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Director: Betty Thomas    More Info
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Diane Ladd, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi, Azura Skye, Alan Tudyk, Mike O'Malley, Reni Santoni

 Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) gets so much into the spirit of her sister Lilly's (Elizabeth Perkins) wedding celebration that, high on drugs and alcohol, she "borrows" the wedding limo and crashes it into a neighbor's house. Next step: 28 days of rehab at Serenity Glen where Gwen sets out to beat the system as an alcoholic in denial.

Director: Hans Petter Moland    More Info
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey, Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling, Louise Goodall, Jason Hetherington

 Helen (Charlotte Rampling) lives in Aberdeen. She is dying but determined to reconcile with her London lawyer daughter, Kaisa (Lena Headey), with her absent father. To that end, Helen talks Kaisa into traveling to Norway and bringing her alcoholic father home. Although the trip is difficult, help comes from many along the way–especially truck driver Clive (Ian Hart).

Director: Olivier Ducastel    More Info
Starring: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Charly Sergue, Maurice Benichou, Philippe Garziano, Didier Mahieu, Aliette Langolff-Colas, Arno Feffer

 Felix (Sami Bouajila) is a gay, jobless North African who, while sorting through his deceased mother's apartment, finds a packet of letters from the father he never met. This leads to Felix setting off in search of his father. In the process of meeting others along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself.

Director: Bill Bannerman    More Info
Starring: Kevin Zegers, Dale Midkiff, David Glyn-Jones, Caitlin Wachs, Chilton Crane, Chantal Strand, Brodie Biles, Martin Ferrero, Duncan Regehr, Don McMillan

 And the series continues...Yes, Buddy, the athletic Golden Retriever, takes on soccer after conquering baseball and football in previous episodes. In the process, both Buddy and his owner find their own romantic attachments.

Director: Reverge Anselmo    More Info
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Nick Stahl, Julie Walters, James Fox, Geraldine James, Nathaniel Parker, Paloma Baeza, Kenny Doughty, Heathcote Williams, Nicholas Rowe

 Vladimir (Nick Stahl) is a teenage boy in mid-1800s' Russia. He's looking for his first love and finds her–a neighbor, Zinaida (Kirsten Dunst). What Vladimir doesn't know is that Zinaida has other male friends of all ages and types–including his father.

Director: Cameron Crowe    More Info
Starring: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel

 In the early 1970s, aspiring journalist, San Diego high school student William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is given the choice assignment of writing a "Rolling Stone" article about the rising rock band Stillwater. William joins the band's "Almost Famous" tour, befriends guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and lead singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee), falls in love with "band aid" Elaine (Kate Hudson), and sees the real world. But throughout his assignment, William's mother (Frances McDormand) calls him often and warns him to stay away from drugs. The film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; both Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand were nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Director: Anne DeSalvo    More Info
Starring: Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Cloris Leachman, Sean Young, Dinah Manoff, Lily Knight, Lee Grant, Mark Harmon, Jamey Sheridan, Marissa Leigh

 Three generations of the Amati women, each having her own set of problems, must contend with sisters, mothers, and daughters who don't hesitate to make their own thoughts known. Unfortunately, the good cast cannot compensate for this bad movie.

Director: Lawrence Schiller    More Info
Starring: Ving Rhames, Ron Silver, Bruno Kirby, Darryl Alan Reed, Nicholas Pryor, Robert LuPone, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Diana LaMar, Clyde Kusatsu, Christopher Plummer

 Behind-the-scenes investigative work on the O.J. Simpson trial is the subject of this made-for-TV miniseries. The problem with this film lies in the fact that not much of its argument is verifiable and appears to be interpreted to serve a specific purpose.

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu    More Info
Starring: Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Perez, Rodrigo Murray, Humberto Busto, Gerardo Campbell

 Three stories intertwine in this film set in Mexico City. A man is in love with his sister-in-law, a prominent editor left his family to live with a supermodel, and the caretaker of a hit man's beloved dogs is hired to kill a wealthy businessman. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.

