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George Gallo has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Dir. Martin Brest · With Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Téa Leoni

Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.
Dir. George Gallo · With Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht
A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the babysitter bails on her. Meanwhile, an assassin mob boss hires 2 goons to kill Agent 11. But when 11 escapes from the van when they tried to kill him, he hides in Gordon's Mailtruck that James is in too. And guess what they name him. Spot.
Dir. John Whitesell · With David Arquette, Leslie Bibb, Michael Clarke Duncan
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.
Dir. George Gallo · With Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
Dir. George Gallo · With Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey
Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel

A man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler.
Dir. George Gallo · With Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Garcelle Beauvais
Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes deeper into the killer’s world.
Dir. George Gallo · With Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, Vernon Davis

After several years away, FBI agent Henry Durand returns to find his mother, Marty, a much different person: Having long mourned for Henry's father, she is now embracing single life. One day, while Marty, Henry and his new fiancée, Emily, are out for a walk, they meet Tommy, a mysterious stranger with whom Marty then becomes involved. However, through his FBI contacts, Henry learns that Tommy is suspected of being an art thief. As a young federal agent, Henry is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves.
Dir. George Gallo · With Meg Ryan, Antonio Banderas, Colin Hanks

An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.
Dir. George Gallo · With Selma Blair, Jason Lee, Amy Smart

Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.
Dir. George Gallo · With Ruby Rose, Morgan Freeman, Patrick Muldoon
Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants. When he finds himself entangled in a government conspiracy, Jake and his pursuers become convinced that he is an undercover agent.
Dir. Les Mayfield · With Cedric the Entertainer, Nicollette Sheridan, Niecy Nash

A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects and dead bodies.
Dir. George Gallo, Francesco Cinquemani · With John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Peter Stormare