 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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 The Missing 2003  R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller / Western
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, Sergio Calderon, Jay Tavare, Steve Reevis, Rance Howard, Simon Baker, Ray McKinnon, Max Perlich, Ramon Frank
In 1885, Samuel (Tommy Lee Jones) returns to his home in New Mexico after a 20-year absence and finds that his daughter, Maggie (Cate Blanchett), needs him to track down Army deserters–led by an Aztec mystic, Chidin (Eric Schweig)–who have kidnapped Maggie's daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood). Father and daughter unite as they pursue Chidin in hopes of finding Lilly before she is sold to a prostitution ring across the border in Mexico.
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Pathfinder 2007  R, 99 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Thriller
Director: Marcus Nispel
Cast: Karl Urban, Russell Means, Moon Bloodgood, Jay Tavare, Clancy Brown, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller, Kevin Loring, Wayne Charles Baker, Burkely Duffield, Ray G. Thunderchild, Duane Howard, Brandon Oakes, Alain Hudon
Hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America, a Viking child survived a shipwreck and was raised by the Wampanoag Tribe. Because of his pale complexion, he was named "Ghost" (Burkely Duffield). Now a grown man, Ghost (Karl Urban) comes to the Wampanoag's aid when Vikings return and threaten to wipe out the tribe–as well as Starfire (Moon Bloodgood) who is the woman Ghost loves. When Ghost single-handedly sets out to stop the rampaging Vikings, slaughter ensues.
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Street Fighter 1994  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Comedy
Director: Steven E. DeSouza
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Simon Callow, Roshan Seth, Wes Studi, Byron Mann, Grand L. Bush, Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, Jay Tavare, Andrew Bryniarski, Gregg Rainwater, Miguel A. Nunez Jr.
This comic book, action flick is formed around a video game, "Street Fighter," and kids will recognize most of the set and action from the game. A colonel (Jean-Claude Van Damme) for a U.N. type organization drops into Southeast Asia to bring feuding warlords to their knees. This was Raul Julia's last film before his untimely death.
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| 1. Adaptation (2002)
2. The Missing (2003)
3. Pathfinder (2007)
4. Street Fighter (1994)
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