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Who said science fiction films have to be expensive? According to multiple sources, the total production cost for Gareth Edwards' feature debut, Monsters, was south of $20,000. That's a remarkable achievement for a movie whose subject matter invo...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able
For whatever reason, the character of Mr. Bean has never caught on in the United States. Rowan Atkinson's most popular creation has a small following in this country, but labeling him as an "acquired taste" would be an accurate descriptor. Unfort...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-08-24
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Steve Bendelack
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Max Baldry, ...
It seems strange to watch Mrs. Doubtfire and not see Dustin Hoffman. This is, after all, a variation on Tootsie meets Kramer vs. Kramer, both of which featured Hoffman. Here, it's Robin Williams fighting for custody of his children, while donning...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-11-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, ...
Romantic comedies are fantasies. They invite us to fall in love with the main characters as they fall in love with each other. That's difficult to accomplish when viewers find themselves actively disliking those characters. How is it possible to...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, ...
My Best Friend's Wedding is the estrogen alternative to the vast quantity of testosterone being pumped out by the other major June releases: Con Air, Speed 2, Batman and Robin, and Face/Off. As the summer's centerpiece romantic comedy, My Best ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-05-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cast: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, ...
My Family, the portrait of a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles, boasts a series of distinguished thematic antecedents, including Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Zhang Yimou's To Live. Here, as in the 1972 gangster saga, t...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-05-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Jimmy Smits, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Jenny Gago, ...
My Life So Far is a pleasantly nostalgic look at a few transformative months in the life of a 10-year old Scottish boy. Brought to the screen by director Hugh Hudson and producer David Puttnam (who collaborated on Chariots of Fire), My Life So Far...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-07-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Robbie Norman, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, ...
News of the World, based on the 2016 novel by Paulette Jiles, is a road trip Western where the genre serves less as the focus than as a backdrop to the relationship between the paternalistic Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) and the 10-y...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Western
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel
Nightcrawler is a dark and cynical movie for a nihilistic age. It's tense and at times uncomfortable, perhaps because the viewer recognizes that, although the story is fiction, there's a lot of truth in what it has to say about local news and the i...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-10-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Dan Gilroy
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Renee Russo, Riz Ahmed, ...