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Ellen Barkin is one of the most respected, versatile actresses on the screen; she is equally at home playing supporting roles, character roles, and leads -- even as true stardom eluded her. Prior to becoming an actress, Barkin attended the renowned... more
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Cast: Richard Gere
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: 125min
Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Ethan Hawke star in this cop drama from director Antoine Fuqua and Millennium Films. The story surrounds three Brooklyn cops from varying sides of the force who unknowingly converge together at a hot crime spot. ~ Jeremy...
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh
Tags: Coming-of-Age Art Film Psychological Drama Comedy Drama Satire
Length: 100min
Palindromes opens with the dedication, "In loving memory of Dawn Wiener," a reference to the lead character in writer/director Todd Solondz' early feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Aviva has just attended Dawn's funeral. Dismayed by her older...
Cast: Demi Moore Rip Torn
Tags: Comedy Drama Fantasy Drama
Length: 95min
Teeth director Michael Lichtenstein takes a sharp turn from teen-oriented satire to mature family drama with this semi-autobiographical story concerning a pair of grown-up sisters who return to their family home in order to care for their ailing...
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Tags: Drama Psychological Drama Americana
Length: 100min
Recalling both The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and American Beauty (1999), this teen drama recounts the trials and tribulations of one very dysfunctional family. Roseanne Skolnik (Monica Keena) is a popular high school student who is dating...
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller Police Detective Film Erotic Thriller
Length: 105min
Damian Harris directs this sleazy erotic thriller about lipstick lesbians, naked corpses, and S&M covens, starring Julian Sands. Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is a hard-driving homicide cop who drinks like a fish and curses like a sailor,...
Cast: Hugh Jackman Ashley Judd Greg Kinnear Marisa Tomei
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 97min
Based on Laura Zigman's 1998 novel -Animal Husbandry, this romantic comedy centers on Jane Goodale (Ashley Judd), a talk-show producer who finds herself suddenly abandoned by her boyfriend (Greg Kinnear). After this untimely breakup, Jane begins to...
Cast: Ellen Barkin
Tags: Comedy Teen Movie Satire
Length: 97min
So how far would you go to win a beauty pageant? That's the burning question of Drop Dead Gorgeous, in which the citizens of Mount Rose, Minnesota gear up for the year's biggest event, the Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant, in which Becky...
Cast: Bob Hoskins Beau Bridges Antonio Banderas
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Crime
Length: 99min
Two small-time crooks find themselves in deeper water than they can handle in this offbeat comedy. Edgar (Bob Hoskins) and Morales (Antonio Banderas) are a pair of minor-league grifters posing as men of the cloth, who travel through the deep South...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Cast: Johnny Depp Terry Gilliam Gary Busey Benicio Del Toro
Tags: Art Film Comedy Buddy Film Road Movie Black Comedy Absurd Comedy
Length: 119min
Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic 21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the...
Cast: Oprah Winfrey
Tags: Drama Family Drama Addiction Drama
Length: 120min
Connie May Fowler adapted her own novel for this dark drama about a dysfunctional family in northern rural Florida during the '60s. Alcoholic Billy (John Savage) reflects on his country-music career that never happened and beats his wife Glory Marie...
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