Good Will Hunting (1997)
A 20-year-old prodigy (Damon), also an orphan and hoodlum, is a janitor at MIT. With a great gift for mathematics, and self-taught in many other sciences, he gets taken in by a brilliant math...
Category: Drama
Rouge (1987)
In the 1930s, a young and popular prostitute named Fleur catches the eye of an heir to a chain of groceries, 12th Master Chan. He does what he can to win her over, and...
Patton (1970)
This is the much acclaimed biopic about WWII American General George S. Patton (Scott), who swept through Europe, inspiring fear by the Germans as well as his own men through his unflinching tactical command....
Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
A professional mafia hit man (Nicholson, The Postman Always Rings Twice) falls for an equally tenacious hit woman (Turner, Romancing the Stone), but past crimes against his family put her in a precarious standing. Prizzi’s Honor is...
The Hustler (1961)
The title character of the hustler refers to Fast Eddie Felson (Newman), a hotshot pool shark who is hustling his way across America from pool hall to pool hall. One day he stumbles across...
Slap Shot (1977)
A player/coach (Newman, The Sting) of a last-place bush-league hockey team devises a plan to turn around the team’s success and sell more tickets: beating the crap out of the other teams. This cult-classic hockey comedy...
The Firm (1993)
An ambitious young lawyer (Cruise, A Few Good Men) joins a close-knit firm of lawyers who offer him more money than he ever imagined and a seemingly idyllic life in the suburbs. Problem is that this...
Phenomenon (1996)
I once read that human beings use at most 10-20% of their brains’ capacity during their lifetimes. It staggers the mind to think of the capacity we have to learn and grow, yet we...
Clockers (1995)
A man is gunned down outside of a New York fast-food restaurant. The admitted killer is a hard-working and educated man (Phifer), who claims it was self-defense. The detective investigating the case (Keitel) doesn’t buy...
Singles (1992)
Singles doesn’t have much of a plot to speak of. Basically it’s just about six Seattle twenty-somethings and their interrelated stories about their search for love. Singles is a frustrating film to watch. Not because it’s...