When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Director:
Irwin Winkler
Stars:
Hayden Christensen,
Kevin Kline,
Kristin Scott Thomas
James owes his life to his older brother, Frankie after taking the rap for a crime they committed together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around, got a steady job and began courting his former girlfriend Emily. Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets with no money and no place to go.
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Director:
Billy Ray
Stars:
Hayden Christensen,
Chloë Sevigny,
Steve Zahn
A Wall Street broker is forced to evade a police chief investigating a bank robbery as he attempts to recover the stolen money in exchange for his son's life.
Director:
Steven C. Miller
Stars:
Bruce Willis,
Hayden Christensen,
Ty Shelton
A young man searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a U.S. World War II bomber gunner who crashed in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 1, 1944.
Director:
Richard Attenborough
Stars:
Shirley MacLaine,
Christopher Plummer,
Dylan Roberts
When the two nuns strip to join Lorenzo in the bathtub, they both have bikini tan lines. See more »
Quotes
Count Dzerzhinsky:
[when crossing their ways, as both are chasing after Gerbino]
Where did he go?
Lorenzo:
Uhh... That way.
[points at left]
Count Dzerzhinsky:
Okay, but wait! Who are you?
Lorenzo:
Lorenzo di Lamberti.
Count Dzerzhinsky:
Right! The robber on the road! I am Count Dzerzhins...
Lorenzo:
[runs away, annoyed]
I know! I KNOW!
Count Dzerzhinsky:
[shouts after Lorenzo]
FIRST SON!
[pause]
Count Dzerzhinsky:
Only son, nine sisters!
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This isn't exactly "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Citizen Kane"...but so what? I found it a very adequate period-piece comedy that even occasionally had a hint of Monty Python humor. The musical soundtrack was decidedly 21st Century...but it "worked" for me.
The cinematography was surprisingly well-crafted, in my opinion, and the acting was perfectly adequate, albeit nothing exceptional. All the actresses were decidedly attractive -- why do I think that 14th-Century nuns in an Italian convent during the Black Death were maybe not quite so hot as depicted here?? -- and Mischa Barton proves once again that she is a truly gorgeous young woman (although she was NOT one of the several females who had any nude scenes).
Bottom line: worth a rental, and also an OK "date movie".
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This isn't exactly "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Citizen Kane"...but so what? I found it a very adequate period-piece comedy that even occasionally had a hint of Monty Python humor. The musical soundtrack was decidedly 21st Century...but it "worked" for me.
The cinematography was surprisingly well-crafted, in my opinion, and the acting was perfectly adequate, albeit nothing exceptional. All the actresses were decidedly attractive -- why do I think that 14th-Century nuns in an Italian convent during the Black Death were maybe not quite so hot as depicted here?? -- and Mischa Barton proves once again that she is a truly gorgeous young woman (although she was NOT one of the several females who had any nude scenes).
Bottom line: worth a rental, and also an OK "date movie".