The Bachelor 1999  PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gary Sinyor
Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Renee Zellweger, Hal Holbrook, James Cromwell, Artie Lange, Edward Asner, Marley Shelton, Peter Ustinov, Rebecca Cross, Katharine Towne
This film is a remake of Buster Keaton's 1925 silent movie, "Seven Chances." The story is about Jimmie Shannon's (Chris O'Donnell) fear of getting married. His phobia is cured instantly when Jimmie learns that he will receive $100 million from his late grandfather IF he marries before his 30th birthday, which just happens to be tomorrow.
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Batman & Robin 1997  PG-13, 130 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Alicia Silverstone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, John Glover, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Elle Macpherson, Vivica A. Fox, Vendela Kirsebom Thomessen, Elizabeth Sanders, Jeep Swenson, John Fink, Michael Reid MacKay
Batman (George Clooney) and Robin (Chris O'Donnell) have a double dose of trouble on their hands. Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) intends to take over Gotham City by putting it in a deep freeze while extreme environmentalist Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), with her lethal venom AND super-human sidekick, plots to rid the Earth of its animals–including HUMANS–to save plant life. Yes, the dynamic duo will be busy–even when joined by Butler Alfred's (Michael Gough) niece, Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone). Robin: "I want a car; chicks dig the car." Batman: "This is why Superman works alone."
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Batman Forever 1995  PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris O'Donnell, Nicole Kidman, Pat Hingle, Drew Barrymore, Debi Mazar, Michael Gough, Joe Grifasi, Elizabeth Sanders, Rene Auberjonois, Jessica Tuck, Philip Moon, Dennis Paladino
Batman (Val Kilmer) and Robin (Chris O'Donnell) fight evil in Gotham City. This time around, the Riddler (Jim Carrey) and Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) join forces to outwit the Fearless Duo. Never fear, the city remains in the good hands of its loyal defenders.
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Blue Sky 1994  PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Locane, Chris O'Donnell, Mitch Ryan, Dale Dye, Timothy Scott, Annie Ross
During the 1960s, Major Hank Marshall (Tommy Lee Jones) has more than he can deal with: he has a ditzy wife (Jessica Lange), and he is a scientist in the middle of the Army's testing of nuclear weapons. Jessica Lange won the Best Actress Oscar.
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The Chamber 1996 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Foley
Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, David Marshall Grant, Lela Rochon, Bo Jackson, Millie Perkins, Robert Prosky, Nicholas Pryor
A young lawyer, Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell), takes on the case of a Klansman, Sam Cahill (Gene Hackman) and subsequently learns that he is Cahill's grandson. The race against time is on as Hall tries to win clemency for Cahill before the execution date.
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Circle of Friends 1995 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Pat O'Connor
Cast: Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell, Saffron Burrows, Alan Cumming, Colin Firth, Geraldine O'Rawe, Aidan Gillen, Mick Lally, Britta Smith, John Kavanagh, Ruth McCabe, Ciaran Hinds, Marie Mullen, Marie Conmee, Tony Doyle
In 1957, close friends Benny (Minnie Driver), Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), and Nan (Saffron Burrows) attend Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Unlike her friends, Benny must live at home and commute to school because her strict parents will not allow her to live on campus. The first day of school, Benny meets Jack (Chris O'Donnell), and they are attracted to each other but have problems because every night Benny must return home where she wards off the advances of her father's assistant Sean (Alan Cumming). Meanwhile, Nan falls for Simon (Colin Firth) who gets her pregnant and then dumps her. Nan plans to get Jack drunk and then claim that he is the father. Eve, who has fallen for Aidan (Aidan Gillen), catches on to Nan's plot and reveals all, which allows Jack and Benny to continue their romance.
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Cookie's Fortune 1999  PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, Courtney B. Vance, Donald Moffat, Lyle Lovett
This gothic mystery, set in a small town in Mississippi, is a Robert Altman production. This time he hits his mark in a plot that revolves around the efforts of Camille Orcutt (Glenn Close) to make her aunt's suicide look like murder in order to save her family from the "social disgrace" of suicide.
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Fried Green Tomatoes 1991  PG-13, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Searcy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell, Stan Shaw, Gailard Sartain, Lois Smith, Timothy Scott, Gary Basaraba, Grace Zabriskie, Macon McCalman, Raynor Scheine
Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) meets octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) while visiting a nursing home. They become close friends, and Ninny tells stories about Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker) who lived in Georgia in the 1930s. Through flashbacks, Ninny's story is told beginning when Idgie and Ruth open a cafe in Whistle Stop, Alabama, where they serve fried green tomatoes. Despite problems, they succeed in the business, and their friendship endures. Evelyn is inspired by Ninny's stories, and she becomes a stronger woman.
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In Love and War 1996 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Ingrid Lacey, Emilio Bonucci, Mackenzie Astin, Margot Steinberg, Alan Bennett
Ernest Hemingway's (Chris O'Donnell) love affair with Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock), who tended to his needs during his World War I hospitalization in Italy, is the subject of this romantic, wartime drama.
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 Kinsey 2004 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker, Julianne Nicholson, William Sadler, Veronica Cartwright
The man behind the landmark study on human sexual behavior, 1968's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) is the subject of this film, which reveals the rigid social mores of that era. Laura Linney received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 2008 G, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Patricia Rozema
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn, Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Joan Cusack, Madison Davenport, Zach Mills, Colin Mochrie, Willow Smith, Max Thieriot, Dylan Smith, Kenneth Welsh
In this fourth entry in the "American Girl" series, 10-year-old Kit (Abigail Breslin) wants to be a reporter when she grows up. The United States is going through the Great Depression, and Kit lives in Cincinnati with her mother, Margaret (Julia Ormond), because her father (Chris O'Donnell) has left Cincinnati in search of work. To make ends meet, Kit and her mother have taken in boarders. Kit makes friends with hobos Countee (Willow Smith) and Will (Max Thieriot), and when Will becomes a chief suspect in neighborhood robberies, Kit puts her sleuthing talents to work and proves Will's innocence.
