Honey Boy (2019)
Drama
A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Byron Bowers, Laura San Giacomo, FKA Twigs
Director: Alma Har'el
The Meddler (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful.
Starring: Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons, Laura San Giacomo, Susan Sarandon, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Lucy Punch
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Least Among Saints (2012)
Drama
Writer, director and actor Martin Papazian's debut film LEAST AMONG SAINTS movingly illustrates a man's hard-fought road towards reconciling with his better self. Coming home to a broken marriage and uncertain future, veteran Anthony Hayward (Papazian) thinks he's at the end of his rope. But when his troubled ten year-old neighbor, Wade (Tristan Lake Leabu), calls out for help, Anthony can't seem to turn away. To the dismay of the boy's embattled social worker (Laura San Giacomo), Anthony sets out on a fool's quest to help this heartbroken but hard to reach child find his long-lost father, who might not even exist. Yet in the midst of this new mission – the first that seems to matter since his return — Anthony begins to come to grips with both the costs of war and the universal power of human connection. As the film builds to an emotional climax, Papazian finds both the gravity and the grace in ordinary, flawed characters pushed to extraordinary acts of compassion and decency.
Starring: Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Laura San Giacomo, Azura Skye, A.J. Cook, Charles S. Dutton, Taylor Kinney
Director: Martin Papazian
Under Suspicion (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In 1959 Brighton, disgraced cop turned private detective Tony Aaron falsifies adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. When a client is murdered, Tony's ex-partner, Frank, still on the Brighton force, finds that the most likely suspects are Angeline, the client's mistress who is set to inherit all his property, and Tony himself, parts of whose story don't seem to add up.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill, Alan Talbot
Director: Simon Moore
Talhotblond / Tall Hot Blonde (2012)
Drama
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Starring: Garret Dillahunt, Brando Eaton, Laura San Giacomo
Director: Courteney Cox
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Havoc (2005)
Crime | Drama
A pair of naive young girls learn that even the most insignificant actions can have lasting consequences. Influenced by the hip-hop thug lifestyle and seeking to explore life outside of their insulated, culturally homogenized suburb, pretty young teenagers Allison and Emily set their sights on East L.A. to experience the "gangsta" lifestyle firsthand. By the time the pair meet a ruthless Mexican drug dealer named Hector, some true-life Latino gang-bangers, and realize just how far out of their element they really are, it may already be too late to turn back.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Shiri Appleby, Michael Biehn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matt O'Leary, Freddy Rodríguez, Laura San Giacomo
Director: Barbara Kopple
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Quigley Down Under (1990)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes,instead, that his mission is murder – to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land – Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a savage war against his former employer, Quigley proves that no one gets the best of a steely-eyed gunfighter – no one, that is, except the mysterious beauty who rides by his side.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick, Tony Bonner
Director: Simon Wincer
Pretty Woman (1990)
Comedy | Romance
Vivian is a spirited, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets no-nonsense billionaire Edward. It's a chance encounter that turns a weeklong business arrangement into a timeless rags-to-riches romance when Edward hires Vivian to be his date and discovers there's a lot more to her than meets the eye.
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Hector Elizondo
Director: Garry Marshall
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Drama
With smoldering sensuality and biting humor, the surprising relationship between the three title subjects is revealed in sex, lies, and videotape, the most-talked about erotic comedy of the decade. James Spader (Stargate) ran away with the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his brilliantly understated and seductive performance as Graham, a long-lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of John, a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, Ann, and her saucy sister, Cynthia. One by one, each is drawn into the very personal project Graham is working on, leaving the relationships between them forever transformed. A monumental debut effort from first-time feature director Steven Soderbergh, this comic original includes riveting performances by Peter Gallagher (The Player), Andie MacDowell (Michael) and Laura San Giacomo (TV's "Just Shoot Me").
Starring: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo
Director: Steven Soderbergh
