Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 592 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Invincible (2002)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Tim Roth, Udo Kier
- An interesting treatment of the lives of the (secretly) Jewish strongman Zishe Breitbart and nightclub impressario Erik Jan Hanussen (Roth), who…
Laurel Canyon (2002)
- Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale…
- Dropping in on the LA music scene, the writer–director of HIGH ART returns to her pet theme of conservatism yielding to a bohemianism, but…
Leo (2002)
- Dir. Mehdi Norowzian
Feat. Elisabeth Shue, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Hopper…
- A murderer freshly released from prison attempts to get his life back to an orderly state while assisting a friend to deal with an alcohol dependent…
Love Liza (2002)
- Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates
- Freshly widowed after his wife’s suicide, Phillip Seymour Hoffman staggers through and downward in an endearingly wacky yet affecting portrait of…
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson…
- The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
Personal Velocity (2002)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk
- Daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, Rebecca, announces herself as a talent worthy of her famous father on evidence of her second feature – a…
Pumpkin (2002)
- Dir. Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Feat. Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn
- Politically–confused blackly comic satire that follows the progress of Christina Ricci's 'inappropriate' romantic fixation with a disabled…
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…