Jane Hallaren

My Girl -- A touching coming-of-age comedy about an eleven-year old tomboy (Anna Chlumsky) and her best friendThomas (Macaulay Culkin).

Body Heat -- A small-time attorney becomes entranced with a beautiful, young woman married to a rich and powerful man.

Emmy and Golden Globe-winner John Ritter (TV's "Three's Company," "Slingblade") stars as a struggling actor who foils a robbery while dressed in a promotional "Captain Avenger" suit. Trouble ensues when his actions make him a celebrity hero. Starring Oscar-nominees Ann Archer ("Fatal Attraction," "Patriot Games") and Kevin McCarthy ("Death of a Salesmen," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"). With Bert Convy ("The Cannonball Run") and, for "Back-to-Bacon" enthusiasts, a surprise cameo by Kevin Bacon ("The River Wild," "Apollo 13").

John Sayles second feature, Lianna, is about a woman who finds herself starting life over after coming out of the closet as a lesbian. Lianna (Linda Griffiths) is married to Dick Massey (Jon De Vries), a charismatic English professor who also teaches film classes, and has two children Spencer (Jesse Solomon) and Theda (Jessica Wight MacDonald). Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. They married when Lianna was still an undergraduate, and the domineering style that works well for Dick in the classroom is beginning to wear thin at home. In addition, Lianna often finds herself consoling her children after they have been verbally one-upped by their father. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a college extension child-psychology course taught by Ruth (Jane Hallaren). When Lianna catches Dick having an affair with a young coed, she finds comfort and eventually true love in the arms of Ruth. However, this comes with a price as everything in her life is turned upside down.