Taglines: In the face of an enemy, in the Heart of One Man, Lies the Soul of a Warrior. Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), an American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country’s first army in the…
Category: Period Films
The Missing (2003)
Tagline: How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? In the 1880’s after a very long disappearance a father returns to find the family he left behind to live with the natives. His estranged daughter Maggie is not pleased by his sudden arrival. When Maggie’s daughter…
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Taglines: In a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live. 1953 America was a time ripe for change for women and when Katherine Ann Willis (Julia Roberts) arrives to teach Art History at Wellesley College, she finds the institution drowning in outdated mores. While the nation struggles with the…
Open Range (2003)
Tagline: No place to run. No reason to hide. Following the day-to-day encounters of four wandering cattle ranchers living in the final years of the Wild West, this film tells the story of how they eventually team up to rid a burgeoning remote town, Harmonville, from the machinations of a ruthlessly evil rancher, Baxter, who…