Being a single woman in the Nineties is one thing... Being a single woman in her thirties is another
87 minutes, colour, 1996
Courtney Baker (ELIZA COYLE) is looking down the barrel of what might be one of a woman's worst traumas, turning thirty.
Courtney's best friend and high school sweetheart, Nick Hastings (DANA GOULD) is a documentary filmmaker and feels that Courtney is the perfect subject for his latest work documenting the dating life of a single woman in the nineties.
Courtney allows Nick to examiner her life on film where sometimes her perspective on herself doesn't match that of the people in her life. In the process, Nick finds himself being pulled from behind the camera, and into the movie itself!
STARRING: Dana Gould, Eliza Coyle, Taylor Negron, Kathy Griffin, Ryan Stiles, Julie Sweeny and Chris Hardwick
Do you know anyone whose life turned out like they planned?
102 minutes, colour, 1997
"Plan B" is the story of five friends in their 20s and 30s wrestling with the fact that their lives haven't turned out the way they planned - a novelist who can't sell a word; a young couple who are ready for children but can't conceive; a successful female executive whose love life is "a train wreck"; and an actor who discovers his first gray hair before he has been discovered.
Through their friendship, the five friends help each other negotiate the maddening and hilarious pursuit of love, sex, parenthood and careers. Life doesn't turn out like they planned, but Plan B may be even better!
STARRING: John Cryer
You're never to young to chase a dream and never to old to catch one...
86 minutes, colour, 1994
Jeremy is a wealthy, big-city teenager who is sent by his strict father for a vacation in Florida. Landing in a small, pristine beach town, Jeremy is taken in by a wonderfully outrageous band of senior citizens who teach him how to have a dream and make it come true. Befriended by one man's spirited 15 year-old granddaughter Sam, Jeremy is inspired to see the world and himself in a different way.
STARRING: Artie Johnson, Ernest Borgnine, Jesse Zeigler, Amy Bush, "Banana" George Blair and Bill Cobbs
You are here
83 minutes, colour, 1997
Judy, Alex and Nick are three friends waiting for their lives to begin. Judy, overqualified, overworked and underpaid, is trapped in a dead-end job. On the day that she gets into graduate school, her longtime boyfriend proposes to her on the answering machine. The engagement ring is coming via express mail and she has one weekend, three delivery attempts, to decide what to do with her life. Her friend, Alex, is a mail-room flunky living a lavish lifestyle until he loses his job. Nick, secretly in love with Judy, is a novelist who is four years deep in his opus. Trouble is he can't finish it or won't. Mixed Signals is a story about love, friendship, loyalty and the choices we all face.
STARRING: Jason London, Brooke Langton and Peter Johansson
The difference between success and failure is pulling off the perfect crime.
90 minutes, colour, 1996
Fresh from the rural Midwest, Kevin Conroy (Henry Thomas) arrives in Hollywood to pursue his dream. Hired as a lowly production assistant on the upcoming blockbuster, Moby Dick 2, Kevin endures daily abuse from the film's psychotic producer (Mark Metcalf) and the equally crazy production coordinator (Scott Thompson)
Then, his room-mate devises a scheme to steal reels of Moby Dick 2 footage and hold them ransom. Kevin soon learns the difference between success and failure is pulling off the perfect crime!
a Neal Mandt film
STARRING: Henry Thomas and Scott Thompson
Sometimes the most ordinary people make the most extraordinary heroes.
83 minutes, colour, 1997
Ever since the Second World War, Stan (WARREN MITCHEL), Russ (BILL KERR)and Eric (MARTIN VAUGHAN) have been inseparable. So, when Stan's grandson is found dead from a heroin overdose, the three old soldiers come out of retirement to fight another war...and this time, it's personal.
With military precision - and a good dose of humour - they stake out the house from which the boy's killer runs his operation, only to discover an intricate web of drug dealing and police corruption.
Unable to convince anyone of the truth, the three men are forced to defy their age and take the law into their own hands. In the tradition of "On Golden Pond" and "Cocoon", KOKODA CRESCENT is a touching tale about an extraordinary group of heroes.
