Screenplay: Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Christine Lahti · Judd Hirsch · River Phoenix · Martha Plimpton

Plot Running on Empty is the moving tale of a young man whose parents were political agitators in the 1960s. Ever since, the family has been changing locations, changing their names,...

Direction Stephen Gyllenhaal

Cast Jessica Lange · Halle Berry · David Strathairn · Samuel L. Jackson

Plot An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby's mother finds out her son is...

Direction Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Cast Dakota Fanning · Elizabeth Olsen · Boyd Holbrook · Demi Moore

Plot Best friends—introspective Lilly and free-spirited Gerry—spend their last summer at home in New York City before parting ways for college. The girls meet Brooklyn boy David, whom they both fall...

Direction Stephen Gyllenhaal

Cast Debra Winger · Barbara Hershey · Gabriel Byrne · David Strathairn

Plot A simple but guileless woman is found to be socially unacceptable for her naive habit of always telling the truth. She loses her job, is jilted and finally becomes involved...

Direction Scott McGehee · David Siegel

Cast Richard Gere · Juliette Binoche · Flora Cross · Max Minghella

Plot Eliza Naumann (Flora Cross) has no reason to believe she is anything but ordinary. Her father Saul (Richard Gere), a beloved university professor, dotes on her talented elder brother Aaron...

Direction Jack Fisk

Cast Sissy Spacek · Kevin Kline · Bonnie Bedelia · John Kellogg

Plot After fifteen years of travelling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry...