PIECES OF APRIL (2003)

 

Written & Directed By: Peter Hedges 

Cinematography: Tami Reiker

Editor: Mark Livolsi 

Cast: Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr., Alice Drummond, Sisqo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Sean Hayes, Lillias White, Adrian Martinez 

April Burns invites her family to Thanksgiving dinner at her teeny apartment on New York's Lower East Side. As they make their way to the city from suburban Pennsylvania, April must endure a comedy of errors - like finding out her oven doesn't work - to pull off the big event.

PEPPERMINT (2018)

Directed By: Pierre Norel 
Written By: Chad St. John 
Cinematography By: David Lanzenberg 
Editor: Frederic Thoraval 


Cast: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Annie Ilonzeh, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Tyson Ritter, Richard Cabral 


An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a bank teller in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (2018)

Directed By: Desiree Ahkavan 
Written By: Desiree Ahkavan & Cecilia Frugiuele 
Based On The Novel By: Emily M. Danforth 
Cinematography By: Ashley Connor 
Editor: Sara Shaw 


Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Jennifer Ehle, John Gallagher Jr., Marin Ireland, Emily Skeggs, Quinn Shephard, Dalton Harrod, Forrest Goodluck 


In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.

PIECES OF APRIL (2001)

Written & Directed By: Peter Hedges 
Cinematography By: Tami Reiker 
Editor: Mark Livolsi 


Cast: Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr., Isiah Whitlock Jr., Alice Drummond, Adrian Martinez 

 In a very poor zone of New York, April Burns and her boyfriend, the Afro-American Bobby, are preparing to receive April's family for thanksgiving dinner. While Bobby tries to borrow a suit for himself, April realizes that her stove is broken. She tries desperately to find a neighbor that can let her cook the turkey, since she does not want to fail (again) with her family. Meanwhile, in a suburb of Pennsylvania, her dysfunctional family is preparing to travel to New York. While driving, the relationship between the Burns and their black-sheep April is disclosed through the conversations between her father Jim, her resented mother Joy, her brother, her sister and her grandmother.

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT (2017)

Directed by: Greg McLean 
Written By: James Gunn 
Cinematography by: Luis David Sansas 
Edited By; Julia Wong 


Cast: John Gallagher Jr., Adria Arjona, Tony Goldwyn, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Sean Gunn, Owain Yeoman, Josh Brenner, Michael Rooker, Abraham Benrubi, Brent Sexton, Gregg Henry, Rusty Schwimmer, James Earl 


In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.

HUSH (2016)

Directed & Edited By: Mike Flanagan 
Written By: Mike Flanagan & Kate Siegel 
Cinematography By: James Kniset 


Cast: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan, Emilia Graves


*Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this
review

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (2016)

Directed By: Dan Trachtenberg 
Story By: Josh Campbell & Matthew Steucken 
Written By: Josh Campbell , Matthew Steucken & Damien Chazelle 
Cinematography By: Jeff Cutter 
Editor: Stefan Grube 


Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr. 


WARNING: Spoilers abound 

*Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review