Live at Mister Kelly's

Theodore Bogosian

The iconic Mister Kelly's bedazzled the country by launching superstars like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Steve Martin. It smashed color and gender barriers to put controversial voices on stage and transformed entertainment in America in the '50s, '60s, and '70s.


Homicide

David Mamet

A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.


Glengarry Glen Ross

James Foley

When an office full of New York City real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to heat up.


Heist

David Mamet

A jewel thief's nephew is sent along on a heist to ensure a longtime partner in crime stays honest about the division of the loot.


Lansky

John McNaughton

He was the genius behind organized crime in its early days—and a man who was as brutal as he was brilliant. Richard Dreyfuss stars in this compelling, fact-based movie about notorious mobster Meyer Lansky. The story follows him through the early years of his life as a Jewish immigrant to his successful career in gambling, bootlegging and racketeering—and eventually murder. Also starring Eric Roberts, Illeana Douglas, Ryan Merriman, Beverly D'Angelo and Anthony LaPaglia. Directed by John McNaughton; written by David Mamet, based on the book by Uri Dan, Dennis Eisenberg, Eli Landau.


A Life in the Theatre

Gregory Mosher

Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon stars with Matthew Broderick in Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's A Life In The Theatre. In this sometimes funny, sometimes heartwarming portrait of art and angst, of what is possible and what is past, an aging veteran actor and a young neophyte share a dressing room during a season at a repertory theatre company.


Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Molly Bernstein & Alan Edelstein

World-renowned magician, Ricky Jay, is embraced by both audiences and fellow magicians alike, provoking astonishment in even the most skeptical of viewers. Featuring rare footage from his 1970s TV appearances (doing 3-card Monte with Steve Martin on The Dinah Shore Show) and told in Jay's inimitable voice, this is a remarkable journey inside the secretive world of magic, and the small circle of eccentrics who are its perpetual devotees.


Phil Spector

David Mamet

The client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden--who represented Spector during his first murder trial--is explored in this compelling HBO Films drama written and directed by David Mamet. Oscar(R) winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this work of fiction that recounts Spector's first trial in the gunshot death of actress Lana Clarkson in his home. Was it a clear case of murder as prosecutors charged? Or was it a suicide as Spector claimed? Jeffrey Tambor and Chiwetel Ejiofor co-star.


State and Main

David Mamet

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz. Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin and William H. Macy.


Vanya On 42nd Street

Louis Malle

Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore head an extraordinary ensemble cast in a striking adaptation of Chekhov's drama of people trapped between reality and longing. When an elderly retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left to the family by the professor's deceased first wife, they find themselves surrounded by other family members. Quickly, the estate becomes a hothouse of unspoken passions, jealousies and regrets. Based on David Mamet's adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."


Spartan

David Mamet

From acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated director and writer David Mamet ("Hannibal," "The Untouchables") comes this taut action-thriller starring Val Kilmer ("Wonderland," "Red Planet") and Oscar-nominated William H. Macy ("Seabiscuit", TV's "Door To Door"). A special ops officer and his protégé are recruited to investigate the kidnapping of the president's daughter, but the deeper they dig into her disappearance, the more they uncover a dangerous conspiracy that goes up to the highest levels of the U.S. government. Also starring Derek Luke ("Biker Boyz," "Antwone Fisher"), Johnny Messner ("Tears of the Sun," "The Sweetest Thing"), Tia Texada (TV's "Third Watch," "Phone Booth") and Aaron Stanford ("X2: X-Men United," "25th Hour").


Wag the Dog

Barry Levinson

Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Robert De Niro ("Raging Bull," "Godfather: Part II") and Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man," "Kramer vs. Kramer") star in a tale of politics, power and Hollywood so outrageous it could be true! Two weeks before re-election, the President of the United States is accused of accosting a girl scout. Before the news reaches the media, his advisors call in a political consultant specializing in image rescues. What to do? Hire a Hollywood producer to create a war -- distracting public attention from the scandal and rallying Americans to their President in surge of patriotic fever. Also starring Denis Leary, Kirsten Dunst and Woody Harrelson. Directed by Academy Award and Emmy Award-winner Barry Levinson ("Rain Man," TV's "Homicide: Life on the Street"). Based on the novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart.


