151. The Big White
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Mylod
Actors: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown, Woody Harrelson
Plot: Paul Barnell tries to claim the life insurance on his long-lost brother in order to remediate his financial situation, but every feasible thing that can go wrong, does go wrong.
152. The Jacket
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Maybury
Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro
Plot: After surviving a near-death in the Gulf War, a veteran returns to Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He hitches a ride but ends up in an asylum after the driver murders an officer and frames him. Through a series of bizarre treatments, he finds himself in the past and the future but when he foresees his own death, he must figure out how to escape before it's too late.
153. Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Actors: Maile Flanagan, Kate Higgins, Liam O'Brien, Michael Lindsay
154. An Unfinished Life
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lasse Hallström
Actors: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas, Damian Lewis, Camryn Manheim
Plot: A young mother finds a place to raise her daughter in the home of her father in-law.
155. Saw II
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Erik Knudsen, Glenn Plummer, Franky G
Plot: Jigsaw has been tracked down, but he has the son of the lead police
officer locked in a house with a select group of people and he won't let
them out unless the cop plays his game.
156. Palindromes
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Todd Solondz
Actors: Matthew Faber, Angela Pietropinto, Bill Buell, Ellen Barkin, Emani Sledge, Valerie Shusterov
Plot: 13-year-old Aviva Victor (played by eight actors of different ages, races
and genders) desperately wants to become a mother and she comes very
close to succeeding. Her sensible parents intervene just in the nick of
time. But Aviva is still determined to get pregnant, running away and
losing herself in a strange new world.
157. Perhaps Love ( Ru guo · Ai )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Chan
Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xun Zhou, Jacky Cheung, Jin-hee Ji, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng Kwan Yue
Plot: This musical-within-a-musical amassed several 2006 Hong Kong Film Awards, and rightfully so. A sumptuous production involving a love triangle (one vertex of which is the great Takeshi Kaneshiro, of House of Flying Daggers fame) on- and off-camera. It’s best described as part Busby Berkeley and part Barnum & Bailey--with a touch of amnesia mixed in for good measure.
158. McLibel
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Franny Armstrong, Ken Loach
Actors: Geoffrey Giuliano, Helen Steel, Dave Morris
159. The Century of the Self
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Adam Curtis
Actors: Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz, Peter Solomon, Stuart Ewen, George Gallup Jr., Leopold Löwenthal
160. The Gingerdead Man
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Band
Actors: Gary Busey, Robin Sydney, Ryan Locke, Larry Cedar, Alexia Aleman, Jonathan Chase
Plot: A deranged psychopath returns from the grave in the form of a delicious but deadly treat.
