John Patrick

American Standard -- AMERICAN STANDARD a film by David Henry Gerson Dynamite! Abel Ferrara 'American Standard...is truly excellent...a taut, disturbing, meaningful portrait of a military man in trouble...explains a man's unfathomable actions in a way that makes me understand him.' - John Patrick Shanley Sgt. John Richards, a troubled young American soldier returns home from military service in Afghanistan to his undocumented immigrant girlfriend. After killing for his country, and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, he is tormented by the idea that his lover might be using him as a means to gain citizenship. The clash of their traumatic pasts leads to an explosive and tragic collision between these two alienated young Americans. Based in part on the stories of the film s star, Sgt. Marco Reininger, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film also features Sgt. Reininger s personal iPhone footage of the war in Afghanistan, where he is now again serving. American Standard is the first film photographed by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Keating. Executive Produced by The Human Rights Action Center and Gerry Lane. Run Time 13:00, Copyright Caesura Media, LLC 2012

College dropout Ross (Jason Schwartzman) shows up at the bungalow of Spider Mike (John Leguizamo) in L.A.'s north San Fernando Valley looking to score some speed. Spider Mike's companions at the bungalow that day include his greasy-haired, red-eyed girlfriend, Cookie (Mena Suvari), video game addict Frisbee (Patrick Fugit) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), a giggly Vegas stripper, whose boyfriend The Cook (Mickey Rourke) concocts the local speed supply in his airless motel room lab. Seduced by Nikki and her promise of an unending drug supply, Ross agrees to become chauffeur and errand boy for The Cook. Over the next few days, Ross ricochets between the hilarious and the bizarre as he descends into the anarchic and dangerous world of speed freaks in a three-day odyssey into crystal-meth hell.

Hot young newcomer Matthew McConaughey ('Boys on the Side,' 'Dazed and Confused'), Oscar-nominee Samuel L. Jackson ('Pulp Fiction,' 'Die Hard 3') and superstar Sandra Bullock head an all-star cast in this stunning thriller from best-selling author John Grisham ('The Client,' 'The Pelican Brief,' 'The Firm'). In front of hundreds of witnesses in a Southern town, a distraught man murders the two racist thugs who brutally assaulted his young daughter, and an idealistic young lawyer and a savvy law student team to defend him. Co-starring Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Keifer Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker, Oliver Platt, Patrick McGoohan and Charles Dutton.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle follows the life-changing (and mind- altering) journey of Korean-American investment banker Harold Lee and Indian-American medical-school candidate Kumar Patel. Both underdogs, Harold and Kumar decide to spend what would have been an otherwise uneventful Friday night satisfying an oddly intense urge for White Castle hamburgers. However, finding a White Castle proves a highly difficult task, and the two friends wind up on an epic road trip of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling, and enough half-baked, politically incorrect philosophizing to outweigh a White Castle value meal. Starring John Cho ('American Dreamz,' 'American Pie' trilogy), Kal Penn ('Epic Movie,' 'Superman Returns'), Eddie Kaye Thomas ('American Pie' trilogy), David Krumholtz ('Superbad,' '10 Things I Hate About You') and Emmy and Golden Globe-nominee Neil Patrick Harris (TV's 'How I Met Your Mother,' TV's 'Doogie Howser') as Himself.