Four Rooms 1995  R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Tim Roth, Valeria Golino, Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Beals, Madonna, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino, Sammi Davis, David Proval, Ione Skye, Marc Lawrence
In this comedy/drama, four directors (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino) contributed their stories of what happens in four separate Los Angeles hotel rooms on New Year's Eve.
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Gas Food Lodging 1992  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury, Jacob Vargas, Donovan Leitch, Chris Mulkey, Laurie O'Brien, Julie Condra, Adam Biesk
Single mother Nora (Brooke Adams), a truck-stop waitress, lives with her two daughters in a small, New Mexico, desert town. The daughters are near-opposites: Trudi (Ione Skye) is fast becoming a rebellious town tramp while Shade (Fairuza Balk) lives in a fantasy world watching Mexican movies and wishing she had a father. Against this bleak backdrop, Director Allison Anders deftly brings out the lives and conflicts of the three women.
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Grace of My Heart 1996  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz, Matt Dillon, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Davison, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda, Chris Isaak
This is the story of Edna Buxton (Illeana Douglas) who wants to be a singer but becomes a songwriter instead and changes her name to Denise Waverly in the process. Her move from New York to Malibu and the people in the music business she meets along the way make for an interesting story.
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Mi Vida Loca 1994 R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: My Crazy Life
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas, Marlo Marron, Jesse Borrego, Magali Alvarado, Salma Hayek, Devine, Monica Lutton, Christina Solis
The lives of Hispanic women living and working in a Los Angeles barrio are the primary interest of this good drama.
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Sugar Town 1999 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders, Kurt Voss
Cast: Jade Gordon, Ally Sheedy, Rosanna Arquette, Larry Klein, John Taylor, Lumi Cavazos, Michael Des Barres, John Doe, Lucinda Jenney, Martin Kemp
Don't look for any deep insightful moments in this amusing comedy/drama about LA entertainers who often use drugs as a panacea for problems.
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Things Behind the Sun 2001 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allison Anders
Cast: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Alison Folland, Elizabeth Pena, Rosanna Arquette, Patsy Kensit, CCH Pounder, Eric Stoltz, Bill Cordell
Hard-drinking and hard-living Sherry (Kim Dickens) is an up-and-coming singer with a current hit song about rape–a song that reflects her despair over being raped as a child. Each year she gets drunk on the same lawn on the same day at the rape scene. Meanwhile, Owen (Gabriel Mann), who writes for a music magazine, is sent to get a story on Sherry. Owen knows much about her past, having been involved in the rape incident by his older brother, and must face up to his old demons. A powerful story based on Director Anders' rape at a young age.
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| 1. Four Rooms (1995)
2. Gas Food Lodging (1992)
3. Grace of My Heart (1996)
4. Mi Vida Loca (1994)
aka: My Crazy Life
5. Sugar Town (1999)
6. Things Behind the Sun (2001)
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