Based on co-director and screenwriter Neal Jimenez's own experiences, this powerful, off-handedly funny story stars Eric Stoltz as a talented writer whose life is shattered when a hiking accident leaves him paralyzed. His rehabilitation takes place in an L.A. clinic where he befriends a biker (William Forsythe) and a hard-living black man (Wesley Snipes). With Helen Hunt. 106 min.

Best Actor and Actress Academy Awards went to Jack Nicholson as a curmudgeonly, psychologically obsessed New York author and Helen Hunt as the caring waitress and single mother who helps draw him out of his successful but isolated existence in writer/director James L. Brooks' acclaimed seriocomedy. With Greg Kinnear as Nicholson's gay neighbor, Shirley Knight and Cuba Gooding 139 min.

Robert Altman's ensemble comedy stars Richard Gere as a Dallas gynecologist who can't seem to stay away from women, whether in his busy office or at home. But Gere's life goes spiraling out of control when wife Farrah Fawcett has an emotional breakdown, daughter Kate Hudson's wedding plans hit a snag, and he becomes smitten with golf pro Helen Hunt. With Tara Reid, Shelley Long, Liv Tyler and Andy Richter; music by Lyle Lovett. 132 min.