All Over Me 1997  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alex Sichel
Cast: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz, Leisha Hailey, Pat Briggs, Ann Dowd, Gene Canfield, Shawn Hatosy, Vincent Pastore
Talented guitarist Claude (Alison Folland) and friend Ellen (Tara Subkoff) live in a dysfunctional, teenage world where they laugh and cry together but eventually grow apart.
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Bushwacked 1995   PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Greg Beeman
Cast: Daniel Stern, Jon Polito, Brad Sullivan, Ann Dowd, Anthony Heald, Tom Wood, Blake Bashoff, Corey Carrier, Michael Galeota, Max Goldblatt, Ari Greenberg, Janna Michaels
Max (Daniel Stern) is a deliveryman who drops off an illegal package, and the chase is on. To elude the police, he joins a scout troop, and the kids teach city guy Max a few things about the forces of nature.
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 Garden State 2004 R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Zach Braff
Cast: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman, Jean Smart, Armando Riesco, Method Man, Denis O'Hare, Jackie Hoffman, Ann Dowd, Debbon Ayer, Alex Burns, George C. Wolfe, Michael Weston
Long estranged from his family, Andrew (Zach Braff) returns home for his mother's funeral where he must deal with relatives and friends he knew in high school. Ever since he caused the accident that paralyzed his mother (Andrew was nine years old at the time), Andrew has been taking anti-depressants, prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). While home for the funeral, Andrew gets rid of his meds and falls in love with Sam (Natalie Portman).
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The Informant! 2009  R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Tom Papa, Rick Overton, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson, Craig Ricci Shaynak, Scott Adsit, Ann Dowd, Allan Havey, Howie Johnson
In the early 1990s, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is a rising star at the agri-business powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in Decatur, Illinois. After Whitacre exposes his company to a multi-national price-fixing conspiracy, the FBI needs evidence concerning the conspiracy and convinces Whitacre to wear a wire along with a tape recorder in his briefcase while attending meetings around the world. The result is one of the FBI's largest price-fixing cases, but Whitacre's own misdeeds lead to his world crashing around him, and he is convicted of price-fixing, money laundering, wire fraud, and tax fraud and sentenced to a nine-year prison term. Based on a true story.
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Not for Ourselves Alone 1999 TV, 240 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Ken Burns
Cast: Sally Kellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Julie Harris, Amy Madigan, Keith David, Anne Duquesnay, Wendy Conquest, George Plimpton, Adam Arkin, Kevin Conway, Ann Dowd, Charles Durning
[Full title: "Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony"] Ken Burns brings history to life again with this film, originally a TV miniseries. It is the story of two close but very different friends who did much to bring about changes in women's rights through their movement. Ronnie Gilbert is the voice of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Julie Harris is the voice of Susan B. Anthony. Sally Kellerman narrates.
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Saving Shiloh 2006 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
aka: Shiloh 3: Saving Shiloh
Director: Sandy Tung
Cast: Scott Wilson, Gerald McRaney, Jason Dolley, Ann Dowd, Bonnie Bartlett, Jordan Garrett, Kyle Chavarria, Taylor Momsen, Liberty Smith, Maura Kidwell, Judy Espy, Kari Ely
This third entry in the "Shiloh" series finds young Marty Preston (Jason Dolley) befriending mean old Judd Travers (Scott Wilson)–the ex-owner of that cute beagle, Shiloh, that is now a member of the Preston family. When Judd becomes a murder suspect, Marty comes to his aid, and Shiloh finds the clues that will help solve the case.
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Shiloh 1997 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Dale Rosenbloom
Cast: Michael Moriarty, Rod Steiger, Blake Heron, Scott Wilson, Bonnie Bartlett, Ann Dowd, J. Madison Wright, Shira Roth, Tori Wright, Montrose Hagins
This film adaptation of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's novel (it won the Newbury Prize) is the story about Marty Preston (Blake Heron), a rural West Virginia boy, who loves a mistreated dog he calls "Shiloh." Marty deals with the ethical question of whether he should take Shiloh from its legal owner in order to give the animal a quality life.
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Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season 1999 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Sandy Tung
Cast: Michael Moriarty, Zachary Browne, Scott Wilson, Rod Steiger, Caitlin Wachs, Ann Dowd, Rachel David, Bonnie Bartlett, Marissa Leigh, Joe Pichler
This morality tale revolves around that cute beagle, Shiloh. This time around, Shiloh's mean-spirited ex-owner, Judd Travers (Scott Wilson), wants his dog back, but young Marty Preston ((Zachary Browne) proves that kindness begets kindness and heals Judd's hatred.
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The Thing About My Folks 2005 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Cast: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Perkins, Mackenzie Connolly, Lydia Jordan, Ann Dowd, Claire Beckman, Mimi Lieber, Marshall Efron
Sam's (Peter Falk) wife (Olympia Dukakis) has left him, and Sam needs help. Although his son, Ben (Paul Reiser), has not had the best relationship with him in the past, Sam joins Ben on a road trip through upstate New York. The time alone on the road works miracles as father and son realize how much alike they are and, more important, that they really do love each other.
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| 1. All Over Me (1997)
2. Bushwacked (1995)
3. Garden State (2004)
4. The Informant! (2009)
5. Not for Ourselves Alone (1999)
6. Saving Shiloh (2006)
aka: Shiloh 3: Saving Shiloh
7. Shiloh (1997)
8. Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999)
9. The Thing About My Folks (2005)
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