Robert Downey Sr.

Directing a straightforward documentary about a Philadelphia park sounds like an unusually tame undertaking for Robert Downey Sr., the writer-director best known for the radical and uproarious "Putney Swope" and "Greaser's Palace." What this native New Yorker delivers is the well-designed but minor "Rittenhouse Square"... (nytimes.com)

In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.

Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business "Truth and Soul, Inc.", he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on Putney... (imdb)

A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting. (imdb)

Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease. (imdb)

Before he waxed on (and off) as the Karate Kid, a young Ralph Macchio appeared in this uproarious adolescent comedy about a group of mischievous military school misfits forced to suffer under a sadistic headmaster (Ron Leibman). Directed by the independent-minded Robert Downey Sr., the film features Barbara Bach as a gun-toting armaments specialist and Tom Poston as an instructor who loves bed checks. (netflix.com)

The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention. (imdb)

A welfare recipient marries his mother. (imdb)

"Moment To Moment" (also known as "Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos") is an experimental, ludicrous, plotless, absurd, surreal comedy. Impossible to understand, which is seemingly intentional. It leaps from scene to scene, world to world, with reecuring names and actors being the only things that hold it together. Very much like sketch comedy, except without much of a point.

A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death. (imdb)

Satire about a newly elected president and his bizarre military shenanigans.

Downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at Manhattan's singles scene of the late sixties. (criterion.com)

A documentary filmmaker, who has spent the last 15 years making films like "Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend," is finally given the chance to make the documentary on Indian farming he has always wanted to. The catch? He must simultaneously direct a porn film. But as he tries to make the porn film, which he turns into a musical called "Halloween in the Barracks," he must deal with a temperamental actor, a fundamentalist preacher, and other obstacles. (imdb)

A young, disabled vet comes home and can’t integrate.