Game 6 2006 R, 87 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Hoffman Cast: Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Griffin Dunne, Bebe Neuwirth, Catherine O'Hara, Ari Graynor, Shalom Harlow, Roger Rees, Tom Aldredge, Harris Yulin, Nadia Dajani, Lillias White
Successful playwright Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton) is not having a good day: his wife, Lillian (Catherine O'Hara), is considering divorce; his aging father (Tom Aldredge) is in poor health; and Nicky is convinced that his autobiographical play, scheduled to open on Broadway that evening, is going to be panned by drama critic Steven Schwimmer (Robert Downey Jr.). But, even more important is the fact that his beloved Boston Red Sox are playing the Mets in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series and, despite Nicky's doubts, just might win their first World Series. After getting involved in a series of traffic jams and conversations with foreign cabbies, Nicky misses the opening of his play and sits in a bar watching his baseball team on TV and fearing the worst in all of his worlds.
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Interview with the Assassin 2002 R, 88 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Neil Burger Cast: Raymond J. Barry, Dylan Haggerty, Renee Faia, Kelsey Kemper, Dennis Lau, Jared McVay, Christel Khalil, Lillias White, Kate Williamson, Jack Tate
Walter (Raymond J. Barry) is dying of cancer and wants to come clean. So he asks neighbor Ron (Dylan Haggerty), a cameraman, to film his story. The story: he is the mysterious "second assassin" who fired the shot that killed President Kennedy. During the filming, Walter and Ron search for the man who supposedly trained Walter. When they are thwarted by forces that seem to want to keep the story secret, Ron becomes a believer in the assassination plot.
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Pieces of April 2003 PG-13, 80 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Peter Hedges Cast: Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke, Sean Hayes, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr., Alice Drummond, Sisqo, Lillias White, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Armando Riesco, Patricia Clarkson, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Susan Bruce
It is Thanksgiving Day, her estranged family is driving from Pennsylvania for dinner at April's (Katie Holmes) new apartment on New York's Lower East Side, and she discovers that her oven is not working. After relying on neighbors for help–a comedy of errors–dinner is served, and the family reunites. Patricia Clarkson was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role of April's mother, Joy Burns, who is dying of cancer.
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Then She Found Me 2008 R, 100 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Helen Hunt Cast: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen, Ben Shenkman, John Benjamin Hickey, Salman Rushdie, Daisy Tahan, Tommy Nelson, Robert Lupone, Lillias White, Ben Shenkman, Mark Webber, John Ventimiglia
Thirty-nine-year-old schoolteacher April Epner (Helen Hunt) is suffering a midlife crisis: her husband Ben (Matthew Broderick) has walked out on their marriage, and her mother Trudy (Lynn Cohen) has just passed away. In the midst of her problems, her long-lost birth mother Bernice Graves (Bette Midler) appears on the scene attempting to reconcile with April. In her fragile emotional state, April begins a relationship with the single father (Colin Firth) of one of her students. Events take still another turn when April learns that she is pregnant. The father is Ben, and now he tries to woo her back.
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| 1. Game 6 (2006)
2. Interview with the Assassin (2002)
3. Pieces of April (2003)
4. Then She Found Me (2008)
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