Filmography

Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)

A perfect family's dynamic is ruined by a kidnapper's brutally efficient plot.

 

Untitled Oliver Stone/September 11 Project (2006)

In the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster, hope is still alive. Refusing to bow down to terrorism, rescuers and family of the victims press forward. Their mission of rescue and recovery is driven by the faith that under each piece of rubble, a co-worker, a friend a family member may be found. This is the true story of John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, the last two survivors extracted from Ground Zero and the rescuers who never gave up. It's a story of the true heroes of that fateful time in the history of the United States when buildings would fall and heroes would rise, literally from the ashes to inspire the entire human race.

 

Flicka (2006)

Young Katie (Loman) claims a wild horse as her own -- an effort to prove to her father (McGraw) that she is capable of one day taking over the family ranch.

 

The Sisters (2005)

Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.

 

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.

 

 

A History of Violence (2005)

Based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence is the tale of Tom Stall. Tom is a loving family man and well-respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep, charging that Tom is someone else they've been looking for. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history that no one knows about? Either way, someone's about to find out if there's a history of violence.

 

 

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 49 min.
During a snowy New Year's Eve, a mobster is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As the sun sets and a long night begins, a motley crew of policemen and prisoners reluctantly captained by a cop must band together to fight off a rogue gang that wants to free the mobster.

 

 

Sin City (2005)

Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
Sin City is a violent city where the police department is as corrupt as the streets are deadly. In this movie, we follow three stories, the central of which is Marv, a tough-as-nails and nearly impossible to kill street fighter who goes on a rampage of vengeance when a beautiful woman, Goldie (King), he sleeps with for only one night is killed while lying in bed with him.

 

 

Secret Window (2004)

hriller
1 hr. 46 min.
Mort Rainey (Depp), a writer just coming off of a troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy (Bello), finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims Mort stole his best story idea and just changed the ending.

 

 

Silver City (2004)

Drama
2 hrs. 09 min.
Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," SILVER CITY follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper), scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien (Danny Huston) to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers. SILVER CITY offers John Sayles' toxic look at the state of the union on the eve of the 2004 Presidential election.

 

 

The Cooler (2003)

Comedy, Romance and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 43 min.
Bernie Lootz (Macy) is the unluckiest man in Las Vegas... he's so unlucky, it's contagious. Looking to knock out their highest rollers, one of the last mob-run casinos in town, the Shangri-La Hotel and Casino downtown, decides to use Bernie as a "cooler" to defuse their lucky streaks. The scheme goes fine until Bernie falls in love with a cocktail waitress, Natalie (Bello), who becomes his "lady luck", much to the chagrin of the casino's crooked director (Baldwin) who aims to break up the romance, and Bernie's newfound luck.

 

 

100 Mile Rule (2002)

Two salesmen from Detroit are at a convention in L.A., hoping to put the "100 Mile Rule"--the idea that cheating on your wife is fine if you are 100 miles away from her--to good use. Their coworker, Bobby, doesn't believe in the rule, but he gives in when sexy waitress Monica (Maria Bello) comes on to him. After their tryst, she tells him that she videotaped it and wants $60,000 for the video or she's going to send it to his wife. After exhausting all other options, Bobby believes that the only way out of this sticky situation might be murder.

 

 

Auto Focus (2002)

Drama and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 47 min.
The life and death of actor, comedian, and Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane (1928-1978), as depicted in the book, The Murder of Bob Crane, by Robert Graysmith. In the years after Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971) was cancelled, Crane (Kinnear) became obsessed with sex, teaming up with video technician Johnny Carpenter (Dafoe) to document his many exploits, resulting from a life spent trolling strip clubs, in a sort of amateur pornography. Crane was murdered in 1978 in Scottsdale, AZ, his skull crushed by a camera tripod, for which Carpenter was tried and acquitted, in an eight-week trial.

 

 

CHINA: The Panda Adventure (2001)

Action/Adventure and Drama
Presented on the giant IMAX® screen, CHINA: THE PANDA ADVENTURE is the true story of Ruth Harkness (Maria Bello), a fiercely independent woman who travels to the mysterious forests of China in 1936 to follow in her late husband's footsteps and achieve his dream of bringing the first live Giant Panda to America.

 

 

Coyote Ugly (2000)

Comedy and Romance
In COYOTE UGLY, an aspiring songwriter, Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo), leaves her small-town home and her supportive father (John Goodman) for New York City in hopes of starting a music career. But life in the big city is harder than she imagined. Feeling defeated, and unemployed, she hears about a job opening at a bar called Coyote Ugly, and persuades the bar owner, Lil (Mario Bello), to give her a chance among the bar's beautiful brigade of bartenders. When Violet arrives for work the bouncer tells her it's a quiet night, but when she goes inside the bar she is hit by a wall of throbbing music and howling men. Two women are atop the bar, pulling a customer back over it, pulling up his shirt, and pouring beer on his chest. Welcome to COYOTE UGLY. How will Violet deal with the bar? How will it deal with her? What of her songwriting plans? Inside this raucous, raunchy movie, coproduced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (FLASHDANCE), is a sweet romance between Violet and Kevin (Adam Garcia), a refreshing escape from the chaos of the bar.

 

 

Duets (2000)

Comedy and Drama
Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and directed by her father, Bruce Paltrow (A LITTLE SEX), DUETS dives headfirst into the bizarre musical world of karaoke. Six amateur singers gather for the Grand Prize Karaoke Contest in Omaha, Nebraska, each performing for their own personal reasons and displaying his or her own unique and special talents. Among the motley crew are a karaoke hustler (Huey Lewis) and his estranged showgirl daughter (Paltrow), a miserable white-collar executive (Paul Giamatti from SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and PRIVATE PARTS), and a sweet-voiced ex-con (Andrew Braugher)--all who stand a chance at the $5,000 prize. Paltrow showcases her surprisingly strong singing voice in a duet with Huey Lewis, as well as in a smashing rendition of Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl."

 

 

Payback (1999)

Action/Adventure, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 00 min.
The heist goes smoothly enough. The cash is already hot. So when Porter and Val steal it, they're in the clear. Time comes around to split the take and Val makes three grave mistakes: he takes Porter's cut; he takes Porter's wife and tries to take Porter's life. Problem is, when you kill this guy, you better make sure he's dead. Porter soon resurfaces, reborn with a serious case of tunnel-vision. He wants his cut and doesn't care what he has to do to get it. Now, everyone in the city's criminal underworld, including an air-tight syndicate called The Outfit, have Porter's cross-hairs trained on them.

 

 

Permanent Midnight (1998)

Documentary and Drama
Based on the memoirs of Jerry Stahl, a successful TV writer who was reduced to working at a McDonalds' drive-thru window by his crippling addiction to heroin. Ben Stiller gives an acclaimed performance as Stahl in this gritty film ripe with darkly comedic moments. Stahl himself has a cameo as a drug counselor.

 

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