
Synopsis: She was a user, a boozer, and an all-around loser, but now forty-something ex-junkie prostitute Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) is going back to Flatpoint High School to take back her life in Comedy Central's acclaimed After School Special satire Strangers With Candy. Not much has changed since Jerri Read More
Synopsis: Jerri attempts to deal with her new braces while trying to determine if another student is retarded in this episode of Strangers With Candy, which borrows plot points from the series' unaired pilot, "Retardation: A Celebration." Mortified at the thought of getting braces, Jerri's fears are Read More
Synopsis: Jerri attempts to balance her desire to be on the debate team with her growing eating disorder in this installment of the irreverent Comedy Central series. Confessing her desire to join the debate team to Mr. Noblot (Stephen Colbert), the hungry teacher reveals that Jerri must lose some weight Read More
Synopsis: Jerri (Amy Sedaris) discovers she has a previously unknown talent in this episode of the off-color Comedy Central series. Kicked out of the Flatpoint High orchestra by Mr. Jellineck (Paul Dinello) for pounding on the timpani and refusing to follow directions, a distressed Jerri remains behind Read More
Synopsis: Jerri's (Amy Sedaris) desperate bid to become homecoming queen yields predictably disastrous results in this episode of Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy. Encouraged by Orlando (Orlando Pabotoy) to nominate herself as homecoming queen, Jerri's hopes are quickly dashed when Mr. Noblot (Stephen Colbert Read More
Synopsis: Jerri Blank's (Amy Sedaris) first semester back at Flatpoint High finds the 46-year-old ex-con, ex-prostitute, and ex-drug addict high school freshman attempting to pull her life together. From her initial bid for popularity to her total relapse into drug addition, the first season of Strangers With Candy Read More
Synopsis: The temptations of the past resurface to haunt Jerri (Amy Sedaris) in the season one closer of Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy. When comely stoner Trish (Stephanie Sanditz) offers to share a joint with Jerri in the bathroom after gym class, the lustful Jerri quickly caves to temptation and Read More
Synopsis: When a racial epithet is spray-painted on the wall of Flatpoint High Scholl, Paul Cotton (Jared Ryan) is the only witness and everyone wants to know who did it. As Mr. Jellineck (Paul Dinello) attempts to recover from the trauma and Principal Blackman (Greg Hollimon) discusses the incident in the Read More
Actors: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley
Synopsis: Life is sweet for high-school English teacher and sports coach Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline); he's still living where he grew up, he has a good relationship with his father (Wilford Brimley) and mother (Debbie Reynolds), he's respected by his community, and he's about to marry Emily (Joan Cusack) Read More
Synopsis: A suicide investigation is turned over to homicide when it is revealed that the white victim may have been killed because she adopted a black baby. While trying to determine the baby's paternity, the detectives and the lawyers unearth some unpleasant secrets in the past of one of the suspects. But Read More
Actors: Mia Farrow, Scott Glenn, Mary-Louise Parker, Tony Goldwyn, Eileen Brennan
Synopsis: Reckless is a dark, dream-like comedy-fantasy adapted by Craig Lucas from his play that takes place in a strange, hallucinogenic otherworld. Mia Farrow stars as annoying, air-headed housewife Rachel, who discovers on Christmas Eve that her husband Tom (Tony Goldwyn) has arranged for a hit man to Read More
Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William L. Petersen, Helen Lloyd Breed, Maureen Stapleton, Patricia Reed
Synopsis: In this black comedy, elderly Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just as he's about to tell his oldest son Johnny (Bob Hoskins) what he's decided is truly important in life, which does little to ease Johnny's mid-life anxieties. Jack's funeral and the subsequent wake brings together the Read More
Actors: Alan Bates, Bob Balaban, Sara Mansfield
Synopsis: Alan Bates stars as Hamish Partt an alcoholic writer in the made-for-TV Unnatural Pursuits. Simon Gray's teleplay contrives to have Partt begin singing boisterously whenever confronted by a crisis. This occurs quite often as the playwright follows the progress of his latest work, from rehearsal to Read More
Actors: Jesse Bradford, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Melanie Mayron, Carol Kane
Synopsis: Herbert Ross directed this Nora Ephron-scripted buddy comedy starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. Steve Martin plays Vinnie Antonelli, a street smart mobster who agrees to turn state's evidence and is forced to move to Fryburg, California as part of the witness relocation program. Rick Moranis Read More
