 Alfie 2004  R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Charles Shyer
Cast: Jude Law, Jane Krakowski, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller, Nia Long, Gedde Watanabe, Dick Latessa, Renee Taylor, Veronica Clifford, Claudette Mink, Jeff Harding, Kevin Rahm, Max Morris
Alfie (Jude Law) plies his trade as a NYC limousine chauffeur while enjoying trysts with a variety of women–including party girl Nikki (Sienna Miller), wealthy Liz (Susan Sarandon), and Lonette (Nia Long) who is the girlfriend of his best friend Marlon (Omar Epps). Alfie's girlfriend Julie (Marisa Tomei) is aware of what is going on and is not at all pleased with Alfie's lifestyle. But, Alfie continues his sexual affairs until he suffers a health scare and questions what love is all about.
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 All the King's Men 2006  PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Zaillian
Cast: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Jackie Earle Haley, Kathy Baker, Talia Balsam, Frederic Forrest, Kevin Dunn, Thomas McCarthy
This film is based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which was a thinly veiled depiction of Louisiana Governor Huey Long's rise and fall in politics. This "governor of the people" is Willie Stark (Sean Penn) who begins his career as an idealist but uses corruption to obtain his goals. Stark's methods lead to his eventual downfall.
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Artificial Intelligence: AI 2001   PG-13, 145 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Jack Angel, Ben Kingsley, Keith Campbell, April Grace, Ken Leung, Clark Gregg, Kevin Sussman
After Stanley Kubrick's death, Steven Spielberg inherited this story about a mid-21st century android, David (Haley Joel Osment), who has been programmed to love. Eleven-year-old David comes to the Swinton home as a replacement for the family's son, Martin (Jake Thomas), who is ill. But when Martin returns to his family, the Swinton's abandon David. He is set adrift in the world–dreaming of becoming a real boy and being loved by the Swintons. 1 User Review
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| | Ultimately, this film fails, but it is worth watching. | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | The story about the almost-collaboration of Spielberg and Kubrick is well known by now; and you can't help but see the seams throughout the film: the ethereal quality of Kubrick does not quite fit the moral fables of Spielberg. The movie is too long, too episodic, and, finally, too pat.
But there are ideas and images running through this film that should not be easily dismissed or discounted. Haley Joel Osment really is so good it hurts, but, more importantly, there is an attempt here at scope, at vision which is worth our attention even if it doesn't quite work. Spielberg tries to explain too much; Kubrick would have let it remain unresolved imaage. But you can forgive ambition a lot more easily than insufficiency.
I'm sorry it's not a better film. I'm glad someone serious tried. |
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 The Aviator 2004 PG-13, 168 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Alec Baldwin, Danny Huston, Jude Law, Adam Scott, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani
Leonardo DiCaprio takes on the role of legendary millionaire Howard Hughes during the 20 years from 1927 when he was building his company until 1947 when he was investigated for being involved in corruption concerning World War II government contracts. Based on John Logan's screenplay, this is a very entertaining film. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett); six other nominations were received, including Best Picture, Actor (DiCaprio), Director, and Supporting Actor (Alan Alda).
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 Bent 1997 NC-17, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sean Mathias
Cast: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Brian Webber, Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gresby Nash, Suzanne Bertish, David Meyer
This is the film version of Martin Sherman's play about Max (Clive Owen) and Horst (Lothaire Bluteau) who become homosexual lovers in the Nazi concentration camp, Dachau.
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Breaking and Entering 2006 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Rafi Gavron, Poppy Rogers, Mark Benton, Juliet Stevenson, Caroline Chikezie, Red Lazar, Branka Katic, Velibor Topic
Landscape architect Will (Jude Law) has problems at home, which include fights with his wife (Robin Wright Penn) and more troubles with her teenage daughter Bea (Poppy Rogers). Now, Will and partner Sandy (Martin Freeman) have opened an office in the inner-city area of London's King's Cross. As soon as they move in, the office is burglarized, and then the crime is committed again. Will spends evenings at the office hoping to catch the culprit. Another strike occurs, and this time Will gives chase and sees a young man entering a seedy apartment building. Will learns that he is a 15-year-old Bosnian refugee, Miro (Rafi Gavron), and visits the apartment where he meets Miro's mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche), who ekes out a living as a seamstress. They form a friendship, but more problems follow.
