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Subgenre Sampler
Not One Less (1999)- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Wei Minzhi - 13–year old peasant–girl Wei Minzhi is handed the responsibility of substitute–teaching a class of children in a rural China…
October Sky (1999)
- Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Homer H Hickam Jnr, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern… - Based on the memoirs of former NASA rocket–scientist Homer H. Hickam Jnr, who had the ambition to flourish beyond his roots in West Virginia…
Oliver Twist (TV Series) (1999)- Dir. Renny Rye
Feat. Alan Bleasdale, Julie Walters, Robert Lindsay… - Charles Dickens' enduring classic of orphan Oliver's hardships in Victorian London. Here the timeless story gets the lavish six hour treatment at…
Onegin (1999)- Dir. Martha Fiennes
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler - The classic, passionate Russian poem by Pushkin is lavished with whole–hearted sympathy in this adaptation, the dir.'s brother Ralph Fiennes…
Passion (1999)- Dir. Peter Duncan
Feat. Richard Roxburgh, Barbara Hershey, Claudia Karvan - Inspired by the early life of eccentric Australian pianist/composer Percy Grainger, and while well–shot and thoughtful, is firmly located at…
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)- Dir. Martyn Burke
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle - History of the PC–computer revolution gets the telemovie treatment, with Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) and Apple founder Steve Jobs (Noah…
- Playing by Heart (1999)
- Dir. Willard Carroll
Feat. Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson… - Ambitious multi–character film along the lines of SHORT CUTS, likewise set in the varying social strata of Los Angeles, but infused with…
Pornographer, The (1999)- Dir. Doug Aitchison
Feat. Craig Wasson - A despairing young loner finds self–esteem and success as a pornographer, but quickly finds himself on the receiving end of exploitation. Rises…
Pornographic Affair, A (An Affair Of Love) (1999)- Dir. Frederic Fonteyne
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Sergi Lopez - A decidedly unpornographic meditation upon the mutability of human desires and emotions, with Nathalie Baye and Sergi Lopez as a nameless couple who…
Postmen in the Mountains (Nashan naren nagou) (1999)- Dir. Jianqi Huo
- A simply conveyed fable of 'youth' coming to an understanding of 'age', with a young man accompanying his father on a long–held postal delivery…
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