Some Well-Connected Movies
Hope Floats

Birdee Calvert must choose between her morals and her heart after her husband divorces her and a charming young man, who her daughter disapproves of, comes back into her life.
1998
Gena Rowlands
actor
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

"After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the """"Ya-Yas"""", her mother's girlhood friends."
2002
James Garner
actor
Alex & Emma

A writer must turn out a novel in thirty days or face the wrath of loan sharks.
2003
Jeremy Leven
writer
John Q

John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.
2002
Nick Cassavetes
director
Hollywood Shuffle

An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.
1987
Starletta DuPois
actor
The Notebook
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
2004
Gena Rowlands
actor
James Garner
actor
Jeremy Leven
writer
Nick Cassavetes
director
Starletta DuPois
actor
The Skeleton Key

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
2005
Gena Rowlands
actor
The Ultimate Gift

"A deceased billionaire leaves his spoiled adult grandson a series of odd tasks to perform in order to receive """"the ultimate gift,"""" with the resentful grandson having no idea what that might be."
2006
James Garner
actor
My Sister's Keeper

Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive.
2009
Jeremy Leven
writer
My Sister's Keeper

2009
Nick Cassavetes
director