200 Cigarettes 1999  R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Risa Bamon Garcia
Cast: Ben Affleck, Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Janeane Garofalo, Martha Plimpton, Gaby Hoffmann, Kate Hudson, Paul Rudd, Casey Affleck, Catherine Kellner
A collection of New York City's East Village revelers gather on New Year's Eve, 1981, in this romantic comedy that never quite hits the mark. Don't bother with this one.
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30 Days 1999 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Aaron Harnick
Cast: Ben Shenkman, Arija Bareikis, Alexander Chaplin, Bradley White, Thomas McCarthy, Catherine Kellner, Jerry Adler, Barbara Barrie, Arden Myrin, Mark Feuerstein
Four NYC friends (Ben Shenkman, Alexander Chaplin, Bradley White, and Thomas McCarthy) suffer problems with their love lives in this run-of-the-mill romantic comedy.
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Day at the Beach 1998  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Nick Veronis
Cast: Nick Veronis, Jane Adams, Patrick Fitzgerald, Paul Gleason, Neal Jones, Catherine Kellner, Joe Ragno
Four separate stories make up "Day at the Beach." It begins with would-be filmmakers Jimmy (Nick Veronis), Chuck (Neal Jones), and John (Patrick Fitzgerald) accidentally murdering a fisherman who is bonked on the head by a flying suitcase they toss from a bridge. The grand finale involves a quiet, soul-searching weekend in the Hamptons that turns into utter chaos when the group bungles its way into mob activities.
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Kicking and Screaming 1995  R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, Chris Eigeman, Parker Posey, Jason Wiles, Eric Stoltz, Elliott Gould, Cara Buono, Carlos Jacott, Catherine Kellner, John Lehr, Christopher Reed, Marissa Ribisi, Perrey Reeves, David Deluise
Five college friends (Eric Stoltz, Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Jason Wiles, and Carlos Jacott) hang around together after graduation–having not quite made it into the real world and resisting any moves toward finding jobs. Writer/director Noah Baumbach has written and delivered a good script that highlights the ironies of life as this group of young men lives it.
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 Pearl Harbor 2001 PG-13, 184 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alec Baldwin, William Lee Scott, Greg Zola, Catherine Kellner, Ewen Bremner, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Dan Aykroyd
Best friends Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett)–two parts of a romantic triangle–go off to join the war in this love story. Devoting a total of 40 out of 184 minutes to the attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath hardly does justice to the Japanese bombing that killed 3,000 Americans and rallied U.S. citizens into an all-out effort to win World War II. For a much better focus on Pearl Harbor, watch Richard Fleischer's "Tora! Tora! Tora!" An Academy Award was received for Best Sound Editing, and the film was nominated for three other awards.
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Restaurant 1999 R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Eric Bross
Cast: Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, David Moscow, Simon Baker, Catherine Kellner, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, John Carroll Lynch, Jesse L. Martin, Sybil Temchen, Vonte Sweet
P.J. McClures–a Hoboken, New Jersey, restaurant–is the setting for this well-developed character study of young people dealing with issues still unresolved in American culture.
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Restless 2000 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Jule Gilfillan
Cast: Catherine Kellner, David Wu, Sarita Choudhury, Geng Le, Josh Lucas, Chen Shiang-chyi, Matthew Faber, Rachel DeWoskin, Daming Chen, Biao Fu, Hu Xin, Stew Markel
This US/China co-production depicts the culture shock of the West meeting the East. In this case, it is two friends–Leah Quinn (Catherine Kellner) and Richard Kao (David Wu)–who have known each other since high school and, now, meet again in Beijing. Both become involved in romantic relationships that change their views of the world.
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Spring Forward 1999  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gilroy
Cast: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott, Ian Hart, Peri Gilpin, Bill Raymond, Catherine Kellner, Hallee Hirsh, Justin Laboy, Kristin Laboy
Murphy (Ned Beatty), who works for the Connecticut Parks and Recreation Department, becomes the mentor of a young man (Liev Schreiber) just recently released from the penitentiary. This compelling story takes place during one year as the two men, from very different backgrounds, bond through one-on-one conversations.
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Tully 2000 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Truth About Tully
Director: Hilary Birmingham
Cast: Anson Mount, Julianne Nicholson, Glenn Fitzgerald, Catherine Kellner, Bob Burrus, Natalie Canerday, John Diehl, V. Craig Heidenreich, Andy Signore
Tully Jr. (Anson Mount), brother Earl (Glenn Fitzgerald), and father Tully Sr. (Bob Burrus) farm in Nebraska, but their lives are put on hold one day when Tully Sr. receives a foreclosure notice. It appears that someone–claiming to be Tully Sr.'s deceased wife–has failed to pay her bills, and the Tully family farm is now in jeopardy.
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| 1. 200 Cigarettes (1999)
2. 30 Days (1999)
3. Day at the Beach (1998)
4. Kicking and Screaming (1995)
5. Pearl Harbor (2001)
6. Restaurant (1999)
7. Restless (2000)
8. Spring Forward (1999)
9. Tully (2000)
aka: The Truth About Tully
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