Susan Shopmaker Movies

Val is 23 years old and full of dreams. She travels to New York to become an actress. She is lonely in a strange country, in a strange city, with...

17 year old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. His dad wants him to make the track team, his mom wants him to do well in band, and...

After agreeing to meet an obscene caller at a bar, a young New York reporter witnesses a murder and becomes an unwilling player in a dangerous game...

Marcus is a New York City street kid torn between his friends' criminal activities and a girl trying to keep him out of trouble.

In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem...

An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an...

In an attempt to win her over once she gets to know him, a socially awkward outsider abducts an aspiring actress and gets more than he bargained for.

On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view....

Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and...

Three stories about life in a small New England town, all with a common thread: a woman named Rachel.

A frustrated writer reluctantly turns to his womanizing brother for advice about the opposite sex.

On TJ's 18th birthday, a stranger delivers him a key from his father, last seen as he was hauled off to prison eight years earlier. With the key is...

Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms,...

Who hasn’t been subject to the dreaded quarter-life question, “What do you want to do in life?” This is the kind of question that...

In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old...

Raised in an insular Polish immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he's destined to become a poor baker like his father, Kaz Malek attempts to...

On a summer break from college, Ivy, a young epileptic woman, struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al...

Seduced by a boy's affluent, seemingly idyllic family, a young girl goes to extremes to gain acceptance.

A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his...

Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American...