New Theatrical
Romantic Releases:
"Bubble Boy," "Summer Catch," "Tortilla Soup," and "Curse of the Jade Scorpion"
Romantic Releases:
"Bubble Boy," "Summer Catch," "Tortilla Soup," and "Curse of the Jade Scorpion"
Official Synopsis - "Bubble Boy"
An outrageous cross-country trek begins when Jimmy Livingston (Jake Gyllenhaal), who has lived his entire life in a plastic bubble, takes to the road in a mobile bubble suit to stop the girl of his dreams (Marley Shelton) from marrying another man. As Jimmy sees the world for the first time, he encounters a motley crew of people bent on stopping him… but Jimmy is determined to get to the church on time.
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Director: Blair Hayes
Producer: Beau Flynn
Cinematographer: Jerzy Zielinski
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, and John Carroll Lynch
Rated PG-13 for language, and crude, sexual humor.
Official Site: "Bubble Boy"
Review: Movie Review
Official Synopsis - "Summer Catch"
A coming-of-age romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Local boy Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.), now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel), the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer on the Cape. Ryan and Tenley fall in love, much to the chagrin of their families, while Ryan clings to one last hope of being discovered and signed to a pro baseball contract.
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Director: Mike Tollin
Writers: Screenplay by Kevin Falls & Joe Gatins; story by Kevin Falls
Producers: Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Sam Weisman
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jessica Biel, Fred Ward, Jason Gedrick, Brittany Murphy, Gabriel Mann, Bruce Davison, Matthew Lillard, Marc Blucas Corey Pearson, and Brian Dennehy
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and some drinking.
Official Universal Pictures Site: "Summer Catch"
Photos: Photographs from the Premiere
Interviews: Interviews with the Cast
Stills: Gallery of Publicity Stills
Official Synopsis - "Tortilla Soup"
Three grown women still live with their father who has one simple rule: Don't mess with his tradition and his lovingly prepared Sunday evening feast. What could be simpler? "Tortilla Soup" is a comedy about food, family, romance and love, released by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
This is family, so anything goes and things are always simmering beneath the surface. Add Hortensia (Raquel Welch), a lusty neighbor, to the pot, and things get even more interesting. What follows is a series of unforgettable Sunday meals - tasty offerings with a bevy of surprises. In this family, you bicker, fight, and disapprove. Above all, you cook...and live your own life.
Limited Release: August 24, 2001
Director: Maria Ripoll
Writers: Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca & Vera Blasi
Director of Photography: Xavier Perez Grobet
Music Supervisor: Julianne Jordan
Producer: John Bard Manulis
Starring: Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Paul Rodriguez, Joel Joan, Elizabeth Pena, and Raquel Welch
Rated PG-13 for sexual content.
Official Synopsis - "Curse of the Jade Scorpion"
Woody Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, the top insurance investigator in New York in 1940 - or so he keeps telling the firm's new efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt). Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the mind of the thief, but now, thanks to the hypnotic powers of the Jade Scorpion, the mind of a thief is getting into Briggs.
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Director: Woody Allen
Writers: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson
Starring: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, David Ogden Stiers, Charlize Theron, Wallace Shawn, Elizabeth Berkley, and Dan Aykroyd
Rated PG-13 for some sexual content.
Official Site: "Curse of the Jade Scorpion"
Review: Movie Review
NEW ON VIDEO - ROMANCE:
"Say It Isn't So" - Video Release August 21, 2001
NEW IN THEATRES - OTHER GENRES:
"An American Rhapsody" - Limited Release August 24, 2001
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" - Premiering August 24, 2001
"John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars" - Premiering August 24, 2001
