 Big Fish 2003   PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Matthew McGrory, David Denman, Missi Pyle, Loudon Wainwright III
Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) arrives home to his father Ed's deathbed and is determined to separate fact from fiction by reliving Ed's tall tales of adventure in the past. Young Ed is played by Ewan McGregor and senior Ed is played by Albert Finney.
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A Good Year 2006   PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Freddie Highmore, Tom Hollander, Didier Bourdon, Isabelle Candelier, Archie Panjabi, Rafe Spall, Richard Coyle, Kenneth Cranham, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Based on Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence," this is the tale of Englishman Max (Russell Crowe)–a ruthless, workaholic stock trader–who is notified that his nearly-forgotten Uncle Henry (Albert Finney) has died, leaving his Southern France vineyard estate to Max, his sole heir. Max had spent much time at the estate in his youth, and Uncle Henry was one of the few people that Max admired. His plan: sell quickly. But, upon reaching the estate, memories of his happy childhood at the estate give him second thoughts. Problems arise when he finds out that the estate is rundown, the wine is virtually undrinkable, and Christie (Abbie Cornish) arrives on the scene claiming to be Uncle Henry's illegitimate daughter.
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Innocence 2004 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Cast: Zoe Auclair, Berangere Haubruge, Lea Bridarolli, Laisson Lalieux, Astrid Homme, Marion Cotillard, Helene de Fougerolles, Ana Palomo-Diaz, Olga Peytavi-Muller, Veronique Nordey
Iris (Zoe Auclair), like all the students before her, arrives at her French boarding school for girls in a coffin from which she rises to be trained for a future role. Her education for that ambiguous role in life is the focus of this film, based on a 19th-century story written by Frank Wedekind.
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La Vie en Rose 2007 PG-13, 140 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Musical
aka: La Mome
Director: Olivier Dahan
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Clotilde Courau, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allegret, Marc Barbe, Caroline Sihol, Manon Chevallier, Pauline Burlet
Writer-director Olivier Dahan's story skips back and forth as it chronicles events in the life of fabled French singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard). She was born into poverty to street singer mother Anetta (Clotilde Courau) and circus contortionist father Louis (Jean-Paul Rouve), but as a young girl (played by Manon Chevallier) Edith was given to Louis' mother (Catherine Allegret) to raise. Later, with support from friend Momone (Sylvie Testud), song writer Raymond Asso (Marc Barbe), and manager Louis Barrier (Pascal Greggory) she succeeds as a singer. As the story shows, Edith's powerful singing voice helps her survive when she goes through the trials and triumphs of her short, bittersweet life. The film received two Academy Awards including Best Actress (Cotillard) and received one other nomination.
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Love Me If You Dare 2003  R, 93 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Yann Samuell
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Josephine Lebas-Joly, Gerard Watkins, Emmanuelle Gronvold, Laetizia Venezia Tarnowska, Gilles Lellouche, Elodie Navarre, Julia Faure, Frederic Geerts, Nathalie Nattier
During their lifelong friendship, Julien and Sophie have traded back and forth a tin box with the understanding that the one who has possession of the box must complete a dare given by the other one. An innocent game when it began for two eight-year-old children, but over the years, the game has taken on new boundaries.
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Public Enemies 2009   R, 143 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christan Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, David Wenham, Stephen Graham, James Russo, Jason Clarke, John Judd, Rory Cochrane, John Kishline, Shawn Hatosy
During the 1930s, bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) obtains folk-hero status as he successfully robs banks and eludes the police. F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) is determined to put an end to a wave of bank robberies being performed by Dillinger as well as by others such as Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum). This story shows how Hoover names Dillinger the first "Public Enemy Number One" and assigns top F.B.I. agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) to use any means necessary to end the crime wave. Purvis gets help from reinforcements and directs F.B.I. forces toward the capture of Dillinger in a battle that ends outside the Biograph Theater. 1 User Review
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| | not good | Anonymous 07/09/2009 | | the acting was great, that's about it. |
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 A Very Long Engagement 2004 R, 133 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, Andre Dussollier, Jerome Kircher, Clovis Cornillac, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ticky Holgado
Convinced that her fiance, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel)–who has disappeared between the French and German lines during World War I–is still alive, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) gets help in her search from private detective Germain Pire (Ticky Holgado). Two Academy Award nominations were received.
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| Oscar: Best Actress for La Vie en Rose (2007) |
1. Big Fish (2003)
2. A Good Year (2006)
3. Innocence (2004)
4. La Vie en Rose (2007)
aka: La Mome
5. Love Me If You Dare (2003)
6. Public Enemies (2009)
7. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
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