Mel Winkler

Coach Carter -- Samuel L. Jackson plays the controversial high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999.

City Hall -- He's a consummate politician who walks a mile in your shoes, feels your pain. But there may be more to populist New York City mayor Al Pacino than meets the eye.

John Cusack (HIGH FIDELITY, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) stars as the dedicated deputy mayor to popular New York City mayor, Academy Award-winner Al Pacino (INSOMNIA, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY). When a shooting in Brooklyn escalates into a citywide scandal, Cusack discovers that the road to the truth has many detours. This powerful political drama stars Bridget Fonda (A SIMPLE PLAN, JACKIE BROWN), Oscar-winner Martin Landau (THE MAJESTIC, READY TO RUMBLE), Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Danny Aiello (2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY, THE PROFESSIONAL), and Oscar-nominees David Paymer (STATE AND MAIN, BAIT) and Tony Franciosa (THE DROWNING POOL, A HATFUL OF RAIN).

In rural Texas 1902, 13-year-old Horace (Haas) toils on a run-down plantation to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll (Duvall), the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation, has yet to pay the boy a penny of the money he owes him. But on Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.