A Beautiful Mind
Written by Akiva Goldsman and directed by Ron Howard. Stars Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Judd Hirsch, Adam Goldberg, and Christopher Plummer.In Brief: Inspired by events in the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr. (Crowe), the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician. The story focuses on his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, his quest for the Nobel Prize, and his relationship with his wife (Connelly). Additional info - Production Notes and photo gallery.
Charlotte Gray
Written by Jeremy Brock and directed by Gillian Armstrong. Stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Rupert Penry-Jones, and Michael Gambon.In Brief: Blanchett stars as a Scottish woman who joins the French Resistance in order to search for her lover who was shot down over France. She gets sidetracked by a handsome French Resistance fighter (Crudup), with whom she has an affair. Additional info - article and photo gallery.
Joe Somebody
Directed by John Pasquin and written by John Scott Shepherd. Stars Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Hayden Panettierre, Greg Germann, Kelly Lynch and Jim Belushi.In Brief: An average Joe (Tim Allen) gets embarrassed in front of his daughter by the company bully. Joe strikes back by giving himself a make-over and finds the new "Joe" is given company opportunities he never had before. Additional info - interviews from the L.A. Premiere and photos from the Premiere.
Kate & Leopold
Written by Steven Rogers and directed by James Mangold. Stars Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Natasha Lyonne, Liev Schrieber, and Breckin Meyer.In Brief: Kate's (Meg Ryan) ex-boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) discovers a way to travel through time, and accidently transports a relative of his, Leopold (Hugh Jackman) through time and into 2001. While trying to figure out how to get him back to where he belongs, Kate and Leopold fall in love. Additional info - interviews and photos from the Premiere.
Lantana (no official site)
Written by Andrew Bovell and directed by Ray Lawrence. Stars Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Barbara Hershey, Kerry Armstrong, Rachael Blake, Vince Colosimo, and Russell Dykstra.In Briefs: Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers (Hershey) suspects that her husband John (Rush) is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat (LaPaglia) attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges-drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement. Very limited release scheduled for December 14, 2001. Additional info - article and photo gallery.
The Lawless Heart (no official site)
Written and directed by Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter. Stars Douglas Henshall, Bill Nighy, Ellie Haddington, and Sukie Smith.In Brief: After eight years of traveling, Tim, a charismatic man in his late twenties, returns to the small English riverside town where he grew up, arriving in the middle of his cousin Stuart's funeral. This funeral is the springboard for three stories of love: a heart that betrays, a heart that derails, and a heart that finally breaks. Scheduled for a limited release in December 2001.
The Majestic
Written by Michael Sloane and directed by Frank Darabont. Stars Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Allen Garfield, Laurie Holden, and Amanda Detmer.In Brief: Carrey stars as Peter Appleton, a 1950's Hollywood scriptwriter who suffers amnesia after being involved in a car crash. Prior to the crash, he'd been suspected of being a communist. After the car crash, he winds up in a small California town, living in a movie theatre where he finds courage, love and a new appreciation of movies. Scheduled for release December 21, 2001. Additional info - article on the making of "The Majestic" and interviews with the cast.
Monster's Ball (no official site)
Written by Milo Addica and Will Rokas, and directed by Marc Forster. Stars Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, and Peter Boyle.In Brief: An embittered, racist prison guard who works on Death Row, begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with the wife of a man he has just executed. Scheduled for limited release in New York and Los Angeles on December 26, 2001, expanding to other cities in February 2002. Additional info - article and photo gallery.
Not Another Teen Movie
Written by Michael G. Bender, Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson, and directed by Joel Gallen. Stars Jaime Pressly, Mia Kirshner, Randy Quaid, Chyler Leigh, Joy Bisco, Chris Evans, Lacey Chabert, Joanne Garcia, Samm Levine, and Cody McMains.In Brief: This parody of teen movies promises to make fun of just about every recognizable teen film made since the 80's. Films parodied include "American Beauty," "The Breakfast Club," "She's All That," and "Bring It On." Additional info - interviews with the cast, quiz, cast list, and photos.
The Royal Tenenbaums
Written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, and directed by Wes Anderson. Stars Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller, and Bill Murray.In Brief: "The Royal Tenenbaums" tells the story of one family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter. Royal (Hackman) had desserted his wife (Huston) and kids (Stiller, Paltrow, and Luke Wilson), and his homecoming is hardly welcomed with open arms. Additional info - production news, movie review and photo gallery.
The Shipping News
Written by Robert Nelson Jacobs (based on the novel by Annie Proulx) and directed by Lasse Hallström. Stars Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Jason Behr, John Dunsworth, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Katherine Moennig, Gordon Pinsent, and Pete Postlethwaite.
In Brief: "The Shipping News" traces one man's extraordinary journey toward self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. After the death of his estranged wife, his fortune begins to change when his long lost Aunt convinces him and his daughter to head north. In the course of his new career, he begins to uncover some dark family mysteries and finds friendship and love with a single mother who has a secret of her own. Additional info - movie review.
Vanilla Sky
Written and directed by Cameron Crowe. Stars Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Kurt Russell, and Jason Lee.In Brief: Vanilla Sky reunites Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe with star, Tom Cruise. This is a remake of the 1997 Spanish film, Abre Los Ojos. The story is about Christopher (Cruise), a womanizer who falls in love with his best friend's (Lee) girlfriend, Brenda, played by Cameron Diaz. A former romantic conquest (Cruz) deliberately crashes her car into a tree, committing suicide. Christopher is with her at the time of the crash and survives, but with serious injuries. His luck soon changes as he finds love and has successful reconstructive surgery. But things aren't what they seem...
January 2002 Romantic Releases
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