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 Closer 2004 R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick Hobbs, Colin Stinton, Robert Stone, Bret Yount, Adbul Popoola, Antony Gabriel, Steve Morphew, Ray Donn, Steve Benham
London novelist Dan (Jude Law) falls in love with Alice (Natalie Portman), but her needs become too much for him. Meanwhile, photographer Anna (Julia Roberts) and Dan are attracted to each other, but she marries Larry (Clive Owen). The relationships in this love quadrangle are shown at the beginnings and endings when flirtations, passions, deceptions, and betrayals rise to the fore. Graphic sexual descriptions. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Supporting Actress (Portman) and Supporting Actor (Owen).
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 Cold Mountain 2003 R, 155 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Kathy Baker, James Gammon, Giovanni Ribisi, Eileen Atkins
During the Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman (Jude Law), goes AWOL and struggles to return home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina, with dreams of reuniting with the woman (Nicole Kidman) he loves. Renee Zellweger won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Law).
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 Enemy at the Gates 2001  R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Gabriel Thomson, Eva Mattes, Matthias Habich, Sophie Rois, Ivan Shvedoff, Mario Bandi, Mikhail Matveyev, Hans Martin Stier, Clemens Schick
This film is based on true facts of a cat-and-mouse game of survival played between a Russian, Vassily Zaitsev (Jude Law), and his enemy, German businessman Major Koenig (Ed Harris) during World War II. When fate brings them together, Zaitsev and Koenig, who have both fallen in love with Tanya (Rachel Weisz), engage in their own battle while the Battle of Stalingrad rages.
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ExistenZ 1999 R, 97 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Christopher Eccleston, Robert A. Silverman, Kris Lemche
Players in this adventure cannot differentiate between what is real and not in a new virtual reality game.
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Final Cut 1998 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Cast: Ray Winstone, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, John Beckett, Holly Davidson, William Scully, Mark Burdis, Perry Benson, Lisa Marsh, Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Jude (Jude Law) is dead, and his friends have been invited to watch a video on which he was working up to the time of his death. The guests are shocked to find out that the film documents the "performances"–taken with hidden cameras–of each of the friends, showing them at their absolute worst. Drugs, infidelity, lurid actions, and more were filmed, ending with scenes of Jude making love with Lisa (Lisa Marsh), the wife of Ray (Ray Winstone)–resulting in Ray killing Jude. Really over the top.
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 Gattaca 1997 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Gore Vidal, Xander Berkeley, Alan Arkin, Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Elias Koteas, Jayne Brook, Tony Shalhoub, Blair Underwood, Maya Rudolph, Una Damon, Elizabeth Dennehy
This science fiction fable contemplates a world in which genetic engineering is used to achieve human perfection. Vincent (Ethan Hawke) was born with a heart defect but will sacrifice almost anything to be employed at the Gattaca Corp. where he could achieve his dream: flying to the edge of the solar system. To get his foot in the door, Vincent assumes the identity of an athlete, Jerome (Jude Law). All goes well–until the head of Gattaca is murdered, and fingerprints are requested from all employees.
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 The Holiday 2006 PG-13, 138 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach, Edward Burns, Rufus Sewell, Miffy Englefield, Emma Pritchard, Sarah Parish, Shannyn Sossamon, Bill Macy, Shelley Berman, Kathryn Hahn, John Krasinski
While on an online search for a getaway, British wedding correspondent Iris Simkins (Kate Winslet) and Los Angeles movie trailer editor Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) discover each other and trade houses for the holidays. Amanda's life picks up when Iris' brother, Graham (Jude Law), appears on her doorstep. Meanwhile, Iris begins a relationship with sound-track editor Miles (Jack Black) and befriends screenwriter Arthur Abbott (Eli Wallach). These events are destined to change the lives of both Iris and Amanda.