Director: Steve Buscemi    More Info
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Seymour Cassel, Mickey Rourke, Steve Buscemi, Tom Arnold, John Heard, Danny Trejo, Jake La Botz, Afemo Omilami

 When a young hood, Ron Decker (Edward Furlong), is sent to prison at age 21, he runs into Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe) who assumes the role of mentor. Copen has learned how to survive in prison surroundings, takes Ron under his wing, and teaches him how to survive in the animal factory.

Director: David Blair    More Info
Starring: Helen McCrory, Kevin McKidd, Stephen Dillane, Douglas Henshall, Mark Strong, Amanda Root, Paul Rhys, Paloma Baeza, Abigail Cruttenden, Sara Kestelman

 This made-for-TV miniseries features Helen McCrory in the title role of the married woman whose passionate affair with wealthy army officer Count Vronsky (Kevin McKidd) leads to scandal, which isolates Anna from her family and friends and, ultimately, to her death.

Director: Tran Ahn Hung    More Info
Starring: Tran Nu Yen Khe, Nguyen Nhu Quynh, Le Khanh, Ngo Quanq Hai, Tran Manh Cuong, Chu Ngoc Hung, Le Tuan Anh, Le Van Loc

 In this beautifully told tale by Tran Ahn Hung, events unfold as if in a dream when three sisters reveal secrets on the anniversary of their parents' deaths.

Director: Steven Robman    More Info
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Keir Dullea, Gabriel Macht, Peter Giles, Emmy Rossum, Eric McCormack, Seana Kofoed, Michael J. Burg, Joan Copeland

 This made-for-TV movie features Jennifer Love Hewitt in the title role. Through flashbacks, the story focuses on Audrey's European childhood during World War II, continues through early Hollywood days, and culminates (where the flashbacks began) during the production of "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

Director: Joan Chen    More Info
Starring: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch, Vera Farmiga, Sherry Stringfield, Jill Hennessy, J.K. Simmons, Sam Trammell, Mary Beth Hurt

 Will Keane (Richard Gere) has spent his life as a playboy enjoying life as a series of women enter and leave his domain. Now, he meets and falls for the beautiful, but terminally ill, Charlotte (Winona Ryder). Will is 48, and Charlotte is 22, but they enter into an affair. However, the affair appears doomed because of Will's unfaithfulness–unless Charlotte can convince Will to change his ways and help her through her illness.

Director: Virginie Despentes    More Info
Starring: Raffaela Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Delphine MacCarty, Lisa Marshall, Estelle Isaac, Herve P. Gustave, Marc Rioufol, Ouassini Embarek, Adama Niane, Tewfik Saad

 Porn actress Manu (Raffaela Anderson) and prostitute Nadine (Karen Lancaume) embark on a destructive journey involving sex and murder in this French film (banished in France), which was written and co-directed by Virginie Despentes.

Director: Spike Lee    More Info
Starring: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Paul Mooney, Sarah Jones, Gillian Iliana Waters, Susan Batson

 Spike Lee takes on racial bias in the television industry as Harvard-educated black writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) develops a show for black tap dancers Savion Glover and Tommy Davidson. The catch is that they will be made up in black face and perform in a minstrel show. The show is a hit, but its success does not come without repercussions from all sides.

Director: Curt Geda    More Info
Starring: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Angie Harmon, Dean Stockwell, Teri Garr, Arleen Sorkin, Tara Strong, Melissa Joan Hart, Don Harvey

 Young Terry McGinnis (voice of Will Friedle), who discovered Batman's secret in the original "Batman Beyond," now receives aid from Bruce Wayne (voice of Kevin Conroy) when the Joker (voice of Mark Hamill) returns to Gotham City.

Director: Danny Boyle    More Info
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle, Paterson Joseph, Jerry Swindall, Lars Arentz-Hansen, Staffan Kihlbom, Peter Youngblood Hills

 Based on Alex Garland's bestseller, this thriller is set on an island beach off Thailand. Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) finds a map that leads to what purports to be an island paradise. It isn't long before he and his companions–Etienne (Guillaume Canet) and Francoise (Virginie Ledoyen)–are headed to what they believe will be a tourist utopia. Surprises await them.

