All the Pretty Horses 2000  PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Cast: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Penelope Cruz, Lucas Black, Ruben Blades, Miriam Colon, Bruce Dern, Robert Patrick, Sam Shepard, Elizabeth Ibarra
In the late 1940s, down-on-his-luck John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) convinces his friend Lacey (Henry Thomas) to join him on a trip to Mexico. They plan to work as cowboys on one of Mexico's many cattle ranches. Along the way, the duo hooks up with Jimmy (Lucas Black), but misfortune follows, and they part company. More misfortune lies ahead when they get work on Don Hector Rocha's (Ruben Blades) horse ranch, and Cole becomes romantically involved with Don Hector's daughter, Alejandra (Penelope Cruz).
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 Crazy in Alabama 1999  PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Antonio Banderas
Cast: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger, Richard Schiff, John Beasley, Robert Wagner, Noah Emmerich
In Antonio Banderas' first directorial effort, he combines two stories in one. The first involves an eccentric woman, Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who beheads her husband and flees to Hollywood. At the same time her nephew, Peejoe (Lucas Black), becomes involved in the meaning of another death that propels him into the middle of the 1960's civil rights battle.
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 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 2006 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Lucas Black, Damien Marzette, Trula M. Marcus, Zachery Ty Bryan, Brandon Brendel, Daniel Booko, David V. Thomas, Amber Stevens, Ashika Gogna, Christian Salazar, Chris Astoyan, Nikki Griffin, Brian Goodman
Loner Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) has been involved in street racing and, to avoid a jail sentence, moves to Tokyo to live with his father, Major Boswell (Brian Goodman), who had abandoned him when he was a very young child. Almost immediately, Sean enters the world of drift racing, which involves racing cars in tight spaces. Sean loses big, and the only way to pay off his debt is to enter the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld.
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Flash 1997  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Simon Wincer
Cast: Lucas Black, Brian Kerwin, Ellen Burstyn, Shawn Toovey, Tom Nowicki, Von Coulter, Dan Biggers, Sharon Blackwood, Whitt Brantley, Jill Jane Clements
A boy and a horse set the stage for this Disney family made-for-TV movie. Connor (Lucas Black) dreams of having Flash (the horse) for his own and saves his money, though the family is poor. Matters are made worse when the horse falls into the hands of a mean man.
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Friday Night Lights 2004  PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Peter Berg, Josh Pate
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lee Jackson, Lee Thompson Young, Tim McGraw, Grover Coulson, Connie Britton, Connie Cooper, Kasey Stevens, Ryanne Duzich, Amber Heard, Morgan Farris
Based on H.D. Bessinger's novel is about the blue-collar town of Odessa, Texas, pinning its hopes on the1988 football season of the Permian High School Panthers, coached by Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton). The story involves hero-worship, economics, and racism in a world where winning or losing affects the entire community.
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Ghosts of Mississippi 1996 PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson, Virginia Madsen, William H. Macy, Lucas Black, Joseph Tello, Alexa Vega
This pretty good film unravels the story of prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter's (Alec Baldwin) unfailing efforts to win a conviction against racist Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) for the premeditated murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evars in June 1963.
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Jarhead 2005 R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Brian Garaghty, Evan Jones, Brianne Davis, Jacob Vargas, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald, Damion Poitier, Lo Ming, Riad Galayini, Kevin Foster, Craig Coyne
This story, based on Anthony Swoffard's book about his first-hand and sometimes humorous memories of heat and boredom in Kuwait during "Operation Desert Storm." A U.S. Marine, "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), and his fellow Marines are trained at Camp Pendleton, California, and then head for the Gulf as part of a scout/sniper platoon.
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The Miracle Worker 2000  TV, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nadia Tass
Cast: Alison Elliott, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, David Strathairn, Lucas Black, Kate Greenhouse, Damir Andrei, Patricia Gage, Stewart Arnott, Kevin Duhaney, Eugene Lipinski, Twila Provencher, Liam Robinson, Jackie Richardson, Stephanie Sams, Andrew Prine
In this Disney TV remake of William Gibson's biographical play about blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller, Hallie Kate Eisenberg takes on the role of Helen. Alison Elliott co-stars as Helen's tutor Annie Sullivan whose perseverance draws Helen into communicating with the real world. The story gets the message across to the young ones about the difficulties associated with handicaps and Helen Keller's amazing triumph in dealing with her situation.
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Sling Blade 1996  R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Natalie Canerday, James Hampton, Rick Dial, Brent Briscoe, Christine Renee Ward, Sarah Boss, Kathy Sue Brown, Mickey Jones, Bruce Hampton
Retarded 11-year-old Karl had killed his mother and her lover with a sling blade when misunderstanding their sexual encounter and was institutionalized. Now, 25 years later, Karl (Billy Bob Thornton) is released from the institution and is at loose ends. He opts to move into the dysfunctional household of his new friend, young Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black), where he views actions of family members through an outsider's perspective. Billy Bob Thornton received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
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The War 1994 PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, Mare Winningham, Lexi Randall, LaToya Chisholm, Christine Baranski, Bruce A. Young, Christopher Fennell, Lucas Black, Raynor Scheine
Stephen Simmons (Kevin Costner) returns home a beaten man after fighting in Vietnam. To his chagrin, he finds his children (Elijah Wood and Lexi Randall) are fighting their own war with neighborhood kids. Battles take place over the rights to a tree house, and Stephen uses his war experiences to teach his children how to cooperate and communicate. 2 User Reviews
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| | RascalBrat 02/25/2007 | | Excellent. |
| | RascalBrat 02/25/2007 | | EXCELLENT. |
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| 1. All the Pretty Horses (2000)
2. Crazy in Alabama (1999)
3. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
4. Flash (1997)
5. Friday Night Lights (2004)
6. Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
7. Jarhead (2005)
8. The Miracle Worker (2000)
9. Sling Blade (1996)
10. The War (1994)
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