Craig Lucas

With a blend of humor and realism, director Alan Rudolph prods at the complexities, paradoxes and tender beauties of marriage. (Manhattan Pictures International)

A fiercely original psychological thriller, The Dying Gaul is a tale of lust, power, corruption, betrayal and revenge set in the seductive world of the Hollywood elite. (Strand Releasing)

Perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1980. (imdb)

A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it. (imdb)

It's Christmas eve, and Rachel's guilt-ridden husband has just told her that the intruder climbing the stairs is actually the hitman he hired to kill her. Naturally Rachel flees, and meets Lloyd and Pooty, a mysterious couple who not only take her in, but give her a job as a secretary. From there, Rachel's life becomes more and more bizarre, as she uncovers an odd secret about Pooty, learns about Lloyd's haunted past, and gets to know the wacky residents of her new town. (Rotten Tomatoes)

Jerry Mulligan is an American striving to make it as a painter in Paris.