Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 590 Films to Buy & Rent
Blue Car (2002)
- Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, David Strathairn
- A rites–of–passage drama of distinction, this is realistic and affecting in its account of a high–school student whose flair for…
Bomb the System (2002)
- Dir. Adam Bhala Lough
Feat. Mark Webber
- A tale of alienated youth in New York City, set around a teenager's (Webber) nocturnal activities spraying graffiti around the city streets with a…
Drumline (2002)
- Dir. Charles Stone III
Feat. Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones
- Depicting the journey of a talented street drummer from Harlem into the world of big–time stadium marching bands, this is short on story moves,…
Face (2002)
- Dir. Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Feat. Ling Bai, Will Yun Lee, Kirsty Wu…
- Chinese–American drama that deals commendably with familiar themes of relationships, marriage and cultural identity.
Alternating its…
Far From Heaven (2002)
- Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert
- An exquisitely designed pastiche of 50s soap opera that mimics the look and acting style of vintage–movie melodrama but cleverly deviates by…
Full Frontal (2002)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny…
- Director Stephen Soderbergh calls on the favours of famous friends for a makeshift, semi–improvised poke at the film industry that only a…
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Kate Dollenmayer
- Less 'funny ha ha' than funny peculiar drama about a young woman's desultry efforts to move on in life after completing her university degree. Its…
Gerry (2002)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Casey Affleck, Matt Damon
- A stark return to experimentalism for dir. Van Sant, in the form of a narrative about two friends, both named Gerry (Damon and Affleck), whose hiking…
Good Girl, The (2002)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly…
- Quirky, downbeat comedy about people stuck with dead end lives in small–town America adds a string to the bow of acting challenges for starlet…
Igby Goes Down (2002)
- Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum…
- More than meets the eye in this indie New York satire about an over–educated ‘slacker’ experiencing growing pains amid upper…