Kathleen Wilhoite

King of California -- An unstable dad, who after getting out of a mental institution, tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia

Drowning Mona -- When the most-hated woman (Bette Midler) in Verplanck, New York is murdered, Sheriff Danny DeVito attempts to solve the crime by narrowing down the suspects virtually the entire township! Co-starringJamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell.

Private School is where kids leave parents behind, and learn what growing up is really about. It's a romantic comedy from the same people who brought you the hilarious Private Lessons. Starring Phoebe Cates, with a special appearance by sensuous Sylvia Kristel as the sex education teacher whose classes are the best-attended on campus. Chris Ramsay (Cates) and Jim Green (Matthew Modine) are experiencing the joys and pains of first love. She goes to the Cherryvale Academy; he attends nearby Freemount. When Chris gets a rival for Jim's affections, it sparks off a battle royale of zany pranks that turn both schools upside down with laughter. Private School features a soundtrack of hits from artists like the Stray Cats, Vanity Six, Bow-Wow-Wow and Rick Springfield.

This quirky Sundance comedy from writer-director Mike Cahill chronicles the journey of a delusional father (Michael Douglas) who's convinced that a fabled treasure is buried somewhere beneath his Southern California suburb. His delinquent daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) -- a high school dropout who was abandoned by her mother and saw her father sent to a mental institution -- resists his ravings at first. But, eventually, she starts to believe.

An unstable dad, who after getting out of a mental institution, tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia

An unstable dad, who after getting out of a mental institution, tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia

After several years in a mental institution, Charlie is sent home, reuniting with his teenage daughter Miranda. Disconnected from reality and his daughter's life, Charlie's erratic behavior strains their relationship and disrupts her peaceful existence.

Oscar® nominee Nick Nolte and Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon star in this powerful and unforgettable drama based on a true story. For Augusto and Michaela Odone (Nolte and Sarandon), the news that their five-year-old son, Lorenzo, has a rare terminal disease is sobering, to learn there is no known cure is devastating. Despite the prognosis, the Odones embark on an extraordinary mission of love, consulting and sometimes colliding with the world's top doctors and scientists in the quest to save their son. Their relentless struggle tests their marriage, their beliefs and the boundaries of conventional medicine in this critically acclaimed hit from director George Miller (The Witches of Eastwick).

Charles Bronsan is Jack Murphy, a burned-out cop with no future who suddenly find himself framed for the murder of his ex-wife. Together with a street-wise girl turned car thief, who is thought to be his accomplice, he is soon on the run from the very law he used to protect. But now, he is forced to run deadly gauntlet, trying to find the true killer--before he and his new-found friend become the assassin's next victim.

No one in the quiet little town of Verplanck, New York seems to blink when one of its best-known and least-liked residents, Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), drives her Yugo into the Hudson to her death. Bound by duty to investigate, Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) soon discovers it wasn't an accident. But the chief gets precious little help from the citizenry, as Mona was not one of Verplanck's favorite citizens. Career waitress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis) didn't have a problem seducing both Mona's husband Phil (William Fichtner) and son Jeff (Marcus Thomas), and Mona made life miserable for Jeff's business partner Bobby (Casey Affleck) and his fiancée (Neve Campbell). When Chief Rash asks "Who would like to see Mona Dearly dead?" the same answer keeps coming back, who wouldn't?

Bette Midler stars as malicious Mona Dearly, who's the most despised woman in Verplanck, N.Y.: Her husband hates her, her children hate her, and her neighbors hate her. So, when Mona ends up drowned in the river, it's no accident.