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"The Bourne Identity"
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Synopsis: The film opens as an amnesiac is rescued at sea. Nearly dead, he carries only the bullets in his back and the bank account number implanted in his hip. Completely without identity or background, he does possess an array of extraordinary talents in fighting, linguistics and self-dense. He sets out on a desperate search, assisted by the initially rebellious Marie, to discover who he really is. |
| Director: Doug Liman Screenwriters: Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron |
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Chris Cooper, Adewale Akinnuouy-Agbaje, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox, Judy Parfitt, and Anthony Green |
| Release Date: June 14, 2002 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and some language |
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"Cherish"
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Synopsis: A fantasy-prone young woman confronts a life-altering reality when she is placed in a house arrest program in Finn Taylor's romantic comedy "Cherish." As it follows its heroine on the road to self-reinvention and vindication, "Cherish" invests several classic film scenarios with new life and cleverly tweaks genre convention at every turn. |
| Director: Finn Taylor Screenwriter: Finn Taylor |
Starring: Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson, Nora Dunn, Jason Priestley, Brad Hunt, Lindsay Crouse and Liz Phair |
| Release Date: June 7, 2002 (Limited) | MPAA Rating: R for language |
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"The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys"
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Synopsis: Based on Chris Fuhrman's original and audacious coming-of-age novel, "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" is a 70s-set drama featuring two charming but irreverent Catholic high schoolers who confront the mysteries of adulthood. Francis, Tim, and their friends are adolescents who see the world as a clear and simple place. Sister Assumpta, the nun who has become the emblematic authority figure in their lives, is the enemy. Throughout the story, their fantasy universe comes to life in animated sequences, paralleling the live-action tale of friendship, first-love, and inevitable loss. |
| Director: Peter Care Screenwriter: Jeff Stockwell |
Starring: Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jodie Foster, Jake Richardson, and Tyler Long |
| Release Date: June 14, 2002 (Limited) | MPAA Rating: R for language, sexual content and youth substance use |
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"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
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Synopsis: This classic Southern tale of life, love and family follows a group of lifelong friends as they stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her eccentric mother, find forgiveness and come to terms with her painful past. |
| Director: Callie Khouri Screenwriter: Callie Khouri |
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner, Ashley Judd, Shirley Knight, Angus MacFadyen, and Maggie Smith |
| Release Date: June 7, 2002 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic elements, language, and brief sensuality |
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"The Emperor's New Clothes"
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Synopsis: History tells us that Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the desolate island of St. Helena in 1821. Or did he? This film supposes a more fanciful tale. A secret network of loyalists hatch an ingenious plot: the Emperor (Holm) will return to Paris, while a double takes his place in exile. Trading identities with a dissolute sailor, Napoleon is spirited back to France to reclaim his throne. Yet, early on in the scheme, the plan goes awry. The double refuses to give up playing Napoleon thereby stranding the former Emperor in Paris. Friendless and alone, he meets and falls for a beautiful widow (Hjejle). |
| Director: Alan Taylor Screenwriter: Alan Taylor |
Starring: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Tom Watson, Nigel Terry, and Ashley Artus |
| Release Date: June 14, 2002 (Limited) | MPAA Rating: PG for brief language |
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"Harvard Man"
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Synopsis: Harvard student Alan indulges in all of life's more interesting vices - illicit sex, drugs and high-stakes gambling. Tempted by cheerleader-seductress-mob daughter Cindy, Alan gets in too deep and finds himself in danger of losing a lot more than his scholarship. The affair that Alan is having with his philosophy professor complicates matters further, when her sexual predilections get in the way. |
| Director: James Toback Screenwriter: James Toback |
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams, Eric Stoltz, Rebecca Gayheart, John Neville, and Gianni Russo |
| Release Date: June 14, 2002 (Limited) | MPAA Rating: R for drug use, language and some strong sexuality |
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"Juwanna Mann"
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Synopsis: When a bad-boy ballplayer (Nuñéz) gets booted out of professional basketball, he wants so much to return to the game that he disguises himself as female all-star "Juwanna Mann" and joins the Women's Basketball League. |
| Director: Jesse Vaughan Screenwriter: Bradley Allenstein |
Starring: Miguel A Nunez, Jr., Vivica A Fox, Kevin Pollak, Tommy Davidson, Ginuwine, Kim Wayans, Lil' Kim, and Annie Corley |
| Release Date: June 21, 2002 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and sex-related material |
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"Lovely and Amazing"
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Synopsis: Jane Marks (Blethyn) is the matriarch of a confused trio of daughters that seems to have nothing in common, except for a peculiar sort of idealism -- a heady brew of vanity, insecurity and humor. Former homecoming queen Michelle (Keener), the eldest daughter, is in a loveless marriage with a spouse who does not appreciate her decidedly obscure artistic endeavors. Younger sister Elizabeth (Mortimer), an insecure actress whose career is beginning to take off, compulsively takes home stray dogs, saving them whether or not they need to be saved.
