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The Baxter

Actors: Michael Showalter, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux

Synopsis: A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman (Michael Showalter) is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and Read More

8/26/05
Bomb the System

Actors: Mark Webber, Gano Grills, Jade Yorker, Jaclyn DeSantis, Joey Dedio

Synopsis: A young man with a troubled past expresses himself through street art in this independent drama. Anthony (Mark Webber) is a 19-year-old kid living in New York City who was introduced to "bombing" -- graffiti art sprayed on public walls when the cops aren't looking -- by his older brother. When his Read More

5/27/05
A Perfect Fit

Actors: Donna Mitchell, Victoria Rowell, Michele Santopietro, Peter Vack, Emma Adele Galvin, Adrian Grenier, Leila Arcieri, Polly Draper

Synopsis: An unstable man suffering from horrific nightmares discovers that his terror has just begun when he meets the woman of his dreams in director Ron Brown's terrifying psychological thriller. When the sun sets and the moon spreads its cool blue glow across the peaceful nightscape, John Totersohn's Read More

2005
Mona Lisa Smile

Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint Read More

12/19/03
Boiler Room

Actors: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan

Synopsis: In this drama that explores greed and corruption in American business, Giovanni Ribisi plays Seth Davis, an intelligent and ambitious college dropout who runs a casino in his apartment. Eager to show his father that he can succeed, Seth lands a job with a small stock brokerage firm. He is given a Read More

2/18/00
Law & Order: Sundown

Synopsis: The detectives and the lawyers tackle the mystery of a female patient found beaten to death in a hospital lounge. Ingredients vital to the solution are a glib "gentleman" specializing in wooing wealthy women and the effects of Alzheimer's disease on the sufferer's family. The supporting cast of Read More

1999
The "M" Word

Actors: Cynthia Nixon, Christine Tucci, Marnie Pomerantz, Wolfgang Bodison, Vincent Angell

Synopsis: Three decades worth of Top-40 singles are featured on the soundtrack of this romantic comedy-drama about marriage (i.e., the "M" word) in the Big Apple. Smooth-talker Nick (Andrew Heckler) makes a move when Sarah (Marnie Pomerantz) begins to harbor doubts about her impending marriage to her Read More

1997
Law & Order: Seed

Synopsis: A woman under the care of fertility doctor Jordan Delbert (David Margulies) dies under suspicious circumstances. An investigation reveals that Delbert has illegally donated his own sperm to expedite at least 31 pregnancies. In trying to prosecute Delbert, the D.A.'s office is stymied by the laws Read More

1995
Party Girl

Actors: Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, Sasha von Scherler, Guillermo Diaz, Anthony de Sando

Synopsis: The debut feature from director Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Party Girl pretty much cemented Parker Posey's status as the indie-film "it girl" of the 1990s. Posey stars as Mary, a fun-loving and irresponsible twentysomething New Yorker who prefers throwing bashes at her loft to pay the rent over Read More

1995
Two Bits

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jerry Barone, Al Pacino, Joe Grifasi, Joanna Merlin, Andy Romano

Synopsis: This nostalgic drama is based upon the childhood memories of screenwriter Joseph Stefano. Set in South Philadelphia in 1933 it centers on both a wise grandfather, and his single-minded grandson. The film opens in a garden on a beautiful day. In the garden is the Italian grandpa telling anyone who Read More

1994
The Portrait

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck

Synopsis: The Portrait, based upon the off-Broadway play by Tina Howe, is a made-for-cable film in which Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall play Gardner and Fanny Church, aging parents of artist Mags (Cecelia Peck). As the film opens, Mags unexpectedly drops in on her parents, hoping that she can complete a Read More

1993
For Love or Money

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gabrielle Anwar, Anthony Higgins, Michael Tucker, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox stars as Doug Ireland in this romantic comedy about a brash concierge at a swanky New York hotel who always makes it a point to go out of his way for the hotel guests. But Doug doesn't want to be a concierge forever. What he would really like to do is build a swanky hotel of his Read More

1993
The Rookie

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: In return for Warner Bros. greenlighting his pet project White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this more commercial film, an action caper about a mismatched pair of auto theft cops. Eastwood is grizzled veteran detective Nick Pulovski, who's determined to bring Read More

