41. Heavenly Creatures
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Diana Kent, Jed Brophy, Peter Elliott, Sarah Peirse
Plot: A pair of girls take revenge on their parents for seperating them.
42. Raccoon War, The aka Pom Poko ( Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Isao Takahata
Actors: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Shigeru Izumiya, Akira Kamiya, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Yuriko Ishida
Plot: Urban encroachment threatens a magical, shapeshifting raccoons and they launch a desperate struggle in order to prevent their extinction.
43. The Hudsucker Proxy
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney, Bruce Campbell
Plot: After the death of the president of highly successful Hudsucker industries, the board comes up with a plan to employ a moron as the next president, drive down the stock, buy up all the shares, then take it back over and make a healthy profit.
44. Immortal Beloved
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bernard Rose
Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes
Plot: Examines the life of legendary composer Ludwig van Beethoven including the mystery behind the famous love letter to his nameless beloved - which the film tries to identify amongst the many women in Beethoven's life.
45. Reality Bites
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ben Stiller
Actors: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn, Ben Stiller, Swoosie Kurtz
Plot: A woman (Ryder) makes a documentary about her friends and finds that sometimes the best intentions are not always enough. A story that encompasses all the human emotions.
46. Babyfever
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Victoria Foyt, Henry Jaglom
Actors: Victoria Foyt, Matt Salinger, Eric Roberts, Frances Fisher, Dinah Lenney, Elaine Kagan
Plot: Gena is average in every way but her ordinary life is complicated by her current boyfriend, and his desire to marry and start a family, and the arrival of an ex-flame looking to rekindle things. To top matter off - she might even be pregnant. A trip to a baby shower proves that she's not the only one worried about the ever-ticking biological clock.
47. The Client
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J.T. Walsh, Anthony Edwards
Plot: A young boy witnesses the suicide of a prominent mob lawyer, but not before learning a very big secret. He tracks down an attorney, Reggie Love, to help him through but soon they are both caught between the mob who wants the secret buried and a gruff federal prosecutor who wants the truth.
48. Bullets Over Broadway
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker, Jack Warden
Plot: In 1928, David Shayne (John Cusack) is an idealistic young playwright
newly arrived on Broadway. In order to gain financing for his play, God of
Our Fathers, he agrees to hire Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly), the
actress/girlfriend of a gangster. She is demanding and talentless, but her
gangster escort Cheech (Chazz Palminteri) turns out to be a genius, who
constantly comes up with excellent ideas for revising the play.
49. Death and the Maiden
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova, Jonathan Vega, Rodolphe Vega
50. When a Man Loves a Woman
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Mandoki
Actors: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Ellen Burstyn, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Plot: A husband proves his undying love for his wife as he tries to prevent her from drinking her life away.
