Stephen Adly Guirgis

Palindromes 2004

A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: Matthew Faber,Angela Pietropinto,Bill Buell,Emani Sledge,Ellen Barkin,Valerie Shusterov,Richard Masur,Hillary B. Smith,Danton Stone,Robert Agri,Hannah Freiman,Stephen Singer,Rachel Corr,Stephen Adly Guirgis,Will Denton

6.8 IMDB Rating 3,047 Views
Margaret (I) 2011

Margaret centers on a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.

Category: Drama

Stars: Anna Paquin,J. Smith-Cameron,Mark Ruffalo,Jeannie Berlin,Jean Reno,Sarah Steele,John Gallagher Jr.,Cyrus Hernstadt,Allison Janney,Kieran Culkin,Matt Damon,Stephen Adly Guirgis,Betsy Aidem,Adam Rose,Nicholas Theodore Grodin

6.4 IMDB Rating 3,106 Views