Sidney Levin

The Grass Harp -- Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet memoir detailing a boyhood spent with his two maiden aunts. A strong supporting cast helps to define his outrageous and eccentric Southern family.

Guarding Tess -- Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star in this cantankerous comedy about a former First Lady and her reluctant bodyguard.

A story about the American experience told by a former Louisiana slave, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman spans over 100 years of southern history. From the Civil War to the civil rights movement, this fictional narrative provides a moving and impactful look at the struggle African Americans faced in the midst of a divided nation. Starring Cicely Tyson as Jane Pittman, the film earned nine Emmy Awards, including best picture (1974).

Emmy and Golden Globe-winner John Ritter (TV's "Three's Company," "Slingblade") stars as a struggling actor who foils a robbery while dressed in a promotional "Captain Avenger" suit. Trouble ensues when his actions make him a celebrity hero. Starring Oscar-nominees Ann Archer ("Fatal Attraction," "Patriot Games") and Kevin McCarthy ("Death of a Salesmen," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"). With Bert Convy ("The Cannonball Run") and, for "Back-to-Bacon" enthusiasts, a surprise cameo by Kevin Bacon ("The River Wild," "Apollo 13").

Mini-Skirt Mob leader Diane McBain is furious with her ex-boyfriend for marrying another woman. So she and members of her motorcycle gang descend on the newlywed's trailer and begin a terrorist campaign. Their harassment of the newlyweds ends in death for the cyclists.

Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet memoir, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the deep south in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick, played by Edward Furlong ("American History X," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"), finds himself living in a small town with his two aunts, Dolly, played by Academy Award-nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Piper Laurie ("Carrie," TV's "Twin Peaks") and Verena, played by Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Sissy Spacek ("Carrie," "Coal Miner's Daughter"). Verena is the more stable of the two, an entrepreneur who controls a number of local businesses and rules the roost with a firm hand. Dolly, on the other hand, is a gentle eccentric who claims to hear the voices of the dead as the wind whistles through the grass, and has developed a homemade concoction that supposedly cures dropsy.

He's a shy, illiterate short-order cook who's never taken a chance at love. She's a newly widowed factory worker who's vowed to never love again. But as their friendship slowly blossoms and Iris helps Stanley learn to read, his strong yet gentle kindness helps mend her broken heart. And where once two lonely strangers stood trapped within the past, Stanley and Iris can now begin a new chapter of their lives together.

"Casey's Shadow" is a funny and touching story for the whole family about a cranky, impoverished horse trainer, Lloyd Bourdelle (Walter Matthau) and his three sons. When the oldest son is sent off to buy a quarter horse, he brings back, instead an old pregnant mare, explaining that she has superb bloodlines. The mare gives birth to a colt that grows into a strong, promising racehorse. Bourdelle sees it is an opportunity to show up his old rivals and make some money in the process. But just as Bourdelle is about to enter the horse in a million-dollar race its front leg is seriously injured. In spite of the vet's warning and his son's violent objections, Bourdelle enters the horse anyway. A bittersweet, poignant conclusion is sure to make Casey's Shadow a family favorite!

The true story of novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who retreated in 1928 to an isolated citrus grove in order to write. Leaving behind her comfortable New York city life - and her marriage - she faced the backwoods alone. Her experiences in the swampy scrub country and the lives of her rustic neighbors became the subjects of her books and in the land and the people she found inspiration and love.

Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins are competing journalists who find love and success as battling co-hosts of their own talk show. But the friction that makes the show a hit threatens to cancel the romance, as the lovers discover each has a completely different concept of commitment. This breezy comedy-of-the-sexes looks at love from both points of view. In the first part of the film, the relationship is seen through "his" eyes, while the second half of the film is visualized from "her" perspective. Both viewpoints are wildly different and totally hilarious, combining for a completely winning romantic comedy. Also starring Sharon Stone as his good friend (he says) and longtime love (she says).

The last thing Emma Moriarty expected to find in Eunice, Arizona, was love. So how does she wind up the object of "Murphy's Romance?" Sally Field and James Garner star in this endearing comic love story from director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae). Field plays a gutsy divorced mother eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch. Enter the town's most eligible widower, Murphy Jones (Garner).The lovable, free-wheeling pharmacist befriends Emma and eventually comes a-courting. But just whenEmma may have found the right guy, her ne'er do well ex, Bobby Jack (Brian Kerwin), rides back into her life. Which one of these persistent suitors will lasso the reluctant filly? Share the warmth and feel-good humor of Field, Garner and "Murphy's Romance!"

Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet memoir detailing a boyhood spent with his two maiden aunts. A strong supporting cast helps to define his outrageous and eccentric Southern family.