Movies starring Peter
With Can't Hardly Wait, I suppose first time directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont (whose previous credits include writing the script for A Very Brady Sequel) were trying to recapture the mood of a John Hughes '80s teen comedy. Unfortunately, ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-06-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont
Cast: Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Peter Facinelli, ...
It's probably no stretch to say that Casablanca, arguably America's best-loved movie, has had more words written about it than any other motion picture. Over the years since its 1943 release, the legends and rumors surrounding the making of the ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, ...
The only James Bond story for which Albert Broccoli never obtained the rights is Casino Royale. Those are held by Charles Feldman, who, following the success of Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger, decided that he wanted to make his ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish
Cast: David Niven, Terence Cooper, Joanna Pettet, ...
Center Stage proves that all the sports movie cliches can be as successfully applied to ballet as to baseball, basketball, football, boxing, ice skating, skateboarding, karate, etc. With a plot that is constructed entirely out of formula situation...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-05-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Cast: Amanda Schull, Ilia Kulik, Debra Monk, ...
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón's adaptation of the P.D. James novel, takes a look at England in an apocalyptic near-future, when standards of law and order have broken down and the country is ruled by a fascist dictator. The movie is set in 2027...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, ...
A Christmas Story has something no other holiday film - new or old, comedic or serious - can boast: perfect nostalgia. That quality fuels this modern-day classic and has made it one of the season's most beloved motion pictures. One of the Turner c...
U.S. Release Date: 1983-11-18
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Bob Clark
Cast: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley, ...
In recent years, I have become jaded about superhero movies, a genre I once enjoyed. A sameness and lack of energy permeates them, especially the origin stories. There's something perfunctory and unsatisfying about many of the big titles, leaving i...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-02-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, VIolence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Josh Trank
Cast: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, ...
For the second installment of The Chronicles of Narnia, director Andrew Adamson has caught a severe case of Lord of the Rings-itis. While the 2005 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe kept close to the tone of the book, Prince Caspia...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-05-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cast: William Moseley, Liam Neeson (voice), Vincent Grass, ...
Consider how mainstream movies depict violence. Bodies are chopped up, blown apart, and torn to pieces. Blood and gore flow as freely as water. Films like Interview with the Vampire are awash in a crimson tide, and no one thinks twice about it. ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Lodge Kerrigan
Cast: Peter Greene, Robert Albert, Megan Owen, ...
Collateral is a classic example of how casting against type can sometimes result in a remarkable success. Here we have Tom Cruise, who has spent the majority of his career playing the good-looking, likeable, action/romantic lead, placed into the r...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-08-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, ...