Another Day in Paradise 1998  R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Clark
Cast: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Otis, Paul Hipp, Brent Briscoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Kim Flowers, Branden Williams
Based on ex-con Eddie Little's novel, this is a story about people who depend on sex and drugs to get them through the day. The plot revolves around two couples–Mel (James Woods) & Sid (Melanie Griffith) and Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) & Rosie (Natasha Wagner)–who, after Bobbie is physically beaten, form a dysfunctional family of unredemptive souls.
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Boys Don't Cry 1999  R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Cast: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III, Alison Folland, Alicia Goranson, Matt McGrath, Rob Campbell, Jeanetta Arnette, Cheyenne Rushing, Robert Prentiss, Josh Ridgway, Jerry Haynes, Craig Erickson, Stephanie Sechrist
This is a fictionalized account of the true facts behind the story of Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank), a woman living as a man and having the courage to be who he thought he was. At the age of 21, he was the object of an intensely brutal rape and murder, and Brandon's world came to an abrupt end. Brandon is also the subject of a 1997 documentary, "The Brandon Teena Story," which does a fine job of sticking with the truth in this tragedy. Hilary Swank won an Oscar for Best Actress and a nomination was received by Chloe Sevigny for Best Supporting Actress in her role as Lana who is Brandon's love interest.
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The Center of the World 2001  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino, Mel Gorham, Balthazar Getty, Pat Morita, Shane Edelman, Shirley Knight
Richard, a partner in a successful Internet company, pays $10,000 for three days in Las Vegas with a stripper (Molly Parker). She sets strict ground rules, but neither has taken into account the factor of emotions.
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Elegy 2008 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Isabel Coixet
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Harry, Sonja Bennett, Michelle Harrison, Chelah Horsdal, Ryan McDonell, Laura Mennell, Marci T. House, Alessandro Juliani
Based on Philip Roth's novel, this story involves Columbia University Professor David Kepesh's (Ben Kingsley) obsession with beautiful graduate student Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz) who is half his age. His friend George O'Hearn (Dennis Hopper) advises David to keep the relationship purely sexual–and to grow up. But David's insecurities take over, and his jealous beliefs that Consuela is cheating on him drive her away–at least for awhile.
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Empire 2002 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franc. Reyes
Cast: John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Isabella Rossellini, Sonia Braga, Delilah Cotto, Nestor Serrano, Anthony "Treach" Criss, Rafael Baez, Fat Joe
Drug dealer Vic Rosa (John Leguizamo) decides to go straight and befriends a shady investment banker, Jack (Peter Sarsgaard), who invests Vic's ill-gotten money in the stock market. If the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Flightplan 2005 PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby, Assaf Cohen, Erika Christensen, Shane Edelman, Mary Gallagher, Marlene Lawston, Forrest Landis, Brent Sexton
Grieving over the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle (Jodie Foster) and her six-year-old daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), are escorting his body home on a double-decker jumbo jet flying from Berlin to New York. Shortly after boarding, Kyle takes a nap, and when she awakens Julia has disappeared. Passengers and crew help Kyle look for Julia, but when she is not found they have problems believing that Julia was on the plane, and Kyle is beginning to have doubts herself.
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 Garden State 2004 R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Zach Braff
Cast: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman, Jean Smart, Armando Riesco, Method Man, Denis O'Hare, Jackie Hoffman, Ann Dowd, Debbon Ayer, Alex Burns, George C. Wolfe, Michael Weston
Long estranged from his family, Andrew (Zach Braff) returns home for his mother's funeral where he must deal with relatives and friends he knew in high school. Ever since he caused the accident that paralyzed his mother (Andrew was nine years old at the time), Andrew has been taking anti-depressants, prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). While home for the funeral, Andrew gets rid of his meds and falls in love with Sam (Natalie Portman).
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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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 K-19: The Widowmaker 2002 PG-13, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Christian Camargo, Ravil Isyanov, Michael Gladis, James Francis Ginty, JJ Feild, Donald Sumpter, John Shrapnel, Joss Ackland, Tim Woodward, Steve Nicolson, George Anton, Shawn Mathieson
On 4 July 1961, the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, K-19, is in trouble; a coolant tube has sprung a leak that most certainly could lead to its nuclear reactor overheating. K-19's Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) makes decisions that upset the crew, while the submarine's previous commander, Captain Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson), who has been demoted to K-19's executive officer, resists tensions between the two and works with Vostrikov to save the ship and to solve a problem that could have worldwide repercussions. Based on a true story.
