Good Dick

2008

Habitually isolated in her quiet apartment, a vulnerable girl (Marianna Palka) with a penchant for soft-core porn ventures out to a local video store, where she meets a store clerk (Jason Ritter) who vows to break down her emotional walls and win her affections. But as he pursues her in bizarre fashion, it's clear that their budding relationship will be anything but conventional. Lead actress and screenwriter Palka makes her directorial debut.

3.0 Average Rating

Dim Sum Funeral

2009

When their mother passes away, four feuding siblings reluctantly return to Seattle to honor her final wish: to have a traditional, weeklong Chinese funeral. As the three sisters -- movie star Meimei (Steph Song), overeating Victoria (Francoise Yip) and unhappily married Elizabeth (Julia Nickson-Soul) -- and their philandering brother, Alex (Russell Wong), try to get through the week peacefully, they begin down a path toward healing.

3.0 Average Rating

Finn's Girl

2007

Following the untimely death of her partner, Nancy (Gail Maurice), Dr. Finn Jeffries (Brooke Johnson) struggles to single-handedly care for the couple's angst-addled preteen daughter, Zelly (Maya Ritter), while taking on the responsibility of running the abortion clinic Nancy founded. Yanna McIntosh, Richard Clarkin, Nathalie Toriel and Gilles Lemaire also star in this sensitive drama from co-directors Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert.

3.0 Average Rating

Personal Velocity

2002

Based on a series of short stories by Rebecca Miller (daughter of playwright Arthur Miller), these vignettes tell the story of three women (Fairuza Balk, Parker Posey and Kyra Sedgwick) trying to free themselves from the stifling constraint of the men in their lives. Balk shines as a pregnant teenager who hits the road looking for something different and finds it in a battered hitchhiker.

3.0 Average Rating

Starstruck

1982

Jackie Mullins (Jo Kennedy, doing her own new wave singing) is an aspiring star who just has to sing. And with her cousin Angus on her side, stardom might not be too far off. The two team up with a local band, The Wombats, to take their big shot at fame, fortune and celebrity -- all the while trying to save the family pub. Gillian Armstrong directs this quirky movie filled with 1980s hairdos and kangaroo costumes.

3.0 Average Rating

Mouth to Mouth

2005

While hitchhiking in Europe, disaffected teen Sherry (Ellen Page) falls in with an underground cultlike group of former prostitutes and drug addicts. Their charismatic leader (Eric Thal) wants to change the world, but Sherry soon realizes that change comes at a steep price. This gritty look at adolescent euphoria and irresponsibility is partly based on first-time director Alison Murray's real-life experiences.

3.0 Average Rating

Havoc

2005

The elegant Anne Hathaway takes off her Princess Diaries crown to play a wealthy Los Angeles teen who, along with her superficial friends, wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gansta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real. Bijou Phillips, Freddy Rodriguez and Michael Biehn co-star.

3.0 Average Rating

Guncrazy

1992

When a school assignment forces Anita (Drew Barrymore), a sexually abused teen, to get a pen pal, a genuine friendship develops between she and her correspondent, a prisoner named Howard (James LeGros). Howard wins Anita's heart with his tenderness, and the two move in together when he's released. Howard, however, is unable to shake his criminal ways, and it's only a matter of time before the lovers are on the run.

3.0 Average Rating

Wendy and Lucy

2008

With earnest hopes for a fresh start, Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) sets her sights on a high-paying job at an Alaska cannery. But her journey takes a heartbreaking detour when her beloved dog, Lucy, goes missing and her car decides to conk out in Oregon. There was a time when Wendy had nothing to lose, but now she could lose everything. Kelly Reichardt directs this nuanced drama that was nominated for a Best Feature Independent Spirit Award.

3.0 Average Rating

Clockwatchers

1997

Four women -- Iris (Toni Collette), Paula (Lisa Kudrow), Margaret (Parker Posey) and Jane (Alanna Ubach) -- work as temps at Global Credit, a stoic, faceless megacorporation where their shared employment status creates a natural affinity among them. The quartet's sense of camaraderie crumbles, however, when another woman lands a choice assignment, things begin to vanish from the workplace, and mistrust and paranoia shred their relationship.

3.0 Average Rating

Double Happiness

1995

Old-fashioned values collide with the whims of youth in this modern romantic comedy about a dutiful Chinese-Canadian daughter who wants to please her parents without sacrificing part of herself when it comes to love. Deep down, Jade (Sandra Oh) knows her mother and father won't approve of her new boyfriend, a white college student named Mark (Callum Keith Rennie). But that doesn't stop her from hoping for "double happiness."

3.0 Average Rating

30 Years to Life

2002

Six friends in New York City face emotional crises as they turn 30. For starters, we meet an investment banker who desperately wants to get married, a bitter stand-up comedian, and a real estate agent who's been struggling with her weight for years. Also foundering are a marketing executive who perceives any career advancement as a sign of getting old and a young man whose girlfriend of four years insists on a greater commitment.

3.0 Average Rating

An Invisible Sign

2010

When a puzzling disease devastates her beloved father, math prodigy Mona Gray deals with the pain by isolating herself from the rest of the world and turning for comfort to the reliable world of mathematics. But when she later teaches math to troubled grade school kids, Mona discovers that her gift can be a route back from her long emotional exile. Marilyn Agrelo directs and Jessica Alba stars in this adaptation of the book by Aimee Bender.

3.0 Average Rating

Love, Ludlow

2005

While she spends her days as a harried office temp, Myra returns home each evening to an even more chaotic world, where her eccentric younger brother, Ludlow, staves off manic episodes through his art. When Myra finds love, all hell breaks loose.

3.0 Average Rating

Particles of Truth

2003

Struggling New York City artist Lilli (Jennifer Elster) should rejoice at her upcoming show, but she can't get past the insecurity of her troubled childhood. To makes things worse, her father (Alan Samulski) is dying, and her mom (Susan Floyd) has gone over the edge. Things begin to change for Lilli when she meets Morrison (Gale Harold), a poet with his own serious problems. But the two must face their issues if they're to make it as a couple.

3.0 Average Rating

Everything Relative

1996

Reunited for a special occasion, a group of women friends -- both gay and straight -- relive their memories of their college days during the 1970s, rekindle faded friendships and ignite new romances. During their weekend in the country the friends trace the changes they've undergone in the last 20 years -- a journey that's bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. Monica Bell stars.

2.9 Average Rating