Gaby Hoffmann

Life During Wartime -- Three sisters struggle with love, family and the American Dream in Todd Solondz's hilarious new film starring Allison Janney and Charlotte Rampling.

You Can Count on Me -- A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

Three sisters struggle with love, family and the American Dream in Todd Solondz's hilarious new film starring Allison Janney and Charlotte Rampling.

Winner of the Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, "You Can Count on Me" has been hailed as "the best American movie this year." Laura Linney, in her Oscar nominated role, and Mark Ruffalo star as grown-up siblings who couldn't be more different. While conservative Sammy (Linney) stayed in her quiet hometown, rebellious Terry (Ruffalo) was on the road, drifting in and out of trouble. When Terry suddenly comes to visit, his presence has a profound influence on Sammy's world. As Terry forms a special friendship with Sammy's precocious eight-year-old son, Rudy (Rory Culkin), Sammy rediscovers her passion for life, entertaining a marriage proposal from her boyfriend (Jon Tenney) while having a fling with her boss (Matthew Broderick). But when Terry's behavior become disruptive, Sammy must finally confront the choices of the past...and make new ones to renew her family's future.

Documentary-style film-within-a-film, examines the burgeoning influence of the urban hip-hop scene on middle-class kids.

Documentary filmmaker Sam Donager and her fascinatingly perverse husband follow a group of privileged uptown teenagers drawn to the hip-hop world of impresario Rich Bower.

Single mother Samantha Prescott is already preoccupied with raising her son, who's become sullen -- and curious about his missing father -- when her wayward brother appears on the scene to borrow money ... and instantly bonds with the boy.

The film examines the burgeoning influence of the urban rap scene on middle-class high school kids.

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

The inner workings of the New York hip-hop scene, and the fascination of white observers with rap music and hip-hop culture, set the stage for several loosely related stories about race and culture.