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The best thing that can be said about Life as We Know It is that it gets some of the details right when it comes to the experience of sharing a home with an infant. Still, all the poop, vomit, sleepless nights, and cute, joyous little moments can'...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, ...
The Life Before Her Eyes is an examination of survivor guilt. It uses as its backdrop a Columbine-like school shooting and flashes back and forth between a girl as she is at the time of the incident and the woman she will be fifteen years later. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Vadim Perelman
Cast: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri, ...
In 1998, Todd Solondz's Happiness became one of the most talked-about and controversial indie films of the year - a black comedy that ventured into David Lynch territory to expose the rot underlying the placid exterior of suburbia. At the time, Hap...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-07-23
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Todd Solonz
Cast: Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds, Shirley Henderson, ...
Life is full of rich ironies you can't make up. Recently, I attended an evening showing of a PG-13 movie. The auditorium wasn't very full. Sitting a few rows in front of me was a group of five teenage girls. After the film started, they were ...
Life Itself starts out with great promise – a dizzying first act that creates the tapestry of a character’s life by offering a kaleidoscope of moments from his past. It’s poignant, effective, and punctuated by actions that are breathtaki...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-09-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama
Director: Dan Fogelman
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, ...
"There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between." -- Roger Ebert When Steve James, the acclaimed director ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-07-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Steve James
Cast: Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Roger Ebert, ...
The Life of Emile Zola was the second biographical motion picture to win the Best Picture Oscar, following the previous year's The Great Ziegfeld. Although The Great Ziegfeld was in many ways better received during the '30s - in part because of th...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, ...
Life of Pi is a curious juxtaposition of the mundane and the majestic; a film that strives for something grander than what it perhaps achieves. At times, the simple story - one of spirituality and survival - exudes a quiet, hypnotic power, but ther...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Animal violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, ...
Life of the Party is the third collaboration between actress Melissa McCarthy and her director husband, Ben Falcone. Next to this, Tammy and The Boss seem like Hamlet and King Lear. After suffering through the abomination named Identity Thief,...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ben Falcone
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Molly Gordon, Gillian Jacobs, ...
In the immortal words of Strother Martin, "What we've got here is… failure to communicate." The truth of that statement lies at the heart of Ira Sachs' Married Life, a movie about how people in a marriage communicate or, just as often, fail to do...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ira Sachs
Cast: Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, ...