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 Kinsey 2004 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker, Julianne Nicholson, William Sadler, Veronica Cartwright
The man behind the landmark study on human sexual behavior, 1968's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) is the subject of this film, which reveals the rigid social mores of that era. Laura Linney received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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 The Man in the Iron Mask 1998 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Randall Wallace
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Parillaud, Judith Godreche, Edward Atterton, Peter Sarsgaard, Hugh Laurie, David Lowe, Brigitte Boucher
In this rendition of Alexandre Dumas' story, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), Athos (John Malkovich), and Porthos (Gerard Depardieu) plot to save France by putting the imprisoned Philippe on the throne of France–Philippe is the unknown twin brother of King Louis (Leonardo DiCaprio plays both Louis and Philippe). But to succeed in their mission, they must outwit D'Artagnan (Gabriel Byrne) who will protect his king at all cost.
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Orphan 2009 R, 123 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Juame Collet-Serra
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Aryana Engineer, Karel Roden, Margo Martindale, Jamie Young, Lorry Ayers, Rosemary Dunsmore, Genelle Williams, Brendan Wall, Leni Parker, Matthew Raudsepp
Kate and John Coleman (Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard) have two children, a deaf girl Max (Aryana Engineer) and a son Daniel (Jimmy Bennett), and another child in on the way–until the unborn child is lost. Kate and John decide to adopt a girl, Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), in hopes of stopping Kate's intense nightmares that reflect her troubled past. Both are drawn to 9-year-old Esther, but it soon becomes clear that Esther's sweetness is just a facade, and Kate is the only one who sees that there is something terribly wrong with Esther–but her concerns fall on deaf ears as the film heads toward its devastating conclusion.
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Rendition 2007 R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Omar Metwally, Yigal Naor, Aramis Knight, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Moa Khouas, Zineb Oukach, Laila Mrabti, J.K. Simmons, Bob Gunton
This political thriller involves circumstances surrounding an Egyptian-born American chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi who–under orders of CIA anti-terrorism chief Corrine Whitman (Meryl Streep)–was snatched by the CIA and then flown to a foreign prison where he was tortured. This all happens under the watch of CIA rookie Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) who begins to question his assignment. Meanwhile, Anwar's American wife Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) becomes concerned with her husband's disappearance and asks an old friend, Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), for help. Coincidences add up in this film that questions the validity of confessions obtained through torture.
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The Salton Sea 2002 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast: Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Goldberg, Luis Guzman, Doug Hutchison, Anthony LaPaglia, Glenn Plummer, Meat Loaf, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Kara Unger
California's Salton Sea is the metaphor for drug addiction in this story about Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) who, after his wife's murder, infiltrates the drug world as a dealer where he seeks to avenge her death.
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 Shattered Glass 2003 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Ray
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Melanie Lynskey, Steve Zahn, Rosario Dawson, Hank Azaria, Luke Kirby, Jamie Elman, Mark Blum, Chad Donella, Russell Yuen
Based on the true story of the 1990s' Washington, D.C. journalist, Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), this drama tells of his career's meteoric rise and then steep fall when Glass was caught fabricating stories, sources, and quotes for his magazine, "The New Republic."
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The Skeleton Key 2005 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Iain Softley
Cast: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Maxine Barnett, Fahnlohnee R. Harris, Marion Zinser, Trula M. Marcus, Forrest Landis
Unable to overcome her own past issues of not caring for her dying father, Caroline (Kate Hudson), now takes care of the elderly and dying. Her new job is tending to stroke victim Ben (John Hurt) who cannot speak and is bedridden. Ben's wife, Violet (Gena Rowlands), claims their creepy old mansion is haunted. One day, Caroline discovers a skeleton key that unlocks the attic door and begins to piece together the attic's bizarre pieces of an eerie puzzle.
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Unconditional Love 2002  PG-13, 121 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cast: Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Meredith Eaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Stephanie Beacham, Richard Briers, Marcia Warren, Jack Noseworthy, Daniel Wyllie, Dan Aykroyd, Jonathan Pryce
Grace's (Kathy Bates) husband runs out on her, so, of course, she heads to London for the funeral of her pop-singer idol who had been murdered. There she meets the star's secret lover, Dirk (Rupert Everett), who, also of course, is grief-stricken. The two team up to find the killer, with the trail leading to Chicago. Good cast, weak comedy/mystery.
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Year of the Dog 2007 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Mike White
Cast: Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Thomas McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly, Peter Sarsgaard, Amy and Zoe Schlagel, Dale Godboldo, Inara George, Liza Weil, Jon Shere, Brenda Canela
Lonely Peggy (Molly Shannon) relies on animals for her friends. When she loses her beagle friend Pencil, her previous fascination turns into an obsession, and she turns into an animal-rights activist pressuring those around her to adopt orphaned animals.
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| 1. Another Day in Paradise (1998)
2. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
3. The Center of the World (2001)
4. Elegy (2008)
5. Empire (2002)
6. Flightplan (2005)
7. Garden State (2004)
8. Jarhead (2005)
9. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
10. Kinsey (2004)
11. The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
12. Orphan (2009)
13. Rendition (2007)
14. The Salton Sea (2002)
15. Shattered Glass (2003)
16. The Skeleton Key (2005)
17. Unconditional Love (2002)
18. Year of the Dog (2007)
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