The Baxter 2005  PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Michael Showalter
Cast: Michael Showalter, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux, Zak Orth, Michael Ian Black, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Peter Dinklage, Paul Rudd, Jon DeVries, Donna Mitchell, Haviland Morris
It is two weeks before quiet, unassuming Elliot (Michael Showalter) plans to marry beautiful, successful editor Caroline (Elizabeth Banks). But, Elliot gets nervous when Caroline's ex-boyfriend, Bradley (Justin Theroux), shows up and obviously attracts the attention of Caroline. At the same time, Elliot is realizing his own attraction to Cecil (Michelle Williams) who is a temp secretary at his office.
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Brokeback Mountain 2005  R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama / Western / Romance
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Scott Michael Campbell, Kate Mara, Graham Beckel, Roberta Maxwell, Peter McRobbie, Tom Carey, David Harbour, John Tench
Wyoming ranch hand Ennes Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) carry on a love affair in 1963 and then go their separate ways only to meet again four years later. Both are now married but find time every year for romantic getaways with each other that ensure their abiding love. Academy Awards were won for Best Director, Musical Score, and Writing; nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Heath Ledger), Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal), and Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams). 1 User Review
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| | babylove 08/29/2007 | | Although I loved this movie very much, there should have been more love scenes between Jack and Ennes. And Jack should have not died. |
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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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Deception 2008  R, 108 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin, Charlotte Rampling, Frank Girardeau, Bill Camp, Bruce Altman, Stephanie Roth Haberle
Jonathan McQuarry's (Ewan McGregor) profession as an auditor of corporate accounts keeps him working long hours with little time for socializing. When he meets attorney Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), his life changes. They form a friendship that leads to Jonathan joining a sex club, The List, where he meets "S" (Michelle Williams). Jonathan believes "S" is the woman of his dreams, they go out on a date, and "S" is abducted. Police identify Jonathan as the prime suspect as well of the perpetrator in the theft of $20 million. Could Wyatt be using Jonathan as his pawn in a deadly game?
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Dick 1999 PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Andrew Fleming
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Harry Shearer, Bruce McCulloch, Teri Garr, Saul Rubinek, Dave Foley
This spoof on the Nixon administration involves two girls, Betsy Jobs (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Michelle Williams), who wander away from the White House tour and meet Henry Kissinger (Saul Rubinek) and then Richard Nixon (Dan Hedaya) who offers them a job walking Checkers. This provides their "in," and they go on to teach Nixon how to make the peace sign, stop the Vietnam War, and even play roles as "Deep Throat" in the Watergate investigation.
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Halloween: H20 1998 R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Williams, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, LL Cool J, Adam Hann-Byrd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Janet Leigh, Chris Durand
Michael Myers (Chris Durand) is still at it–after 20 years–as he endlessly stalks his sister Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). This time the terror takes place at a boarding school where Laurie is headmistress.
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A Hole in One 2005 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Ledes
Cast: Michelle Williams, Tim Guinee, Meat Loaf, Wendell Pierce, Bill Raymond, Merritt Wever, Louis Zorich, Jonathan Watton, Mark Day, Ileen Getz, Gerry Mendicino
When Dr. Harold Ashton (Bill Raymond) comes to town promoting lobotomies, Anna (Michelle Williams) opts for a transorbital lobotomy as the solution to the depression she has suffered since the death of her brother. Anna's gangster boyfriend, Billy (Meat Loaf), asks a friend to pose as a neurologist, Dr. Tom Franklin (Tim Guinee), and convince Anna that she doesn't need surgery. The ploy works, but complications ensue when Tom falls in love with Anna.
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 2000  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, Anne Heche
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Marian Seldes, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Perkins, Michelle Williams, Nia Long, Natasha Lyonne, Chloe Sevigny, Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres
This made-for-TV drama covers the lesbian owners of a house at three different times: 1961, 1972, and 2000. The first episode is the best, telling of an older couple, Edith and Abby (Vanessa Redgrave and Marian Seldes), and how Edith handles the death of her long-time mate.
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Imaginary Heroes 2004 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Dan Harris
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams, Kip Pardue, Deirdre O'Connell, Ryan Donowho, Suzanne Santo, Jay Paulson, Luke Robertson, Sara Tanaka, Terry Beaver, Lee Wilkof, Ned Benson, Larry Fessenden
After their son Matt (Kip Pardue) commits suicide, the Travis family traits of drug use, secrets, homosexuality, and alcoholism rise to the fore. The father, Ben (Jeff Daniels), turns away from the family, and their college student daughter Penny (Michelle Williams) rarely comes home from school. Meanwhile, the mother, Sandy (Sigourney Weaver), becomes sarcastic and smokes marijuana, while youngest son Tim (Emile Hirsch) uses drugs and sex to find meaning in his life. Will these family members finally learn to accept each other for what they really are?
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I'm Not There 2007 R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julianne Moore, Kris Kristofferson, Don Francks, Roc LaFortune, Michelle Williams, Yolonda Ross, Peter Friedman, Bruce Greenwood
In this impressionistic biography of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, six actors take roles of Dylan's persona as their separate stories shift back and forth. The fictionalized stories begin with 11-year-old music prodigy Woody (Marcus Carl Franklin) and continue with 19-year-old Arthur (Ben Whishaw) who is a poet in Greenwich Village during the 1960s. Then, there is the story about socially conscious Jack (Christian Bale) and another story involves rebel actor Robbie (Heath Ledger). Cate Blanchett shines in her story impersonating Dylan as a folk-singer during his electric rock era. Finally, there is the reclusive Billy (Richard Gere) who finds sanctuary in a tiny Missouri town that is on the verge of being turned into a superhighway. Together, the characters represent roles that Dylan played during his lifetime, and the result is an enjoyable film. Blanchett received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Land of Plenty 2004 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Shaun Toub, Wendell Pierce, Richard Edson, Burt Young, Yuri Elvin, Jeris Poindexter, Rhonda Stubbins White, Bernard White, Matthew Kimbrough, Gloria Stuart
Paul Jeffries (John Diehl) served with the Special Forces in Vietnam, and his niece, Lana (Michelle Williams), worked as a missionary in the Middle East. They use their past experiences to deal in their own unique ways with the effects of the events of September 11, 2001.
