Movies with cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson
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, ...
Fried Green Tomatoes is a thoroughly enjoyable movie-going experience, replete with laughter, tears, triumph, and tragedy. Unfortunately, it has been sanitized and "Hollywoodized", with the relationship between the two 1930 female leads left ambig...
U.S. Release Date: 1991-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Kathy Bates, ...
"I think the title [of Little Women] has been so off-putting for men over the generations. They feel this is a terribly 'girly' story. But it's actually a wonderful epic tale about family where men's roles are just as important and deeply involve...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Cast: Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Claire Danes, ...
Ralph Fiennes is carving out a nice niche for himself in the genre of period piece romances. For his followup to the Academy-beloved The English Patient, he has once again turned to a love story, this time directed by accomplished Australian...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, ...
Distilled to its essence, Romulus, My Father is a standard-order coming-of-age movie. Like most movies of this sort, it's based on someone's memoirs (in this case, those of Raimond Gaita) and includes moment of tragedy, sentimentality, and serenit...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Brief Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Richard Roxburgh
Cast: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Kodi Smit-McPhee, ...
Back toward the beginning of her career, a then- 29 year old Helen Hunt appeared in a movie called The Waterdance. The film dealt frankly with the way disability impacted the sexual relationship between her character and the one played by Eric Stol...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-10-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ben Lewin
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, ...
Shine is a deceptively simple title for an amazingly powerful motion picture. Based on the life story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, director Scott Hicks' (Sebastian and the Sparrow) film touches on themes as diverse as the nature of genius...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-11-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Scott Hicks
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, ...
Sleeping Beauty is one of those self-consciously artsy motion picture that promises more than it delivers. A fascinating collage of ideas that fails to gel into a movie and collapses under the pretentious weight of the attempt, director Julia Leigh...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julia Leigh
Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
In 1979, when Margaret Thatcher assumed the role of England's Prime Minister, one of her stated aims was to crush the IRA and its associated "terrorism." Her "Northern Ireland Solution", as it became known, included three principles: Isolation, C...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Terry George
Cast: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, ...