The Off Hours

2010

Short-order waitress Francine works the night shift at a freeway diner, waiting for her real life to begin and wondering if it ever will. When truck driver Oliver begins showing up at her counter, it looks as if she may have her answer.

2.6 Average Rating

The End of Innocence

1990

Stephanie Lewis (Dyan Cannon) is an overachiever who's determined to be everything to everybody -- the perfect daughter, employee and lover ... in essence, the perfect woman. But Stephanie's life doesn't measure up to that lofty goal. When she reaches a crisis point and falls apart, she's forced to leave everything behind and embark on a journey toward self-discovery. Co-stars John Heard and Bridget Fonda.

2.6 Average Rating

Border Radio

1987

Los Angeles punk rocker Jeff absconds to Mexico with money owed him for a gig. Problem is, Jeff stole the cash from the club's safe. His band mate and roadie desperately want to locate their friend and get their hands on their share of the loot.

2.6 Average Rating

Tanner Hall

2009

A hint of Jane Austen runs through this coming-of-age drama set in a New England boarding school for the daughters of the rich. The arrival of Victoria (Georgia King), a manipulative new pupil, quickly signals the end of innocence for returning student Fernanda (Rooney Mara). In short order, the preppy, tranquil atmosphere of knee socks and cardigans at Tanner Hall gives way to a world of tangled emotions among the schoolgirls.

2.6 Average Rating

The Tollbooth

2004

Determined to make it big in the New York City art world -- and to live an unconventional life -- 22-year-old Sarabeth Cohen (Marla Sokoloff) can't shake the influence of her domineering Jewish-American parents (Ronald Guttman and Tovah Feldshuh). But as Sarabeth's family starts to come apart at the seams, she's forced to make a tough choice in director Debra Kirschner's witty indie comedy. Rob McElhenney plays Sarabeth's gentile boyfriend.

2.6 Average Rating

Freak Weather

1999

Selfish and despicable Penny (Jacqueline McKenzie) and her son (Jacob Chase) have just been booted out of Penny's boyfriend's apartment. And for the next 48 hours, the dispossessed twosome shuttles around Los Angeles in Penny's truck, conjuring a plan to get back on the boyfriend's good side -- and get off the street. Costars Aida Turturro as a freaked-out drug addict (shades of her role on "The Sopranos"). Written and directed by Mary Kuryla.

2.6 Average Rating

Shooting Livien

2004

Struggling New York musician John Livien (Jason Behr) is on the brink of true success, but his powerful inner demons threaten to derail his band mates' (Dominic Monaghan and Joshua Leonard) dreams of stardom. Sarah Wynter and Ally Sheedy co-star in writer-director Rebecca Cook's pared-down look at rock 'n' roll on the road, inspired by her fascination with the Beatles and, more specifically, John Lennon.

2.5 Average Rating

The Random Girl

2005

They call him the "Lone Wolf Lover," though most of his reputation might be in his own mind. When the Wolf is challenged at his best friend's bachelor party to seduce a random woman, he isn't worried at first -- but nothing's prepared him for this! And when his buddy's marriage gets put on the line as part of the bet, the pressure's on for the Wolf to come through and do the right thing … maybe for the first time in his life.

2.5 Average Rating

Slitch

2003

Director Dianne Bellino helms this inventive short film about a teenage girl's summertime crush on a heartbreakingly scatterbrained surfer boy (Will Oldham), who just happens to be a member of the band that provides the soundtrack. A set list of original tracks by the Continental OP includes "Faster," "La La La," "Glock," "Heavy Minor," "Fantasy," "Acoustic Minor," "James Tired" and "Magnifico," plus Bellino's video for "Come In."

2.5 Average Rating

Crush

1992

A dark, comic tale of seduction, Crush follows Lane (Marcia Gay Harden), whose reckless driving leaves her friend Christina hospitalized. Like a bull in a china shop, Lane wreaks havoc and then flees the scene -- and heads straight into the lives of a novelist and his teenage daughter. Lane quickly befriends the girl and, in short order, seduces her father. Also includes director Alison Maclean's acclaimed short film "The Kitchen Sink."

2.5 Average Rating

Suspicious River

2000

Self-destructive, fatalistic, married receptionist Leila Murray (Molly Parker) plays prostitute to several willing guests in the hotel where she works, and she spirals into a heated romance with a sadistic lodger who allows her to be raped. It all started off as a means for her to make more money, but soon, it seems that her behavior might lead her to the same fate as her mother, who was brutally murdered.

2.5 Average Rating

The Girls' Room

2000

Two college roommates -- prim and proper Grace (Cat Taber) and wild and woolly Casey (Soleil Moon Frye) -- find themselves in a tense rivalry when Casey's conduct almost destroys Grace's engagement to preppie heartthrob Charlie (Wil Wheaton). Not too high-minded to seek revenge, Grace cozies up to Casey's pal Joey (Gary Wolf), setting off a cycle of envy and mistrust that may destroy both women's lives in director Irene Turner's well-paced indie.

2.5 Average Rating

Shem

2006

Disenchanted and disconnected with his Jewish heritage -- and everything else in his life -- Daniel (Ash Newman) is prompted by his grandmother to embark on a journey across Europe to locate his grandfather's final resting place. What begins as an indulgent trip abroad transforms into a quest of self-discovery. Jumping from city to city at a frenetic pace, Caroline Roboh's film explores the foundation of family in personal identity.

2.5 Average Rating

Change of Life

2009

After his lesbian daughter kills herself on the air during his call-in radio show, stridently anti-gay pastor Gary Catell (Denny Dey) wakes up to discover that time has moved backward and that he has a second chance to save his girl. But this time around, Gary finds himself on the receiving end of the spite he himself so recently espoused. Amy McClung directs this provocative drama that co-stars Alexis Pelfrey and Vince Mollica.

2.5 Average Rating

Tenement

1985

After a gang of armed, rat-eating, drug-addicted punks moves into the basement of a Bronx tenement, the superintendent turns them over to the cops. Unfortunately, the vicious criminals get set free and come back for revenge. Now, the residents must fight back to defend themselves in this gritty urban nightmare, fearlessly directed by Roberta Findlay. The 1985 film was released without a rating after the MPAA threatened to give it an X rating.

2.5 Average Rating

IFilm: Four and a Half Women

1998

This urbane comedy from writer-director Emily Baer explores the bonds of four attractive roommates living in New York City. When Wall Street genius Amy (Marin Hinkle) finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, her decision to keep the baby affects everyone around her. Though her housemates (Isabel Gillies, Callie Thorne and Brooke Hailey) are struggling to get a grip on life, they try to put aside their troubles to help single mom Amy.

2.5 Average Rating