While Mark Pellington made his feature directorial debut with "Going All the Way," chances were audiences were familiar with his work if not his name before this 1997 film. The prolific director's resume included award-winning music videos, the acclaimed five-part 1996 PBS anthology "The United States of Poetry," a tour across America guided by poets and spoken word artists, and the eye-catching Emmy-nominated opening credits for the NBC series "Homicide: Life on the Street" (NBC, 1993-99).

After graduating from the University of Virginia, the Baltimore-born Pellington won a position with MTV's