Director: Miguel Arteta
Written by:
Gustin Nash
C.D. Payne
Tagline:
Every “Revolution” Needs A Leader
Plot:
While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she’ll be the one to take away his virginity. When Nick realizes she is not interested, he comes up with an alter-ego, named François Dillinger, who resembles Nick, but has blue eyes, a mustache, a deeper voice, and a player/bad boy attitude to help him with his pursuit of Sheeni. But when François makes Nick a wanted criminal, everything spins out of control.
Runtime: 90 min
Award: Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 8 wins & 12 nominations
Director: Tim Allen
Written by:
Judd Pillot
John Peaslee
Tagline:
He survived three years of hard time. Now comes a little family time.
Plot:
A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars after getting caught committing a crime and taking the rap for his much more dangerous pal.
Runtime: 1o4 min
Director: Joshua Goldin
Written by:
Joshua Goldin
Tagline:
If the glass is half empty, at least you can’t drown.
Plot:
In this sometimes moving dark comedy, Broderick plays Ben-a failed children’s folk singer and less-than-extraordinary weekend dad. Deeply cynical, Ben’s sole pleasure in life is derived from chess games with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struck ill and an insensitive municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, Ben’s pessimistic worldview seems unequivocally confirmed. But when Ibou’s sister Khadi takes his place in their apartment, what starts as an awkward living arrangement becomes something more, and Ben finds that cynicism may be all a matter of perspective.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Rick Jacobson
Written by:
Eric Gruendemann
Rick Jacobson
Tagline:
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go anywhere..
Plot:
When three curvaceous babes arrive at a desert hideaway to steal from an underworld kingpin, things quickly spiral out of control. Allegiances are switched, truths are revealed, criminals are unmasked and nothing is quite what it seems as the fate of the world is precariously balanced among this trio of sexy femmes fatales.
Runtime: 85 min
Director: Michael Haneke
Written by:
Michael Haneke
Tagline:
War causes an uprising drama.
Plot:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.The worries and the dramas of the village are soon lost in the strange excitement of the coming war. Later, the schoolteacher ponders over it again: didn’t those events contain the germs of the tragedies that followed? Weren’t the barbaric acts of the children, deep down, the natural consequences of what they had been taught?
Runtime: 144 min
Award: Won Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 10 nominations
Director: Rob Marshall
Written by:
Michael Tolkin
Anthony Minghella
Tagline:
This Holiday Season, Be Italian
Plot:
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands.
Runtime: 118 min
Award: Nominated for 5 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 24 nominations
Director: Scott Cooper
Written by:
Scott Cooper
Thomas Cobb
Tagline:
The harder the life, the sweeter the song.
Plot:
Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician.
Runtime: 112 min
Award: Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 8 wins & 12 nominations
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Written by:
Julian Fellowes
Tagline:
Love rules all
Plot:
The film is a romantic dramatisation of some of the events preceding and following the coronation of Queen Victoria, focusing on her early reign and romance with Prince Albert in the 1830s. A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria’s rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Runtime: 105 min
Award: Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations
Director: James Cameron
Written by:
James Cameron
Tagline:
An epic battle for the fate of Pandora at hand…
Plot:
When his brother is killed in battle, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.
Runtime: 162 min
Award: Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 9 nominations
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Written by:
Ron Clements
John Musker
Tagline:
I’ve kissed several frogs before finding my prince.
Plot:
A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
Runtime: 97 min
Award: Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 15 nominations
