2024-09-23
After being released from a mental institution, an irrational man (Sean Penn) tries to reclaim the life he had before he was committed, despite the fact that things have changed and his family has moved on in his absence. The film was written by John Cassavetes and directed by his son, Nick. John Travolta, Robin Wright Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Debi Mazar.
A collector for the mob travels to L.A. to get a payment from a Hollywood producer, and discovers his skills in the world of organized crime translate to the movie business in this showbiz comedy. After helping a producer land a big-name actor for a script, he also helps the compromised man get out of a relationship with a powerful drug dealer.
A white con artist hustles basketball games against black players who don't realize he is actually a gifted hoopster, and one of his unsuspecting victims becomes his "agent," arranging his various scams around L.A., and the duo quickly start piling up the wins together.
A slacker known to his friends as "The Dude" gets mixed up in a convoluted kidnapping plot with an eccentric millionaire whose name he shares.
A con man given one last chance to go straight gets a job as a postal clerk, where a single act of accidental charity---diverting stolen money in the reply to a letter addressed to "God"---triggers a miraculous chain of events.
A white con artist hustles basketball games against black players who don't realize he is actually a gifted hoopster, and one of his unsuspecting victims becomes his "agent," arranging his various scams around L.A., and the duo quickly start piling up the wins together.
A high school teen is desperate to leave the confines of Saguenay, Quebec, and the tough rulings of her mother. Having formed a close relationship with her guitar teacher many years her senior, she battles with her own need to be free like an adult in the backdrop of Quebec.
Film and pop culture experts analyze 1999's iconic and significant films, such as Fight Club, American Beauty, and The Sixth Sense.
A young and naive pre-med student strikes an unusual friendship with an elderly Cuban musician through her first job at a nursing home. Stories of Havana's rich and eclectic music scene revive her love of music and change her worldview in a fundamental way.
In 1989, journalist Victor Malarek embarks on an investigation following an unusual paper trail. Malarek travels to Thailand uncovering evidence regarding the arrest of a heroin addict. He believes the addict may be imprisoned on false charges and resolves to expose the truth.
A con man given one last chance to go straight gets a job as a postal clerk, where a single act of accidental charity---diverting stolen money in the reply to a letter addressed to "God"---triggers a miraculous chain of events.
Laura, a professional house cleaner, falls for a client's impressionable 16-year-old daughter, and convinces her to run away and live together. But Laura's unstable emotional state and dark past are soon revealed as her sociopathic behavior intensifies.
In this amusingly dysfunctional family comedy, a recently laid-off New Yorker and his hard-living sister spend time with their remarried father and his brash new family at a lake house.