American Tragedy 2000  PG-13, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lawrence Schiller
Cast: Ving Rhames, Ron Silver, Bruno Kirby, Darryl Alan Reed, Nicholas Pryor, Robert LuPone, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Diana LaMar, Clyde Kusatsu, Christopher Plummer
Behind-the-scenes investigative work on the O.J. Simpson trial is the subject of this made-for-TV miniseries. The problem with this film lies in the fact that not much of its argument is verifiable and appears to be interpreted to serve a specific purpose.
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 The Door in the Floor 2004  R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tod Williams
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Elle Fanning, Mimi Rogers, Bijou Phillips, Louis Arcella, John Rothman, Kristina Valada-Viara, Robert LuPone, Harvey Loomis, Larry Pine
After their teenage sons are killed in a car accident, Ted (Jeff Bridges) and Marion (Kim Basinger) each finds their own destructive means to deal with the tragedy.
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Funny Games 2008  R, 110 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon, Robert LuPone, Susanne C. Hanke, Linda Moran
While vacationing at their lakeside home, Ann and George Farber (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) and their young son Georgie (Devon Gearhart), Peter (Brady Corbet) appears at their door asking to borrow four eggs. Peter gets his foot inside the door, and it turns out that there is more to Peter than meets the eye. Peter and his cohort Paul (Michael Pitt) are actually serial killers moving through the neighborhood. The Farbers are their intended victims, and the tortures begin.
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High Stakes 1989 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Melanie Rose
Director: Amos Kollek
Cast: Sally Kirkland, Robert LuPone, Richard Lynch, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kathy Bates, W.T. Martin, Betty Miller, Eddie Earl Hatch, Maia Danziger, Larry Block
Sally Kirkland plays a stripper who tries to save her daughter from trouble and finds love with a Wall Street speculator along the way.
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Palookaville 1996 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: Adam Trese, Vincent Gallo, William Forsythe, Gareth Williams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Frances McDormand, Bridgit Ryan, Kim Dickens, Robert LuPone, Nesbitt Blaisdell
Sid (William Forsythe), Jerry (Adam Trese), and Russ (Vincent Gallo) are three lovable losers who try to rob a jewelry store but break through the wall of a BAKERY instead.
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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. American Tragedy (2000)
2. The Door in the Floor (2004)
3. Funny Games (2008)
4. High Stakes (1989)
aka: Melanie Rose
5. Palookaville (1996)
6. Then She Found Me (2008)
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