JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME - FILE #0068 - FEAR, ANXIETY & DEPRESSION (1989)

 

Written & Directed By: Todd Solondz  Cinematography: Stefan Czapsky  Editor: Peter Austin, Emily Paine & Barry Rubinow

Cast: Todd Solondz, Max Cantor, Alexandra Gersten, Jane Hamper, Stanley Tucci, Anne De Salvo, Jill Wisoff, Kathleen Gati

Ira is a nervous playwright waiting and hoping to succeed with his art, which he takes it very seriously. But following his dreams and ambitions isn't something easy to do, especially when he has to consider the points of view his family, his artist friends and his girlfriend will provide to him whenever he exposes his incomprehensible works of art.

JOLT (2021)

Directed by: Tanya Wexler Written By: Scott Wascha  Cinematography: Jules O’Loughlin Editor: Michael J. Duthie & Carsten Kurpanek

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Bobby Cannavale, Laverne Cox, Jai Courtney, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Ori Pfeffer, David Bradley, Lewis Bray 

A bouncer with a slightly murderous anger-management problem that she controls with the help of an electrode-lined vest she uses to shock herself back to normalcy whenever she gets homicidal. After the first guy she's ever fallen for is murdered, she goes on a revenge-fueled rampage to find the killer while the cops pursue her as their chief suspect.

KISS OF DEATH (1995)

 

  

Directed By: Barbet Schroeder  Written By: Richard Price  Based on the Original Screenplay “KISS OF DEATH” By: Ben Hecht & Charles Lederer Based on a story By Eleazar Lipsky  Cinematography: Luciano Tovolli  Editor: Lee Percy 

Cast: David Caruso, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Stanley Tucci, Helen Hunt, Michael Rapaport, Kathryn Erbe, Jay O. Sanders, Hope Davis, Anthony Heald, Philip Baker Hall, Paul Calderon, Anne Meara, John Costelloe 

A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.

MAID IN MANHATTAN (2002)

Directed By: Wayne Wang 
Written By: Kevin Wade 
Story By: Edmond Dantes (John Hughes) 
Cinematography By: Karl Walter Lindenlaub 
Editor: Craig McKay 


Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Richardson, Bob Hoskins, Chris Eigeman, Stanley Tucci, Priscilla Lopez, Tyler Posey, Frances Conroy, Maddie Corman 


Marisa Ventura is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City, who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall, a handsome heir to a political dynasty, who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa's true identity is revealed, the two find that they are worlds apart, even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx. The film is loosely based around a true story. In 1959, Steven Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockerfeller, married Anne-Marie Rasmussen, a maid who had worked at his family's Manhattan hotel.

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS (2001)

Directed By: Joe Roth 
Written By: Billy Crystal & Peter Tolan 
Cinematography By: Phedon Papamichael 
Editor: Stephen A. Rotter 


Cast: John Cusack, Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta Jones, Billy Crystal, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Seth Green, Rainn Wilson, Eric Balfour, Keri Lynn Pratt 

A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie's co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film's print hostage.

DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (1997)

Written & Directed By: Woody Allen 
Cinematography By: Carlo DiPalma 
Editor: Susan E. Morse 



Cast: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crystal, Elisabeth Shue, Tobey Maguire, Kirstie Alley, Mariel Hemmingway, Robin Williams, Eric Bogosian, Caroline Aaron, Richard Benjamin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julie Kavner, Bob Balaban, Peter Jacobson, Hazelle Goodman, Amy Irving, Jennifer Garner, Jonathan LaPaglia, Lynn Cohen, Paul Giamatti, Philip Bosco, Arden Myrin, Tony Sirico


 *Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review

A LIFE LESS ORDINARY (1997)

Directed By: Danny Boyle 
Written By: John Hodge 
Cinematography By: Brian Tufano 
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo 

 Cast: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Holly Hunter, Maury Chaykin, Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm, Ian McNeice, Dan Hedaya, Tony Shaloub, Timothy Olyphant, Judith Ivey, Christopher Gorham

KISS OF DEATH (1995)

Directed By: Barbet Schroeder
Written By: Richard Price
Story By: Eleazer Lipsky
Based on the Original Screenplay by: Ben Hecht & Charles Lederer
Cinematography By: Luciano Tovoli
Editor: Lee Percy

Cast: David Caruso, Nicholas Cage, Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Stanley Tucci, Michael Rapaport, Kathryn Erbe, Paul Caledron, Philip Baker Hall, Anthony Heald, Kevin Corrigan, Hope Davis,