Director: Gary Walkow    More Info
Starring: Courtney Love, Norman Reedus, Ron Livingston, Kiefer Sutherland, Daniel Martinez, Kyle Secor, Sam Trammell, Lisa Sheridan, Rene Rubio, Georgiana Sirbu

 This film is based on the true story of the final weeks leading up to the death of Joan Vollmer (Courtney Love), who was killed during a William Tell-like trick by her husband, famous writer William S. Burroughs (Kiefer Sutherland). It also chronicles the beat generation, including some of the top writers that typified the generation. Was the killing really an accident?

Director: Sally Field    More Info
Starring: Minnie Driver, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Kathleen Turner, Leslie Stefanson, Bridgette Wilson, Kathleen Robertson, Michael McKean, Gary Collins, Linda Hart

 Mona (Minnie Driver) is determined to gain fame and fortune via the "Miss American Miss" contest. But first she must pawn off her illegitimate daughter, Vanessa (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), on her friend Ruby (Joey Lauren Adams). When Ruby is sent to jail for a crime she did not commit, Mona is forced to reevaluate her priorities.

Director: Stephen Metcalfe    More Info
Starring: Sharon Stone, Billy Connolly, Ian Holm, Gil Bellows, Jurnee Smollett, Dillon Moen, Frank C. Turner, Dann Florek, Ben Derrick, Kwesi Ameyaw

 Down-on-his-luck Joe (Billy Connolly) has a little change in luck when he wins big at the races. But then he meets exotic dancer Hush (Sharon Stone) who is deeply in debt to the bad guys. So, of course, she steals his winnings to pay off her debts, which starts a relationship.

Director: Julian Schnabel    More Info
Starring: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Michael Wincott, Najwa Nimri, Hector Babenco, Jerzy Skolimowski, Vito Maria Schnabel

 Noted anti-Castro Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) is the subject of this film about a poor boy who grows up and joins Castro's revolutionary forces. After the revolution, Arenas moves to Havana, publishes his first novel, and participates in the gay underground. His actions are considered dangerous by Castro's political regime, and Arenas is sentenced to concentration camps and later is exiled. Finally free and living in NY, Arenas contracts the AIDs virus and ultimately kills himself. What makes this film extraordinary is not the plot; instead, it is the painstaking blend of the movie's sights and sounds that tugs at viewers' emotions. Bardem was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.

Director: Thomas Bezucha    More Info
Starring: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, George Coe, Louise Fletcher, Nan Martin, Veanne Cox, O'Neal Compton, Corinne Bohrer, Christopher Kendra

 When a successful New York painter, Henry Hart (Arye Gross), returns to his hometown to care for his grandfather, residents of Big Eden, Montana, become very concerned about whether or not Henry is gay. In an effort to find the answer, they plot to bring Henry and his old school friend, Dexter (Tim DeKay), together again.

Director: Stephen Daldry    More Info
Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells, Mike Elliot, Janine Birkett, Nicola Blackwell, Billy Fane

 Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a talented adolescent who, despite his working-class environment, confesses that he dreams of becoming a ballet dancer after he is introduced to Mrs. Wilkinson's (Julie Walters) ballet class at the boxing gym. Not unexpectedly, Billy must endure the bias of neighbors in his British coal mining town. Stephen Daltry was nominated for a Best Director Oscar, and Julie Walters was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf    More Info
Starring: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati, Rafat Moradi, Mayas Rostami, Saman Akbari, Ahmad Bahrami, Mohamad Moradi, Karim Moradi

 In a land with helicopters above and land mines below, itinerant Kurdish school teachers search the Iranian border areas looking for students to teach. Although the story begins with a group of teachers with blackboards strapped to their backs, it concentrates on just two of those teachers after the group scatters when confronted by a border patrol.