Ben Shenkman
Benjamin Shenkman is an American actor, known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Concussion
After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.
Blue Valentine
The film centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
Solitary Man
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
Royal Pains
A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university Sara Quinn is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.
Then She Found Me
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
Breakfast with Scot
Eric and Sam have been in a committed relationship for four years. Eric's a former hockey player turned sportscaster and Sam's a sport's lawyer. But when Sam's adventure seeking brother Billy, takes a job in South America, his ex-girlfriend, Julie, is discovered dead from a drug overdose leaving her son Scot (not Billy's son) to Billy.
Must Love Dogs
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
Just Like Heaven
A lonely landscape architect falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman who used to live in his new apartment.
Angels in America
Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.
Roger Dodger
After breaking up with his lover and boss, a smooth-talking man takes his teenaged nephew out on the town in search of sex.
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
People I Know
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Table One
Four successful New Yorkers in their 40s open a restaurant together to meet women. Their plans hit a snag when they discover the money they received from their investors might be dirty.
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream describes the down fall of four teenage heroin addicts trying to get ahead in the world yet continually failing. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Chasing Sleep
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Thick as Thieves
A thief is betrayed after a well done job in Detroit. Returning to Chicago, he decides on revenge. Things escalate.
Jesus' Son
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion
The Siege
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law.
Pi
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a leak in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Eraser
U.S. Marshal John Kruger "erases" the lives and identities of people entering the Witness Protection Program. He must protect an executive who inadvertently uncovered a deal to put a new super weapon in the wrong hands.
Quiz Show
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.