Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Uptown Girls (2003)- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear - Effectively fluffy comedy of teenage bad manners and pre–pubescent precociousness has Brittany Murphy playing an airhead pop–star who…
Whale Rider (2003)
- Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton… - A stirring, widely–acclaimed adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel about a young girl’s struggle to win the approval of her patriarchal…
A Tale of a Naughty Girl (Mondo Meyer Upakhyan) (2002)
- Dir. Buddhadev Dasgupta
Feat. Samata Das, Rituparna Sengupta, Arpan Basar - Caught between the push of tradition and the pull of the promise of a new life, a bright prostitute's daughter runs away to Calcutta to escape a…
Banger Sisters, The (2002)- Dir. Bob Dolman
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn, Geoffrey Rush - Cute comedy about the reunion of two rock groupies from the 70s, one of whom is still living the life (Goldie Hawn), the other (Susan Sarandon) has…
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)- Dir. Gurinder Chadha
Feat. Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers… - Adding exotic, gender–twisting charm and two vivacious performances to the underdog–feelgood formula, this…
Between Strangers (2002)- Dir. Edoardo Ponti
Feat. Sophia Loren, Pete Postlethwaite, Mira Sorvino… - The lives of three quite different women move into thematic proximity in this lightweight, but worthy drama. As played by Loren, Sorvino and…
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…
Cherish (2002)- Dir. Finn Taylor
Feat. Robin Tunney, Tim Blake Nelson, Jason Priestley… - A self–consciously offbeat ‘indie’ about a retro–pop obsessed misfit (Robin Tunney in a winning, flaky performance) who finds…
Coffee, Tea or Me? (2002)- Dir. Brita McVeigh
- An engaging lowkey look at the experiences of seven woman who worked as air hostesses in the 1960s and 70s. Similiar in tone to the documentaries…
Daughter from Danang (2002)- Dir. Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
- A moving and troubling documentary about Heidi Bub, the daughter of an American serviceman and a poor Vietnamese woman, born in Danang and raised in…
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