Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Movies

Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber....

This film tells two interwoven stories of two single-parent families in a poor, racially-mixed neighborhood in Brooklyn. The first story is about a...

A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she...

On their way home from Brooklyn, psychiatrist Vic, daughter Julie and sister Stacey run short of gas. They leave the highway to search for a petrol...

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The...

A man walks into a bar to talk about a film. Another man waits to get him to confess. A woman watches to see that he doesn't. Over the course of a...

An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins...

A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.

In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the...

A private eye has to face his demons while on a stakeout in a haunted house.

A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless...

A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.

A hand gun is passed between 22 loosely connected New Yorkers.

This is a story of tragic loss and blessed gain. This is the story of John Turnipseed, who spent his youth fighting disadvantages and hardship,...

Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age...

Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn, decides he wants out and turns to crime to fund his escape. But his plan...

A woman without very much money struggles to balance her work, family and housing situation.

Experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!

A former gang leader has a passion for rebuilding relationships.