NO MORE EXCUSES (1968)

 




















Directed by: Robert Downey Sr. 
Starring: Robert Downey Sr., Alan Abel, Lawrence Wolf, Prentice Wilhite, Linda Diesem, Aimee Eccles, Don Calfa, Paula Morris

62 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
Downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at Manhattan's singles scene of the late sixties. Of course, that's not all. There's also the tale of a time-traveling Civil War soldier, a rant from the director of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals and other assorted improprieties.

PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS (2006)

 




















Directed by: Maria Maggenti
Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Gretchen Mol, Justin Kirk, Julianne Nicholson, Jennifer Dundas, Tina Benko, Brian Letscher, Kate Simses, Will Bozarth, Ken Barnett

82 minutes
(NR - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations)

PLOT:
A recently-single New York writer finds herself in two surprising and complicated relationships.

TRAILER:

LIAR, LIAR (1997)

 




















Directed by: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe, Anne Haney, Justin Cooper, Jason Bernard, Mitchell Ryan, Eric Pierpoint, Chip Mayer, Cheri Oteri, Randall "Tex" Cobb, SW Fisher, Ben Lemon, Jarrad Paul, Marianne Muellerleile, Stephen James Carver, Krista Allen, Don Keefer

86 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
A pathological liar-lawyer finds his career turned upside down when he inexplicably cannot physically lie for 24 whole hours.

TRAILER:

MR. & MRS. SMITH (2005)

 




















Directed by: Doug Liman
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Vince Vaughn, Keith David, Chris Weitz, Rachael Huntley, Michelle Monaghan, Stephanie March, Jennifer Morrison, Perrey Reeves, William Fichtner, Angela Bassett

120 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other.

TRAILER:

WILLIE DYNAMITE (1973)

 




















Directed by: Gilbert Moses
Starring: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker, Norma Donaldson, Roger Robinson, Albert Hall, George Murdock

102 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, drug use)

PLOT:
A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.

TRAILER:

BEFORE I HANG (1940)

 




















Directed by: Nick Grinde
Starring: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Edward Van Sloan, Ben Taggart, Pedro de Cordoba, Wright Kramer, Bertram Marburgh, Don Beddoe, Robert Fiske, Kenneth MacDonald, Frank Richards

62 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminal's blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's developed a dangerous side-effect.

ACTUAL MOVIE:

APPALACHIAN SPRING (1959)

 




















Directed by: Peter Glushanok
Starring: Martha Graham, Miriam Cole, Stuart Hodes, Helen McGehee, Bertram Ross, Matt Turney, Ethel Winter, Yuriko

32 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A filmed version of Aaron Copeland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

ACTUAL SHORT: