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Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Kelly McGillis, Jon DeVries, Adrian Pasdar, Ellen Burstyn, Julian Sands
Directed By: Mary Lambert

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Craig Archibald, Anthony Barrile, Bryan Batt, Craig Chester, Anthony DeSando

In the tradition of such hard-boiled crime films as Get Shorty and Pulp Fiction, FROGS FOR SNAKES is a sexy neo-noir thriller centering on a group of New York theatre actors who moonlight as illegal money collectors. Unlucky in love, Eva (Barbara Hershey) has the most acting ability, but she dreams of abandoning the twisted underworld and living a quieter life on the beaches of Long Island. Her ...

Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Starring: José Rafael Arango, Nikki Arlyn, David Cale, Nick Chinlund, Robbie Coltrane
Directed By: Amos Poe

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Studio Home Ent.
Starring: Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Anthony DeSando, Sherilyn Fenn, Henry Czerny
Directed By: Adrian Pasdar

Some pundits called it a flawed, exploitative action film that glamorized drug dealing and the luxury of a lucrative criminal lifestyle, spawning a trend of films that attracted youth gangs and provoked violence in theaters. Others hailed it as a breakthrough movie that depicted drug dealers as ruthless, corrupt, and evil, leading dead-end lives that no rational youth would want to emulate. ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: John Aprea, Nick Ashford, Bill Cobbs, Anthony DeSando, Flavor Flav

"Queen of the Indies" Parker Posey (Dazed and Confused, Waiting for Guffman, The Daytrippers) shines in this lightweight comedy about a romance between a floundering downtown party girl and a falafel vendor set in Manhattan's trendy loft and club scene. Posey is utterly charming as Mary, the 23-year-old whose talents are pretty much limited to "partying, flirting, making stuff ...

Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Starring: Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, Anthony DeSando, Guillermo Díaz, Donna Mitchell
Directed By: Daisy von Scherler Mayer

A black writer (Harold Perrineau, the poet in the spinning wheelchair in the HBO series Oz) is asked by his white girlfriend to give a speech about race at the racially mixed high school where she teaches. In preparation, he talks to a black friend but does the majority of the brainstorming for the speech with a white friend. Meanwhile, two black women talk sexual politics in a café, a ...

Manufacturer: Xenon
Starring: Harold Perrineau, Stephanie Berry, Anthony DeSando, Francie Swift, Lonette McKee
Directed By: Desmond Hall

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Studio Home Ent.
Starring: Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Anthony DeSando, Sherilyn Fenn, Henry Czerny
Directed By: Adrian Pasdar

Uma Thurman is painful to watch in Hysterical Blindness--and that's a compliment. Thurman completely gives herself over to her trashy character, a pathetically self-deluding good-time girl who hangs out in a tavern in Bayonne, New Jersey, circa 1987. She occupies the bar stool next to her best bud (a dead-on Juliette Lewis), willing herself to believe that an obviously indifferent pick-up ...

Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, Gena Rowlands, Justin Chambers, Ben Gazzara
Directed By: Mira Nair

Manufacturer: Unapix Consumer Products
Starring: Robert Stack, Jack Coleman, Philip Bosco, Anthony DeSando, Lisa Hartman
Directed By: James A. Contner