Everyone's Hero 2006  G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: Colin Brady, Christopher Reeve, Dan St. Pierre
Cast: Jake T. Austin, Rob Reiner, Brian Dennehy, Raven-Symone, Robert Wagner, William H. Macy, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Kind, Dana Reeve, Mandy Patinkin, Forest Whitaker, Gideon Jacobs
In this animated adventure, Chicago Cubs pitcher Lefty Maginnis (voice of William H. Macy) obeys instructions from his club's owner (voice of Robert Wagner) to steal Babe Ruth's (voice of Brian Dennehy) pet bat, Darlin' (voice of Whoopi Goldberg). The stadium caretaker's son, Yankee Irving–a.k.a. "Everyone's Hero"–(voice of Jake T. Austin) spots Lefty stealing the bat and sets off with a talking baseball, Screwie (voice of Rob Reiner), on a thousand-mile trek to regain the bat and bring it back to Babe Ruth in time for the 1932 World Series.
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Home Alone 4 2002  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: Rod Daniel
Cast: Mike Weinberg, French Stewart, Jason Beghe, Joanna Going, Clare Carey, Erick Avari, Barbara Babcock, Missi Pyle, Gideon Jacobs, Sean Cameron Michael, Chelsea Russo, Lisa King, Craig Geldenhuys, Andre Roothman, Anton Smuts
The popular "Home Alone" series moves to TV and to Disney as Mike Weinberg takes on the role of Kevin. His parents have divorced, and Kevin plans on spending Christmas at the mansion of his dad's (Jason Beghe) girlfriend (Joanna Going). But one of the villains from the first two episodes, Marv (now played by French Stewart), has new partners and targets the mansion. Will the mansion's high-tech security and Kevin's cleverness save the day?
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House of D 2005  PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Duchovny
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Tea Leoni, David Duchovny, Robin Williams, Erykah Badu, Magali Amadei, Harold Cartier, Mark Margolis, Zelda Williams, Gideon Jacobs, Mark Richard Keith, James Ockimey
During the summer of 1973, Tommy (Anton Yelchin) lives in Greenwich Village, hangs out with mentally challenged Pappass (Robin Williams), and falls in love with Pappass' daughter (Zelda Williams–Robin William's daughter). Not knowing what to do with his life, Tommy takes advice from an unseen inmate (Erykah Badu) by calling back and forth through her window at the Women's House of Detention. Unfortunately, her advice leads to a series of tragedies.
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Julie Johnson 2001 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bob Gosse
Cast: Lili Taylor, Courtney Love, Noah Emmerich, Spalding Gray, Mischa Barton, Gideon Jacobs, Patrick Fitzgerald, Chuck Montgomery, Ali Marsh, Kelly Hill
Good friends Julie (Lili Taylor) and Claire (Courtney Love) enroll in a community college where Julie excels, and their lives change. First, Julie gets rid of husband Rick (Noah Emmerich), then Claire leaves her husband Mike (Patrick Fitzgerald), and the two women move in together.
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Mr. Deeds 2002 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Steven Brill
Cast: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Jared Harris, Peter Gallagher, Allen Covert, Roark Critchlow, Peter Dante, Conchata Ferrell, Gideon Jacobs, Erick Avari, Harve Presnell, Blake Clark, J.B. Smoove
After small-town pizza shop owner Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) inherits a $40 billion media conglomerate, he heads for New York to do business. Once there, he finds himself the object of prey by greedy stockholders and becomes the subject for tabloid journalists–especially Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) who poses as a school nurse to obtain information that will give her the scoop on Deeds. But, in the process, Babe ends up falling in love with Deeds who is equally smitten with her. This is an updated version of Frank Capra's award-winning 1936 classic, "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town."
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 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Wain
Cast: Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Paul Rudd, Zak Orth, Christopher Meloni, A.D. Miles, Molly Shannon, Gideon Jacobs, Michael Ian Black, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper
The last day of summer camp should mean the talent show that polishes off 1981's summer of gags and sex for nerd and hippie campers alike. But, when Professor Neumann (David Hyde Pierce) takes a group of campers on an excursion, they learn that a portion of NASA's Skylab is projected to fall on Camp Firewood's mess hall. Now the race is on to warn the other campers.
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| 1. Everyone's Hero (2006)
2. Home Alone 4 (2002)
3. House of D (2005)
4. Julie Johnson (2001)
5. Mr. Deeds (2002)
6. Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
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