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Lassie 1994 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Tom Guiry, Helen Slater, Jon Tenney, Brittany Boyd, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth, Charlie Hofheimer, Michelle Williams, Joe Inscoe, Yvonne Brisendine, Clayton Barclay Jones, Margaret Peery, David Bridgewater, Earnest Poole Jr.
During their move from Baltimore to a farm in Virginia, the Turners–parents Laura and Steve (Helen Slater and Jon Tenney), daughter Jennifer (Brittany Boyd), and son Matthew (Tom Guiry)–pick up a stray dog, Lassie. Lassie becomes an important member of the family, especially to troubled Matthew, as they adjust to their new surroundings.
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Me Without You 2001 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler, Marianne Denicourt, Allan Corduner, Nicky Hanson, Steve John Shepard, Kyle MacLachlan, Deborah Findlay
Inseparable as teenagers, Marina (Anna Friel) and Holly (Michelle Williams) find that, after many years of growing into adulthood, betrayal threatens their friendship.
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Perfume 2001 R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Rymer
Cast: Paul Sorvino, Sonia Braga, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Rita Wilson, Leslie Mann, Jeff Goldblum, Omar Epps, Mariel Hemingway, Michelle Williams
Icons of the fashion world get together for a show. The film uses this as a backdrop for, basically, cameo appearances by various stars who have been told to improvise. And improvise they do, but without guidelines, it would seem. This experiment will fail to interest most moviegoers.
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Prozac Nation 2001 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Cast: Christina Ricci, Anne Heche, Jessica Lange, Jason Biggs, Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Raahul Singh, Nicholas Campbell, Cindy Lentol, Frida Betrani
In this slow moving story, a Harvard freshman (Christina Ricci) looks for a solution to her depressions and settles on Prozac.
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 Species 1995 R, 118 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge, Whip Hubley, Michelle Williams, Jordan Lund, Don Fischer
Scientists send a message to the far reaches of the galaxy and learn (too late) that technology without regard for consequences can be very dangerous. Radio telescopes pick up a message from space that includes the formula for a DNA string, and the secret lab must try it out.
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The Station Agent 2003 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Benjamin, Raven Goodwin, Michelle Williams, Jayce Bartok, Paula Garces, Ileen Getz, Joe Lo Truglio, Josh Pais, Richard Kind
As an adult, 4' 5" tall Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) is a loner who draws attention wherever he goes, but his dwarfism does not stand in the way of his love for trains. When he inherits an abandoned train depot in New Jersey, his solitary life takes a turn when he makes two new friends: a snack vendor, Joe (Bobby Cannavale), and an artist, Olivia (Patricia Clarkson).
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Synecdoche, New York 2008 R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Josh Pais, Peter Friedman, Tom Noonan, Sadie Goldstein, Daniel London, Rosemary Murphy, Amy Wright
Caden (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Adele's (Catherine Keener) marriage is falling apart, and Adele takes their daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) on a trip to visit her friend Maria (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Caden suffers from a series of ailments that are shutting down his autonomic function. He sees therapist Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), but that gets him nowhere. Caden gathers an ensemble cast in a New York City warehouse and directs them to live out their lives in a small mockup of the outside city. Time passes, Caden and Adele are divorced, and Olive is growing up in Europe. Caden has divorced his second wife Claire (Michelle Williams) and buries himself deeper into his masterpiece that increasingly blurs the line between the play and reality. Just when he appears to pushing everything to the limit, an actress (Dianne Wiest) enters Caden's world and just may be the answer to what he needs.
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Timemaster 1995  PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: James Glickenhaus
Cast: Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Michelle Williams, Pat Morita, Michael Dorn, Duncan Regehr, Joanna Pacula, Veronica Cameron-Glickenhaus, Elisabeth Anne Allen, Scott Colomby, Janet Carroll
There's an advanced race out there at the edge of the universe and it has come up with a fun game–real-life virtual reality–like games on distant worlds. The current "game" is to cause a nuclear war on Earth. Will the mentoring abilities of Isaiah (Pat Morita) help young Jesse (Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus) and his companions save the day? You might get dizzy moving back and forth in time in this weak film.
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 The United States of Leland 2003 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Matthew Ryan Hoge
Cast: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams, Martin Donovan, Ann Magnuson, Kerry Washington, Sherilyn Fenn, Matt Malloy
After committing a shocking murder, world-famous novelist Albert T. Fitzgerald's (Kevin Spacey) son Leland (Ryan Gosling) is confined to a juvenile detention center. Leland's teacher Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle) is an aspiring writer, and it doesn't take long for Pearl to see a career-enhancing book in the story about why Leland committed the crime.
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| 1. The Baxter (2005)
2. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
3. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
4. Deception (2008)
5. Dick (1999)
6. Halloween: H20 (1998)
7. A Hole in One (2005)
8. If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
9. Imaginary Heroes (2004)
10. I'm Not There (2007)
11. Land of Plenty (2004)
12. Lassie (1994)
13. Me Without You (2001)
14. Perfume (2001)
15. Prozac Nation (2001)
16. Species (1995)
17. The Station Agent (2003)
18. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
19. Timemaster (1995)
20. The United States of Leland (2003)
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