Mafia hitman Blackbird (Mickey Rourke) is rootless, aging, and has upset his mob employers. He is also haunted by the death of his younger brother during a job. Because of this,he takes up with the stupid, impulsive and psychopathic young robber Richie Nix (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). During an ill-conceived shakedown at a realtor's office, Blackbird feels that his identity has been compromised. Blackbird and Richie hunt down estranged couple Carmen (Diane Lane) and Wayne (Thomas Jane), even tho... Read Full Story
Constance (Diane Lane) and Edward Sumner (Richard Gere) are a couple who live in suburban New York City. Their marriage is solid and loving but a little lacking in passion. One day, Connie journeys into the city and finds herself caught in a windstorm. As she chases after taxis, she bumps into a stranger (Olivier Martinez). They both fall and Connie scrapes her knees. The stranger offers to let her use his apartment to clean herself up. At that moment, an empty cab goes by, but Connie accepts... Read Full Story
The movie begins in Beverly Hills on June 16, 1959, at the home of TV star George Reeves with a police investigation underway and Reeves' lifeless body on his bed. The police rule the death a suicide. The focus of the film then shifts to Louis Simo, a private investigator more interested in generating an income than in devotion to his clients. A man named Chester Sinclair is paying Simo to spy on his wife under the impression that she is cheating on him. Simo simply accepts his money and tak... Read Full Story
Top Hollywood talent agent, Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck), seems to have it all: a successful career, a lot of money, a nice car, a beautiful wife, etc. However, while pursuing success, he somehow lost himself and neglected his marriage. He decides to take a journal writing class to do some self-searching. Jack's seemingly perfect world starts to unravel when he learns that his wife, Nina (Rebecca Romijn), is cheating on him with his most important client. Things get worse when Barbi (Bai Ling)... Read Full Story
Plot summary A young mother and her two daughters travel to Marrakech, Morocco during the 1960s. The mother, Julia, is disenchanted by the dreary conventions of English life, hence the journey. They live in a low-rent Marrakesh hotel and make a living out of making hand sewn dolls and with some money sent by the girls' father, a poet in London. Whilst the mother explores Sufism and quests for personal fulfillment, the daughters rebel. The elder, Bea, attempting to recreate her English life, w... Read Full Story
Plot Emotionally withdrawn Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and dysfunctional free spirit Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) strike up a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train from Montauk. They are inexplicably drawn to each other, despite their radically different personalities. Although they apparently do not realize it at the time, Joel and Clementine are in fact former lovers, now separated after having spent two years together. After a nasty fight, Clementine hired a New York firm – La... Read Full Story
Plot summary Set in 1955, the novel focuses on the hopes and aspirations of Frank and April Wheeler, self-assured Connecticut suburbanites who see themselves as very different from their neighbors in the Revolutionary Hill Estates. In the opening scene, April stars in an embarrassingly bad amateur dramatic production of The Petrified Forest: She was working alone, and visibly weakening with every line. Before the end of the first act the audience could tell as well as the Players that she’d ... Read Full Story
Kathy Nicolo is a recovering addict living in a small house near the coast in Northern California that she and her brother inherited from their father. Abandoned by her husband and trapped by a malaise that has left her depressed and unresponsive to her surroundings, she ignores a number of notices threatening her with eviction for an alleged nonpayment of business taxes. She only becomes aware of her precarious situation when the police forcibly remove her and her belongings from the house ... Read Full Story
