Clarice Taylor

Smoke -- A group of people's lives intertwine when a New York cigar store manager, Auggie (Keitel), befriends them.

Sommersby -- Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a man who returns home from the war to reclaim his life, seven years after he was presumed dead.

Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) has it made. She is a New York housewife whose husband, Richard (Laurence Luckinbill), is an editor for a prominent photography magazine. They have a small circle of friends, including well-meaning, but inept Dr. Timothy Spector (James Coco), photographer Cal Whiting (Ken Howard) and Cal's live-in girlfriend Miranda (Jennifer O'Neill). Julie's mother (Nina Foch) spends her days getting pedicures and manicures, applying make-up and fake eye-lashes and buying expensive clothes, all the while criticizing her daughter for her looks and behavior. When Richard goes into the hospital for a minor mole-removal surgery, Julie gets more than she bargained for. Richard suffers from complications and goes into a coma, supposedly caused by a rare surgical factor, and she gathers friends and family together, culminating in a hilarious "quasi-cocktail-party" scene in the blood donation center of the hospital. While dealing with red tape, hospital bureaucracy and clueless doctors, Julie discovers her husband's "little black book," which contains the names of her friends. She confirms that her husband had been sleeping around and proceeds to make a fool out of him by getting it on with his male friends. When the complications get more ominous, guilt opens the door to her liberation as a woman. A scathingly funny examination of the dirty rich partying while one of their number lies on the brink of death.

In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

A Brooklyn cigar store anchors the vignettes that make up this lyrical Wayne Wang movie written by famous author Paul Auster. Auggie (Harvey Keitel), the store manager, is surprised by a visit from his ex-wife, who says their daughter is in trouble. Rashid (Harold Perrineau Jr.), a runaway searching for his father (Forest Whittaker), saves Auggie's customer, Paul (William Hurt), from being hit by a car, and changes his life forever.

In the tradition of The Big Chill... William Hurt and Harvey Keitel head an all-star cast in this unforgettably fun and entertaining motion picture! A group of people's lives intertwine when a New York cigar store manager, Auggie, befriends them. Among them is a writer...who can't write, a reluctant father...hiding from his past, a streetwise teen...with an unusual identity crisis, and Auggie's long-lost ex-girlfriend...who returns with some surprising news!

Superstar Richard Gere ("Primal Fear," "Final Analysis") and two-time Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster ("Contact," "The Silence of the Lambs," "The Accused") team up for an unforgettable romantic adventure. Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a man who returns home from the war to reclaim his life, seven years after he was presumed dead. A dramatically changed man, Sommersby soon brings his town back to prosperity and turns his once bitter marriage to Laurel (Foster) into a passionate romance. Yet suspicions arise that Sommersby may not be the man he says he is. Rolling Stone called this "Gere's most passionate performance since 'An Officer and a Gentleman'...Foster is extraordinary." Co-starring Oscar-nominee James Earl Jones and Bill Pullman ("While You Were Sleeping," "Casper").

Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a man who returns home from the war to reclaim his life, seven years after he was presumed dead.

Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a man who returns home from the war to reclaim his life, seven years after he was presumed dead.

Superstar Richard Gere and Jodie Foster team up for an unforgettable romantic adventure. Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a man who returns home from the war to reclaim his life, seven years after he was presumed dead. A dramatically changed man, Sommersby soon brings his town back to prosperity and turns his once bitter marriage to Laurel (Foster) into a passionate romance. Yet suspicions arise that Sommersby may not be the man he says he is.

Gladys and John Henry Brooks (Clarice Taylor and Leonard Jackson) try to keep their family together in the midst of the changing social, political and sexual mores of the 1970s. Produced in response to the violent blaxploitation films that dominated the period, Five takes a more light-hearted look at African-American domestic life, providing a time capsule of mid-'70s attitudes and fashions along the way.

In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.