Showing posts with label Year: 1999. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 1999. Show all posts

American Beauty (1999)

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A brilliantly made and acted – but in many ways quite depressing – drama directed by Sam Mendes. Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening star as a c...

The Story of Us (1999)

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Extremely well written and ultimately touching comedy drama about a couple and their marriage.  Ben and Katie (Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfe...

Lake Placid (1999)

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Directed by Steve Miner, this is an awkward horror-comedy that never really comes to life.  A huge killer crocodile is on the loose in Maine...

Instinct (1999)

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Intriguing psychological drama directed by Jon Turteltaub. The credits say it was “suggested by” a novel by Daniel Quinn, which sounds like ...

The Matrix (1999)

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Written and directed by the Wachowskis, this much hyped sci-fi thriller turns out to be a huge disappointment. It's dull and vacuous, as...

Arlington Road (1999)

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Conspiracy thriller directed by Mark Pellington.  Jeff Bridges is a widowed college professor who begins investigating his suspicious neighb...

The Hurricane (1999)

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Directed and produced by Norman Jewison, this is a biopic of the boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who was falsely imprisoned for a New Jersey...

Man on the Moon (1999)

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Directed by Miloš Forman, this is a brilliant biopic of the wildly original comedian Andy Kaufman.  Jim Carrey is superb in the main role, b...

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

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Very sharp, very funny mockumentary about a beauty pageant in the small town of Mount Rose, Minnesota.  Every member of the cast is outstand...

The End of the Affair (1999)

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Neil Jordan ’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic 1951 novel, which had previously been adapted by Edward Dmytryk in 1955 , is by far the...

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

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Brilliant adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, starring Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, an inventive young man who infiltrates and ultimat...

Election (1999)

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Excellent comedy set in a high school in Omaha, Nebraska .  Matthew Broderick plays a popular school teacher whose life unravels when he ge...

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...

Galaxy Quest (1999)

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Sci-fi comedy.  The cast of a TV show that's very similar to Star Trek  find themselves in a real-life space adventure when their episod...

Gloria (1999)

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A brilliant hybrid of crime thriller and human drama.  Sharon Stone plays a woman who has just got out of prison and returned to see her ga...

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

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Hugely enjoyable remake of the 1968 film , with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo in the Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway roles.  The plot is f...

The Insider (1999)

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A whistleblower thriller based on a true story. Russell Crowe plays Jeffrey Wigand, who – when fired from his job in the tobacco industry –...

An Ideal Husband (1999)

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Charming and entertaining adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play starring Rupert Everett, Jeremy Northam , Cate Blanchett , Julianne Moore a...

The Virgin Suicides (1999)

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The first film by Sofia Coppola is a hypnotic piece of work that adapts the 1993 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. It tells the story of the five...

Anywhere but Here (1999)

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Impulsive, restless Adele August ( Susan Sarandon ) drags her teenage daughter Ann ( Natalie Portman ) from Bay City, Wisconsin, to Beverly ...