As we celebrate Women's History Month in March, we take a look back at director Kasi Lemmon's second feature, 'The Caveman's Valentine,' which opened ten years ago on March 2, 2001.

Based on the novel by George Dawes Green, the mystery thriller starred Samuel L. Jackson, Aunjanue Ellis, Tamara Tunie, Colm Feore, Ann Magnuson, Anthony Michael Hall, and Jay Rodan.

Released by Universal Focus, which is now Focus Features, the story centers on Romulus (played by Jackson), a gifted composer and the father of a city cop, who is now mentally ill and living in a New York City park. On Valentine's Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. The police determine it's the accidental death of someone behaving bizarrely, but Romulus believes a friend of the dead youth who says that noted avant-garde photographer, David Leppenraub, murdered him. Romulus, urged on by hallucinations of his wife as a young woman, resolves to catch the killer and manages to be invited to Leppenraub's farm to play a new composition. Can Romulus hold it together long enough to get to the bottom of the death and also to make a breakthrough with his daughter?

The film didn't do so well in theaters, grossing only $687,194. Although it received negative reviews, attracting a 43% rating among the consensus of critics tracked by Rotten Tomatoes, actress Tunie was still nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.

Lemmons, whose made her directorial debut with 1997's 'Eve's Bayou,' followed 'Caveman' with 2007's 'Talk to Me,' starring Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Taraji P. Henson. That film received favorable reviews from critics.