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- When two best friends decide to go on a fishing trip they chance upon a headstone that is unmarked except for a PUMZACH inscription and a key located nearby. The two then set out on a venture to find out who is buried beneath the headstone. The trek takes them to a half Apache - half Irish medicine man, a kleptomaniac waitress, and an overweight man in search of rare buffalo nickels. Eventually they find a locksmith who leads them to an elderly woman whose only son has been missing for years. The film's name comes from the shaman's dog's name, which has a problem with flatulence.
- Low budget flick examines the lives of a group of bumbling Boston hoods. When the local hustler hires his buddy to steal a rug to replace one ruined by painters, the thief gets caught after already spending his buddies' money. Furious, the hustler then hires his cousin to kill the thief. However, that goes awry, as well, and the thief dies but not from anything the killer did, but the hustler becomes the chief suspect in the death. In an odd spin, the dead thief becomes a guardian angel for the other men which leads to a happy ending.
- A young Spaniard music promoter (Unai Fresnedo) finds himself in trouble when a club owner refuses to pay him for a gig and his drug supplier is pressuring him for money. With another band (Come) waiting for him at the airport, he goes on the run with hopes of shaking out some cash that never comes. Ignacio Fernandez is his long suffering partner and Katy Petty is a performance artist seeking to get her big break.
- Unsold Series Pilot about a family who continue to pick up the pieces years after the death of a son.
- An Irishman emigrates to New York during the most heated point of the tensions in Northern Ireland in 1991. However, escaping the conflict in his home country does not free him from the strife. Soon he finds himself in the middle of a gun running operation involving his cousin and two hot-headed friends. And things get further complicated when the Irishman gets involved with the long-suffering wife of one of the gun-runners.
- Depression era drama set in Alberta finds a farmer's wife who swears that her inability to have a child is a punishment from God. In fact, it is slowly revealed that her inability to have a child stems from an illicit relationship that she had with a local priest and a subsequent operation forced on her in a cover-up by the church and her family which left her infertile.
- A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son. At the film's beginning, Le Mat is a down-on-his-luck gambler with the mob on his heals. When his son, whom he abandoned ten years earlier, is suddenly thrust upon him, he struggles to right his life. What follows is an absurd caper flick.
- In 1986 LA, an illegal immigrant (Elpidia Carrillo) suffers from past tortures in her native El Salvador. Her husband had been killed and her two children taken from her. She was an educated teacher with a philosophy degree, but now is forced to take only the most menial tasks and lives in a roach-infested dwelling. This fragile woman is turned over to a case worker (Barbara Williams), who is recently divorced and is struggling as a single mother to her young son. These two very different women make contact and the therapist decides to help the Latin American find her children. Inquiries leads to the children being in Mexico and with a high enough fee, they can be smuggled into the US.
- Comedy about the wholesale pet supply business finds two veteran salesman trying to squeeze out a new kid hired to take over a retiring pro's lucrative route. Initially naive, the kid doesn't understand why his sales are drying up. What he doesn't know is that the other two are spreading vicious rumors about him including that he practices his golf swings on pet rodents and other absurdities. Eventually though, he becomes wise to their schemes and decides to fight back. Armed with the knowledge that Donovan is having an affair with Orr's wife, he sets off on revenge.
- Billed as a profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's (Craig T. Nelson) son (Kimber Shoop) went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required.
- A disturbed young woman (Jeanette Cronin) runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane despite the voices in her head and her strange visions.
- Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the abuse of those substances that exist in the medical profession. Asner portrays a well-thought of surgeon who over-indulges in alcohol. His son, who follows in his father's footsteps, has become addicted to morphine and amphetamines. Unlike his father, he completely hides his usage, even from his own wife. When his father's over-indulgence becomes apparent, the son moves back home to help his father's practice. After the father almost kills a bicyclist in a drunken driving incident, the son confronts the father. But the father has also learned of the son's addiction. Neither will admit their need for help and ultimately leads to tragic consequences.
- A married Seattle couple struggle in their relationship as they approach the millennium, each looking for new directions in their life. He dreams of shedding all material worth and going on a spiritual awakening. She wants a new relationship with an old lover who wrote her a love note years ago. When a male friend commits suicide, he leaves all of his belongings to his friends. The two choose a piano from his possessions, which comes to represent the couple's relationship as he pushes the piano 50 blocks across the city to their home. In all, the film examines a destructive relationship that struggles with even the simplest decisions.
- Satrical life story of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynsky (played by Daniel Passer), is done as a pseudo-documentary and narrated by his "brother" (Paul Provenza). It follows his life from childhood to mathematical prodigy, all as a social misfit. He tries teaching at a university, retreats to a factory job, and them to his hermitage where he develops his penchant for sending mail bombs.
