Movies with music written by Nathan Larson
On December 30, 1993 in Falls City, Nebraska, two men, John Lotter and Tom Nissen, shot and killed 21-year old Teena Brandon, along with two of her friends, Lisa Lambert and Philip Devine. Brandon, a young woman undergoing hormone therapy in prepa...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-10-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Cast: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, ...
Sometimes, the conversion of a novel into a movie can result in a loss or diminution of the author's tone or the book's characters. With Choke, director Clark Gregg has maintained writer Chuck Palahniuk's voice but the men and women populating the...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Clark Gregg
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, ...
It is often said that America is a "melting pot." Judging by director Stephen Frears' unconventional portrait of life in London, the U.K. is just as much a bubbling cauldron as its former colonies. Since the 20th century, every major city acro...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-08-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Chiwetel Ejofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, ...
What’s in a name? It would be disingenuous to assume that Nick Hornby was ignorant of the titillation value of calling something “Juliet, Naked.” However, to be clear, there’s nothing prurient about the movie. The title refers to a son...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-08-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Jesse Peretz
Cast: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O’Dowd, ...
The kids may be all right, but the adults aren't. That's the underlying premise of Lisa Cholodenko's unconventional family drama - a motion picture that uses wry humor and uncommon sensitivity to underscore some of the difficulties inherent in any...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-07-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast: Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, ...
Lilya 4-Ever is the third film from Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson, but, in terms of both tone and content, this effort is so different from the director's other work that it's difficult to credit that all three are the product of one man. (Thi...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-04-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky, Lyubov Agapova, ...
Long ago, the concept of "money" was devised as a means by which commerce could be simplified - after all, it's easier to carry around some kind of marker than cows or cattle or bags of grain. As society has evolved, however, so has the way in whic...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, ...
Palindromes, the fourth feature from Todd Solondz, makes me wonder whether this director only had two good films in him. A shallow, transparent satire/social commentary, Palindromes lives and dies on a gimmick. In an attempt to do something "artist...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-13
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Todd Solondz
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Valerie Shusterov, Shayna Levine, ...
Memo to director Chris Columbus: In most cases, it's a bad idea for a movie to be a direct representation of a play. "Opening up" the setting is sometimes not all that's necessary to make a stage production into something cinematic. In a theater...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-11-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, ...
For about 50 minutes, Silent House represents one of the most intense, unsettling horror movies I have recently viewed. This is Halloween territory, where the tension is so thick as to be almost unbearable. It's the kind of experience hard-core hor...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-03-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/THRILLER
Director: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens