Ron Rifkin

A riveting expose of one of the biggest and most lucrative scams in American history -- and a dramatic look at a generation obsessed with the speed of wealth and success. (New Line Cinema)

Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital. (imdb)

Best friends since they were kids, Jake (Stiller), a rabbi, and Brian (Norton), a Catholic priest, are single, successful, handsome, and confident young men living on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna (Elfman), their childhood friend, returns to New York, she reenters their lives and hearts with a vengeance and a complicated love triangle is created. (Touchstone Pictures)

A shooting at an all night diner is investigated by three LA policemen in their own unique ways.

Maverick negotiator Danny Roman is framed for embezzlement and the murder of his partner and best friend.

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians. (imdb)

Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. (imdb)

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their marriage.

Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job. (imdb)

Lowell Freeman looks after plants in giant space greenhouses. Back on earth, all the trees have long vanished... (imdb)

Kids who live on a horse ranch decide to sell the excess manure as fertilizer, but their new company soon comes under fire from the state tax board. (imdb)

This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love. (imdb)

Chaim Potok's acclaimed novel is translated to the screen in this lyrical adaptation. It's World War II, and as battles rage in Europe and Asia, two young men -- one a member of the Hasidim, the other the son of a reformed Jew -- become friends in spite of their differences. (Netflix)

Two old men -- one a socially active Jewish pseudorevolutionary, the other a near-blind black building super who just wants a quiet life -- find themselves drawn into a reluctant friendship via children who think they know best, cowboy drug dealers and latino muggers.

Psycho stalks go-go dancer from Las Vegas to L.A. (imdb)

Charlie Gordon is retarded and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his dream may finally come true. But the surgery has side effects that could could kill Charlie. Can Charlie survive being just plain old "Charlie Gordon" and will his newfound romance survive this test of character? (imdb)

Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis play Gondorff and Hooker (the characters made famous by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting), two con artists who return for more action when rival gangs try to out-con each other. This time, the fix is on a boxing match. Teri Garr, Karl Malden and Oliver Reed (in the role played by Robert Shaw in the original) provide nice support in this caper film that's a worthy follow-up to the original.

A federal agent rounds up eight convicts to help fight a vicious moonshine gang. (imdb)

Corruption and dirty tricks in a senatorial campaign directed by John Lithgow, an Abbie Hoffman character played by F. Murray Abraham, not a little comedy and a heaping of social commentary a la 60's style make this a highly recommended movie. (imdb)

The decline of a once-mighty publishing magnate, fostered by poor business decisions and revenge wrought by the man's three alienated children.

When an aspiring writer claims another man's long lost work as his own, the price he must pay is more than he could have ever imagined. (imdb)

Sydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college and trained for espionage and self-defense. (imdb)

The series revolves around the lives and problems of the wealthy Walker family in the wake of the death of family patriarch William Walker, the founder of the family business Ojai Foods. (en.wikipedia.org)

A production, filmed for PBS, of Clifford Odets' 1935 play about a struggling Jewish family in the Bronx.

Jackson Maine (Cooper), a country music star on the brink of decline, discovers a talented unknown named Ally (Germanotta). As the two begin a passionate love affair, Jackson coaxes Ally into the spotlight, catapulting her to stardom. But as Ally's career quickly eclipses his own, Jack finds it increasingly hard to handle his fading glory. (imdb)

A woman from Montenegro who claims that Wolfe's long-lost adopted daughter is accused of theft at a prestigious fencing club. Her troubles increase when a club member is found stabbed to death and she is the prime suspect. As Wolfe tries to unravel the mystery, she draws him and Archie Goodwin further and further into a web of deceit, political intrigue and murder.

A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.

After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take her place. (imdb)

After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.

A young Jewish man is caught between thrilling private trysts and his repressive family in this thoughtful drama set in 1980s Brooklyn.

A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.