- An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.
- Bill, Brian, John, and Joel Murray provide a comedic look at the game of golf in this documentary travelogue of the foursome playing golf courses while spoofing the whole sport. It should be noted that the brothers are devout players of the game, but their comedic skills simply enter their play. A fifth brother, Ed, also makes an occasional appearance.
- Two outcasts work together at a local junkyard. One is a milquetoast, who idolizes the other for his toughness. Together they decide to check out a mansion of a rich man and find themselves in the middle of violence, which puts them on the run and on the FBI most wanted list. On the road they team up with two women. The four pursue various adventures, but meanwhile federal agents are hot on their trails.
- A young socialite hires a bodyguard to protect her, when an ex-convict begins stalking her.
- Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright works as a house painter. One family he paints a house for has a problem he can relate to: Elaine, a woman who hired him, left her husband J.P., also a Vietnam vet, while he was in 'Nam, and J.P. became an alcoholic. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to maintain a connection with J.P., but Elaine is strongly against it.
- A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter seeking instant newspaper stardom.
- A crusading reporter (John Kennedy Horne) for the weekly L.A. New Times spends his time writing exposes on the conditions permitted by slumlords. However, when his best friend (Sheryl Lee Ralph) is killed by a corrupt business executive (Henry Silva), he is forced to start trying to find the evidence. This leads him into conflict with many surly longshoremen and hit men. Meanwhile, he makes a new acquaintance in a bookstore clerk (Tracey Ross), who also happens to be a computer whiz and aids him in finding the information he needs.
- An English girl comes to America to join her American husband in a Pennsylvania coal town in the late 1950's. She faces the ire of her new mother-in-law, a former Hungarian with different ideas about the life and culture that her son should have.
- Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
- An ex-Miami cop just back from prison for corruption gets caught up in the Florida drug trade.
- Supernatural revenge flick finds a woman, who is murdered by criminals on her wedding day in Hawaii, returns from the dead to kill her murderers and to protect her ex-groom, a cop who becomes the chief suspect in the death of the gangsters.
- A widow emerges from her mourning after a year. She moves into a new apartment, gets a new job, and a gains a "gentleman caller" her late husband's partner and former best friend. Her daughter opposes the relationship and causes considerable confusion. As she tries to work out her problems, she confides in a fellow worker. The friend offers her a shoulder to cry on and ultimately suggests that they have a relationship. Surprised and more confused than ever, she does find herself drawn to her friend. Sada Thompson also appears as the woman's mother.
- A Midwesterner, now living in Los Angeles, recounts his romantic misadventures in flashback over the seven years he has lived there. Struggles include an asthma attack, a bout with a woman who later admits to having herpes, the perennial sexual dynamo, and ultimately masturbation. Throughout, our narrator reflects on his misguided attempts to understand the female animal. Also undercut throughout are females contemplating the opposite sex from their own views.
- Three guys crash a party and take it hostage, holding it for ransom.
- Set in the 1880's, this fictional film blends real-life characters as a teen jumps freight trains in his trek to find his father who has been accused of murder. Heading to Winnipeg where his father and a friend, the real killer, have gone, he is befriended by a mountie who starts watching out after him after he is arrested for stealing a purse.
- In 1938 New York, a dentist finds his business failing and his marriage on the rocks. Turning 40, he is a hen-pecked husband with little drive left for success. That is, until he starts getting involved with his lively assistant, a free spirit with a penchant for tall tales and a hidden loneliness. Receiving encouragement from his own father-in-law, the two find comfort in each other's attention.
- The lives of three lifelong buddies in a small New England fishing town will never be the same after The Week That Girl Died, a touching romantic comedy about finding Ms. Right-at all the wrong times. Vinnie (Erik Palladino) bumps into the attractive Jessie(Brigitte Bako) at his uncle's wake, and when his aunt mistakes her for his latest girlfriend, she gladly plays the part-leaving out one small detail. Jimmy(Robert Longstreet) sets his sights on the seedy part of town-only to find love (Justina Machado) waiting for him in the least likely of places. And Ralph (Patrick Fischler) woke up a virgin on Friday morning only to have that situation reversed two times over by Saturday night. With an original score by jazz musician Kevin Eubanks (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) "The Week That Girl Died" takes the notion of the romantic comedy and gives it a dose of what real people go through.
- A Fort Lauderdale, Florida Police Captain (Robert Conrad) accidentally kills a youth when he is pursuing some cop killers. The investigation into the murders and into a cocaine connection then hinges on the Captain's capabilities to get the slain teen's homeless buddy (Robert's son Shane Conrad) to trust him and provide information. Robert's son, Christian Conrad also co-stars as another police officer.
