21 Grams 2003  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clea DuVall, Danny Huston, Melissa Leo, Marc Musso, Teresa Delgado, Carly Nahon, Claire Pakis, Stephen Bridgewater
This story leaps forward and backward in time featuring short moments in the lives of three strangers (Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Naomi Watts) whose lives are forever changed by one horrific accident. Naomi Watts was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress and Benicio Del Toro was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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The Astronaut's Wife 1999  R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rand Ravich
Cast: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Nick Cassavetes, Donna Murphy, Blair Brown, Tom Noonan, Samantha Eggar, Gary Grubbs, Clea DuVall
Astronaut Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) is lost in space for only two minutes but returns to Earth a changed man. Just how changed he is emerges one night when he forcefully seduces his wife, Jillian (Charlize Theron). Pregnancy results, but the question of what is growing inside her womb gives Jillian–and the audience as well–more than a few tense moments.
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But I'm a Cheerleader 1999  R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jamie Babbit
Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Cathy Moriarty, Bud Cort, Mink Stole, RuPaul, Michelle Williams, Melanie Lynskey, Julie Delpy, Richard Moll
This satire, based on the premise that homosexuality can be cured, features Natasha Lyonne as the cute, all-American, Christian cheerleader: Megan. When friends and family suspect that she has homosexual tendencies, they pack Megan off to the True Directions Program where she–predictably–meets lesbian Graham (Clea DuVall) and falls in love. Fresh ideas do not abound in this plot.
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 Ghosts of Mars 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall, Jason Statham, Liam Waite, Joanna Cassidy, Wanda De Jesus, Duane Davis, Lobo Sebastian
A Martian, intergalactic policewoman Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge), leads a team transporting a killer (Ice Cube) from a mining outpost jail to the capital city for trial. But plans go awry when the team discovers that colonists at the outpost are now possessed by evil Martian ghosts.
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Girl, Interrupted 1999  R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave, Travis Fine, Mary Kay Place
This story is adapted from the memoirs of Susanna Daysen (Winona Ryder) and relates the time when she was a patient at Boston's Claymore psychiatric hospital in the mid-1960s. She recalls stories of those she encounters during her 18-month stay. Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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 The Grudge 2004  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea DuVall, KaDee Strickland, Grace Zabriskie, Bill Pullman, Rosa Blasi, Ted Raimi, Ryo Ishibashi, Yoko Maki, Takashi Matsuyama
An American nurse working in Tokyo, Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), is plagued by a supernatural curse "the grudge," which has traveled from person to person and then has killed each victim. It will continue until someone achieves freedom from it while still alive. Will Karen be the one to free herself from its control and bring an end to the curse?
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Helter Skelter 2004 TV, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Gray
Cast: Jeremy Davies, Clea DuVall, Bruno Kirby, Allison Smith, Marguerite Morgan, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Eric Dane, Hal Ozsan, Rick Gomez, Michael Weston, Robert Joy, Robert Costanzo
In this second made-for-TV movie about the Manson "family" murders, Jeremy Davies stars as convicted killer Charles Manson who led his followers in a pair of gruesome murders. Scenes were cut to tone down the violence for the TV audience.
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 Identity 2003 R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: James Mangold
Cast: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, Rebecca De Mornay, John C. McGinley, William Lee Scott, Jake Busey, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Leila Kenzle
Travelers seek refuge from a storm in a seedy hotel. But safety is short lived as they discover that they are being killed off–one by one.
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The Laramie Project 2002 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Moises Kaufman
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Davies, Clea DuVall, Dylan Baker, Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Christina Ricci, Laura Linney, Summer Phoenix, Joshua Jackson, Amy Madigan, Nestor Carbonell
Laramie, Wyoming, hit the national newswires in 1998 when a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence, and finally died. Moises Kaufman put together an ensemble cast that went to Laramie, interviewed people, and created a play incorporating their answers. This film is an adaptation of that play.
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Passengers 2008 R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, David Morse, William B. Davis, Ryan Robbins, Clea DuVall, Chelah Horsdal, Karen Austin, Don Thompson, Stacy Grant, Conner Dwelly, Andrew Wheeler, Elzanne Fourie
A plane has crashed, and Claire (Anne Hathaway) is assigned by her mentor Perry (Andre Braugher) to counsel the survivors and help them cope with their tragic experience. Most of the passengers remain remote and do not open up their feelings to Claire. But, one passenger, Eric (Patrick Wilson), and Claire begin a relationship that turns to romance. When the other passengers start to disappear, one-by-one, Claire is determined to uncover the facts behind the mystery–even when she becomes suspicious that Eric holds the key to what is happening.
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The Slaughter Rule 2002 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith
Cast: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Clea DuVall, David Cale, Eddie Spears, Kelly Lynch, Amy Adams, Ken White, Noah Watts, Kim DeLong
When Junior Varsity Football is dropped from his Montana high school, Roy (Ryan Gosling) loses the one thing that makes his lonely life tolerable. Adding to his misery, his estranged father is killed in a train accident. Luckily, a middle-aged loner, Gideon (David Morse)–an ex-football coach and now a newspaper deliverer–is putting together a rough-and-tumble six-man football team, and Roy catches his eye. Gideon becomes a good substitute father for Roy, but their relationship grows more intimate.
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A Slipping-Down Life 1999 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Toni Kalem
Cast: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Veronica Cartwright, Marshall Bell, Shawnee Smith, Bruno Kirby, Tom Bower, Clea DuVall, Lew Temple
A young woman (Lili Taylor), whose life seems to be going nowhere, obsesses over a rock singer and carves his name on her forehead. While this act makes her a celebrity, it also clears the way for her own liberation.
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 2001 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
Director: Jill Sprecher
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, Barbara Sukowa, Tia Texada, Frankie Faison, Shawn Elliott, William Wise
"What is happiness?" and "How does one find it?" are the questions this film deals with in crisscrossing stories involving New Yorkers whose reactions run the gamut from happiness to self-destruction.
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Two Weeks 2006 R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Steve Stockman
Cast: Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Thomas Cavanagh, Julianne Nicholson, Glenn Howerton, Anna Grace Smith, Jeffery Reagan Johnson, Clea DuVall, James Murtaugh, Michael Hyatt, Susan Misner, Jenny O'Hara
Siblings–Keith (Ben Chaplin), Barry (Thomas Cavanagh), Emily (Julianne Nicholson), and Matthew (Glenn Howerton)–come home to visit their dying mother Anita (Sally Field) for what they believe will be a couple of days. When the days drag into two weeks, personality conflicts rise to the fore, and Keith, Barry, Emily, and Matthew struggle to put their differences aside at this life-changing time of their lives.
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Wildflowers 1999 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Melissa Painter
Cast: Daryl Hannah, Clea DuVall, Eric Roberts, Tomas Arana, Richard Hillman, Eric Yetter, Robert Haas, John Doe, Sheila Tousey, Irene Bedard
When a child of a 1980s' commune, Cally (Clea DuVall), suspects that her older friend, Sabine (Daryl Hannah), is really her mother, she begins an investigation asking questions of those who could provide answers to her identity.
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| 1. 21 Grams (2003)
2. The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
3. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
4. Ghosts of Mars (2001)
aka: John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
5. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
6. The Grudge (2004)
7. Helter Skelter (2004)
8. Identity (2003)
9. The Laramie Project (2002)
10. Passengers (2008)
11. The Slaughter Rule (2002)
12. A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
13. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
aka: 13 Conversations About One Thing
14. Two Weeks (2006)
15. Wildflowers (1999)
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