Abe Levy Movies
- 2008
- R
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A Seattle morning show weather girl must struggle to pull her life together after committing career suicide before a live audience in this existential crisis comedy featuring Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer, and Jane Lynch. Sylvia (Tricia O'Kelley) was a notable fixture on Seattle's most popular morning television program before she discovered that her boyfriend, Dale (Harmon), the show's anchor, was cheating on her with his co-host, Sherry (Kaitlin Olson). Her career in television implodes in just the time it takes to have an on-air meltdown, and Sylvia is forced to move in with her slacker brother, Walt (Ryan Devlin), while she tries to get back on her feet. Now Sylvia is 35, unemployed, and single. No one will hire her for fear that she may flip out on a moment's notice, but Walt's best friend, Byron (Patrick J. Adams), sees something in Sylvia that no one else seems to notice. Now, as Walt attempts to show Sylvia that there's more to life than fame and fortune, the woman whose life has just fallen apart wages a valiant effort to finally get over herself and discover the secret to living a more meaningful life. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tricia O'Kelley, Patrick J. Adams, (more)
- 2007
A young couple desperate to conceive enters into a slow-burn battle of wills with the surrogate mother who agreed to help them, and the man who has subsequently fallen in love with her, in director Abe Levy's intimate family drama. When a childless thirtysomething couple discovers that they are unable to birth a child, they enlist the aid of a willing young woman in bringing their baby to term. Trouble soon arises, however, when the man's boss unexpectedly falls for the surrogate and decides that he's fairly keen on fatherhood as well. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Josh Randall, Claire Rankin, (more)
Three brothers return home to attend their late father's wake, only to find that the only hope for moving in is to finally sort through their own quandaries, flaws, and failings in director Christopher Jaymes' quirky, seriocomic reunion film. Their father was Hollywood royalty, so what does that make the three wayward sons? As the day begins and the wake commences, the three boys become so wrapped up in their own immediate problems that they nearly forget to grieve. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeremy Sisto, Christopher Jaymes, (more)
A small-town writer takes pause to reassess his wild life of drunken debauchery in director Mitchell Altieri's reflective comedy drama. Conrad Stevens (Joe Egender) is about to turn thirty, yet despite his wild nights spent partying with his roommates at the bachelor pad they've taken to calling "The Palace," Connie can't help but feeling that something is missing from his once-charmed life. Feeling stifled in his suburban hometown and trapped in an endless cycle of raucous boozing and non-committal babes, Conrad decides that maybe it's time to make a change from the ordinary and break the everyday cycle. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2000
A man decides it's time to grow up -- but isn't about to leave the nest in the process -- in this offbeat comedy. Ben (Christopher Jaymes) is an eccentric and immature man in his early twenties who has begun making tentative steps into the world of adulthood, at least in terms of his love life. Ben shares a house with his mother and sister, the latter of whom makes friends with unusual ease when it comes to men. After Ben belatedly loses his virginity to a girl from the neighborhood, he sets his sights on Sam (Jorja Dwyer), a 16-year-old who soon agrees to move in with him. Of course, having Mom and Sis around doesn't exactly help this budding romance go smoothly. Shot on high-definition video, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Trying) was the second feature from independent writer/director Abe Levy. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christopher Jaymes
- 1999
Treasure Island is an experimental, 16 mm black-and-white drama written, directed, and photographed by producer Scott King. The loosely constructed plot shows the private lives of two British code-crackers (Lance Baker and Nick Offerman) during WWII who decode letters and look for hidden meanings behind the words. As a counterintelligence ploy, they decide to drop a dead body off the coast of Japan before a discovered invasion. The film then turns to these men's personal lives and the problems with the women they love, along with the secrets they hide. Frank is married to two women yet is pursing a third, while Samuel and his wife Penny are in a ménage à trois. As the pressures of their lives begin to eat away at them, the dead body starts to enter Frank and Samuel's subconscious, interacting with the private stories of their lives. The film continually asks the question, "What is real and what is fiction?" Treasure Island won the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Arthur Borman, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lance Baker, Nick Offerman, (more)
