6.4

Jack Goes Boating

2010, USA

• Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Richard Petrocelli, Thomas McCarthy, Amy Ryan, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Lola Glaudini, Isaac Schinazi, Rafael Osorio, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mason Pettit, Trevor Long, Stephen Mailer, Elizabeth Rainer, Theodore Mailer, Count Stovall, Salvatore Inzerillo, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Harry L. Seddon, Oliver Foot-E', Byron West, Shawna Bermender, Cordell Stahl, Sharon Lee Levine, Paul Thornton
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jack is a shy and awkward man who drives a limo and lives an unassuming life. His friend and co-worker, Clyde, and his wife Lucy, feel sorry for Jack and set him up on a blind date with Connie. Connie shares Jack's shyness and awkwardness, but through each other they seem to be able to find solace within themselves. Trouble might be brewing in paradise though, as Clyde and Lucy's marriage stumbles just as Jack and Connie's relationship grows.

  5.4

Adrift in Manhattan

2007, USA

• Actors: Victor Rasuk, Richard Petrocelli, Nicole Leach, Karen Olivo, Heather Graham, Marlene Forte, Dominic Chianese, Elizabeth Peña, William Baldwin, Erika Michels, Liam de Villa, Keren Love Perilman, Karina Arroyave, Alexis Smith, Anthony Cirillo, Felix Solis, Adrianna Bremont, Damian Porter, Frank Picarazzi, Nicole Kohnen, Marti Vendetti, Tony Chiroldes, Jaime Tirelli, Teddy Coluca, Stefanie Field, Jesse Green, Dave Herring, Sam O'Brien, James P. Stephens
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Alfredo De Villa
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city - the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes. Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help--something neither does easily. Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence. - Caroline Libresco

  6.9

We Own the Night

2006, USA

• Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Danny Hoch, Alex Veadov, Oleg Taktarov, Dominic Colon, Joe D'Onofrio, Yelena Solovey, Moni Moshonov, Mark Wahlberg, Maggie Kiley, Paul Herman, Robert Duvall, Antoni Corone, Craig Walker, Tony Musante, Claudia Lopez, Katie Condidorio, Edward Shkolnikov, Katya Savina, Matthew Djentchouraev, Scott Nicholson, Robert C. Kirk, Al Linea, Teddy Coluca, Frank Girardeau, Joseph Coffey, Jose Edwin Soto, Greg Wilson, Edward I. Koch
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): James Gray
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Brooklyn, 1988. Crime is rife, especially drugs and drug violence. A Russian thug is building his heroin trade, while everyone laughs at the cops. Brothers have chosen different paths: Joe has followed his father Bert into New York's Finest; he's a rising star. Bobby, who uses his mother's maiden name, manages a club. Bobby too is on the rise: he has a new girlfriend and a green-light to develop a Manhattan club. Joe and Bert ask him to help with intelligence gathering; he declines. Then, Joe raids Bobby's club to arrest the Russian. From there, things spiral out of control: the Russian puts out a hit on Joe, personal losses mount, and Bobby's loyalties face the test.