Directed By Lee Tamahori
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macphearson & Harold Perrineau

Three men (Hopkins, Baldwin, Perrineau) battle the elements and each other when their plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness.

Directed By James Foley
Based on the play by David Mamet

Starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin & Jonathan Pryce

Mamet's masterpiece about the cutthroat world of real estate salesmen. Wonderful performances all around (especially by Lemmon) but it's Baldwin who steals the whole freaking movie as a top salesman brought in to give the crew a pep talk (in a scene that wasn't even in the original play).

Directed By David Mamet
Story co-written with Jonathan Katz

Starring Joe Mantegna, Lindsay Crouse, Mike Nussbaum, J.T. Walsh & Lilia Skala

A woman (Crouse) meanders into a world of gambling and con artists led by chief scammer Mantegna.

Directed By David Mamet
Starring Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, Ed O'Neill, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara, Ricky Jay & Felicity Huffman

Stylish, Hitchcockian con game about a man (Scott) who developed a secret process and finds himself lured into a new friendship by a stranger (Martin).

Directed By David Mamet
Starring Val Kilmer, Tia Texada, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill & Steven Culp

A US secret agent (Kilmer) investigates the kidnapping of a politician's daughter only to reveal a larger conspiracy.

Directed By David Mamet
Starring William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rebecca Pidgeon, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Stiles & Alec Baldwin

Low-key comedy about a film crew that takes over a small town and the nuttiness that ensues. Baldwin is very funny as a bigshot actor with a soft spot for teenaged girls.

Directed By David Mamet
Co-written with Shel Silverstein

Starring Joe Mantegna, Don Ameche, Ricky Jay, Mike Nussbaum, William H. Macy & Robert Prosky

A shoe shine man (Ameche) that looks a lot like a Mafia don is paid to go to jail in his place. Lowly gangster (Mantegna) escorts him for one last night of fun in Lake Tahoe.

Directed By Brian DePalma
Loosely based on the book by Eliot Ness & Oscar Fraley

Starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Robert DeNiro, Charles Martin Smith & Patricia Clarkson

FBI man Eliot Ness (Costner) attempts to take down legendary gangster Al Capone (DeNiro). Connery gives a bravura, Oscar-winning performance as Jim Malone, a cop who comes to Ness' aide.

Directed By Sidney Lumet
Based on the novel by Barry Reed

Starring Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Jack Warden, Lindsay Crouse & Julie Bovasso

An alcoholic lawyer (Newman) takes on a risky medical malpractice case. Newman gives another wonderful performance.

Directed By Barry Levinson
Co-written with Hilary Henkin; Based on the book by Larry Beinhart

Starring Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson, Kirsten Dunst & William H. Macy

Satire about a political spin doctor (DeNiro) hired to fix a scandal who recruits a Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to help manufacture a war.

Directed By Neil Jordan
Based loosely on the play "The Food of Angels" by Albert Husson

Starring Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, John C. Reilly, Wallace Shawn, James Russo & Bruno Kirby

Two escaped convicts (DeNiro & Penn) masquerade as priests. The plot thickens when one of them falls for a single mother (Moore). The play "The Food of Angels" was also remade as the play "My Three Angels" which was remade as the 1955 film "We're No Angels" with Humphrey Bogart.