281. Beasts of the Southern Wild
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Jonshel Alexander, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Nicholas Clark
Plot: Six-year-old Hushpuppy grows up in "the Bathtub" a southern Delta community where her father, Wink, seems harsh but is only preparing her for life on her own. A storm and a sudden illness brings on this life much sooner than expected and as beasts menace her, growing ever closer and larger, she will have face down her fears.
282. Road to Perdition
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Liam Aiken, Tyler Hoechlin, Jude Law, Daniel Craig
Plot: As a professional hit man's son witnesses his futhers operation as they murder someone, the hit man must betray his boss to save his son.
283. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller
Plot: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the
passengers.
284. Paper Moon
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, P.J. Johnson, Jessie Lee Fulton
Plot: A Depression-era con man, who hustles widows by selling them Bibles, picks
up an orphaned girl who may or may not be his daughter. Their colorful
trip to deliver her to her aunt is chronicled in this wistful comedy-
drama.
285. Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, James Whitmore
Plot: A group of astronauts are enslaved by a civilization of talking apes in the near future.
286. Good Night, and Good Luck
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Clooney
Actors: David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, Alex Borstein, Alex Borstein, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney
Plot: A telvision station uses it's news anchors to try and bring down Joseph
McCarthy using truthful information and the public while trying not to get
pulled from the air.
287. Cast Away
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Steve Monroe, Chris Noth, Wendy Worthington, Christopher Kriesa
Plot: A man who is flying over an ocean has plane troubles as he crash lands on a deserted island. He struggles to survive.
288. Big Fish
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman
Plot: Edward Bloom is a sales man who is dying and wants to talk to his son. The son doesn't want to hear his tales and wants to know the facts about his father's life but finds out in his fiction there really is truth, in an adventure that only Tim Burton can create.
289. The Ox-Bow Incident
Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Mary Beth Hughes, Harry Morgan
Plot: A pair of drifters passing through a Western town join a posse intent on tracking down the men responsible for the murder of a local farmer and subsequent cattle rustling. When they track down the men, they are ready to dispense justice on the spot.
290. Ordinary People
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Redford
Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, M. Emmet Walsh, Scott Doebler
Plot: A death to a family's oldest boy strains the hard nosed mother and easy
going father while the younger song tries to take the blame as they battle
life with out one of their family members.
