Dan Conway

Normal -- Normal is a story about a failure writer who admires russian literature, specially Feodor Dostoievskiy s 'Crime and Punishment'. Throughout his journey around Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Denmark, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, this writer shows us the most interesting places of these four cities, that represents, each one in its own way, a very important geographical, socioeconomic and political strategic point for the whole world. On his way to discover these cities, he shows the audience what they are all about, his goal is to write a novel that grants him a Nobel Prize, but he does not quite get right through writing something he likes but pieces of historical, touristic or biographical information about the places he visit. Our writer also tells us about himself, he tells his own story, he talks, not very willingly, about his past, present and future, he just does it to get it out of his system, just as a catharsis. But, as further he gets, and more he learns about the cities he visits, his writing crisis toughens, because he can not write anything he likes, he can not write something useful for a Nobel worth novel, he becomes desperate and desperate, and he risks missing out what he can learn and enjoy in these gorgeous and very wonderful cities, he gets an only in a lifetime chance to visit. He thinks that his own life has been painful, but not interesting enough for the people to let them know it, he is wrong.

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!

An old shoemaker who looks just like a mafioso charged with murder agrees to take the rap and do the jail time - for a fee. But when the cobbler and his gangster handler head out for a final fling, everything goes comically wrong.

Jerry is a low-level mobster who is in trouble with the top brass. Now he has the chance to redeem himself by keeping an eye on Gino, an old man who has agreed to take the rap for a murder committed by a Mafia chief in return for a fishing boat.