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Summary: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in Los Angeles.
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,970,078
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Summary: The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 100,317,794
International: $ 189,000,000
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Summary: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Release Date: January 21, 2000
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 36,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,903,404
International: $ 83,528
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Summary: It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to Berlin for the upcoming theater season. Most o...
Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Countries: Germany, Poland
Language: German
Domestic: $ 10,952
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Summary: A sarcastic playwright in LA gets new neighbors - single mom and 8 y.o. girl. His wife wants kids and babysits the girl. He doesn't want kids yet plays with her to find out how children talk - for his play. Paternal instincts?
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,300,000
Domestic: $ 49,894
International: $ 23,616
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Summary: Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 87,400
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Summary: An oddly naive man-child stalks his childhood best friend and tries to reconnect with their past.
Release Date: August 04, 2000
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 250,000
Domestic: $ 1,055,671
International: $ 126,394
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Summary: Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.
Release Date: April 12, 2002
Genres: Drama, Biography
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 275,171
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Summary: The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: AA

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 21,000,000
Domestic: $ 52,364,010
International: $ 19,078,200
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Summary: A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 50,000,000
Domestic: $ 57,386,607
International: $ 127,548,645
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Summary: After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 27,000,000
Domestic: $ 69,599,016
International: $ 4,240,224
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Summary: As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world....
Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Countries: France, Italy
Language: French
Domestic: $ 16,150
International: $ 2,574,069
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Summary: This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 7,491,839
International: $ 719,669
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Summary: "Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwrig...
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 28,032
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Summary: The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 51,680,613
International: $ 64,970,000
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Summary: After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 45,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,398,532
International: $ 18,676,786
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Summary: A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 18,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,244
International: $ 19,872
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Summary: A documentary on the personal and political life of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony Kushner. The film begins in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play "Homebody/Kabul" and runs through 2004, as he worke...
Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 24,729
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Summary: Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them...
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 63,163