Elana Krausz Movies
A pretty San Francisco teen clings to her innocence while embracing a career as an adult-film starlet in this gritty drama featuring James Franco, Lili Taylor, and Heather Graham. Enticed into posing nude by her depraved boyfriend (Jonny Weston), shy high-school student Angelica ( Ashley Hinshaw) falls into the world of fetish photography, which she begins to see as a means of escaping her dead-end life. Meanwhile, as she weighs her options and struggles to be a good role model for her impressionable younger sister, her shrewd mother (Taylor) and shady stepfather offer little solace. Under the guidance of a sensitive female porn director (Graham), Angelica stands a good chance of becoming a big star. But as the conflicted teen bares her soul to her understanding best friend (Dev Patel), she also finds herself falling under the spell of a drug-addicted lawyer (Franco) who may be her undoing. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
A wedding brings together one very dysfunctional family in this dark comedy-drama. Lynn (Ellen Barkin) was married to Paul (Thomas Haden Church), but they split up on bad terms, and Lynn took custody of their daughter Alice (Kate Bosworth) while Paul got their son Dylan (Michael Nardelli). Years later, Lynn attends Dylan's wedding at Paul's estate, with her younger sons Elliott (Ezra Miller) and Ben (Daniel Yelsky) in tow; Elliott is a chronically depressed drug addict and Ben prefers to look at life through a camera than confront the world head on. Meanwhile, Alice deals with her anxieties through cutting, Dylan hasn't spoken to Lynn in years, Lynn is fearful of Paul and his wife Patty (Demi Moore), Lynn's mother (Ellen Burstyn) blames her daughter for her family's many troubles, and her father (George Kennedy) is in poor health and hardly cares what's happening around him. To the surprise of no one, all this has left Lynn an emotional wreck, and she's not sure just how she's going to get through the day. Another Happy Day was the first feature film from writer and director Sam Levinson, and received its world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ellen Barkin, Thomas Haden Church, (more)
A Venice Beach detective investigates the death of his estranged daughter, and struggles with the fact that his little girl led a particularly sordid lifestyle. After discovering a collection of videotapes in which his daughter is seen cavorting with a series of unidentified men, the father's rage swells as his list of suspects begins to grow. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2010
A woman makes her way through a surreal landscape in the wake of a horrible accident in this independent drama. A woman from Oregon (Lindsay Pulsipher) finds herself behind the wheel of a car, bleeding from her head and battered from head to toe. She staggers from the wreckage to discover two people lying on the ground in front of the car, and she has no memory of what happened, where she is or even what her name is. The woman tries to make her way to safety, and as the day wears on she's confronted with one bizarre situation after another as she meets a parade of threatening strangers, ranging from a witch to a man in a fuzzy green monster costume. The Oregonian was the first feature film from writer and director Calvin Lee Reeder; the picture was an official selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 2009
Three stunning strippers exact devastating revenge on their greedy club owner in director Elana Krausz's darkly comic thriller. Lily used to dance, but these days she's the manager of a seedy strip joint. Wise yet submissive, she's managed to keep her cool after years of mistreatment and objectification. Over the course of the next 24 hours, however, Lily will finally get the opportunity to take back control of her life. Lily is about to experience a transformation, but like any fundamental change, it won't come easy. Her contemptuous and paranoid husband Larry, the owner of the club, has just caught the attention of a judgmental IRS agent named Francis. Buckling under the pressure, Larry is about to go off the deep end when Lily, jaded stripper Cara, and naïve newcomer Wren hatch a plan that will finally give their vicious boss the comeuppance he deserves. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ian Ziering, Elana Krausz, (more)
A disturbed health inspector begins a surreal descent into madness when her marriage fails, her mental health begins to plummet, and her obsession with kung fu movies drives her to seek vengeance against the Ten Tigers from Kwangtung in director Gregory Hatanaka's experimental psychological thriller. Therese's (Sarah Lassez) life is falling apart; her husband has abandoned her, her affair with a sleazy televangelist has left her sexually frustrated, and her brother may have poisoned her with some particularly bad meat. Now, as Therese begins to succumb to her all-consuming nymphomania and her doctor begins to suspect that there truly is something wrong despite her outwardly healthy appearance, the delusional slaughterhouse inspector begins the rigorous training that will allow her to take on the dreaded Ten Tigers from Kwangtung in an all-out bloodbath that could claim the lives of more than a few of her recent lovers. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sarah Lassez, James Duval, (more)
A pair of terminal agoraphobics who have remained in their home for fifteen years discover just how terrifying the outside world can truly be in a tense psychological thrillerstarring Christopher Dimassis and Christie Lynn Smith. Ida and Irwin are homebodies to the absolute extreme. When Ida makes a desperate bid to leave the house and break free of their luxurious prison, a series of vivid hallucinations cause events to quickly spiral out of control. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Christo DiMassis, Christie Lynn Smith, (more)
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