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 I Heart Huckabees 2004 R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, Angela Grillo, Ger Duany, Darlene Hunt, Kevin Dunn, Richard Appel
When environmentalist head of Open Spaces Coalition Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has conflicts with Huckabees superstores executive Brad Stand (Jude Law), Albert hires existential detectives Bernard (Dustin Hoffman) and Vivian (Lily Tomlin) to get to the bottom of some strange experiences. Brad also hires the same detectives–adding to this comedy involving philosophical meanderings.
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 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 2004 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara & Shelby Hoffman, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Catherine O'Hara, Luis Guzman, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Adams
After their wealthy parents were killed in a fire, three siblings–Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken), and Sunny (Kara and Shelby Hoffman)–go to live with a distant relative, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), who has evil plans for getting his hands on the family money. Olaf's plans do not include being kind to his orphaned relatives. The film won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and was nominated for three others.
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Love, Honour and Obey 2000 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Cast: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee, Denise Van Outen, Rhys Ifans, Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) talks his boyhood pal, Jude (Jude Law), into getting him a job working for Jude's gangster-boss uncle, Ray (Ray Burdis), only to find that he is quickly bored with the new lifestyle. To liven things up, Jonny rips off a rival gang, and the ensuing gang war shifts into high gear.
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 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997 R, 154 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Lady Chablis, Alison Eastwood, Irma P. Hall, Jude Law, Jack Thompson, Paul Hipp, Anne Haney, Kim Hunter
New York reporter John Kelso (John Cusack) comes to Savannah to work on a society piece for "Town and Country" magazine. He meets a variety of colorful characters and stays on to cover antiques dealer Jim Williams' (Kevin Spacey) trial for the murder of his gay lover.
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Music from Another Room 1998 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charlie Peters
Cast: Jude Law, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly, Brenda Blethyn, Martha Plimpton, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Kilner, Jon Tenney, Bruce Jarchow, Vincent Laresca
In this nice little romantic comedy, Danny (Jude Law) returns to his hometown to find and marry Anna Swan (Gretchen Mol), whom he has always felt he was destined to marry since he was five years old and helped deliver her. However, she is engaged to another, but he persists while interacting with the eccentric Swan family.
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My Blueberry Nights 2007 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Wong Kar Wai
Cast: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman, Frankie Faison, Cat Power, Adriane Lenox, Benjamin Kanes, John Malloy, Chad R. Davis, Katya Blumenberg, Michael Delano, Bill Hollis
Elizabeth (Norah Jones) suffers a rough breakup with her boyfriend and, hoping to find peace following the storm, leaves her new friend, cafe owner Jeremy (Jude Law), behind and sets off on a cross-country trip. To pay for her expenses, Elizabeth finds temporary waitress jobs along the way. Among those she meets on her trek are alcoholic cop Arnie (David Strathairn) and his partying wife Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz) who are patrons at a bar Elizabeth works at in Memphis. After Arnie kills himself, Elizabeth comforts Sue Lynne. Later, while working as a cocktail waitress in Nevada, Elizabeth becomes involved with compulsive gambler Leslie (Natalie Portman). Through these lost souls, Elizabeth learns how to conquor her own loneliness.
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Road to Perdition 2002 R, 115 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Tyler Hoechlin, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dylan Baker, Ciaran Hinds, Liam Aiken, Rob Maxey, Craig Spidle, Ian Barford, Stephen P. Dunn, Paul Turner
One night in Rock Island, Iowa, during 1931, 12-year-old Michael (Tyler Hoechlin) witnesses his hit man father, Michael (Tom Hanks), pull out a gun and shoot a roomful of people. Not long after that, young Michael's brother and mother are found shot to death. Knowing that he has been betrayed by his boss (Paul Newman), Michael Sr. escapes with Michael Jr. on a six-week odyssey–with a psychotic hit man (Jude Law) hot on their trail. The film won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and received five other nominations, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Paul Newman).
