Larry Meistrich

The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.

A 14-part documentary that explores the life and career of Billy Bob Thornton, chronicling his journey that led him to work on Sling Blade. The piece features plenty of interview snippets with cast, crew, friends, and family; clips from other Thornton films; the origins of the Karl Childers character; how Sling Blade shaped his career; and more.

Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.

An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.

After a college student, Danny, asks his classmate Amelia on a date, he soon learns a lesson about joking the hard way.

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their neighbourhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.

The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.

Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.

An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.

Running America is a documentary film that follows elite adventurer Charlie Engle (Running The Sahara) and the only person in the world to complete the Triple Crown of Extreme Sports, Marshall Ulrich, on their record breaking run from San Francisco to New York.

Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.

A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, she discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes.

A boy starts taking the good things in life for granted and focuses solely on his favorite video game. But when a wizard casts a spell on him turning him into an egg, he must learn how to reshape his life for the better.

Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for five days.

When a man is gifted a vintage car by his girlfriend, something deep inside him is awakened which forces him to confront who he is and what he wants out of life.

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brooklynites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.

A young man on a road trip runs into several obstacles in his search for a bathroom, which leaves his with a difficult choice.

A man prepares for a dinner date.