Charlize Theron stars as Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was executed in Florida for killing seven men during the 1980s; Christina Ricci plays her girlfriend, Selby Wall; and Bruce Dern is cast as her friend Thomas, who tries to protect her in the end. In a revelatory performance, Charlize Theron stars in the shocking…
Category: Drama and Romances
Mystic River (2003)
Taglines: We bury our sins, we wash them clean. When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn), Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) and Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) spent their days playing stickball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham….
Pieces of April (2003)
Tagline: She’s the one in every family. Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges’s Pieces of April. Katie Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. Pieces of April is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by…
Runaway Jury (2003)
Tagline: Trials are too important to be decided by juries. From master storyteller John Grisham (“The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief”) comes RUNAWAY JURY, a suspense-thriller about a high-priced and ruthless jury “consultant” (Gene Hackman) who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict on an explosive trial. With lives and millions of dollars at stake,…
Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Frances McDormand star with Keanu Reeves and Amanda Peet in a sophisticated romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give, from writer / director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, The Parent Trap), which proves that in matters of the heart, you can expect the unexpected. Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is…
Thirteen (2003)
A young straight-A student befriends a schoolmate who eventually turns her on to sex, drugs, and self-mutilation, in addition to convincing her to ditch studying. Holly Hunter plays the girl’s mom and is powerless to stop her daughter’s descent. Thirteen is Catherine Hardwicke’s explosive portrait of teenage girls at their very worst. Mean, manipulative, conniving,…