51. In My Skin ( Dans ma peau )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marina de Van
Actors: Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Thibault de Montalembert, Dominique Reymond, Marc Rioufol
52. Elf
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Edward Asner, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel
Plot: Buddy is an orphan who was stowed away in Santa's sack and raised by elves. Seeking his birth parents, he ends up in New York City, where he tries to bond with his distant father and experiences city life on his own.
53. Ghosts of the Abyss
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Bill Paxton, James Cameron, Charles Pellegrino, Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevitch, Don Lynch, Jason Paul
Plot: James Cameron's fascination of the Titanic continues in this documentary film. Cameron returns to the remains of Titanic to explore the wreck with specialized robotic cameras, allowing the team to visit areas of the ship not seen since 1912. The most compelling sequence involves a daring rescue of one of the robots; the crew surfaces triumphantly, only to find out that the World Trade Centers were attacked while they were submerged.
54. Cold Mountain
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Jude Law, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brendan Gleeson, Natalie Portman
Plot: While a couple falls in love during the Civil War, which neither want to be a part of, the man must battle and fight his way back to North Carolina to be with the women he briefly loved as she waits for him.
55. Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kazuhisa Takenôchi
Actors: Romanthony, Thomas Bangalter
Plot: The Animated film adaptation to the Daft Punk album Discovery. The story line follows a group of Musicians from an alien planet who are kidnapped by a big name record company CEO from Earth so he may exploit their talents for his own personal game. He soon over-books and over-works them tiring them.
56. Lost in La Mancha
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Ray Cooper, Philip A. Patterson, René Cleitman
Plot: This documentary chronicles screenwriter and director Terry Gilliam's repeatedly failed attempts to bring the story of Don Quixote to the big screen.
57. Bubba Ho-Tep
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Coscarelli
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Heidi Marnhout, Ella Joyce, Bob Ivy, Daniel Roebuck
Plot: Two men in a nursing home who claim they are Elvis (Campbell) and JFK (Davis) battle delusions and reality as they try to save their fellow nursing home companions from evil.
58. Wishing Stairs ( Yeogo goedam 3: Yeowoo gyedan )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jae-yeon Yun
Actors: Ji-hyo Song, Han-byeol Park, An Jo, Ji-Yeon Park, Su-a Hong, Ji-min Kwak
Plot: At a competitive all-girls arts school there are a set of stairs that are said to grant a wish to those who find the 29th step. However, those who have their wishes granted will find it comes with a price and others will find some wishes should never be made at all.
59. Millenium Actress ( Sennen joyû )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Satoshi Kon
Actors: Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka, Shouko Tsuda, Hirotaka Suzuoki
Plot: After 30 years, a reclusive, aged actress grants an interview with a journalist as the studio she worked for is torn down. Her tales of cinema are interweaved with the story of finding a young artist she met as a young girl.
60. Bus 174 ( Ônibus 174 )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Actors: Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Sandro do Nascimento
