The Cobbler

Gordon is a lonely, pudgy little boy. His dad is a shoemaker. His mom is a dessert maker. All the kids make fun of him and the cute girls are really, really mean to him. "His dad makes shoes!" "His mom makes pies. And eats them." "They are all fat." Hilarious. [Titles.]

Many years later Gordon (Chris Klein) is older and much cuter. He is on a date with a pretty little thing. They drink, dance; she takes him back to her place. He pours her some more drinks. Foreplay. He gets out some leather from his trendy bag. Then some nails. And he makes a shoe on top of her head.

The next day the cops (namely, Josh Brolin, as Peterson) are there, investigating the weird, suffocated, shoe-headed women. He lights a cigarette and yells at some extras. Over the next few months, Gordon makes some more shoes on top of hot girls' heads. They die. Peterson figures out there is a serial killer on the loose. He names him, The Cobbler.

Gordon reads the newspapers and is shocked he has been labeled so quickly. Ashamed, but still out to kill hot girls, he thinks of a new M.O., this time in defense of his mom. He starts dating a hot girl (Tara Reid, desperate for work). One night he makes some apple cobbler. He force feeds her in this weird foreplay deal. She dies. He dumps her on the side of the road. Things are bad in town, so the FBI is called in. The crack FBI team is Wesley Snipes (Hudson) and Rasheeda Jones (Reese).

When the FBI shows up, Peterson is freaked out. Peterson and Hudson argue a bunch. Peterson and Reese make eyes at each other a lot, while arguing.

When Gordon hears the FBI is after him, he isn't worried. Until he preys on his next victim and just before offing her, she becomes suspicious and runs away. He finally catches her in a back alley and in a fit of rage, he bludgeons her to death with the first thing he can get his hands on: a loose cobblestone pulled from the ancient street.

So now the crack FBI team of Hudson and Reese are after this town's three (3) brutal killers. Reese has a computer that makes lots of noises and is full of databases. Reese is also smart, almost as smart as her computer.

In the key scene she points to pictures of the dead girls and says, "Cobbled. Cobbled. Cobbled. They're all the same guy."

Her smart, noisy computer searches its databases and narrows down the list of potential murderers to sons of cobblers and cobbler-makers who have anger-management problems. There are only (only!) three in town. (Reese's computer is smart like that.)

Peterson, Hudson, and Reese, each go to a residence of one of the three cobbler's/cobbler-maker's sons-with-anger-management-problem's houses.

I don't know which one is at the right house yet because I haven't read the results from the test audiences.

Whitney's Protection Program

Whitney White (Evan Rachel Wood) is one troubled high school student. She's been expelled twice and her parents are running out of ideas. She drinks, she smokes, and she even breaks into the school after hours. But one fateful night, Whitney overhears a murder while writing graffiti on the bathroom walls and has to run for her life from the killer (Ed Harris).
With nowhere else to go, Whitney turns to her Uncle, Jack Driftwood (Keifer Sutherland), an F.B.I. agent with problems of his own. He drinks too much, smokes too much, and uses his fists to solve disputes. But now Jack has some growing up to do if he wants to keep Whitney safe and bring down the mob boss (James Caan) behind the hit.

The Trader

In the not too distant future, humans are the stock market, and John Dodger (Keanu Reeves) trades with their lives every day. Society runs on the basic premise of decency and hard work. Divorce, alcoholism, and other vices can lower the worth of your stock thereby marking you as expendable.
But when John's stock plummets without reason, he's on the run for his life as The Skye corporation sends out AGENTS (Mickey Rourke, Michael Madsen) to find John and kill him. With the help of some loyal friends (Diane Lane, Terrance Howard) John discovers the truth behind the Skye corporation's legacy of greed and dishonesty, as well as the truth behind his own past --- John was once an Agent for the Skye Corporation but was brainwashed and reprogrammed to live his life as a stock broker so the Skye Corporation could invest in him from the base level and make millions of dollars off of his progress. This time, however, they picked the wrong target.