Addicted to Love 1997  R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Griffin Dunne
Cast: Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston, Tcheky Karyo, Maureen Stapleton, Nesbitt Blaisdell, Remak Ramsay, Lee Wilkof, Dominick Dunne, Larry Pine
Naive astronomer Sam (Matthew Broderick) meets and joins forces with a photographer/artist, Maggie (Meg Ryan), in their obsessive moves to keep track of ex-lovers. The plot is pure "Hollywood": boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl falls in love with boy. But the actors are engaging, and this comedy works.
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007  R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Rosemary Harris, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Brian F. O'Byrne, Blaine Horton, Arija Bareikis, Leonardo Cimino, Lee Wilkof, Damon Gupton, Adrian Martinez
Although both work for a Manhattan real-estate firm, brothers Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke) desperately need money. Their solution: rob their parents' (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris) jewelry store. They can take the jewels and sell them, and their parents can collect on the insurance. Thus, nobody loses. But as the story continues, flashbacks reveal a multitude of family problems–including Hank sleeping with Andy's wife (Marisa Tomei)–and the planned robbery is destined to trigger the family's final collision course.
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Chattahoochee 1990   R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mick Jackson
Cast: Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Ned Beatty, William DeAcutis, Dennis Hopper, Pamela Reed, M. Emmet Walsh, Lee Wilkof, Gary Howard Klar, Matt Craven
Based on a true story, this film is about the inhumane treatment patients in mental hospitals endured in the 1950s.
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The Grey Zone 2001  R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Cast: David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Daniel Benzali, David Chandler, Allan Corduner, Natasha Lyonne, Mira Sorvino, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lisa Benavides, Lee Wilkof, Brian F. O'Byrne
The Holocaust is the background for this story about Sonderkomando Jews imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp who coerced fellow Jews to march into areas where they met certain death by gassing. But, in the midst of the horror, a few Jews plan and execute an uprising.
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Imaginary Heroes 2004 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Dan Harris
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams, Kip Pardue, Deirdre O'Connell, Ryan Donowho, Suzanne Santo, Jay Paulson, Luke Robertson, Sara Tanaka, Terry Beaver, Lee Wilkof, Ned Benson, Larry Fessenden
After their son Matt (Kip Pardue) commits suicide, the Travis family traits of drug use, secrets, homosexuality, and alcoholism rise to the fore. The father, Ben (Jeff Daniels), turns away from the family, and their college student daughter Penny (Michelle Williams) rarely comes home from school. Meanwhile, the mother, Sandy (Sigourney Weaver), becomes sarcastic and smokes marijuana, while youngest son Tim (Emile Hirsch) uses drugs and sex to find meaning in his life. Will these family members finally learn to accept each other for what they really are?
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| 1. Addicted to Love (1997)
2. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
3. Chattahoochee (1990)
4. The Grey Zone (2001)
5. Imaginary Heroes (2004)
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