American Buffalo (1996)

Michael Corrente

A pair of crooks and their young intern plot the theft of a valuable Buffalo-head nickel. Most of the story takes place within the junky confines of Don Dubrow's second-hand store. And most of the story focuses on the machinations of these well-drawn characters who provide fascinating insight into the criminal mind as they ingeniously devise new ways to manipulate and aggravate each other. Based on a 1975 play by David Mamet.


Things Change

David Mamet

Don Ameche and Joe Mantegna shared the Best Actor Award at the 1988 Venice International Film Festival for their work in this acclaimed comedy by David Mamet. Jerry (Mantegna), a misfit Mafia henchman, seems destined for low level jobs like keeping an eye on Gino (Ameche), a shoe repairman fingered by the mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Things Change when Gino is mistaken for a Mafia boss and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status... a dangerous adventure that only friendship will see them through alive!


The Winslow Boy

David Mamet

David Mamet's brilliant adaptation of the The Winslow Boy is a rich and complex telling of the British classic, brought to life by a superior ensemble of talent. The story follows the lives of the Winslows, a banker's family living in turn-of-the-century London, as they fight to prove the innocence of their youngest son accused of theft. After Sir Robert Morton, a respected lawyer, agrees to represent the boy, the case becomes a national spectacle and threatens to erode the family's bond. But, even as the legal circus engulfs the Winslows' lives, self-discovery and blossoming romance round out this period masterpiece filled with shimmering hope, wit and humanity.


Redbelt

David Mamet

Set on the west side of the Los Angeles fight world, a scene inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types Redbelt is the story of Mike Terry(Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead pursue a life of honor and education by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai's code. Terry and his wife Sondra (Alice Braga) struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night, between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Mortimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry's life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). In order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.


The Verdict

Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet's riveting courtroom drama earned five Oscar® nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Paul Newman's towering performance as a down-and-out alcoholic attorney who stumbles onto one last chance to redeem himself. When attorney Frank Calvin (Newman) is given an open-and-shut medical malpractice case that no one thinks he can win, he courageously decides to refuse a settlement from the hospital. Instead he takes the case, and the entire legal system, to court. Written by famed playwright David Mamet.


Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Bob Rafelson

Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange smolder and burn in a sexy, violent remake of James M.Cain's classic about adulterous lovers who plot murder.


Hannibal

Ridley Scott

Based on the best selling novel by Thomas Harris, "Hannibal" continues the story begun in "The Silence of the Lambs." Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, seven years since FBI Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Italy, pursuing his own interests, savoring the scents, the essences of the unguarded world. But Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr. Lecter – his seldom-used voice still haunts her dreams. Mason Verger remembers Dr. Lecter as well, and is obsessed with revenge. Verger was Dr. Lecter’s sixth victim, and although hideously disfigured, he survived. In order to draw Dr. Lecter into the open, Verger uses Clarice Starling as bait.


The Untouchables

Brian De Palma

The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece - glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago... and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil and stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.


House of Games

David Mamet

When a suicidal patient reveals that his gambling debt has him at the end of his rope, dedicated psychiatrist Margaret Ford (Crouse) enters into the shadowy underground world of gaming to help him out. At a seedy casino, she boldly confronts Mike (Montegna), the con man who holds her patient's markers. Duped into a high-stakes poker match, Margaret becomes intoxicated by Mike's mastery, as he both cheats at the game and charms her. She quickly falls for him, turning a blind eye to the fact that he's a swindler who can't be trusted. And before long she finds herself sparring in a mental poker match of the heart with deadly consequences!