Eye of God (DVD)
Martha Plimpton gives a strong performance as an Oklahoma diner waitress who weds the born-again prison inmate (Kevin Anderson) with whom she`s been corresponding, but she soon finds that his ostensible piety masks a cruel, domineering nature that leads inevitably to horrific violence. This deeply affecting film, while examining the way in which death and grief send shockwaves across a small town, employs a complex narrative which shifts around across the frame of the story, involving the viewer in the process of putting together the pieces of this tragic and compelling puzzle. Hal Holbrook and Nick Stahl also turn in exceptional performances. Funded in part by the Sundance Institute.R"
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
ACTORS: Martha Plimpton, Kevin Anderson, Hal Holbrook, Nick Stahl, Richard Jenkins
A Little Inside (DVD)
Ed Mills (Benjamin King), a baseball player, on the verge of becoming one of the best in the game, puts his dreams on hold to tend to his new status as a single dad. Five years pass and he is still doing his best to raise and support his young daughter Abby (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) with a minimal job as an auto mechanic. Ed, communicating with his seven-year-old through the game of baseball, decides to involve her in an all-boy`s little league team. Abby, however, would rather be taking ballet classes while interacting with other young girls her age. Realizing that he cannot force the child to play, he begins to revisit his dream by pursuing baseball once again and accepting his daughter for who she is.NR"
Director: Kate Harshbarger
ACTORS: Benjamin King, Kathy Baker, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Amanda Detmer
Cruel and Unusual (DVD)
Adam Turrell (Tom Berenger) arrives in a sleepy Oregon town, introducing himself as an English professor working on his first novel. When he befriends Kate and Mike O`Connor, a brother and sister grieving from the loss of their father, they accept him as a normal man in a new town where he knows no one. But they will soon be thrown headlong into a world of terror when they find that Adam has fed them full of lies to disguise the fact that he is a serial killer in search of his next victim.R"
Director: George Mihalka
ACTORS: Tom Berenger, Rachel Hayward, Mitchell Kosterman
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (DVD)
Bruce Simmons (Dylan McDermott), a double whammy failure in both writing and real estate, is booted out of his apartment and sets up camp in an unsold mansion which houses a secret to a family slaughter. Simmons` imagination begins to run wild, conflating the fantasy of the murder -- of re-enacting the murder in writing -- with reality. He is soon unable to discern the two worlds, as the two worlds themselves enmesh into psychoses and terror.R"
Director: Charles Finch
ACTORS: Dylan McDermott, Tom Sizemore, Sharon Stone
Second To Die (DVD)
This thriller stars Erika Eleniak as Sara Morgan, a woman who believes the murder of her husband (John Wesley Shipp) would be the answer to all her problems--but she soon realizes that one murder isn`t enough.R"
ACTORS: Erika Eleniak-Goglia, John Wesley Shipp, Paul Winfield, Colleen Camp, Margaret Avery
