Michael McElroy

Romance & Cigarettes -- A musical set in Bensonhurst, N.Y. In it a two-timing husband must choose between his mistress and his beleaguered wife.

Nick Murder (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who has been married for years to Kitty (Susan Sarandon), who works as a seamstress and is the mother of Nick's three daughters. While Nick loves his wife, his head is turned by Tula (Kate Winslet), a sexy salesgirl at a lingerie shop, and soon they're having a passionate affair. When Kitty finds out about Nick's infidelity, she becomes enraged and kicks him out of the house, forcing him to decide what he really wants out of life and what is most important to him.

Michelle Pfeiffer (One Fine Day, Up Close and Personal, Wolf) delivers a most powerful performance as a wife and mother faced with rebuilding her life, and her family, after they've been shockingly torn apart. Based on Jacquelyn Mitchard's best-selling novel, The Deep End of the Ocean is both riveting and moving.When their son suddenly disappears, the pain of a lost child ravages the Cappadora family for nearly a decade. But it is upon his sudden return that the entire family must come to grips with a painful reunion of their own. Treat Williams (Deep Rising, The Devil's Own, The Phantom) is masterful as Michelle Pfeiffer's hard-working and forgiving husband. Whoopi Goldberg (How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Ghost, Sister Act) shines in her dramatic role as Detective Candy Bliss.

A family goes through emotional turmoil when Ben, the youngest son is found nine years later after being kidnapped, living in the same town where the family had just moved.