Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna (Lindsay Lohan), are not getting along. They don’t see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not on each other’s taste in men. One Thursday evening, their disagreements reach a fever pitch—Anna is incensed that her mother doesn’t support her musical aspirations and Tess,…
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Set in 17th century Holland, “Girl with a Pearl Earring” tells the imagined, intriguing and highly seductive story behind one of Vermeer’s greatest and most enigmatic paintings. Griet (Johansson), a tilemaker’s daughter, is forced by tragedy to become a maid for the master painter (Firth). Fascinated by his craft, she soon shows an aptitude for…
Gothika (2003)
Because someone is dead doesn’t mean they’re gone. A brilliant and respected criminal psychologist, Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is an expert at knowing what is rational. What is logical. What is sane. Under the direction of her husband (Charles S. Dutton), the chief administrator of the psychiatric ward at the Woodward Penitentiary for Women,…
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Taglines: Two bathrooms: His and hearse. Frightfully funny Eddie Murphy leads an all-scare cast of ghosts and ghouls in Disney’s spookiest comedy ever, “The Haunted Mansion.” Workaholic real-estate agent Jim Evers (Murphy) drags his family up to the big, creepy Gracey mansion in hopes of rebuilding it into a lavish new condo development. When they…
Honey (2003)
Taglines: Her dream. Her terms. Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba, of television’s Dark Angel) has been waiting all her life to show the world her dance moves and now, everything she ever wanted is just a step away. For years, her spirit and her ambition have given the dancer and aspiring choreographer the guts to move…
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Taglines: Some dreams can’t be shared. Based on the acclaimed bestseller by Andre Dubus III. Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley) is living a lie to fulfill a dream. Once a member of the Shah of Iran’s elite inner circle, he has brought his family to America to build a new life. Despite a pretense of…