Pat McNamara

Ash Wednesday -- Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers (Burns and Wood) who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Fight Club -- Sick of his dead end, white bred existence, Jack encounters an intriguing stranger who alters his relationship with reality.

Clarice Starling, a gutsy FBI trainee haunted by her past, risks her life in an attempt to save a missing woman from certain death. The desperate, deadly search for a killer makes Clarice confront her deepest fears as she must confront and befriend convicted psychopathic serial killer Dr. Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lechter, a monstrous brilliant psychiatrist, who can lead her to the murderer.

The high voltage story of a group of young performers who audition for the chorus of a Broadway musical. Zach a famous Broadway producer, who is holding auditions for a new Broadway musical. As armies of dancers are brought on stage to audition for Zach, he sits in the darkened recesses of the theater, puffing on a cigarette and deciding which hopeful dancers will be in the chorus line. When he has reduced the dancers to 16 men and women, Zach asks each of them to step to the footlights and tell him about their lives, loves and dreams.

Sean was killed on Ash Wednesday while trying to protect his older brother Francis from the Irish mob. Three years later, rumors have begun circulating that Sean's death was fabricated by Francis and a sympathetic priest to get the mob off his back.

Sick of his dead end, white bred existence, Jack encounters an intriguing stranger who alters his relationship with reality.

Sick of his dead end, white bred existence, Jack encounters an intriguing stranger who alters his relationship with reality.

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Edward Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Brad Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Together they create a new "fight club" where young men come to relieve their frustrations by beating each other to a pulp. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Helena Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of control spiral toward oblivion.

Sick of his dead-end, white-bread existence, Jack encounters an intriguing stranger who alters his relationship with reality.

A top-notch cast headlines this Oscar-nominated drama about four boys from Hell's Kitchen who grow up in a world where loyalty means everything. A teenage prank gets them thrown in reform school, where they suffer harrowing abuses at the hands of the guards. Once out, their lives take radically different paths, but the quartet intersect again when one of the brutal guards is murdered. With Oscar-nominee Brad Pitt ("Ocean's Eleven," "The Mexican"), Oscar-winner Robert De Niro ("Analyze That," "Showtime"), Kevin Bacon ("Mystic River," "Hollow Man"), Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman ("Moonlight Mile," "Shpere"), Jason Patric ("Narc," "The Lost Boys"), Oscar-nominee Minnie Driver ("Good Will Hunting," "Tarzan"), Bruno Kirby ("When Harry Met Sally," "City Slickers"), and Brad Renfro ("Apt Pupil," "The Client"). Written and directed by Oscar-winner Barry Levinson ("Liberty Heights," "Disclosure").

It's the day after Thanksgiving, and Long Island wife Eliza finds a note that makes her suspect her husband, Louis of having an affair with some woman named Sandy. So she and her obnoxious family all pile into the station wagon and drive up and down lower Manhattan searching for Louis so Eliza can talk to him face-to-face. Trapped in a car all day, they're going through the same motions over and over again, like vaudevillians who know only one routine. Finally, as the family gets closer to the problem at hand, they stumble into the truth about themselves.

It's payback -- in spades -- when thoroughly exasperated and bitter Seth Warner (Aidan Quinn) seeks vengeance against God by methodically breaking each of the Ten Commandments. The reason for Seth's apostasy? His wife passed away, his medical career is in the tank, his house has been destroyed and … a bolt of lightning just struck him. Courteney Cox and Anthony LaPaglia costar in this intriguing film from director Daniel Taplitz.