The Laramie Project
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
Director: Moisés Kaufman
Stars: Camryn Manheim Clea DuVall Jeremy Davies Kathleen Chalfant Laura Linney Margo Martindale Michael Emerson Nestor Carbonell Peter Fonda Steve Buscemi
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous, reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music 4 months before her death.
Director: Lonny Price
Stars: Audra McDonald David Michael Cefalu Katie Lynn Cotaya
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. In order to keep their home, Kit and her mother must take in boarders - paying house - guests who turn out to be full of fascinating stories. When mother's lockbox containing all their money is stolen, Kit's new hobo friend Will is the prime suspect. Kit refuses to believe that Will would steal, and her efforts to sniff out the real story get her and friends into big trouble. The police say the robbery was an inside job, committed by someone they know. So if it wasn't Will, then who did it.
Director: Patricia Rozema
Stars: Abigail Breslin Chris O'Donnell Glenne Headly Jane Krakowski Joan Cusack Julia Ormond Madison Davenport Max Thieriot Stanley Tucci Wallace Shawn
Kiss of Death
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, a police officer named Calvin Hart is injured and Jimmy lands back in prison. In exchange for an early release, he is asked to help bring down a local crime boss named Little Junior Brown. Jimmy remarries and attempts to renew a relationship with his child. But he is sent undercover by Detective Hart to work with Junior and infiltrate his operations. As soon as Little Junior kills an undercover federal agent with Jimmy watching, the unscrupulous district attorney and the feds further complicate his life. He must take down Junior or face the consequences.
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Anthony Heald David Caruso Helen Hunt Kathryn Erbe Michael Rapaport Nicolas Cage Philip Baker Hall Samuel L. Jackson Stanley Tucci Ving Rhames
The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
Director: Roland Joffé
Stars: Athol Fugard Bill Paterson Craig T. Nelson Graham Kennedy Haing S. Ngor John Malkovich Julian Sands Katherine Krapum Chey Sam Waterston Spalding Gray
Judgment
Helen Hannah, the Christian leader of "Apocalypse" "Revelation" and "Tribulation" is being put on trial in the One Nation Earth Court of Justice. Mitch Kendrick is a lawyer assigned to defend her, and Victoria Thorne, his ex-lover, is the attorney. Not only is the entire trial scripted, but Kendrick is on the fence about whose side he's on.
Director: André van Heerden
Stars: Arnold Pinnock Corbin Bernsen Jessica Steen Leigh Lewis Marium Carvell Michael Copeman Mr. T Nick Mancuso Patrick Gallagher Sandra Caldwell