Showing posts with label Starring: Julia Roberts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: Julia Roberts. Show all posts

Closer (2004)

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Drama directed and produced by Mike Nichols , based on a 1997 stage play by Patrick Marber.  The story deals with the intersecting relations...

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

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Drama set in the early 1950s, directed by Mike Newell. A free-thinking art teacher named Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) starts working at ...

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

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Biopic directed by George Clooney. That fact alone sets alarm bells ringing – I couldn’t finish his film Leatherheads (2008) and I barely g...

Michael Collins (1996)

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Biopic of Michael Collins (played by Liam Neeson), the revolutionary Irishman who leads a guerilla force against the UK during the Irish War...

Money Monster (2016)

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Tense and original thriller starring George Clooney as Lee Gates, the presenter of a finance-themed TV show.  Gates is taken hostage, live o...

Eat Pray Love (2010)

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Extremely annoying adaptation of the popular memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.  Julia Roberts stars as an American who leaves her husband, finds...

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

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Thriller starring Julia Roberts as a woman married to the controlling, abusive Martin (Patrick Bergin). She fakes her death and escapes to ...

Stepmom (1998)

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Hot-shot photographer Isabel ( Julia Roberts ) tries to get on with the kids of her new partner Luke ( Ed Harris ) from his previous marriag...

August: Osage County (2013)

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A dysfunctional family get together for the occasion of a funeral. The unhinged mother ( Meryl Streep ) has mouth cancer and a pill addictio...

Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

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Directed by Mike Nichols , this is based on a true story.  A US congressman takes it upon himself to assist the Afghan troops suffering at t...

Duplicity (2009)

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Former CIA and MI6 secret agents Claire ( Julia Roberts ) and Ray ( Clive Owen ) work as corporate spies. They become romantically involve...

Larry Crowne (2011)

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Strange – and strangely enjoyable – romantic comedy that’s neither especially funny nor romantic.  Tom Hanks plays a middle-aged man who lo...

Notting Hill (1999)

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Romantic comedy written by Richard Curtis .  William Thacker ( Hugh Grant ) works in a travel bookshop in Notting Hill. One day a famous act...

Erin Brockovich (2000)

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Superb biographical whistleblower thriller/human drama starring Julia Roberts as the young legal clerk who took on Pacific Gas and Electric...

The Mexican (2001)

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Foolish amateur gangster Jerry ( Brad Pitt ) has to perform “one last job”, which involves transporting a legendary gun from Mexico back to...

Pretty Woman (1990)

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Excellent romance starring Richard Gere as a ruthless businessman and Julia Roberts as the prostitute he initially hires and ultimately fa...

Mystic Pizza (1988)

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Two sisters ( Julia Roberts and Annabeth Gish) plus their best friend (Lili Taylor) work in a pizza restaurant in a small Connecticut fish...

Steel Magnolias (1989)

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Moving comedy-drama adapted from Robert Harling’s play. Indeed, it works very much as a theatrical piece with long, set scenes and acts. Th...

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

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Completely unbelievable casino heist thriller. Some of the 11 criminals are caricatures, while Brad Pitt just eats during every scene. The...