221. 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.
222. Grosse Point Blank
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Armitage
Actors: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria
Plot: Martin Blank is a hit man with some unresolved emotional problems. Blank gets invited to his high school reunion, which he has no intention of attending until he gets hired for a job back in Grosse Point. When he gets back he has to deal with the girl he left on prom night, as well as, his hit.
223. Searching for Bobby Fischer
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Zaillian
Actors: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Nirenberg
Plot: Based on a true story, Josh Waitzkin is a chess prodigy who finds the joy of playing and just being a boy more interesting than training to win.
224. Little Women
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Actors: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes
Plot: Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott - the March sisters and
their mother grow up while their father is away in the Civil War. Through
good times and tragedy - the family bond holds strong, even when the girls
begin attracting men.
225. Eat Drink Man Woman ( Yin shi nan nu )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ang Lee
Actors: Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao
Plot: The revolves around a Master Chef Chef Chu (Sihung Lung) and her daughters
Jia-Jen, the oldest one (Kuei-Mei Yang), a bitter Christian school
teacher, Jia-Chien, the middle child who is career oriented (Chien-lien
Wu), and Jia-Ning, the youngest (Yu-Wen Wang). Each one is concerned
about their hard working father who hasn't remarried after their mother
passed away for many years.
226. 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.
227. Get Real
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Simon Shore
Actors: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy Hart, Patrick Nielsen, Kate McEnery
228. The Fisher King
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, David Hyde Pierce, Lara Harris, Kathy Najimy, Mercedes Ruehl
Plot: A popular radio dj debates taking his own life when he finds pleasure (which he denies) from helping a homeless man figure out his past and point him towards the future.
229. There's Something About Mary
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Actors: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Chris Elliott, Lee Evans, Jeffrey Tambor
Plot: Years after a disastrous prom date, a man hires a private detective to track down the high school sweetheart he still loves. But when the detective also falls for her, things get complicated.
230. Pi
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Actors: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ajay Naidu, Lauren Fox, Ben Shenkman
Plot: A paranoid, genius mathmatician thinks he has discovered the key to all the universal patterns in nature. Soon he is pursued by a Hasidic Jewish sect looking to decode the 216-digit number of God's true name to Wall Street brokers hoping to crack the stock market. What he decides to do with the knowledge is the true shocker.
