 Happy Accidents 2000  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi / Romance
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Vincent D'Onofrio, Nadia Dajani, Tovah Feldshuh, Holland Taylor, Richard Portnow, Sean Gullette, Cara Buono, Jose Zuniga, Bronson Dudley, Sanjay Chandani, Lianna Pai, Tamara Jenkins, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Mike McGlone
New Yorker Ruby Weaver (Marisa Tomei) searches for love but typically ends up with men who have problems; therefore, it seems natural that when she meets Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio) he tells her that he has time-traveled back from the future–2470, to be exact. The story begins with a series of flashbacks as Ruby talks to her therapist Meg Ford (Holland Taylor) and tells her that Sam traveled back in time to escape prosecution for his sister's death and because he found a picture of Ruby at home and wanted to find her. Is Sam telling the truth, and will Meg be able to sort things out? Witty and entertaining.
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The Savages 2007 R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Tonye Patano, Guy Boyd, Debra Monk, Rosemary Murphy, Hal Blankenship, Joan Jaffe, Salem Ludwig
Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the grown children of their abusive father Lenny (Philip Bosco), learn that Lenny is suffering from dementia and is dying. They fly to Arizona and bring Lenny back home to Buffalo where Wendy and Jon reunite under one roof for the first time since childhood and are forced to reconcile past differences in order to deal with their father's impending death. The film received two Academy Award nominations including Best Actress (Linney).
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The Slums of Beverly Hills 1998  R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Charlotte Stewart, Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, David Krumholtz, Carl Reiner, Eli Marienthal, Rita Moreno
The Abramowitz family–father (Alan Arkin), daughter (Natasha Lyonne), and sons (Ely Marienthal and David Krumholtz)–may live in Beverly Hills, but they are not among the upper crust. In fact, they live a nomadic existence moving from one dump of an apartment to another. They find their chance to move up in the world and seize it, but before long they loose that brief tenure and resume life in the "slums" of Beverly Hills.
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| 1. Happy Accidents (2000)
2. The Savages (2007)
3. The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
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