Driving Miss Daisy Rating Director Bruce Beresford Screenplay Alfred Uhry (Play by Alfred Uhry) Length 99 min. Starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Joanne Havrilla, William Hall Jr. MPAA Rating PG Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Bonds of friendship develop between a cantankerous old Jewish woman and her…

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Shakespeare in Love Rating Director John Madden Screenplay Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard Length 123 min. Starring Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Martin Clunes, Jim Carter, Judi Dench, Mark Williams, Simon Callow, Steve O’Donnell, Tim McMullen, Steven Beard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Imelda Staunton, Colin Firth, Sandra Reinton, Nicholas Boulton, Jill Baker, Nicholas Le Prevost, Ben Affleck…

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Rain Man Rating Director Barry Levinson Screenplay Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass Length 133 min. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, John Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Kim Robillard MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review As we grow up, anything outside the normal is considered foreign…

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The Last Emperor Rating Director Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplay Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci (Autobiography by Henry Pu-yi) Length 160 min. Starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Wu Jun Mei (Vivian Wu), Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, Richard Vuu, Tijger Tsou, Wu Tao MPAA Rating PG-13…

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American Beauty Rating Director Sam Mendes Screenplay Alan Ball Length 122 min. Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Scot Bakula, Sam Robards, Barry Del Sherman MPAA Rating R (For strong sexuality, language, violence and drug content) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review The typical male…

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The Best    |    The Worst    |    The Individual Best The Best Some year’s, it’s hard to get really worked up about a lot of films. While I have a great deal of respect for many films this year and believe quite a few are extremely well made and affecting, I don’t quite feel over-the-head excited…

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Platoon Rating Director Oliver Stone Screenplay Oliver Stone Length 120 min. Starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John C. McGinley, Richard Edson, Kevin Dillon, Reggie Johnson, Keith David, Johnny Depp, David Neidorf, Mark Moses, Christ Pedersen MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review It was a trouble time. The…

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Out of Africa Rating Director Sydney Pollack Screenplay Kurt Luedtke (Books by Karen Blixen (credited under her pseudonym Isak Dinesen), Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman, Silence Will Speak by Errol Trzebinzki) Length 150 min. Starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens, Joseph Thiaka, Stephen Kinyanjui,…

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Amadeus Rating Director Milos Forman Screenplay Peter Shaffer (Play by Peter Shaffer) Length 160 min. Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review When one sits down to a biopic, it is expected that historical…

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A Beautiful Mind Rating Director Ron Howard Screenplay Akiva Goldsman (Book by Sylvia Nasar) Length 135 min. Starring Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Vivien Cardone, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer MPAA Rating PG-13 (For intense thematic material, sexual content and a scene of violence) Buy/Rent Movie Poster…

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Gladiator Rating Director Ridley Scott Screenplay David H. Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson Length 155 min. Starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, David Schofield, John Shrapnel MPAA Rating R (For intense, graphic combat) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Freedom can be given, but it usually has…

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Terms of Endearment Rating Director James L. Brooks Screenplay James L. Brooks (Novel by Larry McMutry) Length 132 min. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow, Lisa Hart Carroll, Betty R. King, Huckleberry Fox, Troy Bishop, Shane Serwin, Megan Morris, Jennifer Josey MPAA Rating PG Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster…

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Gandhi Rating Director Richard Attenborough Screenplay John Briley Length 188 min. Starring Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Athol Fugard, Gunter Maria Halmer, Saeed Jaffrey, Geraldine James, Alyque Padamsee, Amrish Puri, Roshen Seth, Rohini Hattangady, Ian Bannen MPAA Rating PG Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review…

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Chariots of Fire Rating Director Hugh Hudson Screenplay Colin Welland Length 123 min. Starring Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Daniel Gerroll, Ian Holm, Sir John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson, Nigel Davenport, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Dennis Christopher, Brad Davis, Patrick Magee, Peter Egan, Struan Rodger, David Yelland, Yves Beneyton MPAA Rating PG Buy/Rent…

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Chicago Rating Director Rob Marshall Screenplay Bill Condon (Play by Maurine Dallas Watkins; Musical by Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, John Kander) Length 113 min. Starring Taye Diggs, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, John C. Reilly, Colm Feore, Chita Rivera, Queen Latifah, Richard Gere, Christine Baranski, Lucy Liu MPAA Rating PG-13 (For sexual content and dialogue, violence…

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