Miss Congeniality (2000) It takes some doing to make a beauty pageant flick that features an intellectually vapid caper plot while being a slap in the face to feminism. When asked (within the movie, I mean) to defend pageantry from this accusation, Sandra Bullock simply shrugs it off and says, “Well, they’re not all airheads, […]
Field Details Movie Name STEALING HARVARD (2002) Director Bruce McCulloch Writer Martin Hynes, Peter Tolan Lead Actor Jason Lee Cast Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Megan Mullally, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Chris Penn Genre Comedy, Crime Release Date September 13, 2002 (United States) Duration 1h 25m (85 min) Budget $25 million
Fingers 1978 Rarely has a crime gangster movie been produced with such a sense of calmness. Fingers, a cult classic, is a real showpiece for Harvey Keitel, who plays the title of Jimmy Fingers, a low-level gangster working for his father as a bag man but dreaming of becoming of all things a concert pianist.
The Firm 1993 Run, Tom, run! Mr. Cruise got a workout in this picture, a film that had him on the run from the evil law firm that employed him and whose clients consist only of mobsters, killers, and other crooks. An all-star cast otherwise makes up for a largely uninspired, overly complex, and far
Horns and Halos (2002) It’s the story of James Hatfield, the author of a book called Fortunate Son, a biography (the first) of pre-presidential George W. Bush. Meant to be a quickie “clip job,” written by quoting sources secondhand through previously published articles on Bush, Hatfield ended up turning in something a little different. The
I Am Sam (2001) What defines a parent? Is it the amount of intellectual maturity displayed or the level of love given? Such is the question posed in I Am Sam. In the film, Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) is a mentally challenged single father raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning). Sam is a sweet, good
I Capture the Castle (2003) Movies teach us the power of love. Reality, quickly and without apology, demonstrates its limitations. Rarely does a film show us the flipside, but I Capture the Castle is that special exception. Based on Dodie Smith’s novel, I Capture the Castle gives us a 17 year old named Cassandra (Romola
I Stand Alone (1998) Gaspar Noé’s harrowing and misanthropic story has an aging butcher as he wanders through life just out of jail, unemployed, and looking for trouble in the city he utterly hates. Paris. He can’t get work, and quickly becomes broke the classic “from bad to worse” situation. Fortunately, he’s got a gun
Ice Age (2002) Ice Age is in many ways the archetypal animated flick updated for the computer era, of course. It’s a road trip populated by quirky and mismatched characters, all on an unlikely quest that they’ll never complete unless they somehow manage to work together. Ray Romano voices a burly mammoth named Manfred, who
The Ice Storm (1997) Kitschy seventies comedy does battle with some painful dramatics in Ang Lee’s highly regarded The Ice Storm, but the question of which of these wins is still in the air. It’s 1973, and the sexual revolution is in full bloom. So are the thick shag carpets, glass-bead necklaces, Watergate hearings, and
