151. The Hunt for Red October
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Joss Ackland
Plot: When Marko Ramius goes rogue and takes a revolutionary nuclear submarie to
the U.S. the government is quick to judge him a threat, but CIA analyst
Jack Ryan believes he is defecting. With the Russian and American navy
both after the sub, it's only a matter of time before tough decisions will
have to made on everyone's part.
152. Stolen Children, The ( ladro di bambini, Il )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gianni Amelio
Actors: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Florence Darel, Marina Golovine, Fabio Alessandrini
Plot: An Italian policeman (carabiniere), Antonia, is charged with taking two children - Rosetta and her brother Luciano - from Milan to an orphanage in Sicily. They are being taken away from their mother who forced Rosetta into prostitution. As the drive goes along, the rocky opening relationship between Antonio and the children begin to thaw as they become temporary friends.
153. Reversal of Fortune
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Actors: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens
Plot: Follows Alan Dershowitz as he defends wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow from attempted murder charges against his brain-dead wife. Instead of the trial, it focuses on Dershowitz and his team as they prepare their defense.
154. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Trey Parker
Actors: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Isaac Hayes, Mary Kay Bergman, George Clooney, Minnie Driver
Plot: America wages war against Canada over a foul-mouthed movie unknowingly
bringing about the Apocalypse.
155. Jacob's Ladder
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Lyne
Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pe?a, Danny Aiello, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Matt Craven, Eriq La Salle
Plot: A New York postal worker, has increasingly harrowing flashbacks to Vietnam as his life unravels before him.
156. Eve's Bayou
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Actors: Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Jake Smollett
Plot: 1962, Louisiana, the large Batiste family is headed by Dr. Louis - a charming man who loves his wife, Roz, but also finds it hard to avoid the beautiful women he calls patients. At one of these appointments, his young daughter Eve witness his indiscretion and cannot forget it. She confides in her sister Cisely as the lies spiral out of control.
157. A Bug's Life
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
Actors: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind
Plot: Each year the ant colony makes "the offering" to the intimidating grasshoppers, until misfit Flik dumps it in the river. The grasshoppers give the ants one more shot, but Flik vows to find other bugs to help stop them... and ends up with a bug circus instead.
158. Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keith Truesdell
Actors: Chris Rock
Plot: Chris Rock's razor-sharp wit and comedy comes through on this 1999 special (also released as an album) where he comments on everything from racism and gun control to black leaders and relationships.
159. After Life ( Wandâfuru raifu )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors: Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa, Kei Tani
Plot: In this version of life after death, people who have recently died find themselves working with counselors (themselves dead) to pick the one memory they will take with them for all eternity. With 22 new arrivals - there is much work to be done, including helping an old man who has lost his memories find one to keep, convincing a young girl to take another memory other than Disneyland all while dealing with personal feelings of their own.
160. Kingdom, The ( Riget )
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier
Actors: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Søren Pilmark, Ghita Nørby, Jens Okking
Plot: This mini-series explores the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark - a bastion of scientific achievement. Yet despite this modern wonder, supernatural events plague the halls - a phantom ambulance appears and disappears, voices echo in the elevator shaft and a pregnant doctor finds her child developing unnaturally fast - some residents aren't willing to let these events rest - but they may not like what they find.
