Hester Street
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
The Killing Fields
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
Class Action
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
Two Bits
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
Weddings and Babies
A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.
Sarah's Key
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
Prince of Darkness
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.
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Joan Micklin Silver
Director
Ed Crowley
as
Inspector
Joanna Merlin
as
Jake's Landlady
Philip Sterling
as
Mr. Lipman
Anna Berger
as
Poultry Woman
John Malkovich
as
Al Rockoff
Julian Sands
as
Jon Swain
Craig T. Nelson
as
Military Attaché
Michael Apted
Director
Jonathan Silverman
as
Brian
Wood Moy
as
Mr. Minh
Laurence Fishburne
as
Nick Holbrook
Andy Romano
as
Dr. Bruna
Geoff Pierson
as
Dr. Wilson
Al Pacino
as
Grandpa
John Myhers
as
Al
Frédéric Pierrot
as
Bertrand Tezac
Kristin Scott Thomas
as
Julia Jarmond
Aidan Quinn
as
William Rainsferd
John Carpenter
Director
Jameson Parker
as
Brian Marsh
Peter Jason
as
Dr. Paul Leahy
Anne Marie Howard
as
Susan Cabot
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