Movies with music written by Deborah Lurie
It's pointless criticizing a Nicholas Sparks movie for being a Nicholas Sparks movie. Sparks, like Barbara Cartland before him, delivers exactly what his fans want: romance between two attractive people. He tugs at heartstrings, acts like an onion ...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, David Lyons, ...
When the characters in Footloose are dancing and the music is blaring, the film comes alive. It has energy and personality. Would that the same could be said about the dramatic scenes, which are hamstrung by a combination of mediocre acting and atr...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/MUSICAL
Director: Craig Brewer
Cast: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, ...
Dear John delivers pretty much what one would expect from an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel: a high-profile downer of a Harlequin romance. There's a market for this sort of movie, which lays it on thick and does everything possible to make ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, ...
Perhaps it says something about the nihilistic perspective of modern society, but the post-apocalyptic story is becoming a popular genre; not since the height of the Cold War have movies been so obsessed with the end of civilization. No longer res...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-09-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Scary Images)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Shane Acker
Cast: (voices) Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, ...
Robert Redford on a horse roaming the wide-open countryside of Wyoming - doesn't sound like much of a stretch, does it? What is unusual about Redford's participation in Lasse Hallström's An Unfinished Life is that the actor in as unkempt as he ha...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-09-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner, ...