12/7/90
Psycho IV: The Beginning

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder, Donna Mitchell

Synopsis: This third sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller was originally made for cable television and looks into murderous Norman Bates' traumatic past in hopes of explaining his need to kill. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Couch Trip

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, David Clennon, Donna Dixon

Synopsis: Michael Ritchie's The Couch Trip follows a long line of Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Disorderly Orderly) in which the psychos are seen as saner than the psychiatrists. Charles Grodin plays Dr. George Maitlin, a pompous radio self-help guru, who is having his own personal Read More

1/15/88
Hunter: Naked Justice, Part 1

Synopsis: Investigating the murder of a famous movie queen, Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) discover to their surprise that the dead woman had quite a checkered past. Key players in the intrigue that follows are a jealous and covetous sister, a homeless man, and several minions of the CIA. Read More

1988
Shadows in the Storm

Actors: Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell, James Widdoes

Synopsis: Thelo (Ned Beatty) is a middle-aged librarian who is fired from his job for drinking too much. He sets out for the woods in hopes that getting back to nature will inspire him to write poetry. There he meets Melanie (Mira Sara), who is the embodiment of everything he finds beautiful in women, and Read More

1988
Hunter: Naked Justice, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) is convinced that the murder of a movie star will be solved the moment he catches up with a Bulgarian hit-man in Mexico. Though Hunter's trip South of the Border clears up the mystery as to why the CIA is so interested in the case, the Read More

1988
Less Than Zero

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: This drama about affluent Los Angeles teens is taken from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Clay (Andrew McCarthy) is a college freshman who returns home during Christmas break. Clay's old flame Blair (Jamie Gertz) is now more interested in her new beau Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.), the fun-loving Read More

11/6/87
For Love or Money

Synopsis: Joanna Piper (Suzanne Pleshette) and Mike Coyne (Gil Gerard) are far more concerned with money than with love. To that end, they sign up as contestants for a TV giveaway show. The catch: in order to claim the grand prize of one million dollars, Joanna and Mike must pretend to be hopelessly Read More

1984
Anna to the Infinite Power

Actors: Martha Byrne, Dina Merrill, Jack Gilford, Mark Patton, Jack Ryland, Donna Mitchell, Loretta Devine

Synopsis: A bratty but brilliant preteen girl discovers that she's the clone of a long-dead scientist in this story of self-discovery and adventure, which appeared on HBO in the early '80s. Anna Hart (Martha Byrne) gets top grades at her elite private school, but she lies, steals, and bad-mouths her Read More

1984
A Doctor's Story

Actors: Art Carney, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: A TV pilot film, Doctor's Story explores the rights--or rather, the lack of them--of geriatric patients. Howard E. Rollins Jr. plays a young doctor who resents the throwaway attitude conveyed towards the elderly. Among Rollins' patients are a near-senile old man (Art Carney), a woman (Vivece Lindfors Read More

1984
The Fan

Actors: Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Biehn, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Lauren Bacall more or less plays herself in The Fan. Cast as famous Broadway musical comedy star Sally Ross (with an astonishing lack of temperament!), Bacall finds herself the unwilling love object of psychotic fan Douglas Breen (Michael Biehn). As security around Ross tightens, Breen vows that Read More

1981
The Bell Jar

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie, Donna Mitchell

Synopsis: Poet Sylvia Plath wrote an immensely popular roman à clef, The Bell Jar, which chronicles a woman's descent from functioning as a highly educated, motivated, and capable young woman to being completely incapacitated at the hands of mental illness. Sadly, Plath committed suicide at age 30 Read More

1979
Kojak: Birthday Party

Synopsis: The fourth season of Kojak begins as Lt. Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) of the NYPD is faced with a truly daunting personal crisis. Just before her birthday celebration Kojak's niece Lina (Donna Mitchell) is kidnapped by the friends of a man who has been jailed for killing a cop. Their demands are as Read More

1976
The Happy Hooker

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lovelady Powell, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: Lynn Redgrave stars as New York madam Xaviera Hollander in this romp based on Hollander's rise to the top of the sex-for-hire industry. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
The Exorcist

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Kitty Winn

Synopsis: Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old Linda Blair. Suddenly prone to fits and bizarre behavior, Regan Read More

1973