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Gramercy Pictures is a film distributor, originally launched in May 1992, as a joint venture of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Gramercy, a so-called "mini-major," was the distributor of PolyGram movies in the United States a.nd Canada, and also served as Universal's art-house division.
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(1994)Filmography of Gramercy Pictures (71 films)
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No Looking Back (1998)
, 1h36Directed by Edward Burns
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lauren Holly, Edward Burns, Jon Bon Jovi, Susan May Pratt, Connie Britton, Jennifer Esposito
Charlie Ryan (Burns) returns to his hometown after failed attempts at unmentioned endeavors in California. It becomes apparent that his mother no longer finds Charlie's Kerouac-like tendencies to be entertaining as one of her first greetings is telling Charlie she's not going to put up with his crap this time.
The Big Lebowski (1998)
, 1h57Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Films about pornography, Buddy films
Actors Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, David Huddleston
In 1991 Los Angeles, slacker Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is assaulted in his home by two thugs (Mark Pellegrino and Philip Moon) who demand money that the wife of a Jeffrey Lebowski owes to a man named Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara). The two soon realize they have attacked the wrong Jeffrey Lebowski and leave, but not before one of them urinates on The Dude's rug.
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
, 1h53Directed by Whit Stillman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin, Tara Subkoff, Robert Sean Leonard
In the early 80s Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale), two young Hampshire College graduates. work in a New York publishing house as poorly paid readers. After work they are able to enter an exclusive disco nightclub where Alice is hoping to meet Jimmy Steinway (Mackenzie Astin), who works in advertising and uses the nightclub to entertain clients. Jimmy is ill-tempered because he has been barred from bringing clients to the nightclub and is eventually kicked out by his friend Des McGrath (Chris Eigeman), who works as a manager at the club but whose job is in jeopardy for allowing Jimmy and his clients inside.
Elizabeth (1998)
, 2h4Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Clive Owen
In 1558, the Roman Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke) dies of a cancerous tumour in her uterus, leaving her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) as queen. Elizabeth had previously been jailed for a supposed conspiracy to murder Mary but has now been freed for her coronation. The film shows Elizabeth being courted by suitors, including Henry, Duc d'Anjou (Vincent Cassel), the future King Henry III of France and Poland, whom she rejects, and urged by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Richard Attenborough) to marry, which, as he states, would secure her throne. Instead, she has a secret affair with her childhood sweetheart, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Joseph Fiennes). The affair is, however, no secret from Cecil, who makes it clear that a monarch has no private life. Elizabeth deals with various threats to her reign, including Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (Christopher Eccleston); her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, who conspires to have her murdered; Mary's mother, Mary of Guise (Fanny Ardant), who brings French troops into Scotland to attack Elizabeth's forces when they invade.
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Neil LaBute
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric, Ben Stiller
Set in an unnamed American city, two urban, middle-class couples deal with their unhappy relationships by lying and cheating in their quest for happiness. Jerry (Stiller), is a theater instructor who is married to Terri (Keener), a writer who is alienated and unfulfilled with his love-making skills. Jerry and Terri have dinner with Mary (Brenneman), a writer friend of Terri's, and Barry (Eckhart) a business executive who is oblivious to his wife's unhappiness. During dinner, Mary talks about writing a local newspaper column about bickering couples and their troubles, while Barry does not think that other couple problems are anyone else's concern. After dinner, Jerry discreetly asks Mary out on a date. Mary, out of frustration, accepts.
I Want You (1998)
, 1h27Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Labina Mitevska, Ben Daniels, Luka Petrušić, Carmen Ejogo
Martin (Nivola) is an ex-convict who returns home and finds that Helen (Weisz), his former girlfriend, is involved with someone else. Despite this, he pursues her.
Reach the Rock (1998)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors William Sadler, Alessandro Nivola, Karen Sillas, Bruce Norris, Brooke Langton, Norman Reedus
A small-town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Clay Pigeons (1998)
, 1h44Directed by David Dobkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Georgina Cates, Gregory Sporleder, Phil Morris
Clay Bidwell is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their affair as if nothing has happened.
