Movies In 2001
Director: Bill Bannerman
Stars: Kevin Zegers, Dale Midkiff, David Glyn-Jones
A boy and his dog take on the world of...
Director: Marc Levin
Stars: Tariq Trotter, Karen Starc, Bonz Malone
In Brooklyns Crown Heights where West Indian Rastafarians and other Blacks live next door to the Jewish Lubavitch community ethnic tensions are high. After a minor car crash the headstrong Judah and other Jewish youths who patrol as vigilantes confront Scratch a mouthy African-American hustler. Passengers in the cars make eye contact: Sol a hip-hop musician songwriter and artist...
Director: Michael Mann
Stars: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight
In 1964 a brash new pro boxer fresh from his olympic gold medal victory explodes on to the scene Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making...
Director: Henry Selick
Stars: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro
In a coma Stu Miley a cartoonist who created a comic strip called Monkeybone which features a rascal monkey. He finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back while racing against his popular but treacherous character Monkeybone. Naturally Monkeybone himself is there and he and Stu quickly start fighting like cats and dogs. When Stu realizes that...
Director: Steve Carr
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Cedric the Entertainer, Kristen Wilson
Dr. John Dolittle the beloved doctor is back but this time around he plays cupid to bumbling circus bear Archie as hes so smitten by a Pacific Western bear female Ava. Dr. Dolittle must help a group of forest creatures to save their forest. But with the aid of his mangy madcap animal friends Dr. Dolittle must teach Archie the ways of true romance in time to save his species and his home...
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Stars: Chris Rock, Regina King, Chazz Palminteri
It seems everyone is trying to get into heaven; at least those whose time is up. For Lance Barton a struggling comedian and bicycle messenger its the last thing on his mind. His due date upstairs is 50 years away. In the meantime hes got big dreams to pursue on Earth such as landing a slot at the final Amateur Night Contest at the famed Apollo Theatre. Lances has one little problem though...
Director: Gil Junger
Stars: Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson
This is the story an amusement park employee named Jamal Walker who is magically transported back to medieval times in 14th-century England. There Jamal meets Sir Knolte a dissolute knight before he stumbles into the court of the usurper King Leo. Jamal is impressed by what he thinks is the realism of the theme park; only after witnessing a gory beheading does he realize with horror where he...
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Centuries ago in what would become the Canadian Arctic Atuat is promised to the malevolent Oki son of the leader of their tribe. But Atuat loves the good-natured Atanarjuat who ultimately finds a way to marry her. Okis sister Puja also fancies Atanarjuat and when she causes strife between him and his brother Amaqjuaq Oki seizes the opportunity to wreak a terrible revenge on...
Director: Les Mayfield
Stars: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. In the course of their vendetta they will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and as their fame grows so will the legend of their leader a young outlaw by...
Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. Q a perfect stranger somehow gets involved and enter the bizzare family whos son beats his mom who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin...
Director: Jae-ho Park
Stars: Ji-hyeon Kim, Cheol-ho Choi, Soo Young Ryu
In the dark ‘80s Sang-ho is wanted by the authorities for participating in the student movement. He ends up in a town he has no connections to hiding on the second floor of a worn down wooden house. One day he discovers a hole looking into the room downstairs and he happens to see Hee-ran. Every gesture she makes is captivating and seductive. He watches her body feels her and takes...
Director: Kôsuke Suzuki
Stars: Koharu Toono, Honami Seki, Ayaka Makabe
A man humiliates teenage prostitutes to get them off the streets. Black comedy based on a Japanese...
Director: Fai Sam Ang
Stars: Winai Kraibutr, Pich Chanbormey, Tep Rindaro
Based on a Cambodian folk tale. In a small Thai village Nhi comes across a Snake Immortal and falls in love with him. She becomes pregnant by the snake but does not tell her husband. When he discovers the truth he kills both Nhi and the Snake Immortal. One of the small snakes escapes from Nhis abdomen and is brought up by another immortal. Slowly the snake grows up to be a beautiful woman...
Director: Julio Medem
Stars: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri
LucÃa is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend a writer she seeks refuge on a quiet secluded Mediterranean island. There bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun LucÃa begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship as if they were forbidden passages of a novel which the author now from afar...
Director: Joel Gallen
Stars: Chyler Leigh, Jaime Pressly, Chris Evans
At John Hughes High School the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock Jake takes a bet from Austin the cocky blonde guy that he can transform Janey the pretty ugly girl into the prom queen before the prom. But two people are trying to stop Jake from succeeding: his evil sister Catherine the cruelest girl in school and Priscilla the...
Director: Jae-young Kwak
Stars: Tae-hyun Cha, Gianna Jun, In-mun Kim
Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of Kyun-woo Cha and an unnamed girl. Kyun-woo is shamed into assisting the girl because the other passengers mistakenly think she is his girlfriend. Once he...
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jérémie Renier, Dominique Blanc
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and 80s but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas born of the 60s counter-culture had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier he is now directing a porno again. Jacquess artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producers ideas about shooting hard-core sex. Jacques has been estranged from his son Joseph for...
Director: Toshiki Sato
Stars: Mao Nakagawa, Yûji Tajiri, Takeshi Itô
Empty Room is a dark highly erotic tale of a married couple whose relationship is slowly sliding into oblivion. Bored and sexually frustrated the wife begins taking lovers while her unemployed husband spends his days wandering aimless around the city...
