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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Robert De Niro,
Ellen Barkin,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Jonah Blechman,
Eliza Dushku
Robert De Niro gets top billing, but young Leonardo DiCaprio is the revelation of This Boy's Life, an astute, often painful drama of growing up in the 1950s Pacific Northwest, based on the autobiographical novel by Tobias Woolf. DiCaprio plays Tobias, a good kid with a bad boy streak but an unwavering love for his divorced mother (Ellen Barkin). "I want to be a better boy," he promises from under a greasy pompadour, and tries to prove it when she marries single father Dwight (DeNiro), a bully who parents through intimidation and humiliation. DiCaprio is magnetic in his first starring role, full of anger, hope, and confusion as he drifts back to juvenile delinquency...
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Johnny Depp,
Benicio Del Toro,
Tobey Maguire,
Ellen Barkin,
Gary Busey
Director:
Terry Gilliam
The original cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S. Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of Thompson's ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the joke--an endless series of repetitive scenes involving rampant substance abuse and the hallucinogenic fallou...
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Clint Eastwood,
Isaiah Washington,
Lisa Gay Hamilton,
James Woods,
Denis Leary
Director:
Clint Eastwood
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Colm Wilkinson,
Philip Quast,
Ruthie Henshall,
Jenny Galloway,
Alun Armstrong
Director:
Gavin Taylor, Paul Kafno
The 10th anniversary concert video of the international musical sensation Les Misérables might be the best thing to appease fans until a full-fledged movie comes along. Or it might be even better, as feature films are often subject to extramusical casting considerations and this 1995 dream cast is superb. Reprising their roles from the original London company are Colm Wilkinson (Valjean), Michael Ball (Marius), and Alun Armstrong (Thenardier). From Broadway come Judy Kuhn (Cosette), Lea Salonga (Eponine), and Michael Maguire (Enjolras); from a later London production comes Ruthie Henshall (Fantine); and from Australia comes Philip Quast (Javert). Ala...
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Tobey Maguire,
Charlize Theron,
Delroy Lindo,
Paul Rudd,
Michael Caine
In adapting his own novel The Cider House Rules for the screen, John Irving sacrificed at least some of the depth and detail that made his humanitarian themes resonate, while the film--directed with Scandinavian sobriety by Lasse Hallström--is often vague about the complex issues (abortion, incest, responsibility) that lie at its core. Allowing for this ambiguity (which is arguably intentional), the film retains much of what made Irving's novel so admired, and like Hallström's earlier feature What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, it's blessed with a generous, forgiving spirit toward the mistakes, foibles, and desires of its many engaging characters. Central to ...
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Tobey Maguire,
Jeff Bridges,
Elizabeth Banks,
Chris Cooper,
David McCullough
Director:
Gary Ross
Proving that truth is often greater than fiction, the handsome production of Seabiscuit offers a healthy alternative to Hollywood's staple diet of mayhem. With superior production values at his disposal, writer-director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) is a bit too reverent toward Laura Hillenbrand's captivating bestseller, unnecessarily using archival material--and David McCullough's familiar PBS-styled narration--to pay Ken Burns-like tribute to Hillenbrand's acclaimed history of Seabiscuit, the knobby-kneed thoroughbred who "came from behind" in the late 1930s to win the hearts of Depression-weary Americans. That caveat aside, Ross's adaptation retains much of t...
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Jake Gyllenhaal,
Natalie Portman,
Tobey Maguire,
Clifton Collins Jr.,
Bailee Madison
Director:
Jim Sheridan
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Anastacia,
Michael Blakey,
Mary J. Blige,
Gary T. Carlin,
Cher
Director:
Louis J. Horvitz
Studio: Sony Music Release Date: 10/22/2002
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Philip Bosco,
Jr. Robert Downey,
Frances McDormand,
Michael Douglas,
Richard Thomas
Director:
Curtis Hanson
Wonder Boys is one of those movies in which more twists and turns disrupt the life of the hero in one weekend than would bother most of us our whole lives. Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is an aging one-novel wunderkind at a small Pittsburgh college who's laboring on his seven-years-in-the-making, 2000-plus page second opus with no end in sight. The morning of the college's literary lollapalooza, WordFest, Grady's wife leaves him; that evening, his mistress (Frances McDormand) announces she's pregnant (she's also the chancellor of the school, as well as the wife of Grady's boss). Grady's voracious editor (Robert Downey Jr.) is also in town, transvestite da...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Justine Waddell,
Bill Paterson,
Francesca Annis,
Keeley Hawes,
Tom Hollander
From the team that brought you "Pride and Prejudice." Set in a richly portrayed society well-stocked with eccentric nobles and gossipy villagers, the story centers around 17-year-old Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a respected country Doctor.
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