The Big Kahuna (1999)
Based on Roger Rueff’s stage play “Hospitality Suite” (which he adapts for the big screen himself), this tells the story of one night in a hotel hospitality suite with three lubricant salesman attending a...
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
If you’ve seen the trailer for this movie, I feel sorry for you. I had seen it about 4 times before seeing the full film and wished that I hadn’t, as it gives away...
Random Hearts (1999)
A plane crashes on the way to Miami, killing everyone on board. The spouses of a DC Internal Affairs cop (Ford) and a New Hampshire congresswoman (Thomas) are among the victims. It turns out that they...
Boiler Room (2000)
Quite an impressive debut for first-time writer-director Ben Younger, with a screenplay full of interesting observations and the directorial styling of a seasoned pro. That’s not to say Boiler Room doesn’t have its share of awkward...
The Kid (2000)
Here’s the surprise of all surprises for the year 2000. What you read in the following few paragraphs does not have any sarcasm, I haven’t taken a nasty fall on my head, and Disney...
Scary Movie (2000)
A parody on the teen slasher movies that have come out of late (and a few other popular films like The Matrix and Usual Suspects), Scary Movie takes on the difficult task of spoofing films that really aren’t meant...
The Patriot (2000)
Can Robert Rodat, the writer of Saving Private Ryan, do for the Revolutionary War what he did for WWII? The answer is: not with Roland Emmerich at the helm. Emmerich, of course, is the big budget...
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Fittingly enough, this Hitchcockian suspenser was based on a book by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote the book a Hitchcock classic was based on, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Somewhat similar in themes, this one...
Chicken Run (2000)
The Wallace and Gromit duo of Peter Lord and Nick Park turn in their first big feature film with successful results. This wholly animated feature deals with a chicken farm and the many attempts of the...
Shaft (2000)
This is, of course, a remake of the classic film from the 70s that kicked off the beginning of the blaxploitation craze that followed for the next few years. Updated to the 90s with...