Movies: Stephen Root

Elmer, a sensitive duckling whose schoolmates tease him. However, after his unusual talents help him save a life, the other members of the flock learn to respect him as he is....

A young advertising executive creates the world's hottest ad campaign, only to find himself fired a week later....

Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own h...

High school senior Miles Walton joins the girls volleyball team in hopes of winning a college scholarship, which causes an uproar in his small Illinois farming town....

550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. Some stuck to one, some said more, some answered quickly, some thought it through, and some didn't a...

Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009....

A disenchanted writer takes an ill-fated journey from New York to his college reunion in Ohio in an attempt to reunite with his old college girlfriend....

After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom he's been having an affair. Hurt by his betrayal and feeling helpless against his legal expertise, B...

After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams....

Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, clandestine ritual that led to his mother's early death and his father's insanity....

The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from....

Follows two half brothers—once a loose cannon cop and the other a disciplined Navy SEAL. After 20 odd years of bad blood, they must work together to unravel the conspiracy behind their father’s murder in Hawaii....

Down-on-his luck Brian, just fired from his job, becomes an unexpected stay-at-home dad to his 10 year old son. On his first day, he accepts a playdate invitation from Jeff, another stay-at-home dad, who turns out to be an unexpected loose cannon. Th...

Life changes for three women who run a failing hotel when a mysterious man washes up at the beach....

Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional t...

Straight-laced squirrel Lance gets a splitting headache after his crazy friend Zoopie puts a tarantula in the acorn butter. To cure his pain, Zoopie takes Lance on an adventure that tests the meaning of true friendship....

Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his masterpiece, and his mother Thelma, made it her life's mission....

Short film about a new spy who is waiting on his first job. And waiting, and waiting.......

A mix of stand-up comedy and sketches, notable for its mixing of live action and computer animation. The "premise" is that a young boy is watching the show on a strange CD that his mom bought. Sketches include "Glass Booth Guy" in which a gas station...