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Comedy / Drama / Romance
115 Minutes |
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Based on Truman Capote's novel, this is the story of a young, jet-setting woman in New York City who meets a young man when he moves into her apartment building. He is being kept by a wealthy, older woman, but wants to be a writer. She is working as a high-priced escort and searching for a rich, older man to marry. The opening scene has her window-shopping at Tiffany's at six in the morning, after being up all night on a date. |
| Cast: Audrey Hepburn; George Peppard; Patricia Neal; Buddy Ebsen; Martin Balsam; Jose Luis de Villalonga; John McGiver (I); Alan Reed (I); Dorothy Whitney; Beverly Powers; Stanley Adams (I); Claude Stroud; Elvia Allman; Mickey Rooney |
| Directed by: Blake Edwards |
Written by: Truman Capote; George Axelrod |
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Comedy / Drama
92 Minutes |
The Breakfast Club |
| Five students: Allison, a weirdo, Brian, a nerd, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Andy, a jock, are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. At first they are quiet, but later they start talking and learn that behind the exterior, they are all the same. |
| Cast: Emilio Estevez; Paul Gleason (I); Anthony Michael Hall; John Kapelos; Judd Nelson; Molly Ringwald; Ally Sheedy; Perry Crawford; Mary Christian (I); Ron Dean (I); Tim Gamble (I); Fran Gargano; Mercedes Hall |
| Directed by: John Hughes |
Written by: John Hughes |
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Comedy / Romance
97 Minutes |
Bridget Jones's Diary |
| Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones and the ups and downs of their ill-fated relationship prove hilarious and touching at once. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive. |
| Cast: Renee Zellweger; Gemma Jones; Celia Imrie; James Faulkner (I); Jim Broadbent; Colin Firth; Charmian May; Hugh Grant; Paul Brooke (I); Felicity Montagu; Shirley Henderson (I); Sally Phillips; James Callis; Charlie Caine; Gareth Marks |
| Directed by: Sharon Maguire |
Written by: Helen Fielding |
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Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
104 Minutes |
Bulletproof Monk |
| For 60 years a mysterious monk with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now the Monk must look for a new scrollkeeper. Kar is an unlikely candidate, a streetwise young man whose only interest is himself. But when he inadvertently saves the Bulletproof Monk from capture, the two become partners in a scheme to save the world from the scroll's most avid pursuer. Packed with spectacular special effects and martial arts action, the Monk, Kar, and a sexy Russian mob princess called Bad Girl must struggle to find, face, and fight the ultimate enemy. |
| Cast: Yun-Fat Chow; Seann William Scott; Jaime King; Karel Roden; Victoria Smurfit; Marcus J. Pirae; Mako; Roger Yuan; Chris Collins; Sean Bell; Kishaya Dudley; Rob Archer; Mauricio Rodas; Bayo Akinfemi; Russell Yuen |
| Directed by: Paul Hunter |
Written by: Ethan Reiff; Cyrus Voris |
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Adventure / Comedy / Family
96 Minutes |
Camp Nowhere |
| Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realises that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of his own design, which would actually be a parent-free paradise. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping, they must convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren't allowed to visit... |
| Cast: John Putch; Peter Scolari; Romy Windsor; Jonathan Jackson; Joshua Gibran Mayweather; Andrew Keegan; Devin Oatway; Kellen McLaughlin; Brian Wagner; Marne Patterson; Melody Kay; Christopher Lloyd; M. Emmet Walsh; Ray Baker; Kate Mulgrew |
| Directed by: Jonathan Prince |
Written by: Andrew Kurtzman; Eliot Wald |
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Drama / Romance
102 Minutes |
Casablanca |
| In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan.... |
| Cast: Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Claude Rains; Conrad Veidt; Sydney Greenstreet; Peter Lorre; S.Z. Sakall; Madeleine LeBeau; Dooley Wilson; Joy Page; John Qualen; Leonid Kinskey; Curt Bois |
| Directed by: Michael Curtiz |
Written by: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison |
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Adventure / Drama
143 Minutes |
Cast Away |
| After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his hasty life by the clock in a plane crash, he finds himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration gets to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilization. Four years later, Chuck has learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a selfmade calendar. A photograph of his girlfriend Kelly has kept his hopes alive all these years. Finally, Chuck takes the opportunity to take off for home: He sets off on a wooden raft with a sail that has washed ashore. |
| Cast: Tom Hanks; Helen Hunt; Nick Searcy; Chris Noth; Lari White; Geoffrey Blake; Jenifer Lewis; David Allen Brooks; Semion Suradikov; Nan Martin; Peter von Berg; Dmitri S. Boudrine; Leonid Citer; Anne Bellamy; Dennis Letts |
| Directed by: Robert Zemeckis |
Written by: William Broyles Jr. |
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Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
78 Minutes |
The Cat in the Hat |
| Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back. |
| Cast: Mike Myers; Alec Baldwin; Kelly Preston; Dakota Fanning; Spencer Breslin; Amy Hill; Sean Hayes; Danielle Chuchran; Taylor Rice; Brittany Oaks; Talia-Lynn Prairie; Dan Castellaneta; Victor Brandt; Daran Norris; Bugsy |
| Directed by: Bo Welch |
Written by: Dr. Seuss; Alec Berg |
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Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
141 Minutes |
Catch Me If You Can |
| An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries. |
| Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio; Tom Hanks; Christopher Walken; Martin Sheen; Nathalie Baye; Amy Adams (III); James Brolin; Brian Howe; Frank John Hughes; Steve Eastin; Chris Ellis (I); John Finn; Elizabeth Banks (II); Nancy Lenehan; Ellen Pompeo |
| Directed by: Steven Spielberg |
Written by: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding |
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Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
107 Minutes |
The Cell |
| Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher's damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her. |
| Cast: Jennifer Lopez; Colton James; Dylan Baker; Marianne Jean-Baptiste; Gerry Becker; Musetta Vander; Patrick Bauchau; Vincent D'Onofrio; Catherine Sutherland; Vince Vaughn; James Gammon; Jake Weber; Dean Norris; Tara Subkoff; Lauri Johnson |
| Directed by: Tarsem Singh |
Written by: Mark Protosevich |
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