Also with Stiller, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn, and John Mahoney.

NEWYORKER: Reality Bites

The jazz-nerd d.j. and musician Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn) became charming rather than irritating, and there was a wry self-awareness all around about New Orleans parochialism.

NEWYORKER: Roux with a View

She looks after her kid, her scapegrace younger sister (Emily Blunt), and her affectionate but unsteady father (Alan Arkin), while carrying on a motel-room love affair with a married cop (Steve Zahn).

NEWYORKER: Sunshine Cleaning