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Mad Love 1995 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Antonia Bird
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Chris O'Donnell, Joan Allen, Jude Ciccolella, Matthew Lillard, Robert Nadir, Kevin Dunn, Liev Schreiber, Richard Chaim, Amy Sakasitz
Good boy Matt (Chris O'Donnell) meets and falls in love with wild and crazy Casey (Drew Barrymore) and runs away with her when her parents plan to send her to a sanitarium.
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Max Payne 2008 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Moore
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Kate Burton, Olga Kurylenko, Joel Gordon, Jamie Hector, Rothaford Gray, Andrew Friedman, Marianthi Evans, Nelly Furtado
Police detective Max Payne's (Mark Wahlberg) wife and baby were killed three years ago, and he is obsessed with finding the killer. He gets his first clue when Natasha (Olga Kurylenko) is murdered, and Max believes her murder is tied to that of his wife. He talks to Natasha's sister, Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), who leads him to a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs, which cause soldiers to hallucinate and believe that they are invincible. Now, Max is even more determined to uncover the truth as he searches New York City's dark streets stopping at nothing to deliver justice.
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Men Don't Leave 1990 PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Brickman
Cast: Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell, Charlie Korsmo, Arliss Howard, Tom Mason, Joan Cusack, Kathy Bates, Jim Haynie, Belita Moreno, Kevin Corrigan
In this remake of "La Vie Continue," Jessica Lange plays the struggling widow, Beth Macauley, who fights to keep her family (Chris O'Donnell and Charlie Korsmo) together after the death of her husband and their father (Tom Mason).
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 Scent of a Woman 1992  R, 157 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Brest
Cast: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Venture, Bradley Whitford, Rochelle Oliver, Todd Louiso, Gene Canfield, Margaret Eginton, Tom Riis Farrell, Nicholas Sadler, Matt Smith, Frances Conroy
High-school student Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell) is hired to take care of blind, depressed, and foul-mouthed, retired Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino) during Thanksgiving break. Slade plans to commit suicide AFTER one last fling in which Charlie is his companion. Al Pacino won an Oscar for his portrayal of the Colonel. Nominations were also received for Best Picture and Director. Based on the 1974 Italian film.
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School Ties 1992 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, Amy Locane, Peter Donat, Kevin Tighe, Zeljko Ivanek, Andrew Lowery, Cole Hauser, Ed Lauter, Michael Higgins, Peter McRobbie
David Greene (Brendan Fraser) is a 1950s' high-school student who wants to attend an Ivy League university. After he wins a football scholarship to a snooty New England prep school that will ensure his entrance into an Ivy League school, David keeps the fact that he is Jewish a secret in an effort to fit in with his schoolmates and avoid anti-Semitism. David does become a star player, but when classmate Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon)–who has lost both his football position and girlfriend Sally (Amy Locane) to David–learns David's secret, he tells others. Now David must deal with the religious intolerance at his WASP prep school if he wants to keep his dream alive.
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The Sisters 2006 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Cast: Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson, Erika Christensen, Tony Goldwyn, Elizabeth Banks, Rip Torn, Chris O'Donnell, Eric McCormack, Steven Culp, Alessandro Nivola, Greg Foote, Ed Ragozzino
This take-off on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters," is updated and now set in the United States where sisters Marcia and Olga (Maria Bello and Mary Stuart Masterson) are planning a surprise for their sister Irene's (Erika Christensen) birthday. The party takes place, but it leads to the siblings' struggle with suppressed memories as they try to overcome their father's death and come to an honest understanding of their relationships with each other.
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The Three Musketeers 1993 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Action / Comedy / Romance
Director: Stephen Herek
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca De Mornay, Gabrielle Anwar, Michael Wincott, Paul McGann, Julie Delpy, Hugh O'Conor, Christopher Adamson, Philip Tan, Erwin Leder, Axel Anselm
In this Disney production, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, and Oliver Platt play the three Musketeers, and Chris O'Donnell takes on the role of D'Artagnan as they fight Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry) who is controlling the French government under Louis XIII (Hugh O'Conor). This is a funny flick.
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Vertical Limit 2000 PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Temuera Morrison, Stuart Wilson, Nicholas Lea, Roshan Seth, Ben Mendelsohn
Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton) stages a publicity stunt on K2 (the second highest mountain in the world). But plans go awry when an avalanche strands Elliot and two fellow climbers–Annie Garrett (Robin Tunney) and Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea). Annie's brother, Peter (Chris O'Donnell), leads the rescue team and quickly learns that ingenious methods are needed to save the trapped trio.
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| 1. The Bachelor (1999)
2. Batman & Robin (1997)
3. Batman Forever (1995)
4. Blue Sky (1994)
5. The Chamber (1996)
6. Circle of Friends (1995)
7. Cookie's Fortune (1999)
8. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
9. In Love and War (1996)
10. Kinsey (2004)
11. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
12. Mad Love (1995)
13. Max Payne (2008)
14. Men Don't Leave (1990)
15. Scent of a Woman (1992)
16. School Ties (1992)
17. The Sisters (2006)
18. The Three Musketeers (1993)
19. Vertical Limit (2000)
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