 In 2003, Kumble completed his Hollywood trilogy with the critically acclaimed "Turnaround", again starring David Schwimmer, which sold out its entire run in Los Angeles.Kumble made his feature-film-directorial debut with 1999's Sony Pictures box-office hit, "Cruel Intentions", starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair.His screenplay transposed the French novel "Dangerous Liaisons" to modern New York.