Showing posts with label Starring: Jodie Foster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: Jodie Foster. Show all posts

Flightplan (2005)

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Taut thriller directed by Robert Schwentke and later seemingly echoed by Non-Stop (2014).  The oddly named Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a r...

Inside Man (2006)

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Directed by Spike Lee, this is an unusual and original thriller focused on a hostage siege during a New York City bank robbery.  Clive Owen ...

Freaky Friday (1976)

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Excellent body-swap comedy from Disney.  A mother and daughter switch roles, with comedic results. Jodie Foster plays the daughter, while Ba...

Sommersby (1993)

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From the back of the DVD: “People remember Jack Sommersby. They know him as a bitter, loutish man. But when Jack returns home after the Civi...

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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This scared the pants off me – possibly even more so than on first viewing 30 years ago. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel, it’s a psycho...

Contact (1997)

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Sci-fi directed by Robert Zemeckis , adapted from the Carl Sagan novel. A radio astronomer, Ellie ( Jodie Foster ) discovers deep-space sign...

Taxi Driver (1976)

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A masterpiece. Robert De Niro is utterly transfixing as Travis Bickle, a New York cabbie who becomes obsessed with cleaning up the city – ...

Carnage (2011)

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Set in one evening in a New York apartment, Carnage features two couples rowing over an incident between their children. Directed by Roma...

Elysium (2013)

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Dystopian sci-fi action thriller. It’s 2154, and Earth (specifically, Los Angeles ) is a ruined slum whose inhabitants live in desperate p...