Return to Paradise (1998)
, 1h51Directed by Joseph Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga, Joel de la Fuente
Three friends, Lewis McBride (Joaquin Phoenix), Sheriff (Vince Vaughn) and Tony (David Conrad), are seen having a fun vacation in a Malaysian paradise. Their adventures include being almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle, and being pressured into buying some rhinoceros horn from Malaysian locals. The three men wind up at their beach front house on the ocean pondering their future in the island paradise.
Thursday (1998)
, 1h27Directed by Skip Woods
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, Paulina Porizkova, James LeGros, Paula Marshall, Michael Jeter
The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a small-time drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to hurry up. Conflicts between Nick and the cashier (Luck Hari) ensue, resulting in Dallas shooting the cashier dead. Though the three attempt to cover up the crime, they are forced to also shoot a police officer (Bari K. Willerford) when he discovers blood on the ground.
When We Were Kings (1997)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Documentary films about sports, Le boxe anglaise
Actors George Plimpton, Spike Lee, Norman Mailer, Malick Bowens, Miriam Makeba, Drew Bundini Brown
En 1974, à Kinshasa, capitale du Zaïre, a lieu une rencontre historique entre les deux poids lourds les plus reputés des Etats-Unis, Mohammed Ali, alias Cassius Clay, et George Foreman. A trente-deux ans, Ali va tenter de reconquérir le titre de champion du monde face à Foreman, vingt-cinq ans, auréolé de ses victoires sur Frazier et Norton. Le 30 octobre, le stade de Kinshasa ouvre ses grilles à 4 heures du matin.
Gridlock'd (1997)
, 1h25Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Thandie Newton, Charles Fleischer, Bokeem Woodbine, James Pickens Jr.
Set in Detroit, Gridlock'd centers around heroin addicts Spoon (Tupac Shakur), Stretch (Tim Roth) and Cookie (Thandie Newton). They are all in a band together in the spoken word genre. They go by the name of Eight Mile Road, with Cookie on the vocals, Spoon on the bass guitar (plus secondary vocals), and Stretch on the piano. Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their habit after Cookie overdoses on her first hit. Throughout a disastrous day, the two addicts dodge police and local criminals while struggling with an apathetic government bureaucracy that thwarts their entrance into a rehabilitation program.
Bean (1997)
, 1h30Directed by Mel Smith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Peinture, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, John Mills, Burt Reynolds, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a well meaning, but hopelessly clumsy and destructive security guard, at the Royal National Gallery in London, though his reputation for sleeping on the job compels the board of directors to attempt to fire him, they are thwarted by the chairman (Sir John Mills) who is sympathetic with him. In order to rid themselves of Bean, the board send him to Los Angeles to represent them at the unveiling of the portrait Whistler's Mother. The famous painting has been purchased for $50 million by the fictional Grierson Art Gallery with a grant from General Newton (Burt Reynolds). Bean's visit is arranged by the gallery's curator, David Langley (Peter MacNicol), who, impressed with the National Gallery's false profile of "Dr. Bean", agrees to accommodate Bean in his house for two months, much to the chagrin of his wife Allison (Pamela Reed), son Kevin (Andrew Lawrence) and daughter Jennifer (Tricia Vessey), who subsequently leave for Allison's mother's house.
How to Be a Player (1997)
, 1h33Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bill Bellamy, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Lark Voorhies, Bernie Mac, Mari Morrow, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins
Dray JACKSON est fiancé à Lisa, mais sa passion pour les femmes fait de lui un "jongleur". Lisa ne sait pas qu'il la trompe avec un nombre impressionnant de filles et il fait tout pour qu'elle n'en sache rien. Sa devise: "un bon jongleur ne se fait jamais griller!" va être mise à rude épreuve quand sa soeur, aidée d'une amie, décide de le piéger. Quand une actrice, une femme mariée (et son mari asthmatique), une Baba Cool, une Sado Maso, la fiancée, le jongleur et sa soeur se retrouvent à la même soirée, il n'y a plus qu'une chose à faire pour Dray: déclencher un "69 911"...
Going All the Way (1997)
, 1h43Directed by Mark Pellington
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Jeremy Davies, Ben Affleck, Amy Locane, Rachel Weisz, Rose McGowan, Jill Clayburgh
Two men return home to Indiana after they served time in the Army during the Korean War.