Director: Gore Verbinski
Stars: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini
Jerry Welbach is given two ultimatums. His mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called The Mexican or he will suffer the consequences. The other ultimatum comes from his girlfriend Samantha who wants him to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures that being alive although in trouble with his girlfriend is the better alternative so he heads south of...
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Susan Egan, David Ogden Stiers, Lauren Holly, Michael Chiklis, John Ratzenberger, Jack Angel, Bob Bergen, Rodger Bumpass, Jennifer Darling, Paul Eiding, Tatsuya Gashûin, Koba Hayashi, Rumi Hiiragi
Storyline: Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside and Chihiro is missing her old house. Chihiros father makes a wrong turn and drives through a lonely land road with dead end in a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the area. They cross the tunnel and find an abandoned cultural theme park on the other side with a ghost town. When her...
Director: Jerry Zucker
Stars: Breckin Meyer, Jenica Bergere, Cuba Gooding Jr., Carrie Diamond, Douglas Haase, Chris Myers, Kevin Frazier, Seth Green, Gloria Allred
Storyline: Donald P. Sinclair has placed six separate gold coins in different slot machines in his casino. The lucky six who find these coins discover an opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to own $2 million. Locked up in a locker in New Mexico these six contestants must now race each other to be the first to the cash. There are no rules in place and everything that could possibly happen...
Director: Louis C.K.
Stars: Lance Crouther, J.B. Smoove, Jennifer Coolidge, Reg E. Cathey, Robert Vaughn, Wanda Sykes, Chris Rock, Mario Joyner, Cathy Trien, Dave Attell, Laura Kightlinger, Christopher Wynkoop, Rick Shapiro, Qiana Drew, Lorria Richards
Storyline: Pootie Tang the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young black children of America...
Director: Pete Docter, David Silverman
Stars: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, Bob Peterson, John Ratzenberger
Storyline: A city of monsters with no humans called Monstropolis centers around the citys power company Monsters Inc. The lovable confident tough furry blue behemoth-like giant monster named James P. Sullivan better known as Sulley and his wisecracking best friend short green cyclops monster Mike Wazowski discover what happens when the real world interacts with theirs in the form of a...
Director: Barry Skolnick
Stars: Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, David Hemmings, Ralph Brown, Vas Blackwood, Robbie Gee, Geoff Bell, John Forgeham, Sally Phillips, Danny Dyer, Jason Flemyng
Storyline: Disgraced ex-England captain Danny Mean Machine Meehan is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. Whilst in jail he doesnt recieve any favours because of his celebrity status in the outside world. He is out numbered and many prisoners constantly barrage him with insults for letting down his country in a crucial World Cup game. He keeps his head down and has the...
Director: Dennie Gordon
Stars: David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Jaime Pressly, Kid Rock, Erik Per Sullivan, Megan Taylor Harvey, Caroline Aaron, Fred Ward
Storyline: Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks. As his wandering misguided search takes him from one hilarious...
Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Clea DuVall, Pam Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Richard Cetrone, Rosemary Forsyth, Liam Waite, Duane Davis, Lobo Sebastian, Rodney A. Grant, Peter Jason, Wanda De Jesus, Doug McGrath
Storyline: 200 years in the future a Martian police unit is dispatched to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining outpost back to justice. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the...
Director: Lawrence Guterman
Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Alexander Pollock, Miriam Margolyes, Myron Natwick, Doris Chillcott, Kirsten Robek, Frank C. Turner, Mar Andersons, Gillian Barber, Carol Ann Susi, Randi Kaplan
Storyline: A secret war between cats and dogs quickly peaks as Professor Brody a scientist tries to create a serum to cure dog allergies in humans. As the unsuspecting humans go through their busy lives the cats make several attempts to possess the formula as their canine foes try tirelessly to stop them. Caught in the crossfire a young beagle named Lou adopted by the Brody family tries hard...
Director: Brian Helgeland
Stars: Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura Fraser, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, Bérénice Bejo, Scott Handy, James Purefoy, Leagh Conwell, Christopher Cazenove, Steven O'Donnell, Jonathan Slinger, Nick Brimble
Storyline: Inspired by The Canterbury Tales as well as the story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein this is the story of William a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey they stumble across an unknown writer Chaucer. William lacking a proper pedigree convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy...
Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Delaina Mitchell, Shalom Harlow, Oona Hart, Johnny Galecki, Jhaemi Willens
Storyline: Incarcerated and charged with murder David Aames Jr. is telling the story of how he got to where his is to McCabe the police psychologist. That story includes: being the 51% shareholder of a major publishing firm which he inherited from his long deceased parents; the firms board appointed by David Aames Sr. being the 49% shareholders who would probably like to see him gone as...
Director: Jamie Blanks
Stars: Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Cauffiel, Katherine Heigl, Hedy Burress, Fulvio Cecere, Daniel Cosgrove, Johnny Whitworth, Woody Jeffreys, Adam Harrington, Claude Duhamel, Wyatt Page, Benita Ha
Storyline: Valentines Day 1988: At the school dance geeky Jeremy Melton bravely faces one rejection after the other when asking four popular girls to dance with him. A fifth girl plump and insecure agrees but they end up making out under the bleachers. When a group of school bullies catches them the girl claims that Jeremy attacked her. This causes them to strip off his clothes and beat him...