BLIND



BILL OAKLAND, a one time best selling novelist, suffered an accident leaving him blind. When SUZANNE is sentenced to community service she finds herself reading to a washed up BILL. Their lives become entangled as they both begin to learn that life is more than what you see.

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER, and DIANE FISHER. Executive Producers MICHAEL MAILER and MIKE NICHOLS. Written by JOHN BUFFALO MAILER.


   BORDER CROSSES



On a warm fall afternoon in the badlands of South Texas, best friends Lon Townsend and Bucky Tompson climb into a pickup truck for what starts out to be a fun weekend trip to the border town of Piegras Negras (Black Rock). Little do they know, before the trip is over they will have changed their lives forever as well as the lives of everyone they run into. Lon finds in Robert Gaston, a 70 year old rancher/attorney, the friend his father never was and the direction his life never had. Facing the toughest battle of his life, Gaston displays the toughness he has always known and finds the heart he has often neglected. Set against the backdrop of the wars being fought along the Texas/Mexico border everyday, wars pitting multi-generational Texas ranchers against money depraved Mexican drug runners, Lon and Gaston learn to live with dignity and to die with honor and that it is never too late to love. This is a story about Good vs. Evil and the consequences when their borders cross.  

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER and CHUCK PHEIFER Starring SAM SHEPARD Written by GARY LANKFORD






   DOG EAT DOG



A gritty crime noir about three cons who survive on the street through murder for hire.

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER and AL HAYES. Written and Directed by RICHARD STRATTON.



   THE HUNT



After an accidental murder, three mail-order brides are pursued and hunted across the most remote parts of the California desert.  Only by banding together can the unlikely trio survive.

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER and EDWARD BASS. Written by JEREMY WORKMAN and JUDD BLOCH. Directed by JEREMY WORKMAN.



   THE LEDGE



A veteran cop, HOLLIS, discovers that his wife has been having sex with someone else and that even his children are not his own.  GAVIN NICHOLS steps onto the seventh floor ledge of a twelve-story building and prepares himself to jump. The distraught Hollis is called to save the jumper. But this is no ordinary suicide. As the two men talk, the jumper slowly reveals the strange set of circumstances that forced him up there.

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER. Written and Directed by MATTHEW CHAPMAN.



   ROLEPLAY



A 25-year-old Ivy League grad, beaten by The Man's world of the New York advertising industry and having trouble affording any kind of lifestyle on her starting salary, decides to give success one more try and starts moonlighting...as a dominatrix! 

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER. Written by JOHN K. O'HARA and KRISTIN ELLINGSON. Directed by HANK BLUMENTHAL.



   SHADOW CHASER



A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news -- his sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: his loved ones were brutally murdered before the blaze was set. The mysterious suspect’s identity only raises more questions. Then Lassiter uncovers another crime -- another innocent mother and child murdered. The more he unearths, the larger the web of conspiracy grows, as his search for answers leads him on a dangerous chase toward a truth that will shock him -- and the world -- to the very bone.

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER and KIRK D’AMICO. Based on the best-selling novel by JOHN CASE.



   SHOWING ROOTS



In 1977, during the premiere of the miniseries “Roots”, in a small southern town where there definitely are still "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks, two young women - one white, one black -forge an unlikely friendship that sparks a journey of independence, self-discovery and ultimately results in the discovery of the perfect.

Produced by MICHAEL MAILER, JON AVNET and BLYTHE FRANK. Written by SUSAN BATTEN. Directed by JON AVNET.


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