Twilight (1998)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Starring: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, James Garner
Director: Robert Benton
Feast of Love / A Cup of Love (2007)
Drama | Romance
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Radha Mitchell, Alexa Davalos, Greg Kinnear, Billy Burke, Selma Blair, Toby Hemingway, Stana Katic, Jane Alexander, Fred Ward, Margo Martindale, Missi Pyle
Director: Robert Benton
Still of the Night (1982)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford, Josef Sommer
Director: Robert Benton
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Newman plays Sully, a likable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when his estranged son – and grandson – drop into his life.
Starring: Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Director: Robert Benton
Billy Bathgate (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama
Based loosely on the organized crime syndicates of the 20's and 30's, Billy Bathgate is the story of a young man's rise from gopher to right hand man in Dutch Schultz' gang. Having been impressed by the youth, Schultz takes him under his wing so to speak. Billy soon finds himself in a world where wealth and fortune live next door to danger and death.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, John Costelloe
Director: Robert Benton
Nadine (1987)
Comedy
Working in an Austin, Texas, beauty parlour in 1954, Nadine Hightower endeavours to retrieve some 'art studies' she injudiciously had taken. Her visit to the photographer leaves him dead and her in possession of highly valuable plans of a proposed new road. With both the police and the murderous villains after her she enlists the help of her (almost) ex-husband Vernon, the none too successful owner of the Bluebonnet Bar. Fortunately the thugs are as much no-hopers as the Hightowers.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly, Jerry Stiller, Jay Patterson
Director: Robert Benton
Places in the Heart (1984)
Drama
Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time.
Starring: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover
Director: Robert Benton
The Human Stain (2003)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk, a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris
Director: Robert Benton
