Any Given Sunday:
At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony D'Amato, tthe embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) who's sure Tony is way too Old School. An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid), a flashy, bull-headed QB (Jamie Foxx), a slithery team doctor (James Woods) and a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook.

Heat:
Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and Ashley Judd are among the memorable supporting players in this tale of a brilliant L.A. cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro). HEAT goes way beyond the expectations of the cops-and-criminals genre - and into the realm ofof movie masterpiece.

City Hall:
In a performance both volatile and graceful, Al Pacino re-teams with Sea Of Love director Harold Becker as New York Mayor John Pappas in City Hall, a savvy thriller. The first film ever shot inside the lower Manhattan structure that's ground zero for the city's government. That and other NYC locations provide the vivid settings as an idealistic mayoral aide (John Cusack) follows a trail of subversion and cover-up that may loop back to the man he serves and reveres. Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau, Tony Franciosa and David Paymer add more starry brilliance to this gripping tale of power, and the power behind the power.