201. Shanghai Knights
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Dobkin
Actors: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Johnson, Donnie Yen, Aidan Gillen
Plot: Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson reunite in this sequel that sees them taking on a cousin of the queen who is trying to steal the throne. Chon Wang teams up with his sister to take down the villain and save the queen. Along the way, the group team up with various iconic figures such as Charlie Chaplin and Arthur Conan Doyle, who help save the day.
202. Cremaster 3
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Matthew Barney
Actors: Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins, Jim Tooey, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, Paul Brady
203. The Discovery of Heaven
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeroen Krabbé
Actors: Jeroen Krabbé, Stephen Fry, Sean Harris, Victoria Carling, Gillian Barge, Greg Wise
204. Forest for the Trees, The ( Wald vor lauter Bäumen, Der )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Maren Ade
Actors: Eva Loebau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann, Ilona Schulz, Robert Schupp, Heinz Röser-Dümmig
205. Thomas Pynchon A Journey Into the Mind of P.
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini
206. Freaky Friday
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mark Waters
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Stephen Tobolowsky
207. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Guy Maddin
Actors: Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, CindyMarie Small, Johnny A. Wright, Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Plot: Guy Maddin lends a modern-day expressionist twist to the Dracula story in this filmed version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's performance. Maddin presents the ballet like a silent film, complete with intertitles.
208. Anger Management
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Segal
Actors: Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzmán, John Turturro, Krista Allen
Plot: A pacifist businessman lets everyone walk all over him rather than face any kind of conflict, but after a misunderstanding aboard an airplane, he is assigned an anger management coach whose unorthodox methods may finally let him out of his shell, if he can survive training.
209. 2LDK
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Actors: Maho Nonami, Eiko Koike, Daisuke Kizaki
Plot: Two actresses with conflicting personalities end up auditioning for the same part and vying for the same boyfriend, leading to a bloody confrontation in their apartment.
210. Basic
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt
Plot: In BASIC, John Travolta plays Tom Hardy, a DEA agent called in to investigate some mysterious deaths at his old Ranger base in Panama. One surviving soldier has returned from an arduous training mission, but three others have not, and he refuses to talk to anyone but a fellow Ranger. He talks to Hardy, but the story he tells is contradicted by the other survivor, the gay son of one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Giovanni Ribisi), who is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound. Each tells their view of the story, with multiple versions shown in flashbacks.
