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.

Dois irmãos, já adultos e órfãos desde quando eram crianças, se reúnem em uma casa deixada por seus pais para eles, em Nova York. Sammy (Laura Linney) é uma mulher organizada, que trabalha em um banco e precisa cuidar sozinha de seu filho de 8 anos. Já seu irmão, Terry (Mark Ruffalo) é exatamente o oposto: auto-destrutivo, desorganizado e temperamental. Mas quando eles voltam a morar juntos, precisam aprender a lidar com os defeitos uns dos outros para poder mais uma vez formar uma família.

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.

Barney Snow acorda em um hospital sem memória, só se lembra de seu nome e algumas imagens de um carro batido. Ele transforma aquele lugar em sua casa temporariamente e acaba sabendo que todos os outros pacientes da clinica morreram de cancer - exceto ele. Lá ele começa uma nova vida e se apaixona pela irma de um paciente. Mas sua memória volta e muitas surpresas de seu passado podem atrapalhar o seu futuro.

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 'Buns' Bundy (DMX) e seu amigo Sincere (Nas) são bandidos que aprenderam a ganhar a vida traficando drogas e fazendo assaltos à mão armada. Tommy e Sincere conseguiram sair do gueto de Queens, onde foram criados e se mudaram para uma parte sofisticada de Manhattan; eles parecem ter conseguido vencer na vida, mas ambos percebem que estão caminhando para um beco sem saída. Sincere começa a entrar em contato com suas raízes africanas e tenta convencer sua namorada Tionne (Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins) de que eles deveriam emigrar para a Pátria, enquanto Tommy tem um despertar religioso e se junta à Nação do Islã.

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

Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton), que é um pouco retardado, passou parte da sua vida num sanatório, pois quando era garoto viu sua mãe fazendo amor com Jesse Dixon, que não conhecia. Karl se descompensou e matou ambos. Só quando adulto foi libertado, pois decidiram que ele não oferecia mais perigo. Perambulando pela cidade Karl faz amizade com um garoto, Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black), o filho de uma viúva, Linda (Natalie Canerday). O administrador do hospício, Jerry Woolridge (James Hampton), consegue um emprego para Karl e, como Linda percebeu que seu filho ficava feliz com a presença dele, concordou que Karl morasse na casa dela. Porém isto desagrada muito Doyle Hargraves (Dwight Yoakam), um bêbado cruel que é o namorado de Linda e se comporta como o dono da casa. Doyle gera uma tensão constante, o que deixa Frank cada vez mais infeliz e faz com que Karl sinta que precisa fazer algo.

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.

Nana Peazant aguarda o nascimento da trineta que reincarnará um espírito ancestral para que dê continuidade a seu povo no local. Esta velha matriarca pagã também tenta dissuadir a família de imigrar para o Norte no encalço de um progresso ilusório.