Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 834 Films to Buy & Rent
Office Killer (1997)
- Dir. Cindy Sherman
Feat. Cindy Sherman, Molly Ringwald, Barbara Sukowa
- A bloody revenge fantasy – a mousy secretary gets her own back on intimidating office co–workers – informed by a stylised,…
Pitch (1997)
- Dir. Spencer Rice, Kenny Hotz
Feat. Al Pacino, Roger Ebert, Matt Dillon…
- A pair of unknowns – the film–makers – pitch their movie scripts at the Toronto Film Festival and in Hollywood.
Their unique,…
Quiet Room, The (1997)
- Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Celine O'Leary, Paul Blackwell
- Low budget, almost experimental film from the dir. of BAD BOY BUBBY, who organically developed the script around his real–life daughters.…
She's So Lovely (1997)
- Dir. Nick Cassavetes
Feat. Robin Wright, Sean Penn, John Travolta
- As a low–life couple whose romantic intensity borders on madness, married double–act Robin Wright and Sean Penn off–handedly…
Shooting Fish (1997)
- Dir. Stefan Schwartz
Feat. Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale
- Smarmy, contrived romantic comedy with anarchic pretensions and loads o' pop music for the kids, desperately shoots for mainstream success ala 'Four…
Slam Nation (1997)
- Dir. Paul Devlin
- Portland, Oregon is the home of The National Poetry Slam, a performance poetry competition which attracts participants from twenty–six states…
Sling Blade (1997)
- Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter, Dwight Yoakam
- Billy Bob Thornton performs a truly impressive writer–director–actor hat–trick for his remarkable tale about an asylum inmate…
Suburbia (1997)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn…
- Dir. Linklater returns to his favourite milieu – the teen angst movie – only this time working from someone else's material, a play by…
Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner
- Robert Downey Jr's first post–prison–term film was this one–location drama about two women discovering they share the same snaky…
Ulee's Gold (1997)
- Dir. Victor Nunez
Feat. Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Jessica Biel
- Peter Fonda gives good grace as an ageing, emotionally reticent beekeeper who is much less at ease with what's going on in his family's hive, a unit…