Actors: Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick, Rosanna de Soto, Janet Carroll, Victoria Jackson
Synopsis: You've probably already guessed that the Family Business in this all-star melodrama is the business of crime. Adapted from a novel by Vincent Patrick, the film stars Sean Connery as Jessie McMullen, the patriarch of a family of career criminals, including his son Vito (Dustin Hoffman) and grandson Read More
Actors: Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Begley, Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles
Synopsis: Susan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her philandering husband. Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) is a best-selling romance novelist of the manner of Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins Read More
Actors: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky, Juno Mills-Cockell
Synopsis: In this bizarre and very black comedy set in 1950s suburbia, Michael Laemle (Bryan Madorsky) comes to suspect that his conventional parents (Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt) have a little secret which they have kept from him. Nothing too major - - just that they happen to be cannibals. It seems Read More
Actors: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido
Synopsis: Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby girls grow up to be Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin-and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. One of the Midlers is a ruthless New York CEO, while one of the Tomlins is her air-headed Read More
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Neil Barry
Synopsis: Burt Reynolds stars as the bitter bodyguard and degenerate gambler Mex in this uneven action film. He wakes up hungover, vowing to rekindle his dream of leaving Las Vegas for good if he can just raise enough money. Mex divides his time working for the low-key millionaire Cyrus Kinnick (Peter MacNicol Read More
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt
Synopsis: Director Frank Perry brings Susan Issacs' comedic whodunit novel to the screen with Susan Sarandon as a Long Island housewife who tries to escape her deadening suburban life by trying to solve the murder of a philandering local dentist. The dentist, Bruce Fleckstein (Joe Mantegna), is the kind of Read More
Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest, Van Johnson
Synopsis: Woody Allen blurs the the boundaries between the real and unreal in this unique comic fantasy. The scene is a small town in the mid-1930s. Trapped in a dead-end job and an abusive marriage, Cecelia (Mia Farrow) regularly seeks refuge in the local movie house. She becomes so enraptured by the Read More
Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Garrett M. Brown, Stephanie Farrow, Will Holt
Synopsis: Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, "aged" and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel Hynick Read More
Actors: Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Logan, Carrie Snodgress
Synopsis: Veering off in several thematic directions at once, A Night in Heaven starts with a torrid student-teacher romance which becomes somewhat derailed by adding on a failing marriage, political allusions related to NASA, a frustrated sister of the teacher, and several additional characters, many of Read More
Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley
Synopsis: Sure to generate conversation, this provocative drama tells the story of how a middle-class family is torn apart when their clean-cut high-achieving son, who has the potential of making it on the Olympic gymnast team, suddenly joins a religious cult. The parents become deeply worried and try to Read More
Actors: Beau Bridges, Hume Cronyn, Beverly D'Angelo, William Devane, George Dzundza
Synopsis: In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw strives desperately for success after it has been denied the most essential of all tourist amenities -- a freeway exit. The insane, and mostly successful, schemes of the mayor (William Devane Read More
Actors: Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek, Robert Webber, Brian Dennehy
Synopsis: Blake Edwards' 10 stars Dudley Moore as George, a Mancini-type songwriter. Approaching middle age, George feels as if life is passing him by, especially his sex life. Despite the presence of longtime lady friend Sam (Julie Andrews) in his life, he becomes obsessed from afar with Jenny (Bo Derek) Read More
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Edward Binns, Benson Fong
Synopsis: Get ready for another dose of love and loss in this sequel to the four-handkerchief classic Love Story (1970). Oliver Barrett (Ryan O'Neal) is emotionally devastated after the death of his wife Jenny, and while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain Read More
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