Movies In 1998
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria
Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood...
Director: Tamra Davis
Stars: Dave Chappelle, Guillermo DÃaz, Jim Breuer
The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of...
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Stars: Kôichi Yamadera, Unshô Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara
The futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter and his...
Director: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes
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Director: Constance M. Burge
Stars: Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause
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Director: David Crane, Marta Kauffman
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow
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Director: Barbara Sonneborn
Stars: Xuan Ngoc Nguyen, Barbara Sonneborn
In this film made over ten years filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator and fellow war widow Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of...
Director: Steve Yeager
Stars: John Waters, Patricia Waters, John Waters Sr.
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents his brother Divines mom actors and crew other directors film critics a film curator psychologists and Marylands last censor who shudders at the memory of Waterss pictures. Also included is...
Director: Bill Brummel
Stars: D. Paul Thomas, David Chalmers, William M. Banks
The history of the Ku Klux Klan in...
Director: Bill Condon
Stars: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave
The story of James Whale the director of Frankenstein 1931 and Frankensteins Braut 1935 in the time period following the Korean War. Whale is homosexual and develops a friendship with his gardener an...
Director: Michael Cristofer
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell
When Gia Carangi first arrives in New York City shes a beautiful drop-out from Philadelphia brashly bursting through the closed doors of top modeling agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gias electrifying personality and potent sexuality soon find their way onto the covers of Americas top-selling magazines. But being loved by the world isnt the same as being love by one - an unfulfilled desire that can...
Director: John Maybury
Stars: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton
In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston
This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert...
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt
In 16th century Venice courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red they read compose poetry and music and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age she cannot marry Marco Venier whom she loves because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart and with beauty and intelligence...
Director: Christopher Kulikowski
Stars: Christopher Stapleton, Michael Otis, David Jean Thomas
In the 22nd century seven explorers set out on a mission to earths nearest sister planet AURORA. Their mission - to survey and explore for future colonization. When their ship suddenly malfunctions the crew is forced to crash land on the planets surface where crippling heat poisonous water and fierce storms threaten their lives at every turn. With a handful of supplies and little hope of...
Director: Gregory Nava
Stars: Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon
In the mid-1980s three women each with an attorney arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager Morris Levy. One is a singer from Los Angeles formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philadelphia; one teaches high school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman and each wants years of royalties due to his...
Director: Robert Towne
Stars: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter
The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car...
Director: Roger Young
Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York, Paloma Baeza
A computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop which she uses to amaze the...
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Tahmineh Normatova, Nadereh Abdelahyeva, Goibibi Ziadolahyeva
Because of his special gift in identifying objects by the sounds they make a blind young boy is employed as a string instrument tuner in a small village in Tajikistan. He may be blind but that does not mean he cannot see. On his way to work he could tell the quality of the bread the young girls along the streets are peddling by simply touching their ware. His world is made more colorful and...
Director: Frank Coraci
Stars: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler
Bobby Boucher is the lowly waterboy for a college football team until the coach discovers his amazing talent for tackling people much bigger than him. He signs the Waterboy as the new star player but Bobby must keep it secret from his overbearing and domineering...
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn
Shortly after the Second World War Max a transplanted American visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max which he...
Director: Lynne Naylor
Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, Michael Hurst
Mighty Zeus brings Hercules mother Alcmene to Mount Olympus and Hercules believing she has been kidnapped leads a rescue mission to save her. Zeus jealous wife Hera decides that it should now be her time to rule the universe. Hera steals the Chronos Stone source of the Gods power and unleashes the four Titans from their eons of imprisonment. With these angry behemoths on the loose...
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Yada Beener
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver a strange girl comes along by the name of Beloved. Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to...
Director: James Merendino
Stars: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish
Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill stays in hospital for three weeks comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks rednecks and...
Director: John Polonia, Mark Polonia
Stars: Maria Davis, Bob Dennis, Bruce Hardy
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Director: Nick Broomfield
Stars: Courtney Love, Nick Broomfield, Kurt Cobain
After rocker Kurt Cobains death ruled a suicide a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobains aunt who provides home movies and recordings the estranged father of Cobains widow Courtney Love an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love a nanny for Kurt and Courtneys child friends and lovers of both and others....
Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen
Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father Jake who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus...