My Favorite Rentals

Flirting with Disaster
Ben Stiller, Tea Leoni, Patricia Arquette, Lily Tomlin, Alan Alda,
Mary Tyler Moore
  Arquette and Stiller are a young married couple with a newborn who have resorted to setting dates to have sex. Stiller seeks the help of Leoni to locate his biological parents which eventually takes the trio on an adventure across the country running into all kinds of nut cases. This absurd comedy really takes you beyond strangness but keeps you laughing all the way through.

Two Days in the Valley
Danny Aiello, Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Teri Hatcher
  Aiello plays a washed up hit man who gets back in the business for a job with James Spader to take out Teri Hatcher's ex-husband. Hatcher plays a seemingly naive olympic skier who wakes up covered in blood with her ex lying next to her. Stoltz is the beat cop who happens upon the crime scene and plays the wanna-be detective to try and solve this twisted, off-beat murder mystery.

Playing God
David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Anjelina Jolie
  Duchovny is the former surgeon who had his medical license revoked after losing a patient when he tried to operate while doped up. Duchovny saves a man's life after a shooting in a bar he frequents to buy drugs. Timothy Hutton is brilliant as the twisted arms smuggler who wants to thank Duchovny for saving his friend's live by paying him for saving saving his goons after shootings go awry. Jolie is Hutton's girlfriend who falls for Duchovny. Look for unexpected twists in this dark drama.

Sliding Doors
Gwenyth Paltrow, Jean Tripplehorn
    This refreshingly unique film shows the different paths a young PR exective's (Paltrow) life takes after being fired from her job based on whether she misses or catches her train. When she catches the train she ends up meeting a man who she ends up falling in love with. When she misses her train she finds her live in boyfriend in bed with another woman (Tripplehorn). The first time director, Peter Howitt, takes the viewer back and forth between both realities, making for a very interesting movie.

True Romance
Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, Michael Rappaport
    True Romance as it's title suggests is a romance disquised by violence. Written by Quentin Tarantino, this film is the real "Pretty Woman," the story of a prostitute (Arquette) who meets her night in shining armour (Slater) who rescues her from that life and kills her former pimp. The two flee with a stolen bag of cocaine in hopes of selling it to start a new life. The couple is relentlessly pursued by Walken, the owner of the stolen coke. What ensues is a bloody masacre where only the two lovebirds are left standing, and that is True Romance.