31. The Patriot
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Mel Gibson, Jason Isaacs, Heath Ledger, Chris Cooper, Joely Richardson, Tom Wilkinson
Plot: A farmer during the revolutionary witnesses his son being murdered by the British army. He takes revenge on England and leads the militia to battle with the help of his older son who originally wanted to join the war.
32. Men of Honor
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro, Aunjanue Ellis, Charlize Theron, Michael Rapaport, Hal Holbrook
Plot: A movie about a master navy diver who happens to be black and the racist man who trained him.
33. You Can Count on Me
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Actors: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Rory Culkin, Jon Tenney, Gaby Hoffmann
34. Winter Sleepers ( Winterschläfer )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler, Laura Tonke
35. The Virgin Suicides
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett, Danny DeVito, A. J. Cook
Plot: In a Michigan suburb in the mid-70s, the five Lisbon sisters are kept sheltered from the world by their parents. When one of them commits suicides, a group of obsessed boys try to unfold the mystery of the sisters.
36. Meet the Parents
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jay Roach
Actors: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson, Jon Abrahams
Plot: A male nurse who is in love meets his girl friends parents for the first time. Little does he know that her father is a former spy for the CIA.
37. But I'm a Cheerleader
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jamie Babbit
Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Brandt Wille, Bud Cort, RuPaul
Plot: A young cheerleader is shocked when her friends and family confront her and claim that she is a lesbian. She is very confused, both about her life and her sexual orientation. She is sent to a camp where she will be "fixed" into a nice, straight girl.
38. Butterfly Tongues ( lengua de las mariposas, La )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: José Luis Cuerda
Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manuel Lozano, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte, Alexis de los Santos, Jesús Castejón
39. Pola X
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leos Carax
Actors: Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot, Laurent Lucas, Petruta Catana
Plot: Pierre, a successful young novelist, leaves his affluent family and his fiancee in order to save his illegitimate half-sister, when he discovers that she was abandoned by his parents on the day that he was born. The two travel with some friends of hers to Paris, where Pierre decides to become a real artist, and write a novel about the truth of the world.
40. Erin Brockovich
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Jack Gill, Pat Skipper, David Brisbin, Conchata Ferrell
Plot: A legal assistant who was previously uneducated brings suite against a power company for poisoning the water when at first no one believed her.
