Lanny Meyers

A tender showbiz saga about an aging Borscht Belter who passes the mantle to a younger comic who is about to get his big break. Offbeat and kitsch, with a striking six-foot blond chanteuse and a great stand-up sequence in The Persian Room at The Pines. Existentialism lives in the Catskills!

Why is it easier to mourn the loss of an object than the loss of a loved one?

A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.

Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.

"I, Candy" deconstructs a drawing Candy Kugel made when she was six years old. It explores her life, touching on family history, current events and societal norms of the time. In the process, she confronts anti-Semitism, channels political activism, and navigates life choices through luck and determination (and a bit of voodoo)!

"KnitWits Revisited" brings us back to the KnitWits' knitting store.

Karen Hughes, a high school ballet dancer and cheerleader, develops an addiction to shoplifting after watching a friend steal clothing from a store, but her future becomes compromised when she gets caught in the act.

Chronicles the seemingly impossible task of attending two important family obligations taking place 48 hours apart.