Biography: Amy Ryan |
The capable and effective actress Amy Ryan proved herself adept at a myriad of portrayals in many genres. Ryan was often, though not always, cast as a solid and dependable housewife, mother, or girlfriend, per her contributions to the 2004 Keane (as... more
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Tags: Police Drama Drama Political Drama
Length: min
United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary exposé of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the ~Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was...
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama
Length: min
Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman makes his feature directorial debut with this omantic comedy adapted from Bob Glaudini's Off-Broadway play. In addition to directing, Hoffman assumes the role of the titular stoner, who falls in love...
Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook Grace Zabriskie Stephen Root
Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy
Length: 110min
A divorced, alcoholic salesman attempts to pull his life together in time to get his old job back and avoid becoming the laughing stock of the company in this midlife crisis comedy starring Michael Leydon Campbell, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Amy Ryan. As...
Cast: Margaret Colin
Tags: Mystery Post-Noir (Modern Noir)
Length: 95min
A sardonic, gin-soaked detective contends with an odd cast of characters while tailing a mysterious, middle-aged man traveling with a Mexican boy from Chicago to Los Angeles in writer/director Noah Buschel's twisting neo- oir mystery. John Rosow is a...
Cast: Tate Donovan
Tags: Period Film Buddy Film Drama
Length: min
Tags: Comedy
Length: 13min
Amy Ryan (Keane, The Wire) and Nick Offernan co-headline director Cecily Rhett's 13-minute fictional short Forward. The seriocomic work covers a reenactment of the Civil War, in addition to splits in various personal relationships. ~ Nathan Southern,...
Cast: Annabella Sciorra Martha Plimpton
Tags: Satire Fantasy Comedy Comedy
Length: 91min
A woman discovers she has miraculous powers that make her unhappy life all the more complicated in this independent satiric comedy. Gwen (Martha Plimpton) is a woman in her mid-thirties who has been in a deep funk ever since her marriage fell apart....
Cast: Steven Soderbergh Abigail Breslin Damian Lewis Lodge Kerrigan
Tags: Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 94min
American independent filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan returned after a six-year hiatus with this formally challenging tale of a disheveled man desperately searching New York City for his young daughter. Keane takes its name from its central character, a...
Cast: Kevin Corrigan
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 86min
Jonathan (Kevin Corrigan) is a computer expert who is a bit shy and lonely, though he's recently begun courting a schoolteacher named Judy (Amy Ryan). One night, Jonathan encounters a Latina prostitute named Roberta (Daisy Rojas), whom he's convinced...
Cast: Brooke Smith
Tags: Melodrama Message Movie Drama
Length: 85min
Julie A. Lynch made her directorial debut with this low-budget indie, an AIDS drama set in 1992 NYC, where three women -- promiscuous artist Josie Ray (Christine Harnos), stand-up comic Jennifer Sharp (Brooke Smith), and MBA student Elaine Devlin (Amy...
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