2024-10-03
The title could be short for the "ex"-cellent script and the "ex"-ceptional performances by Zach Braff and Jason Bateman. The former is a new employee at his father-in-law's company, the latter is his boss, who happens to have once dated Braff's wife (Amanda Peet) back in high school, and still carries a serious torch for her. Charles Grodin ended a 10-year movie hiatus to play Peet's father, and
A woman is framed for the murder of her husband in this riveting thriller. While in prison, she discovers her husband's alive. Knowing that she can't be tried for the same crime twice, she vows to find him upon her release from jail. (Repeat).
Strong performances and a taut script drive this pulse-pounding thriller about a forensic psychologist (Morgan Freeman) tracking an elusive serial killer. Helping him is a medical intern (Ashley Judd)---the only abductee to escape the killer's dungeon. Cary Elwes, Tony Goldwyn, Jay O. Sanders, Bill Nunn. (Repeat).
Powerhouse performances and a literate, emotionally rich script mark this Best Picture nominee. It's an Oscar-nominated adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about three troubled women who are deeply dissatisfied with their lives: Virginia Woolf (Best Actress Nicole Kidman), a '50s housewife (Julianne Moore) and a modern-day book editor (Meryl Streep). Ed Harris, Miranda
Sofia Coppola makes an impressive feature-film directing debut with this haunting adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel. Kirsten Dunst stars as one of five doomed sisters in 1970s suburbia who become the objects of obsession for a group of boys in their neighborhood. James Woods, Kathleen Turner. (New).
Recalling the rise and fall of New York's drug-and-sex-filled disco scene of the late '70s, from the perspective of a 19-year-old hustler. (Repeat).
A former Green Beret wages a one-man war against police and the National Guard in the Pacific Northwest. (Repeat).
A saga following a group of Marines from boot camp to combat during the 1968 Tet Offensive, a campaign launched by the North Vietnam Army and the Viet Cong, which took the U.S. and its allies by surprise. (Repeat).
A gifted professional safecracker accepts a deal with the Mafia in hopes that the score will allow him to finally retire and lead a normal life. He soon learns that powerful gangster Leo has no intention of letting him go. (Repeat).
Set in the early 1960s, this fact-based chronicle details the story of a group of inmates who plot a daring breakout from the maximum-security institution off the coast of San Francisco. Filmed on location. (Repeat).
A hapless wimp enrolls in a top-secret confidence-boosting class taught by an unscrupulous instructor in this biting comedy starring Jon Heder ("Napoleon Dynamite") and Billy Bob Thornton. Jacinda Barrett, Michael Clarke Duncan. Directed by Todd Phillips (Repeat).
A posh Beverly Hills high school's most popular student does her best to survive the ups and downs of adolescent life. Receiving a foreign exchange student during the school year, she uses her social connections to try to find her a boyfriend. (Repeat).
A traumatized ex-flier boards a plane hoping to win back his flight attendant girlfriend. Meanwhile, the pilots get food poisoning, and someone has to land the jet. (Repeat).