Movies Saw 2012
by johnluiz1 | created - 08 Apr 2012 | updated - 09 Jun 2012 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Larry Crowne (2011)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.
Director: Tom Hanks | Stars: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega
Votes: 70,771 | Gross: $35.61M
Watched DVD 1/6/12. Hard to believe 2 such big actors could put together a film this stupid. Script incredibly dumb. Totally unappealing movie. Tom should stop working with Nia Vardallos.
2. I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer, Greg Kinnear
Votes: 21,209 | Gross: $9.66M
Watched DVD: 1/13/12. Sappy, trite and predictable, but a pleasantly mindless enough film to watch.
3. What's Your Number? (2011)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman looks back at the past nineteen men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love.
Director: Mark Mylod | Stars: Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor, Blythe Danner
Votes: 87,312 | Gross: $14.01M
Watched DVD: 1/15/12. Much raunchier than I expected, but not a bad little rom-com.
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
R | 158 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years by young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 494,410 | Gross: $102.52M
Saw at Dedham Showcase 1/16/12. I'm one of the few people who hasn't read the books, so I went in without any expectations. Very well done firm. Mara Rooney gives an amazing performance.
5. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones
Votes: 47,519 | Gross: $3.25M
Watched DVD: 1/20/12. One of Allen's throwaway films. One of those movies you expect to somewhere after all time spent laying out premise, but then it just stops. Not a very good film, although Naomi Watts is terrific.
6. Keeping the Faith (2000)
PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two friends, a priest and a rabbi, fall in love with the same woman they knew in their youth, but the religious position of both men denies them romance.
Director: Edward Norton | Stars: Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft
Votes: 53,205 | Gross: $37.05M
Saw DVD: 1/21/12. Very dopey film. Almost like a joke: Priest and a Rabbi walk into a bar -- and fall in love with the same girl. Ben Stiller's a "hip" rabbi because he turns his synagogue into something that resembles the church scene in Blues Brothers - like that could happen.
7. Diminished Capacity (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's-impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
Director: Terry Kinney | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda, Jimmy Bennett
Votes: 1,337 | Gross: $0.02M
Streamed on Netflix 1/24/12. Very good movie. Broderick and Alan Alda are terrific.
8. Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved.
Director: Josh Radnor | Stars: Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Zoe Kazan, Michael Algieri
Votes: 30,508 | Gross: $0.22M
Watched DVD: 1/25/12
9. Wonderful World (2009)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ben Singer has his cynical worldview darkened by his roommate Ibu's sudden medical situation, though the arrival of Ibu's sister, Khadi, might remedy both men's ills.
Director: Joshua Goldin | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Kenneth Williams, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 2,493 | Gross: $0.01M
Streamed Netflix: 1/25/12
10. Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
Will (Josh Hopkins), a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ (Rachel Kitson), his ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Hickernell | Stars: Josh Hopkins, Rachel Kitson, Ian Merrill Peakes, Samantha Mathis
Votes: 587 | Gross: $0.05M
Streamed Netflix: 1/27/12
11. Nice Guy Johnny (2010)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Johnny Rizzo is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snoozeville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiancee. Enter Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer set on turning a ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Burns | Stars: Max Baker, Kerry Bishé, Edward Burns, Matt Bush
Votes: 1,890
Streamed Netflix: 1/27/12
12. The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne
Votes: 8,898 | Gross: $0.32M
Streamed Netflix: 1/28/12
13. Bottle Shock (2008)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".
Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Dennis Farina
Votes: 17,907 | Gross: $4.04M
Streamed Netflix: 2/19/12
14. Rare Birds (2001)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker, Vicky Hynes
Votes: 1,757
Streamed Netflix: 2/20/12. Starts off like it's going to be one of those great quirky character movies like Local Hero or Man Who Went Up A Mountain and Came Down a Hill, but then it takes an odd turn and becomes just dopey.
15. Wanderlust (2012)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.
Director: David Wain | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Malin Akerman, Justin Theroux
Votes: 80,434 | Gross: $17.23M
Saw at Dedham Showcase 2/24/12
16. Midnight in Paris (2011)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller
Votes: 449,539 | Gross: $56.82M
Watched DVD: 3/3/12. Wife didn't like it. I thought the fantasizing about what you would do if you could lead a different life was interesting. Hit me where I live right now.
17. A Little Help (2010)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman gets entangled in a series of bizarre lies in order to take care of herself and her 12-year-old son.
Director: Michael J. Weithorn | Stars: Jenna Fischer, Jay Klaitz, Daniel Yelsky, Brooke Smith
Votes: 3,562 | Gross: $0.09M
Streamed Neftlifx: 3/8/12. Jenna Fischer does a great job. A good story.
18. Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Drama
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his widowed mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his unhappily married brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Directors: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass | Stars: Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 65,568 | Gross: $4.24M
Saw: 3/16/12, Dedham Community Theater. Not very likeable characters. A review mentioned the silly, ABC Afternoon Special type ending, which was right on. Susan Sarandon a waste.
19. The Big Year (2011)
PG | 100 min | Comedy
Two bird enthusiasts try to defeat the cocky, cutthroat world record holder in a year-long bird-spotting competition.
Director: David Frankel | Stars: Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin, John Cleese
Votes: 47,932 | Gross: $7.20M
Watched DVD: 3/17/12. Enjoyed the book, amazed could make a pretty good movie out of it. All characters and their conflicts made up - hardly any of that was in book. Good job.
20. Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Brian, an American businessman, is sent to Thailand in search of local coffee plantations to purchase, but he ends up finding more than just coffee, and that the original purpose of the trip might not even be about coffee after all.
Director: Jeff Hare | Stars: Kip Pardue, James Brolin, Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Spencer Garrett
Votes: 326
Streamed Netflix: 3/23/12. Good story, well done. Although beautiful Thai girl in lead role can't act at all.
21. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 67,086 | Gross: $9.03M
Saw: 3/30/12, Landmark Cinema. Very good. Breathtakingly beautiful scenes of Scottish and Yemeni landscapes. Terrific acting jobs from Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.
22. Melancholia (2011)
R | 135 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård
Votes: 195,663 | Gross: $3.03M
Watched DVD: 4/6/12. A depressing story about a depressed woman. Really slow. No sense of characters. Boring and disjointed.
23. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.
Directors: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck | Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Tyler Labine, Lake Bell
Votes: 23,632 | Gross: $0.15M
Watched DVD: 4/8/12. Very funny & surprisingly good, given the off-the-charts subject matter. I expected this to be as dopey as Hot Tub Time Machine, but it wasn't.
24. Damsels in Distress (2011)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A trio of girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Lio Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke
Votes: 9,981 | Gross: $1.01M
(Saw at Landmark Cinema, 4/20/12) The taking themselves too seriously, overly earnest kids of Metropolitan were so charming.It's surprising here to see how Whitman could use the same dialogue heavy approach to create a film that is so dopey, boring and not the least bit charming.
25. The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.
Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie
Votes: 102,535 | Gross: $28.84M
Saw at legacy 5/4/12 Much better than expected a good and funny look at the tensions in a long-term relationship.
26. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 99,403 | Gross: $46.41M
Saw at dedham community 6/8/12. A delightful movie about the challenges of growing old.
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