Matt Palmieri

Cruise Control is a 1992 English language short film directed by Matt Palmieri, starring Ed Begley Jr., Sean Penn and Max Perlich. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.

A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them track and harass him and his friends.

A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them track and harass him and his friends.

A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them track and harass him and his friends.

After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

A recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.

A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.