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Summary: This moving story was the swan song of actress Viveca Lindfors, who died unexpectedly soon after completing it. It's a fitting tribute, as the film explores the last performance in the ancestral home of a large family of actors.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 801,984
Summary: It narrates the trials and tribulations of a company of second-rate actors trying to revive the customs and habits of the grand guignol.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Country: France
Language: French
Summary: Al Pacino's deeply felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,408,575
Summary: A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: To satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: France
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 16,000,000
Domestic: $ 635,733
International: $ 10,243,134
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
Summary: A frustrated actor travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG

Production: Public Media Works
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,300,000
Summary: In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists. With support from the medical community, they try to raise awareness about the disease.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
Runtime: 1 h 29 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 600,000
Summary: The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: A turn-of-the-20th-century theatre repertory company rejects the latest project of their beloved playwright Tuccio, kicking off a saga of intrigue surrounding the influential critic Bevalaqua and star Celimene.
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 840,134
International: $ 26,731
Summary: Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
Release Date: February 11, 2000
Runtime: 2 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 6,208,548
International: $ 1,595,891
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
Summary: In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,190,003
International: $ 1,146,169
Summary: The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,644,736
Summary: Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this re...
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: German
Domestic: $ 13,702
International: $ 47,991
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
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
Summary: The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 29,000,000
Domestic: $ 27,383,770
International: $ 21,669,017
Summary: Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Domestic: $ 129,664