- 1996 - THE LEADING MAN

Successful playwright Felix Webb (Lambert Wilson) has a new play, "The Hit Man", in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey (Barry Humphries), it is already being hailed as a masterpiece, but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary (Thandie Newton), a beautiful, feisty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family: his wife Elena (Anna Galiena) and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in "The Hit Man".

Enter Robin Grange (Jon Bon Jov), a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and prhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings. Initially Felix is outraged but as the tensions mounts with Hilary, reluctant to continue as the second woman in his life, he succumbs. Watching in horror as Elena responds to Robin's perfectly plotted seduction, and tormented with suspicionsthat Hilary has also fallen under Robin's spells, Felix spirals towards a kind of madness. Desperate to regain control of his life, he indulges in a grand theatrical gesture, but fate intervenes, and both Felix and Robin learn that real life doesn't always follow the script.

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- 1998 - ROW YOUR BOAT

Sollace Mitchell (writer of Sundance Film Festival's 1992 Grand Jury Prize Winner, "In The Soup") brings us a rich story of redemption and unrequited love. Jamey Meadows (Jon Bon Jovi) is freshly released from Rikers Island prison after taking the fall for his burglar brother, Gil (William Forsythe). Back in Manhattan, Jamey is determined to lead a new, crime-free and to become a productive citizen.

Jamey loses his first job when he stands up to his racist boss. Broke and homeless, Jamey is forced to clean windshields on Houston Street for money. He encounters Gil and his girlfriend, Patti, driving in their luxury car. Gil, a church-going burglar who prides himself on being non-violent, feels a fatherly responsability to Jamey. Burglary is the only way he knows to get Jamey off the streets. Although Jamey desperately needs money, he rejects Gil's pleas to help him rob stores again - but Jamey's weakening.

Jamey lands a job as a New York City census taker and slowly saves money to get out of his homeless shelter. He meets and falls in love with Chun Hua (Bai Ling), a beautiful, young Chinese woman. To spend time with her, Jamey pretends that he's a successful writer and becomes her English teacher. He discovers that to support her baby, Chun Hua has married Liu Wei-Yan, a cruel, elderly Chinese businessman who treats her only as a showpiece. Chun Hua longs to return to her baby's father, an improverished graduate student in China.

Meanwhile, Gil is trying to save his wife from Tony Lo Fat, a Chinese gangster to whom Gil owes $50,000. Gil goes after Jamey to steal Chun Hua's keys and rob her rich husband's townhouse for the money. Jamey refuses and stalls Gil with a fake housekey. Nonetheless, Gil breaks in and kidnaps Chun Hua's baby as a ransom for the money he owes to Tony Lo Fat.

In the film's thrilling climax, Jamey steals the baby back from Gil, but not without terrible consequences. While escaping in a dinghy on the Hudson River, Jamey loses his own life. Just before he dies, Jamey hides an airline ticket to Beijing, purchased with his savings money, underneath the baby's clothes. He has given Chun Hua and her baby a way back to China. The film closes poignantly with Chun Hua teaching Jamey's favorite childhood song, "Row Your Boat", to her baby as they board the airplane.

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- 1998 - LITTLE CITY

A romantic comedy with a modern twist, Little City is about a group of people who struggle with life, love and relationships in the deceptively small social circles of San Francisco. In the "little city" by the bay, the lives of Adam, Kevin, Nina, Rebecca and Kate become intertwined in a complicated web of sex, jealousy, obsession and finally, true love. Adam (Josh Charles), an artist moonlighting as a cab driver, is unable to maintain steady relationships with women. He blames this on his fixation with his ex-girlfriend, Kate (Joanna Going) who left him for a lesbian lover, Anne (JoBeth Williams). Carrying this torch for Kate has led Adam to neglect his current girlfriend, Nina (Anabella Sciorra) who turns to his philandering best firiend, Kevin (Jon Bon Jovi). The illicit affair starts off as purely physical attraction, but ends up being much more once Kevin realizeshis true feelings for Nina.

Another love triangle forms as Adam tries to juggle his developping romance with Rebecca (Penelope Ann Miller) and his desire to win Kate back. Rebecca is the new girl in town who discovers, in more ways than one, just how small the single community is in San Francisco. It is Rebecca's ability to take chances with her heart that eventually wins Adam over in this charming picturesque film.

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- 1998 - NO LOOKING BACK

Claudia (Lauren Holly) has lived all her life in a small, seaside, blue-collar town, hanging out with the same group of friends since grade school. Now she's waiting tables in a greasy spoon to help support her mother. After three years together, her live-in boyfriend, Michael (Jon Bon Jovi), is eager to tie the knot. Their life together is comfortable and Michael loves her. But Claudia has dreams of life beyond her home town and is afraid that if she marries now, she'll never realize them.

Claudia's suster Kelly lives with her mother and struggles with good humor to care for her fatherless baby. Their mother hasn't left house since Claudia's dad walked out on the family six months ago. No ones understands why Claudia sympathizes with her renegade father, like him she has a wild, restless streak and longs for more. But she can't quite put her finger on what it is she wants.

So when her old flame, Charlie (Ed Burns), returns from out west, she begins to wonder... maybe he's the answer. Their past romance was a passionate one: he's the one that got away. But his California dreams have gone bust and he's back pumping gas just like he did in high school. At first Claudia resists Charlie, but he's got the lure of what that first love you never quite get over and before long she finds herself back in his arms and agreeing to run off with him.

Without being told, Michael knows what's happened and forces the inevitable confrontation. But Claudia's confusion gives way to clarity: she just doesn't love Michael the way he wants and she's not sure Charlie is the answer either.

Days later, Claudia says goodbye to both Michael and Charlie. She tosses her suitcase into the trunk of her '82 Firebird and takes off, over the bridge, in search of a life she can call her own.

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- 1998 - HOMEGROWN

Life is good for Jack (Billy Bob Thorton), Carter (Hank Azaria) and Harlan (Ryan Phillipe), three inept ne're-do-well who help run master dope-grower Malcom's (John Lithgow) flourishing marijuana plantation somewhere in northen California. But then Malcom is suddenly bumped off by a mysterious assailant, after a moment of panic, the naive trio decide to take over the business themselves.

However, their lazy days on the dope farm have ill prepared them for the high-stakes game of finding buyers for millions of dollars of contraband. As they plunge into a shadowy new world of duplicity, double-dealing and danger, they soon find that they have gotten in way, way over their heads. But driven on by increasing greed and paranoia, it's too late to back out.

An entertaingly suspenseful black comedy, Homegrown features a top-notch ensemble cast, with special appearances by John Lithgow, Jon Bon Jovi, Jamie Lee Curtis.

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