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Shopping 1994 R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Fraser James, Sean Bean, Marianne Faithfull, Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Newman, Lee Whitlock, Eamonn Walker, Ralph Ineson, Jason Isaacs
Ex-con Billy (Jude Law), with girlfriend Jo (Sadie Frost) along for the ride, gets his kicks out of stealing cars then ramming them into store windows, stealing until the police arrive, then riding off at high speed with the police in pursuit. But the town's drug lord, Tommy (Sean Pertwee), isn't happy with the infringement of his territory, and a deadly car race begins.
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 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 PG, 107 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Kerry Conran
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Bai Ling, Omid Djalili, Laurence Olivier, Angelina Jolie, Trevor Baxter, Julian Curry, Peter Law, Jon Rumney, Louis Hilyer, Khan Bonfils, Samta Gyatso
Extraordinary visual effects highlight this fantasy film, which is set in 1939 when news reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) hitches a ride with pilot Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan (Giovanni Ribisi). Their mission: to chase robots and flying machines that threaten Manhattan and to stop the efforts of a mad scientist who plans to destroy Earth.
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Sleuth 2007 R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Carmel O'Sullivan
In this remake of "Sleuth" (1972), Michael Caine plays wealthy crime novelist Andrew Wyke who's wife, Maggie (Carmel O'Sullivan), has left him for another, and Jude Law plays the unemployed actor Milo Tindle (played by Caine in the original film) who is invited to Wyke's mansion. Each man tries to outwit the other amidst plot twists and turns that begin with simple one-upmanships and escalate into dangerous mind games regarding Wyke's wife.
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 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, James Rebhorn, Sergio Rubini, Philip Baker Hall, Celia Weston, Fiorello, Stefania Rocca, Ivano Marescotti, Anna Longhi
Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is sent to Italy to bring back the millionaire playboy, Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). But after seeing and sharing in the Dickie's lifestyle, Ripley is not willing to give it up. His sociopathic personality now takes over in the solution to his dilemma. Academy Award nominations included Best Supporting Actor (Law).
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Wilde 1997 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian Gilbert
Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Wilkinson, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Mills, Jason Morell, Peter Barkworth, Robert Lang, Philip Locke
Victorian playwright Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry)–poet, genius, and homosexual–was willing to stand his ground and not flee England when he was sentenced to two years of hard labor as a result of his love affair with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas (Jude Law). This film covers that aspect of his life.
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The Wisdom of Crocodiles 1998 R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Immortality
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Cast: Jude Law, Elina Lowensohn, Timothy Spall, Jack Davenport, Kerry Fox, Colin Salmon, Stuart Bowman, C.J. December, Rick Lamont, Joseph O'Conor
This offbeat horror film features Jude Law as the handsome, talented Steven Griscz who has one outstanding flaw: he murders women to feed his thirst for blood. Steven is already under suspicion by the police, but his newest "victim," Anna Levels (Elina Lowensohn), appears headed for the same fate as her predecessors–or is she?
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| 1. Alfie (2004)
2. All the King's Men (2006)
3. Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
aka: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
4. The Aviator (2004)
5. Bent (1997)
6. Breaking and Entering (2006)
7. Closer (2004)
8. Cold Mountain (2003)
9. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
10. ExistenZ (1999)
11. Final Cut (1998)
12. Gattaca (1997)
13. The Holiday (2006)
14. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
15. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
16. Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
17. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
18. Music from Another Room (1998)
19. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
20. Road to Perdition (2002)
21. Shopping (1994)
22. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
23. Sleuth (2007)
24. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
25. Wilde (1997)
26. The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
aka: Immortality
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