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American Beauty
Weaves social satire, domestic tragedy, and whodunit into a single package, keeping us off balance, winking seamlessly from dark, scabrous comedy to deeply moving drama. The Burnham family joins the cinematic short list of great dysfunctional American families, as Lester (Spacey) is pitted against his manic, materialistic realtor wife, Carolyn (Bening) and his sullen, contemptuous teenaged daughter.
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Changing Lanes
An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties' part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions.
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Dead Poets Society
English professor John Keating (Robin Williams) inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day. Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.
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Don Juan de Marco
A young man (who is the legendary Don Juan?), comes to New York in search of his lost love. Feeling like he has nothing to live for, he attempts to commit suicide from atop a billboard. Dr. Mickler, (played by Marlon Brando), is a soon retiring psychiatrist who helps Don Juan (Johnny Depp), come to his senses. He brings the costumed boy to the psychiatric hospital , in hopes of helping Don Juan find his identity. The doctor works with him for ten days, in which Don tells his life story.
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Fearless
When Max Klein (Jeff Bridges) finds himself facing imminent death as his plane hurls toward the ground, he finds inner calm and release from fear in his acceptance of his own unavoidable end. His panic erased, he helps other passengers to relax, and when he survives the impact, to escape. What follows is his difficult and complex journey back to emotional and spiritual equilibrium.
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Mindwalk
Based on Fritjof Capra's book "The Turning Point," and employs elements of his earlier book "The Tao of Physics." The setting is the French island of Mont St. Michel, where an ecclectic trio come together - Sonia, an alienated physicist; Jack, a senator fresh from a failed presidential bid; and Thomas, a sardonic poet and friend of Jack, once employed as his speechwriter. This is a conversation movie — talk, talk, talk... and little else.
Except for ideas. There are plenty of those, and for interested audiences that should be more than enough. |
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Scent of a Woman
Al Pacino won the Oscar for his lead performance in this 1992 movie. As the blind, blunt, and ultimately benevolent retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, Pacino is compelling, simultaneously subtle and grandly over-the-top when defending his new assistant and prep school student Charlie (Chris O'Donnell) at a disciplinary hearing. Pacino's adventurous escapades in New York City provide comic relief.
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
Set in Savannah, Georgia, during the early '30s, the story charts the redemption of disillusioned World War I veteran and former golf champion Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon), who emerges from self-imposed obscurity in an exhibition match against legendary golfers Bobby Jones (Joel Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (Bruce McGill). Having earlier abandoned the socialite (Charlize Theron) who has organized the tournament to promote her late father's spectacular golf resort, Junuh now depends on the support of a young fan (perfectly cast newcomer J. Michael Moncrief) and the mysterious Bagger Vance (Will Smith), a smiling Jiminy Cricket who serves as Junuh's caddy, golf guru, and Socratic angel of mercy.
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