Only the youngest sister, Annie, an adopted African American eight-year old, seems to stand a chance at rising above the family's legacy. But on the threshold of what promises to be a confusing adolescence, Annie has developed a preoccupation with her appearance -- natural enough for a pre-teen-- but given her adoptive family's history, quite possibly a hint of what's to come. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way, but whatever salvation they find is illusory and shortlived. |
| Director: Nicole Holofcener Screenwriter: Nicole Holofcener |
Starring: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer, Dermot Mulroney, Jake Gyllenhaal, James LeGros, and Raven Goodwin |
| Release Date: June 28, 2002 (Limited) | MPAA Rating: R for language and nudity |
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"Mr. Deeds"
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Synopsis: Longfellow Deeds (Sandler) is a sweet, lovable guy leading a simple but happy life in the tiny hamlet of Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire. Deeds is admired by the locals who crowd into his pizzeria to hear him recite his offbeat greeting card poetry.
Life is good at the small town restaurant until two corporate fancy execs bring news that Deeds is about to be rolling in a different kind of dough. A long lost relative has left him an inheritance of forty billion dollars along with the largest media company in the world, a football team, a basketball team, and a private helicopter ready to whisk him off to corporate America. It's a fish out of water, rags to riches story that has local tabloid reporters, including Babe Bennett (Ryder), salivating. With the help of his trusty valet Emilio (Turturro), Deeds ultimately discovers what life is really all about and has to prove that money changes everything...but not everyone. |
| Director: Steven Brill Screenwriter: Tim Herlihy |
Starring: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Jared Harris, and Peter Gallagher |
| Release Date: June 28, 2002 | MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for language including sexual references, and some rear nudity |
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"Pumpkin"
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Synopsis: Perky, perfect Carolyn (Christina Ricci) and her Alpha Omega Pi sisters plan to win Sorority of the Year by impressing the Greek Council with a killer charity: coaching mentally challenged athletes for the regional Challenged Games. When Carolyn's assigned to coach Pumpkin (Hank Harris) she's terrified at first, but soon sees in him something she's never seen before: a gentle humanity and honest clarity that touches her soul. To the horror of her friends and Pumpkin's overprotective mother (Brenda Blethyn), Carolyn falls in love, becoming an outcast in the process. As Carolyn's "perfect life" falls apart, Pumpkin teaches her that perfect isn't always perfect after all. |
| Directors: Anthony R Abrams and Adam Larson Broder Screenwriter: Adam Larson Broder |
Starring: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Marisa Coughlan, Dominique Swain, and Sam Ball |
| Release Date: June 28, 2002 (Limited) | MPAA Rating: Rated R for language and a scene of sexuality |
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"Scooby-Doo"
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Synopsis: This first-ever live-action adaptation of the beloved and long-running animated series catches up with Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang as they meddle their way into a bona fide mystery that leads them into murky and possibly supernatural waters. |
| Directors: Raja Gosnell Screenwriter: James Gunn |
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard, Rowan Atkinson, and Miguel A. Nunez, Jr. |
| Release Date: June 14, 2002 | MPAA Rating: Rated PG for some rude humor and language, and some scary action. |
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"Sunshine State"
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Synopsis: Change is coming to Delrona Beach, Florida, assaults on every front. Here's Marly (Falco) running her father's motel and hating every minute of it. Lester and Greg (Ferrer and Lang) will stop at nothing to buy the motel, and Dad (Waite) will never sell. Mom (Alexander) is living in her own dream world down at the community theater and off at the Audubon meetings, saving what's left of the natural habitat. |
| Director: John Sayles Screenwriter: John Sayles |
Starring: Edie Falco, Angela Bassett, Jane Alexander, James McDaniel, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburger, Marc Blucas, Miguel Ferrer, Ralph Waite, Perry Lang, and Alan King |
| Release Date: June 21, 2002 (LA/NY) | MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, a sexual reference and thematic elements |
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