Larry Meistrich

After a college student, Danny, asks his classmate Amelia on a date, he soon learns a lesson about joking the hard way.

A man prepares for a dinner date.

A young boy who feels that no one in his life is listening to him turns to the only one who does. A Cardboard cutout of Danny Devito.

A boy starts taking the good things in life for granted and focuses solely on his favorite video game. But when a wizard casts a spell on him turning him into an egg, he must learn how to reshape his life for the better.

A 14-part documentary that explores the life and career of Billy Bob Thornton, chronicling his journey that led him to work on Sling Blade. The piece features plenty of interview snippets with cast, crew, friends, and family; clips from other Thornton films; the origins of the Karl Childers character; how Sling Blade shaped his career; and more.

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of realizing one's potential and being willing to turn one's life upside down to take a chance on finding happiness. Claire, Julie's best friend, goes along with Julie's secret quest and eventually moves in with her. Both women are on a search to realize their dreams and come to terms with their love for each other.

어린 나이에 교통사고로 부모를 여의고 고아가 된 남매, 새미(로라 리니)와 테리(마크 러팔로)는 아주 다른 삶을 살지만 서로 가깝게 지낸다. 어린 나이에 결혼과 이혼을 경험한 새미는 자신의 모든 정열을 8살 박이 아들에게 쏟는 과보호 어머니이다. 반면 테리는 말썽 많고 자유분방한 삶을 살아간다. 어느 날 테리가 돈을 빌리러 고향에 왔을 때 뜻밖의 사건을 당하고 그는 새미와 루디(로리 컬킨)와 잠시 동안 함께 살게 된다. 남매는 좋은 관계를 유지하려고 노력하고 선한 의도로 서로를 대한다. 하지만 새미와 테리의 인간적 유사점이 되려 서로에게 반감만 일으키고 마침내 그들은 따로 떨어져 살기로 하는데...

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.

An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.

When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. Soon, as locals start to disappear, it becomes clear that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.

At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, searching for some solace in his old stomping grounds, bars and parks where he bought drugs, the meeting goes on, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice, who don't call themselves alcoholic, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting

칼은 선천적으로 정신장애를 안고 태어났고, 어린 시절 어머니의 불륜 현장을 목격하고는 슬링 블레이드로 어머니와 그녀의 정부를 살해했다. 이후 정신 요양원에서 오랜 시간을 보내고 이제 내일이면 그가 떠나온 세상으로 다시 돌려보내진다. 자신이 존재하지 않았던 낯선 세상에 맞닥뜨리면서 어디에도 속할 수 없는 그는 다시 병원으로 돌아오려 하지만, 세상은 그의 은둔과 도피를 더 이상 용납하지 않는다. 25년 만에 고향에 돌아온 그는 따뜻한 호의를 보이는 사람들의 도움으로 잘 곳과 일할 곳을 얻게 되고, 프랭크라는 친구를 만난다. 꼬마 프랭크는 아버지 없는 아픔과 외로움, 어머니의 친구 도일의 폭력에 상처 받아 있다. 불우한 어린 시절을 보내는 프랭크에게 칼은 안타까움과 각별한 애정을 보이고, 그런 칼의 순수한 우정과 마음에 프랭크도 칼에게 의지한다. 프랭크와 칼은 둘도 없는 친구가 되고, 그 속에서 칼은 낯설게 존재하던 사회 속으로 점차 융화되어 간다. 칼의 고향인 작은 마을에는 그를 따뜻한 마음으로 도와주는 사람들과, 그런 작은 평화를 깨뜨리는 사람들이 공생하고 있는데. 프랭크의 행복과 미래를 위해 칼은 마지막 선택을 결심하는데.

Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for five days.

New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision and blown-up to evocatively grainy 16mm.]

Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.

Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brookylnites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.

1902년, 미국 남부의 한 섬에 남아있던 아프리카계 흑인 가족이 미국 본토에서 새로운 삶을 시작하면서 아프리카 고유의 문화가 소실될 위기에 처한다.