Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8101 Films to Buy & Rent
Music of the Heart (1999)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Meryl Streep
- Meryl Streep crafts potentially saccharine material into a credible drama, playing an real–life violin teacher who founded a series of…
Nora (1999)
- Dir. Pat Murphy
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch
- Cliche–avoiding though at times awkward biopic of Nora Barnacle's marriage to writer James Joyce in the early 20th century. Based on the book…
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…