Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
O (Othello) (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles - Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Pledge, The (2000)- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren… - Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson. As…
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke - The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery. A light hearted…
Takedown (2000)- Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Skeet Ulrich, Tom Berenger - This telemovie depiction of infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, who went on the run in the 1990s, is less flashy than expected, with some…
Traffic (2000)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones… - A masterful, suitably complex address of the ‘drug problem’ and how it enslaves consumers, dealers, policy–makers and law–enforcers…
When The Sky Falls (2000)- Dir. John Mackenzie
Feat. Joan Allen, Pete Postlethwaite, Patrick Bergin - A gritty suspense with Joan Allen portraying Irish journalist Vernoica Guerin who risked her life to take down Dublin's criminal underworld and bring…
Where the Money Is (2000)- Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney - A still–charismatic Paul Newman is an aged bank–robber esconsed in a nursing home after suffering a stroke, though his nurse Linda…
Brokedown Palace (1999)- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman - OE–gone–awry flick has an impetuous Claire Danes and demure Kate Beckinsale land in major difficulties during their Thai holiday after…
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