Sylva Kelegian Movies

This adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged tells the first installment in the story of a dystopian future in which a collectivist society has forced the great thinkers of the world to go on strike, leaving the functioning world without scientists, engineers, philosophers, or artists. Set against this stark backdrop, a railroad heiress named Dagny Taggart tries to bring her failing company back from the brink with the development of a new alloy to repair breaks in the lines, and hopefully calm the business' vital corporate partnership with an oil company. But with the endless bureaucracy of an evil and corrupt government fighting her at every turn, and her own inept brother battling her for control, Dagny soon finds that in order to set things right in her world, things must be set right in the world at large. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Two lonely adults in New York City engage in an unusual mating dance in the atmospheric comedy/drama Sometime in August. Marcia (Sylva Kelegian) has often been disappointed in love and has just gone through yet another painful breakup, while a ghost of her older self (Terry Keane) often visits to remind her of her failings. In hopes of making her life more interesting, she hires a man named Igor (Michael Medeiros) who poses as a private investigator. Marcia assumes another personality, which she wants Igor to follow. Soon Igor, pretending to be a detective, is trailing Marcia, who is pretending to be another woman. An attraction develops between the two, but will they ever be able to share their real selves with each other? Sometime in August had its premier at the 1999 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A young girl from a wealthy family is killed in a suspicious fire. Confronted with an incriminating answering-machine message, the teenaged stepbrother of the victim confesses. Things take an even more sinister turn when D.A. Schiff (Steven Hill) tangles with the wealthy and well-connected grandfather of the accused. Robert Vaughn makes his first Law & Order appearance as powerful, paranoiac millionaire Carl Anderton. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi