11. Minority Report
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Jessica Capshaw, Neal McDonough, Steve Harris, Patrick Kilpatrick
Plot: In the future, the department of precrime arrest criminals before they
commit a crime. When the head of the department is accused of a future
crime, he sets out to prove his innocence.
12. Y Tu Mama Tambien ( And Your Mother Too )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Actors: Diego Luna, Maria Aura, Gael García Bernal, Ana Lopez Mercado, Giselle Audirac, Maribel Verdu
Plot: Young friends make a road trip with an older attractive women where they share sex, booze, and life together.
13. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance ( Boksuneun naui geot )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chan-wook Park
Actors: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Du-na Bae, Ji-Eun Lim, Bo-bae Han, Se-dong Kim
Plot: A man desperately wants to save his sister from dying of kidney failure - but he goes from being conned in a black market operation to kidnaping the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. As things go from bad to worse, anger and revenge take over.
14. Adaptation
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Jonze
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Brian Cox, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton
Plot: A screenwriter and his brother try to work to gether to fulfill at least one good story. Their ordintary lives twist and turn into something that no one can even believe!
15. Experiment, The ( Experiment, Das )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Danny Richter, Stephan Szasz
Plot: Based on the "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971 - a group of
20 ordinary males are asked to take part in paid study. One group will be
"prisoners" the others will be "guards" - the set of rules to follow are
mild, anyone can quit at any time - yet what starts off as an amicable
study soon devolves into a struggle for power as those in authority take
things ever farther.
16. Ice Age
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Actors: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer
Plot: In a time of cavemen and dinosaurs, a small baby goes on a fantastic journey with a Saber-toothed Tiger, a goofy Sloth and a Wooly Mammoth.
17. Talk to Her ( Hable con ella )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Actors: Javier Camara, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin, Darío Grandinetti, Mariola Fuentes
Plot: While their significant others are comatose, they develop a friendship which involve all four of their past, present and future lives.
18. Piano Teacher, The ( pianiste, La )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch
Plot: Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-hate and dependency, where there is no room for men. Her sex life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. Ata a recital, she befriends Walter, a handsome young man, whom she seduces and with whom she begins an illicit affair. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of emotional disorder, she uses the love-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies, which eventually lead to her undoing.
19. Day of the Wacko ( Dzien swira )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marek Koterski
Actors: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Michal Koterski, Maria Ciunelis
20. 25th Hour
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Brian Cox, Philip Seymour Hoffman , Anna Paquin, Rosario Dawson
Plot: A good hearted convicted drug dealer looks back on his life and the choices he made while still knowing he must face 7 years in jail or run away for ever.
