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Comedy / Drama
115 Minutes |
Patch Adams |
| Fact-based story of Hunter "Patch" Adams, the founder of the Gesundheit Clinic, a clinic which deals with their patients with humor and pathos. The film starts with Hunter admitting himself as a patient in a mental ward. While there, he found he enjoyed helping the other patients and found the staff to be cold and separative from the patients. Vowing to change things, he releases himself from the hospital and headed to the Virginia Medical College. His unorthodox methods cast him up against many of the doctors and deans of the university, despite him getting some of the highest grades in his class. Recognizing that many poor people were not being treated, as a student he formed the Gesundheit Clinic to aid those who were not getting proper treatment at the hospital. However, this brought him up before the Medical Review Board for practicing without a license. |
| Cast: Robin Williams; Daniel London; Monica Potter; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Bob Gunton; Josef Sommer; Irma P. Hall; Frances Lee McCain; Harve Presnell; Daniella Kuhn; Peter Coyote; James Greene; Michael Jeter; Harold Gould; Bruce Bohne |
| Directed by: Tom Shadyac |
Written by: Maureen Mylander |
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Adventure / Comedy / Family
91 Minutes |
Paulie |
| Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulies story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correctly but is taken away by her father because he believes the girl cannot distinguish fantasy from reality because she believes the bird can talk. Paulie goes through a series of adventures with a pawn shop owner, an ageing widow, a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives. |
| Cast: Gena Rowlands; Tony Shalhoub; Cheech Marin; Bruce Davison; Trini Alvarado; Jay Mohr; Buddy Hackett; Hallie Kate Eisenberg; Matt Craven; Bill Cobbs; Tia Texada; Laura Harrington; Peter Basch; Emily Mura-Smith; Hal Robinson |
| Directed by: John Roberts |
Written by: Laurie Craig |
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Crime / Drama / Thriller
100 Minutes |
Payback |
| Val Resnick and Porter, two small time bandits, hit a Chinese gang together and manage to get $140,000. But Val Resnick needs 130 grand alone to buy himself back into his syndication. So, Val turns on Porter together with Porter's wife Lynn, who kills him with two shots in the back. But Porter survives and half a year later, he is back, seeking his share of $70,000. When he finally finds Val, Porter quickly learns that he has to go much further up the ladder in order to get his money from the guys who have it: The syndication. Working alone can't be realized any more, so Porter teams up with his flame and previous boss Rosie, a very exclusive prostitute. Together, they now start playing the teams against each other. |
| Cast: Mel Gibson; Gregg Henry; Maria Bello; David Paymer; Bill Duke; Deborah Unger; John Glover; William Devane; Lucy Liu; Jack Conley; Kris Kristofferson; Mark Alfa; Kwame Amoaku; Justin Ashforth; Len Bajenski |
| Directed by: Brian Helgeland |
Written by: Donald E. Westlake; Brian Helgeland |
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Action / Drama / Romance / War
183 Minutes |
Pearl Harbor |
| The classic story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is told through the eyes of two boyhood friends, now serving as officers in the Army Air Corps. Rafe is an energetic young pilot who is selected to fly with the British in Europe while America is still not at war. After Rafe is shot down and presumed killed, however, Danny comforts Rafe's former lover, Evelyn, and the two draw closer. But, when Rafe turns up alive, the two former friends become enemies, and it is through the turmoil of Pearl Harbor that the two may reconcile their differences. |
| Cast: Ben Affleck; Josh Hartnett; Kate Beckinsale; Cuba Gooding Jr.; Jon Voight; Alec Baldwin; Tom Sizemore; William Lee Scott; Greg Zola; Ewen Bremner; James King (IV); Catherine Kellner; Jennifer Garner; Sara Rue; Michael Shannon (V) |
| Directed by: Michael Bay |
Written by: Randall Wallace |
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Drama / Mystery / Thriller
141 Minutes |
The Pelican Brief |
| Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham's editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham's about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive? |
| Cast: Julia Roberts; Denzel Washington; Sam Shepard; John Heard; Tony Goldwyn; James Sikking; William Atherton; Robert Culp; Stanley Tucci; Hume Cronyn; John Lithgow; Anthony Heald; Nicholas Woodeson; Stanley Anderson; John Finn |
| Directed by: Alan J. Pakula |
Written by: John Grisham; Alan J. Pakula |
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Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
