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
Longing for a romantic Hollywood film that will make your heart leap but not have you reaching for the sick bucket? Try Benny & Joon. Few mainstream US films manage to walk the thin line between emotion and schmaltz, but here is one film that pulls it off admirably. In the wrong hands the concept of marrying love and mental illness could have been a disaster but, as with the low-budget ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver PlattDirected By: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Robin Williams, John Michael Higgins, Stephen Root, Lynne Thigpen, Sam NeillDirected By: Chris Columbus
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen, Heather Graham, Frank CollisonDirected By: Mark Herman
Lake Placid is total trash--and, as a result, pretty entertaining. Yet another entry in the horror sub-genre of giant animals running amok, the movie features a giant crocodile that has somehow found its way to an isolated lake in Maine. The absurdity of crocodiles in Maine sets the tone for the entire movie, which has no ambitions beyond mixing a little fright with a little humour ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty WhiteDirected By: Steve Miner
A light farce dressed up as a lush 18th century costume drama, Casanova gives a fictional spin to the exploits of history's most rakish seducer of women. As played by Heath Ledger, this Casanova bears no resemblance to Donald Sutherland's unrepentant portrayal in Fellini's Casanova, filmed 30 years earlier. Instead, the great ladies' man of Venice is just biding time by bedding ...
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home EntertainmentStarring: Heath Ledger, Stephen Greif, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver PlattDirected By: Lasse Hallstrom
Manufacturer: Uca CatalogueStarring: Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Judge Reinhold, Julia SweeneyDirected By: Brian Levant, Rod Daniel, David Mickey Evans
What if you could stop your heart to simulate a temporary death, and then be revived so you could describe your near-death experience to others? The mysteries of life--and the afterlife--compel five medical students (Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt) to experiment with their own mortality, and what they discover has unsettling psychological implications. ...
Manufacturer: Uca CatalogueStarring: Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver PlattDirected By: Joel Schumacher
Steven Seagal gets killed during the first 20 minutes of this enjoyable thriller, so Executive Decision scores points for ingenuity because it immediately improves when you realise that Seagal's role is just a heroic cameo. That leaves Kurt Russell to star as an American intelligence expert who (due to Seagal's untimely demise) finds himself leading a strike force against Islamic terrorists ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Steven Seagal, John Leguizamo, Oliver PlattDirected By: Stuart Baird
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Oliver PlattDirected By: Adrian Lyne
