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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York · 2026

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

★ 6.32026

MovieCrimeDrama

Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily cancelled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosie. When he unwittingly purloins and fences a valuable USB stick, Harry finds himself in a race against time to return the loot or face the rage of a vengeful crime family.

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.

Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

Between the Temples · 2024

Between the Temples

★ 5.62024

MovieComedyDrama

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.

In an effort to land the guy she's been pining after since grade school, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica to teach her everything she needs to know about confidence and sex.

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York · 2026

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

★ 6.32026

MovieCrimeDrama

Second Assistant Director

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.

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A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

Second Assistant Director

Between the Temples · 2024

Between the Temples

★ 5.62024

MovieComedyDrama

Second Assistant Director

A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.

Second Assistant Director

In an effort to land the guy she's been pining after since grade school, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica to teach her everything she needs to know about confidence and sex.

Additional Second Assistant Director

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Second Assistant Director

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.

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Omni Loop · 2024

Omni Loop

★ 6.02024

MovieScience FictionDrama

Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.

Second Assistant Director

A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman he encounters on a New York subway.

Second Assistant Director

12 Mighty Orphans · 2021

12 Mighty Orphans

★ 7.22021

MovieHistoryDrama

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

Second Assistant Director

After eight-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a brutal assault, she begins acting out violently to protect herself. This emotional trauma leads to conflicts between her parents as they search for justice and a way to feel safe again.

Second Assistant Director

Bad Asses on the Bayou · 2015

Bad Asses on the Bayou

★ 5.92015

MovieComedyAction

The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega and Bernie Pope, as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez. What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our senior heroes to once again serve justice.

Second Assistant Director

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses · 2014

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses

★ 6.12014

MovieAction

Vietnam vet Frank Vega now runs an East L.A. community center where he trains young boxers to survive in and out of the ring. But when his prize student falls in with the wrong crowd and turns up dead, Frank teams up with his pal Bernie to take matters into their own fists and prove that justice never gets old.

Second Assistant Director

30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo · 2013

30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

★ 4.02013

MovieComedy

After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, a young woman returns to the house where her father killed the entire cast of The Artist during his exorcism.

Second Assistant Director

After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.

Second Assistant Director

Blow the Man Down · 2019

Blow the Man Down

★ 6.22019

MovieDramaMystery

While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.

Second Assistant Director

Mike Hoolihan is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell, a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. As Mike tumbles down the rabbit hole of the disturbing, labyrinthine case, she finds herself grappling with increasingly existential questions of quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and exploding stars. The hunt for a killer draws a detective into an even larger mystery: the nature of the universe itself.

Second Assistant Director

The Hungover Games · 2014

The Hungover Games

★ 4.12014

MovieComedy

Each year, drunk people are selected to participate in torturous games the morning after a big night out. There's no sunglasses, no water, and no headache medicine. "The Hungover Games," a film that manages to merge the premises of both "The Hunger Games" and "The Hangover" and throw in references to "Ted," "Django Unchained," "The Lord of the Rings," "Carrie," "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and whatever else crossed the writers' fevered brains during the probably very drunken "development process."

Second Assistant Director

It's a Wonderful Binge · 2022

It's a Wonderful Binge

★ 4.92022

MovieComedy

Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge. This year, that day happens to miraculously land on Christmas.

Second Assistant Director

A comedic spoof based on the worldwide phenomenon "The Twilight Saga."

Second Assistant Director

In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.

Second Assistant Director

We the Animals · 2018

We the Animals

★ 6.52018

MovieDrama

Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.

Second Assistant Director

Joe Pera Talks With You · 2018

Joe Pera Talks With You

★ 8.02018

SeriesComedy

A teacher in Michigan's Upper Peninsula explores subject matters such as pancakes, blueberries, eggs, toast, sausage, bacon, English muffins, coffee, orange juice, maple syrup, waffles, cornbread, and strawberries.

Second Assistant Director