129 Minutes |
The Perfect Storm |
| In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. |
| Cast: George Clooney; Mark Wahlberg; Diane Lane; Karen Allen; William Fichtner; Bob Gunton; John C. Reilly; Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio; Allen Payne; John Hawkes; Christopher McDonald; Dash Mihok; Josh Hopkins; Michael Ironside; Cherry Jones |
| Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen |
Written by: Sebastian Junger; William D. Wittliff |
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Drama / Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Thriller
143 Minutes |
The Phantom of the Opera |
| Based on Gaston Leroux's 20th century French novel, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical is finally adapted into a film. Our story begins with Opera Populaire's manager, Lefevre, leaving. His successors, Andre and Firmin, take over the opera, and bring with them their new patron, le Victome Raoul de Changy. To celebrate their new managers, the opera throws a gala, at which the leading diva refuses to perform, due to the mysterious 'Opera Ghost' who seems determined to have the screeching diva leave. Without a diva, Andre and Firmin are strong-minded to find a new leading lady, so they invoke the talents of a young, chorus-singer named Christine Daae, who has been taking lessons from a mysterious tutor. Raoul, Christine's old childhood sweetheart, who recognizes her at her triumphant gala performance, wants to bring Christine back into his life. But, suddenly, Christine's mysterious tutor reveals himself to her... Now, will Christine ask everything of Raoul or listen to the Music of the Night? |
| Cast: Gerard Butler; Emmy Rossum; Patrick Wilson; Miranda Richardson; Minnie Driver; Ciaran Hinds; Simon Callow; Victor McGuire; Jennifer Ellison; Murray Melvin; Kevin McNally; James Fleet; Imogen Bain; Miles Western; Judith Paris |
| Directed by: Joel Schumacher |
Written by: Gaston Leroux; Andrew Lloyd Webber |
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Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
143 Minutes |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas. This roller coaster tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in rogue pirate Jack Sparrow. Together, they must battle a band of the world's most treacherous pirates, led by the cursed Captain Barbossa, in order to save Elizabeth, the love of Will's life, as well as recover the lost treasure that Jack seeks. Against improbable odds, they race towards a thrilling, climactic confrontation on the mysterious Isla de Muerta. Clashing their swords in fiece mortal combat, Will and Jack attempt to recapture The Black Pearl ship, save the British navy, and relinquish a fortune in forbidden treasure thereby lifting the curse of the Pirates of the Caribbean. |
| Cast: Johnny Depp; Geoffrey Rush; Orlando Bloom; Keira Knightley; Jack Davenport; Jonathan Pryce; Lee Arenberg; Mackenzie Crook; Damian O'Hare; Giles New; Angus Barnett; David Bailie; Michael Berry Jr.; Isaac C. Singleton Jr.; Kevin McNally |
| Directed by: Gore Verbinski |
Written by: Ted Elliott; Terry Rossio |
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Horror / Thriller
114 Minutes |
Poltergeist |
| A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter. |
| Cast: JoBeth Williams; Craig T. Nelson; Beatrice Straight; Dominique Dunne; Oliver Robins; Heather O'Rourke; Michael McManus; Virginia Kiser; Martin Casella; Richard Lawson; Zelda Rubinstein; Lou Perry; Clair E. Leucart; James Karen; Dirk Blocker |
| Directed by: Tobe Hooper; Steven Spielberg |
Written by: Steven Spielberg |
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Action / Drama / War
164 Minutes |
The Patriot |
| The movie takes place in South Carolina in 1776. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, is a patriot who wants no part in a war with Britian. Meanwhile, his two eldest sons, Gabriel and Thomas, can't wait to go out and kill some Redcoats. When South Carolina decides to go to war with Britain, Gabriel immediatly signs up to fight...without his father's permission. But soon, Colonel Tavington, British solder infamous for his brutal tactiks, captures Gabriel and sentences him to be hanged. As Gabriel is taken away, Thomas tries to free him, only to be killed by Tavington, in front of Benjamin. Now, seeking revenge for his son's death, Benjamin leaves behind his 5 other children to bring independence to the 13 colonies. |
| Cast: Mel Gibson; Heath Ledger; Joely Richardson; Jason Isaacs; Chris Cooper; Tcheky Karyo; Rene Auberjonois; Lisa Brenner; Tom Wilkinson; Donal Logue; Leon Rippy; Adam Baldwin; Jay Arlen Jones; Joey D. Vieira; Gregory Smith |
| Directed by: Roland Emmerich |
Written by: Robert Rodat |
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