You wouldn't know it by watching the Batman movies they collaborated on, but this smart adaptation of John Grisham's novel proves that director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have some talent when the right project comes along. Schumacher had previously directed Grisham's The Client, and brought equal craft and intelligence to this story about a young Southern ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver PlattDirected By: Joel Schumacher
Kate Hudson twinkles as the heroine of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She's a magazine writer assigned to date a guy, make all the mistakes girls make that drive guys away (being clingy, talking in baby-talk and so on) and records the process like a sociological experiment. However, the guy she picks-- Matthew McConaughey--is an advertising executive who's just bet that he can make a woman ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Kathryn Hahn, Annie ParisseDirected By: Donald Petrie
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Ray WinstoneDirected By: Andy Tennant
The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Jena Malone, David Morse, Geoffrey BlakeDirected By: Robert Zemeckis
The good news is, yes, Jennifer Lopez can do comedy. In The Wedding Planner Lopez is Mary, a lovable woman who believes "those who can't do, teach. Those who can't wed, plan!" Her slapstick moments are light-hearted and offer a spot-on performance as the compulsive-yet-sweet planner. The bad news is Lopez didn't get much of a vehicle in which to test drive her newfound comedic skills. ...
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson, Justin Chambers, Judy GreerDirected By: Adam Shankman
There seems to be no end to "beating-the-odds" American football movies these days, but We Are Marshall, based on a true story, is in the top tier of that clutch of movies. Matthew McConaughey plays Jack Lengyel, who becomes head coach--more or less by default--of Marshall University's rebuilding varsity American football team in Huntington, West Virginia, after the school's 37-member team ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, David StrathairnDirected By: McG
The plot of Failure to Launch is utterly implausible, yet the movie is thoroughly fun. Tripp (laid-back Matthew McConaughey, Sahara, Dazed and Confused) is a 35-year-old man who still lives with his parents (Kathy Bates, Misery, and ex-quarterback Terry Bradshaw)--and they aren't happy about it. Eager to get him out of the nest, they hire Paula (Sex and the ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Justin Bartha, Kathy Bates, Zooey DeschanelDirected By: Tom Dey
Not quite the large-scale epic it promised to be, Reign of Fire is still an enjoyable entry in the post-catastrophe genre. It opens in present-day London with a boy witnessing the rebirth of the race of dragons, who are supposed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and now devastate the world again. Skipping the collapse of society with a montage of magazine articles about the world in flames, ...
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home EntertainmentStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Scott MoutterDirected By: Rob Bowman
Director Richard Linklater turned his free-range verite sensibility on the 1970s in Dazed and Confused after changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane, Sasha JensonDirected By: Richard Linklater
It took more than 25 years for another Clive Cussler novel to come to the screen after the financial and critical disaster of Raise the Titanic. Based on Cussler's oddly landlocked adventure, Sahara finds the author's hero, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey)--a sort of all-American, high seas variation of James Bond--in Africa looking for a Confederate ironclad ship that impossibly ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve ZahnDirected By: Breck Eisner
