Michael Laskin

When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (Cusack) winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Bening). Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless confidence artists playing the con game in a league far above Roy ... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust. (Miramax)

An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail & murder among elite social set in 1963. (imdb)

A touching yet humorous tale of a divorced man searching for love in the personals column and finding out about life in the process.

Upon her release from jail, Fontayne enlists the help of Bernice - her estranged old friend and current parole officer - and a disgraced cop to search for his son, who went missing on the Mexican border.

When her friend, a social worker, is killed in a drive-by shooting, the young Lisa is thrown out of track: she lives on the streets of L.A. There she's found by the successful photographer Walker Jordan, who's working on a new image book featuring homeless persons. He takes her home in his stylish studio, makes her his assistant... and eventually falls in love with her. Is she ready again to return such feelings? (imdb)

A misanthropic woman is forced into sensitivity training at work and forms an unlikely friendship with the bubbly woman assigned to be her coach. (imdb)

Two brothers reunite when one of them finds himself in deep with a powerful crime lord.