Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Independent: 127 Films to Rent on VHS
- Hurricane Streets (1997)
- Dir. Morgan J. Freeman
Feat. Brendon Sexton III, Antoine McLean
- The excellent Brendan Sexton III (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) does a sympathetic about–turn for this unflashy take on teenage delinquency.
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- Jack Frost (1997)
- Dir. Michael Cooney
Feat. Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel
- A modern Ed Wood–style horror comedy about a killer snowman terrorising a small rural community. While uneven, this is mostly better than it…
- Lawn Dogs (1997)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Mischa Barton
- The Australian director of THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE applies a lightly–stylised Antipodean touch to this American tale of a friendship between a…
- Locusts, The (1997)
- Dir. John Patrick Kelley
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Kate Capshaw, Ashley Judd
- Tawdry, mostly shallow slice of Southern 'Faulkner–esque' pulp has Vince Vaughn (SWINGERS) drifting into a hot spot of small–town trouble…
- Niagara Niagara (1997)
- Dir. Bob Gosse
Feat. Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks…
- If you have the stamina to hit the road again with another pair of white–trash, gun–crazy young lovers (who meet while shoplifting), this…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…