Buffalo Soldiers 2001  R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Gregor Jordan
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth McGovern, Gabriel Mann, Leon, Michael Pena, Brian Delate, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Kick Gurry
Set in West Germany during 1989, this is the story of a U.S. Army supply clerk, Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix), who solves his own problems with boredom by running a lucrative black market involving products ranging from Mop 'n' Glo to heroin.
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Home Before Dark 1997 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maureen Foley
Cast: Stephanie Castellarin, Brian Delate, Katharine Ross, Patricia Kalember, Helen Lloyd Breed, Peter Bubriski, Ellen Stone
Nora James (Stephanie Castellarin) is a 12-year old who lives with her emotionally disturbed mother, Dolores (Patricia Kalember) until Dolores attempts suicide. Nora then goes to stay with Aunt Rose (Katherine Ross)–a solution to the problem that makes Nora even more miserable, and she makes a difficult choice to return home to help her father, Martin (Brian Delate), raise her siblings.
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 Sudden Death 1995  R, 110 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Ross Malinger, Whittni Wright, Kate McNeil, Dorian Harewood, Raymond J. Barry, Michael Gaston, Brian Delate, Steve Aronson, Audra Lindley, Michael R. Aubele, Karen Elise Baldwin, Jennifer D. Bowser, Pat Brisson
When the U.S. Vice-President (Raymond J. Barry) attends the Stanley Cup finals, terrorists make him their target. Security guard Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) leaps into action after his daughter Emily (Whittni Wright) is kidnapped by the terrorists who take over Pittsburgh's Civic Arena.
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 The Truman Show 1998   PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris, Brian Delate, Una Damon, Paul Giamatti, Philip Baker Hall, Blair Slater, Peter Krause, Heidi Schanz, Ron Taylor, Don Taylor
Insurance salesman Truman Burbank's (Jim Carrey) entire life has been documented as well as broadcast nationally on a 24-hour basis. All the people around Truman are actors, and Truman lives and works in a huge studio. Despite his made-up world, Truman thinks he is an ordinary man–until he decides to experience life in the outside world. Academy Award nominations included Best Director and Supporting Actor (Ed Harris). 1 User Review
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| | A good movie that doesn't quite gel | 1fatts 03/31/2007 | The elements are all here, and it is a professonal job. Weir directs; Ed Harris was up for an oscar; a solid performance from Laura Linney and Jim Carrey plays confused without going over the top.
And the script is everyone's paranoid fantasy brought to life.
It is enertaining, amusing, more-or-less satisfying, and has a couple of nice scenes taking advantage of good production values.
Then why isn't it better than this? Why isn't this allegory of the central question in so many lives -- isn't there more to me than this? -- more moving? more challenging? more significant?
I think the director sets the mark rather lower than he might have. Carrey is fine, but not better than fine. There are levels of shading that the actor doesn't bring and the director doesn't seek. Ed Harris' final confrontation with Truman, which should be man facing his creator, falls flat because Carrey isn't man enough and Harris' creator isn't high enough.
Still, a good film and well worth a few hours of your time. But one of those films where you wonder what someone else who was willing to take a few more chances could have made of this. |
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Wendigo 2001  R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Larry Fessenden
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan, John Speredakos, Christopher Wynkoop, Lloyd Oxendine, Brian Delate, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Jennifer Wiltsie, Maxx Stratton
One snowy afternoon in upstate NY, Kim (Patricia Clarkson) and George (Jake Weber), along with eight-year-old son Miles (Erik Per Sullivan), are driving to a country home when their car hits a deer. The family is immediately confronted by angry hunters who have now lost their chance for a trophy after trailing the deer all day. One hunter, Otis (John Speredakos), seems particularly aggressive. On arriving at their cabin, Kim and George spot a bullet hole in the window and suspect the work of Otis. As events get more and more weird, Miles embraces Wendigo, which, according to Native American myth, is an unpredictable spirit that moves about wreaking havoc. Myth and Mile's imagination combine in this tale of horror.
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| 1. Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
2. Home Before Dark (1997)
3. Sudden Death (1995)
4. The Truman Show (1998)
5. Wendigo (2001)
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