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"A Beautiful Mind"
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Synopsis: 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). |
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Director: Ron Howard Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman |
Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Judd Hirsch, Adam Goldberg, and Christopher Plummer |
| Release Date: January 4, 2002 (Wide - Opened in limited cities on Dec. 25, 2001) | MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense, thematic material, sexual content, and a scene of violence |
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"Beauty and the Beast"
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Synopsis: Set in and around a small French village during the late 18th century, "Beauty and the Beast" follows the fantastic adventures of Bell, a bright and beautiful young woman who finds escape from her ordinary provincial life - and the relentless advances of a handsome but borrish suitor, Gaston - by reading books. When her inventor father stumbles onto the castle of a hideous beast and is taken prisoner, Belle comes to the rescue and agrees to take her father's place. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, "Beauty and the Beast" makes its Giant Screen debut with a large format cinema special edition. |
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Director: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise Animation Screenplay: Linda Woolverton |
Starring: Voices of Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, Jo Anne Worley, Bradley Michael Pierce, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Rex Everhart, and Hal Smith |
| Release Date: January 1, 2002 (Giant Screen Theatres) | MPAA Rating: G |
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"Charlotte Gray"
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Synopsis: 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. |
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Director: Gillian Armstrong Screenwriter: Jeremy Brock |
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Rupert Penry-Jones, and Michael Gambon |
| Release Date: January 11, 2002 (Opened in 3 cities on Dec. 28, 2001) | MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some war related violence, sensuality and brief strong language |
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"The Count of Monte Cristo"
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Synopsis: Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Caviezel) is an honest young man whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes (Dominczyk) are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand (Pearce), who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. Unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of Chateau D’If, Edmond is trapped in a nightmare that lasts for thirteen years. Haunted by the baffling course his life has taken, over time everything he ever believed about right and wrong is abandoned and replaced by all-consuming thoughts of vengeance against those who betrayed him. With the help of an equally innocent fellow inmate and priest (Harris), Dantes plots and succeeds in his mission to escape from prison, whereupon he transforms himself into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristo. |
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Director: Kevin Reynolds Screenwriter: Jay Wolpert |
Starring: James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, James Frain, Richard Harris, Henry Cavill, Dagmara Dominczyk and Michael Wincott |
| Release Date: January 25, 2002 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 for adventure violence/swordplay and some sensuality |
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"The Shipping News"
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Synopsis: "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. |
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Director: Lasse Hallström Screenwriter: Robert Nelson Jacobs |
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Jason Behr, John Dunsworth, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Katherine Moennig, Gordon Pinsent, and Pete Postlethwaite |
| Release Date: January 11, 2002 (Wide) | MPAA Rating: R for some language, sexuality, and disturbing images |
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"A Walk to Remember"
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Synopsis: Jamie was the last person Landon was likely to fall for. One night a prank that he and his buddies set up goes terribly wrong and lands a kid in the hospital. As punishment, Landon must tutor a young student at a poor school and participate in the Drama Club's Spring play two activities the principal hopes will teach him some humility. They also happen to throw him into close contact with Jamie. Clearly in over his head, Landon is forced to ask her for help. Soon, against his own expectations, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible. But it isn't easy. For reasons of her own, Jamie does everything she can to run away from romance until it becomes impossible to deny. Being together will test everything that they believe in. Most of all, it will test the power of love and faith to transform a life into something worth living. |
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Director: Adam Shankman Screenwriter: Karen Janzen |
Starring: Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Al Thompson and Daryl Hannah |
| Release Date: January 25, 2002 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, language, and some sensual material |
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