Tony Smyles Movies

An encounter between two people with a shared past and conflicting futures is played out on a split-image screen in this offbeat drama. An unnamed man (Aaron Eckhart) and woman (Helena Bonham Carter) are enjoying drinks and cigarettes in a hotel room after attending a wedding reception. At first, the two seem to be playing a flirtatious game, as he cheerfully but confidently advances toward her, and she seems at once attracted and put off by his bravado. Their pas de deux is shot and edited in split screen, with his image appearing in one half of the divided frame and hers appearing in the other. As time wears on, the man and woman begin crossing their appointed boundaries, and in some sequences one half of the frame represents the present while the other shows us events in the past. We learn that the man and woman had a tempestuous affair when they were in their late teens, and both are now committed to other people -- she has a husband, while he has a steady girl. How will the experiences of their past affect their present, and are they willing to betray their lovers for an evening's pleasure? Conversations With Other Women was the first feature film from director Hans Canosa. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Psychotherapist Dr. Ian Lazarre becomes dangerously depressed after his beloved first wife is killed in a car wreck. Though he has since married a woman who looks exactly like her, he is still unhappy and drinking heavily. Wanting to help him, his new wife and his best friend send him to a special rehab clinic. Unfortunately, this proves to be a terrible mistake for the clinic is run by a mad man looking for helpless subjects on which to test his latest experimental drug. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

After his work day ends, airline luggage-handler York Daley (Bill Pullman) has 90 minutes to run home, pick up his lover Nancy (Julie Brown), and return to the airport to catch an eight o' clock flight to Rio de Janeiro. A collection of colorful characters and bizarre mishaps guarantee that York's simple plan goes quickly and horribly wrong. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

In this odd mystery, based on the play The Astrakhan Coat by Pauline Macaulay, a group of English eccentrics conspires and connives to get a clueless young man to purchase a particularly fine leather jacket which was previously owned by one of them. Claud Thatch (Randy Harrington) sees an advertisement at the neighborhood laundromat offering the aforesaid jacket for very little money. He answers the ad, meets quite a few people in connection with it, and purchases the coat even though its cost is somewhat beyond his means. A series of misadventures follows which gradually reveal why the conspirators were so oddly eager to have Claud buy the coat. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide