211. Mission: Impossible
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Henry Czerny
Plot: A super American spy agent must uncover the mystery why he was set up and what parties were involved with his team of spies.
212. Blade
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Norrington
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Udo Kier, Donal Logue, Traci Lords
Plot: Blade's mother was bit by a vampire while she was pregnant with him. In turn he doesn't have any of the weaknesses of other vampires and spends his life hunting them down.
213. When We Were Kings
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Leon Gast
Actors: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Spike Lee
Plot: A documentary detailing the "rumble in the jungle" between Ali and Foreman.
214. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tom Stoppard
Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Miles, Joanna Roth
Plot: Two minor characters from Hamlet are given the run of the show - but can't deviate from their scripted lives even as they ponder fate and destiny.
215. Hard Boiled ( Lat sau san taam )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Hoi-Shan Kwan
Plot: As the mob smuggles guns into China, a daring raid leaves an ace detective
without his partner. While the smugglers fight internally over territory,
the detective works with an insider to bring down the entire operation.
216. Big Night
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
Actors: Marc Anthony, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, Liev Schreiber
Plot: A pair of brothers try to keep their ailing Italian restaurant afloat - Primero is a gifted chef but finds it beneath him to create mediocre fare (the kind customers actually like to eat) while Secondo does his best to balance finances and keep things going. Their rival, Pascal has a highly successful place with tepid food but happy customers and offers them one big chance: a jazz musician friend to play for one night as a benefit. The brothers waste no time in planning the big night.
217. Buffalo '66
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vincent Gallo
Actors: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Anjelica Huston
Plot: After serving five year in prison, Billy Brown faces an even more dire
place: going home to his parents. Not wanting to face them alone, he
kidnaps a teen girl and forces her to go along with his plan presenting
her as his future wife.
218. Dumb and Dumber
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Farrelly
Actors: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Victoria Rowell, Karen Duffy
Plot: Harry and Lloyd have good intentions, no brains and a briefcase they have to get to Aspen, Colorado.
219. Cube
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Wayne Robson, Maurice Dean Wint
Plot: A group of six strangers find themselves in a giant cube maze filled with
deadly traps. Each has a unique skill and they must work together to solve
the puzzle and escape before they all perish or let paranoia tear them
apart.
220. The Secret Garden
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Actors: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Laura Crossley, John Lynch
Plot: Three children find a magical garden in this big screen adaptation of a 1911 novel.
