Mike Curb

Pipe Dream -- A plumber (Martin Donovan) pretends to be a film director to get himself noticed by one of the hottest actresses in New York (Rebecca Gayheart). His Screenwriter friend (Mary-Louise Parker) builds on his scam to get her movie made.

Oxygen -- A diabolical comedy of frustration and desire on a sunny spring day.

In this romantic comedy, a discouraged plumber, David (Martin Donovan), decides that he'd get more respect and have more luck with the ladies if he were a movie director. So he decides to pose as one. Bribing his casting agent best friend RJ (Kevin Carroll), David sets up auditions for a movie that he's not really directing. To complete the process, he steals the script of aspiring writer and neighbor, Toni (Mary-Louise Parker). Before David and RJ know what is happening, their project has become the most talked about script in New York City's indie film scene. But when Toni discovers David's less-than-moral behavior, she threatens to pull the plug. That is, until she realizes this might be her only chance to see her film get made.

During a stopover in Mexico City, Mitch (Stacy Edwards) loses track of her brother (Johnny Zander) and slowly begins to suspect he's been kidnapped. But the American-born gringa isn't exactly armed with enough Spanish to get the information she needs from the locals. In a desperate race against time, Mitch must search for clues amid a sea of drug smugglers and other dangerous types who hold the key to her brother's whereabouts.

A plumber (Martin Donovan) pretends to be a film director to get himself noticed by one of the hottest actresses in New York (Rebecca Gayheart). His Screenwriter friend (Mary-Louise Parker) builds on his scam to get her movie made.

A plumber (Martin Donovan) pretends to be a film director to get himself noticed by one of the hottest actresses in New York (Rebecca Gayheart). His Screenwriter friend (Mary-Louise Parker) builds on his scam to get her movie made.

In this romantic comedy, a discouraged plumber, David (Martin Donovan), decides that he'd get more respect and have more luck with the ladies if he were a movie director. So he decides to pose as one. Bribing his casting agent best friend RJ (Kevin Carroll), David sets up auditions for a movie that he's not really directing. To complete the process, he steals the script of aspiring writer and neighbor, Toni (Mary-Louise Parker). Before David and RJ know what is happening, their project has become the most talked about script in New York City's indie film scene. But when Toni discovers David's less-than-moral behavior, she threatens to pull the plug. That is, until she realizes this might be her only chance to see her film get made.

Two undercover cops (Nick Moran and Jennifer Esposito) pose as husband and wife to glean incriminating information at a dinner party held by unctuous crime boss Simon Bacig (Stephen Lang). When the egomaniacal Bacig decides to get to know the sexy policewoman, the three spiral into a deadly love triangle that soon clouds their loyalties in this direct-to-video thriller directed by Richard Gale.

Oxygen -- In a future where pathogens are rife and clean oxygen is rare, an air-supply company repairman deals with his isolated life and the tight control the government has over its people.

Here, Ryan O'Neal makes his feature-film debut as Jack, a hard-luck GI smitten with Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), and never stopping to think where her seductive spree of petty-crime kicks might end. The thrills she calls "bounces" may lead to a notoriously big bounce. For Jack that may mean a very big fall.

While falling for a pretty teacher (Diane McBain) with personal problems, a former singer turned high school art instructor (Fabian) tries to help a pot-loving student group stay out of trouble. But in the process, he gets framed for possession of marijuana. Teri Garr and Garry Marshall make early film appearances in this cautionary tale of woe and weed featuring a trippy soundtrack that includes the tunes "Grass Party" and "The Fun Zone."

America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. The trio of would-be thieves then takes off for California, but with the police already on their tail, it's clear that a trail of blood and death is going to follow them all the way there.