The Ref (1994)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Starring: Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey, Glynis Johns, Raymond J. Barry, Richard Bright
Director: Ted Demme
Life (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Rayford Gibson, an opportunistic con man, and Claude Banks, an ambitious bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in 1930s Harlem. In order to pay off their debts to a local crime lord, the mismatched pair travel into the Deep South on a moonshine delivery only to be framed for murder by a racist Southern cop. Sentenced to life in a Mississippi state prison, the bickering duo spend the next 60 years trading barbs and planning their escape, at the same time forming an unlikely but touching friendship.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatundé, Nick Cassavetes
Director: Ted Demme
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Beautiful Girls (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In this post-coming-of-age comedy, a piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love. The high school reunion in a small Massachusetts town gives the group of buddies plenty of opportunities to try and sort out their views about women. From the former stud-turned-snowplow operator to the aspiring nightclub musician who escaped to New York, these clueless cads can only hope for some female guidance.
Starring: Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, Uma Thurman, Noah Emmerich, Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly
Director: Ted Demme
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Blow (2001)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into the United States' biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar-a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. George Jung pursued what he thought was the American Dream. Rather than become just another construction worker like his father, George moves to California where he discovers the profitable pleasures of selling marijuana. A spell in prison introduces him to big-time Colombian dealers, and soon George is involved with their plan to export tons of cocaine to US shores. Becoming fabulously wealthy, he will take a dizzying fall that will knock him out of the underworld.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Ted Demme
