The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why ...
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home EntertainmentStarring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James CoburnDirected By: David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter
"The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of films. The Green Mile is Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Shawshank Redemption was the first) and is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James CromwellDirected By: Frank Darabont
There was a rare magic on the big screen in 1995, when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story, and their second feature film, A Bug's Life, may miss the bull's-eye but Pixar's target is so lofty that it's hard to find the film anything less than irresistible. Brighter and more colourful than the other animated insect movie of 1998 ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis DillerDirected By: Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter
While director Norman Jewison's Moonstruck is a romantic cornerstone, this 1994 film is often overlooked. It's a sweet valentine about a young woman, aptly named Faith (Marisa Tomei, never cuter), who chases an unknown man to Europe because the name "Damon Bradley" was once spelled on a Ouija board as her true love. With her sister-in-law (Bonnie Hunt, whose own marriage seems to be falling ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher StevensDirected By: Norman Jewison
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt, David Alan Grier, Jonathan HydeDirected By: Joe Johnston
Rain Man is the kind of touching drama that Oscars are made for--and, sure enough, the film took Academy honours for best picture, director, screenplay and actor (Dustin Hoffman) in 1988. Hoffman plays Raymond, an autistic savant whose late father has left him $3 million in a trust. This gets the attention of his materialistic younger brother, a hot-shot LA car dealer named Charlie (Tom ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack MurdockDirected By: Barry Levinson
A heart-warming story of mistaken identity and idealism, director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) takes on the political establishment in this fresh, funny comedy. Kevin Kline (Sophie's Choice, A Fish Called Wanda) plays Dave Kovic, a sweet man with a big heart running an employment agency. Dave happens to be a dead ringer for the current president of the United States and he ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving RhamesDirected By: Ivan Reitman
Rain Man is the kind of touching drama that Oscars are made for--and, sure enough, the film took Academy honours for best picture, director, screenplay, and actor (Dustin Hoffman) in 1988. Hoffman plays Raymond, an autistic savant whose late father has left him $3 million in a trust. This gets the attention of his materialistic younger brother, a hot-shot LA car dealer named Charlie (Tom ...
Jerry Maguire, the film that launched the careers of writer-director Cameron Crowe and actress Renée Zellwenger, is accurately regarded as one of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s. It's an unconventional tale about the paradoxical nature of success in which a top sports agent (Tom Cruise) is forced to reassess his life when he is unceremoniously dumped by his employer. After falling ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'ConnellDirected By: Cameron Crowe
A romantic comedy vehicle for X-Files star David Duchovny, Return to Me costars Minnie Driver as Grace, an ailing waitress whose life is saved when she receives a heart transplant. Meanwhile, Duchovny's architect Bob is grieving over the death of his zoologist wife and sweetheart since childhood Elizabeth (Joely Richardson), killed in a car accident. A year on, he agrees to go out on ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Loggia, Bonnie HuntDirected By: Bonnie Hunt
