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.

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.

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

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

Based on an incredible true story, Coach Carter is the inspirational account of controversial basketball coach Ken Carter (Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson), who received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news for a gymnasium "lockout" of his entire undefeated team for poor academic performance. With the players, the parents, and the community rallying to get the team back on the court, Carter must overcome the obstacles of his environment and show the young men a future that stretches beyond gangs, drugs, prison and even basketball.

A controversial high school basketball coach benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999 and would not open the gym until his team's grades improved as a whole.

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.

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.

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).

Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Michael J. Fox ("Spin City," "The American President") stars in this romantic comedy about a Beverly Hills-bound doctor who gets stranded in a tiny Southern town where he finds himself falling in love, and re-evaluating his life's goals. Siskel & Ebert gives this boxoffice winner ($55,000,000!) "...two big thumbs up...with great chemistry between Michael J. Fox and Julie Warner." Co-starring Bridget Fonda ("Point of No Return," "Singles"), Oscar-nominee Woody Harrelson ("The People vs. Larry Flynt," "White Man Can't Jump") and Julie Warner ("Mr. Saturday Night," "Pride & Joy").