The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith
Director: Jonathan Demme
In Her Shoes (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rose Feller, an overweight, overworked, and painfully undersexed lawyer who fills an emotional void with pints of Haagen-Dazs and a closetful of expensive shoes that she never wears. Little sis Maggie, who is prone to public drunkenness, one-night stands, and wearing lingerie as outerwear, is as lacking in career prospects as her sister is in romantic ones. When her irresponsible behavior gets her kicked out of her father's house by her spiteful stepmother, Maggie has nowhere to crash but her elder sister's couch. But, after she ignites a series of disasters ranging from the minor to the catastrophic, Maggie is cast out by her angry older sibling, with no job, no money, and no one to take her in. She finds a stash of hidden letters in her father's desk drawer that enable her to track down her estranged grandmother in a Florida retirement community.
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Ken Howard, Brooke Smith, Richard Burgi
Director: Curtis Hanson
The Namesake (2006)
Drama
While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family…
Starring: Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson, Brooke Smith
Director: Mira Nair
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Lynn Cohen, Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn
Director: Louis Malle
A Little Help (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Up to now Laura has had the wind at her back in life by virtue of her good looks and effortless charisma. But lately things have begun to take some dark and difficult turns. Her marriage to real estate agent Bob Pehlke has become tense and loveless – Laura even has suspicions that he's cheating – and her relationship with her 12 year-old son Dennis has become strained as well, his emerging adolescence…
Starring: Jenna Fischer, Chris O'Donnell, Kim Coates, Arden Myrin, Lesley Ann Warren, Sam McMurray, Brooke Smith
Director: Michael J. Weithorn
