Kate Reid

SIGNS OF LIFE stars veteran actor Arthur Kennedy as a cranky, set-in-his-ways Maine shipbuilder. Unable to keep apace with the 1980s, Kennedy is forced to close up shop. The film probes the various effects this decision has on Kennedy's employees.

Signs of Life -- A touching story of life in rural Maine, and the changes brought about by the closing of a town's small boat-building company -- on which many of the residents depended upon for a living.

Repressed desires, sultry women, sweltering weather and a handsome new stranger in town... this is playwright Tennessee Williams at his very best. Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, is particularly devastated with the arrival of Owen Legate (Robert Redford), a railroad official with a pocketful of pink slips for the rail yard employees. Natalie Wood is captivating as Alva Starr, the coquettish town flirt with plenty of big plans but nowhere to go... until Legate appears on her doorstep. Their ensuing affair enrages Alva's distant, uncaring mother (Kate Reid)—and ignites a town's revenge. Masterfully directed by Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were, Out of Africa, The Firm) and co-written for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather trilogy), This Property Is Condemned sizzles with unbridled passion and fiery emotion.

After a bizarre tragedy kills her husband, a wife discovers chilling evidence of murder, and a series of shocking truths that threaten her own life.

Directed with clinical precision by Academy Award® winner Robert Wise, this compelling account of the earth’s first biological crisis is perhaps the most chillingly realistic science fiction thriller ever made. After an errant satellite crashes to Earth near a remote New Mexico village, the recovery team discovers that almost everyone in the town are victims of a horrible death, with the mysterious exception of an infant and an old homeless man. The survivors are brought to a state-of-the-art laboratory descending five stories beneath the ground where the puzzled scientists race against time to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it wreaks worldwide havoc. A trailblazer in the areas of special effects and inventive sets, The Andromeda Strain is based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel that created national paranoia for its topical relevance to the first moon landing.

When aging New England shipbuilder Owen Coughlin (Arthur Kennedy) decides to shut down his business and retire in the face of mounting competition, his actions affect his employees' lives in surprisingly unexpected ways. Beau Bridges, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathy Bates and Mary-Louise Parker co-star in this poignant ensemble drama about small-town survival -- and making the best of a seemingly bad situation.

A touching story of life in rural Maine, and the changes brought about by the closing of a town's small boat-building company--on which many of the residents depended upon for a living.

Wiley Boon (Don Johnson) and Sam Manners (Jeff Daniels) have been good friends since boyhood. In fact Sam spends most of his time with Wiley, his wife Sandy (Susan Sarandon) and their three children--one big happy family for 15 years since high school. Except now Wiley isn't happy anymore. Wiley has lived in the same Vermont town all his life, been the most popular guy, even got to marry his high school sweetheart. But now the walls are beginning to close in. And Sam has always been on the outside looking in, until Adie Nims (Elizabeth Perkins) moves to town. Now Sam is spending less time with Wiley's family as he entertains the thought of having his own. Falling in love is the easy part; making it last, that is the challenge as two couples share the bitter and sweet bonds of romance, marriage and friendship.

Long-married high school sweethearts (Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon) get itchy when their friends experience new love.

Long-married high school sweethearts (Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon) get itchy when their friends experience new love.

Falling in love - and making it last - proves an incredible test of courage and commitment in the romantic comedy SWEET HEARTS DANCE, featuring an all-star cast including Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels and Elizabeth Perkins. Johnson stars as Wiley Boon, a hard-working family man who's lived his entire life in his Vermont hometown and married his high school sweetheart (Sarandon). But now Wiley's cozy little world doesn't feel quite as cozy anymore. His once idyllic marriage seems to be falling apart, just as his longtime bachelor buddy Sam (Daniels, Pleasantville) appears to be falling in love. Now Wiley feels alone as he struggles to understand his most cherished relationships in this spirited story about the changing moods of holding on to - and letting go of - love.

Love breaks all boundaries in this breathless romantic drama from director Duncan Gibbons, in which a defiant girl (Virginia Madsen) from a strict Catholic school falls for a troubled lad (Craig Sheffer) held at a nearby woodland juvenile detention center. The couple indulge their hormones during secret forest rendezvous, but soon authorities from church and state close in, forcing the young lovers into a desperate gamble for their freedom.