- Inter-racial romance develops over a period of time as two down-on-their luck people, one a 19 year old midwestern man trying to make it as an artist and the other a middle-aged woman trying to take care of her children and her children's children, meet every Saturday night at the local laundromat in LA.
- A "Cops"-styled TV show tapes the arrest of a man charged with selling home made speed. His mother, seeing the broadcast, dies of a heart attack on the spot. His wife then decides to join with her drug addled sister and decide to rob a convenience store to get the money for the bond and for the funeral expenses. However, upon arriving they find the store already being robbed. Deciding to rob the robber, they give chase and end up killing him - only to find that it is the husband just released from jail. Events follow that places the two sisters at odds with each other.
- A small opera company gathers together to celebrate the wedding of one's sister with a performance of the opera, Donizetta. Her brother hopes her new husband, a rich American tenor, will contribute cash to save the failing troupe. The only problem is the woman really loves another singer in the troupe. The film attempts to look at how relationships within an acting company forms while they are on the road.
- This film follows a year in the life of a young African-American girl as she turns 13. Temporarily running away from home to sort out her life, which of course sends her family and friends into a frenzy, she soon returns with new purpose - to buy a car. This sends her into a working frenzy - baby sitting, mowing lawns, washing cars, and pursuing jobs obviously advertised for adults. The film ends with Nina's 14th birthday and promise of her future.
- A white supremacist exploits the works of a college anthropologist and a teen who joins his group.
- Rather ridiculous story attempts a romance between a Mexican soap star with a dream of competing in the Olympics and escapes her country by swimming the Rio Grande with a man who is totally possessed by his Mother. However, upon the meeting the soap star and realizing her dreams, he shakes off his Mother's possessiveness to coach the star in her training.
- Three cops (Ted Wass, Markie Post, Gary Swanson) become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money to become flamboyant private detectives. They get involved in cases involving the death of an artist, underworld figures, blackmail and a fix on baseball games.
- "Dag" is an Australian term for filthy wool on the hindquarters of a sheep. It also is a slang term for an uncouth person. Therefore this film is a look at several uncouth individuals. The men are all beer drinkers and dopers who wear Hawaiian shirts, long socks, and sandals. The women are all in tank tops and hot pants and constantly after sex, but never enjoy it. One of the men gets a wild idea to get in the Guiness Book of Records by having one of his mates rob his video store every night. During one of these robberies, the robber "kidnaps" a customer and begins a romance. Meanwhile all of the other "dags" are sleeping with one another behind each other's backs.
- Based on the seventeenth century play, this modernization finds a young man in love with a woman who is promised to another. Pleading with her man-servant to murder her pledged, he in turn blackmails her into a night with her. But she switches her maid in her bed, which sets off a bloodbath.
- A down-on-his-luck sea captain accepts an assignment on a rickety boat with a mysterious cargo and a questionable crew. As disaster befalls disaster, the crew finds itself on an uncharted island with a mad ex-sea captain who lives with a mute woman who threatens to kill them all.
- The son of a mobster who is going through dental school struggles with what he really wants to do with his life. His life becomes more complicated when he falls in love his cousin's wife, a mentally abused if not physically threatened woman with an opportunity to become an artist, but refused by her husband to make the attempt.
- A failed screenwriter contemplates suicide. When he mentions it to his friends, he dismisses it as a screenplay he is writing to be called "Suicide With A Vengeance". Girlfriend Amanda and his parents do worry about him and get him into a suicide intervention program.
- Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.
- Three related women have summer romances in this drama. The first has recently been deserted by her husband. When an old college beau shows up, sparks fly. Meanwhile her sister is wrestling with a rock star. And finally her daughter goes abroad and gets involved with a non-English speaking young man.
- Lars meets the smoldering Karis at a nightclub. Instantly drawn to each other, they embark on a night of frenzied sex. What follows is a riveting story of obsession, lust and revenge, ultimately revealing that everyone has their own truth.
- A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel troubled children. Initially rebelling from the concept, she finds that her involvement lets her confront her own angers and eventually her family including a loving grandmother. With the help of a new friend, she eventually turns away from her trouble-making boyfriend and makes a new life.
- A chain-smoking trouble-maker enters a poetry contest at a local café, where he faces off against some heavy hitters including a handsome easy-going favorite. In the café, he makes friends with a blonde, who has relationship commitment problems and a political activist, who has another more personal secret. The film stays at the café and relies on its wordsmithing to keep the audience involved.
- The hostage referred in the title is not the physical taking of a prisoner, but rather a mental state when a man, who is trying to make it as a production designer on Broadway, starts an affair with a manipulative woman, who is subject to out-of-control fits of anger. Obviously, such a woman could be problematic to someone trying to establish a reputation before people he doesn't know.