 Adaptation 2002  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ron Livingston, Jay Tavare, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Doug Jones, Jim Beaver
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage) takes on the project of adapting Susan Orlean's (Meryl Streep) non-fiction book, "The Orchid Thief," into a movie. Orlean's story involves John Laroche's (Chris Cooper) poaching of "ghost orchids" from a Florida Everglades natural preserve. Charlie faces a mid-life crisis when his brother Donald (also played by Cage), who is following in his brother's footsteps as a screenwriter, moves in with him. Donald breezes through the writing of his assigned screenplay. Meanwhile, paranoid Charlie encounters more than a few problems writing his and, in the process, ends up as the subject in his script that tells of his inability to adapt Orlean's book into a film. Cooper won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; three other nominations were received, including Best Actor (Cage) and Actress in a Supporting Role (Streep).
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 Birth 2004  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott, Arliss Howard, Michael Desautels, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine, Cara Seymour, Novella Nelson
Ten-year-old Sean (Cameron Bright) comes to a family gathering and informs Anna (Nicole Kidman) that he is the reincarnation of Anna's deceased husband. The family is shocked at the details Sean relates, but Anna is in awe and begins to re-evaluate her upcoming marriage to Joseph (Danny Huston).
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 Dancer in the Dark 2000  R, 140 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Udo Kier, Joel Grey, Vincent Paterson, Cara Seymour, Jean-Marc Barr, Zeljko Ivanek
Czech immigrant Selma (Bjork) arrives in the U.S. with her young son, finds a trailer to call home, and begins a dreary job at the Anderson Tool Company. Meanwhile, she suffers from a degenerative eye disease that her son has also inherited. She has no money to pay for the operations to save their sights. To escape the misery, Selma transposes herself through music. If you think the music serves to relieve the tragedy, think again!
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A Good Baby 1998 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Cast: Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour, Danny Nelson, Jayne Morgan, Allison Glenn, Jerry Foster, Jerry Rushing, Emilie Jacobs, Hannah Grady
Set in North Carolina's backwoods, this story revolves around loner Raymond Toker's (Henry Thomas) search for the mother of an abandoned baby. At the same time, the very sinister Truman Lester (David Strathairn) arrives in town looking for the baby.
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 Hotel Rwanda 2004 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, David O'Hara, Cara Seymour, Fana Mokoena, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Mosa Kaiser, Mathabo Pieterson
This story, based on fact, revolves around hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) and his experiences when he came to the aid of Tutsis refugees in Rwanda during the 1990s. Three Academy Award nominations were received, including Best Actor (Don Cheadle) and Supporting Actress (Sophie Okonedo).
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The Notorious Bettie Page 2006 R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, Cara Seymour, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor, John Cullum, Matt McGrath, Austin Pendleton, Norman Reedus, Tara Subkoff, Dallas Roberts, Victor Slezak
The personal and professional lives of one of America's first sex icons, Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol), who was a pin-up model in the 1950s, is the subject of this biography that begins and ends with Estes Kefauver's Senate Sub-committee hearings on the subject of pornography.
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The Savages 2007 R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Tonye Patano, Guy Boyd, Debra Monk, Rosemary Murphy, Hal Blankenship, Joan Jaffe, Salem Ludwig
Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the grown children of their abusive father Lenny (Philip Bosco), learn that Lenny is suffering from dementia and is dying. They fly to Arizona and bring Lenny back home to Buffalo where Wendy and Jon reunite under one roof for the first time since childhood and are forced to reconcile past differences in order to deal with their father's impending death. The film received two Academy Award nominations including Best Actress (Linney).
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 You've Got Mail 1998 PG, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Steve Zahn, Dave Chappelle, Greg Kinnear, Dabney Coleman, Michael Palin, John Randolph, Heather Burns, Hallee Hirsh, Cara Seymour, Katie Finneran, Michael Badalucco
Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) manages a chain of bookstores that threatens to run Kathleen Kelly's (Meg Ryan) small bookstore out of business. Kathleen turns to the chat room on AOL for help, and, of course, her anonymous online friend turns out to be Joe.
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| 1. Adaptation (2002)
2. Birth (2004)
3. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
4. A Good Baby (1998)
5. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
6. The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)
7. The Savages (2007)
8. You've Got Mail (1998)
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