831. The Defiant Ones
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles McGraw, King Donovan
Plot: Two men on a chain gang - one white, one black - hate each other. Yet after an accident, they finds themselves free - but still chained together. The two men will have to learn to work together to avoid capture.
832. The Fabelmans
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Julia Butters, Oakes Fegley
Plot: A semi-autobiographical film based on the childhood of Steven Spielberg from ages 7 - 18 set in post-war Arizona and a look into the people and events that will shape his life.
833. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco, Steven Keats, Joe Santos
Plot: Eddie Coyle is a small-time hood looking at a long sentence for repeat
offenses. In order to avoid jail time he decides to turn on his "friends"
providing information to the feds. But he is still supplying guns to his
bank-robbing buddies - and he may not be the only one turning snitch.
834. Winnie the Pooh
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Actors: Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson, John Cleese, Tom Kenny, Bud Luckey, Travis Oates
Plot: On an ordinary day in the Hundred Acre Woods, everyone tries to find the
right tail for Eeyore who has lost his, and Pooh wants his honey. But when
Pooh goes to get Christopher Robin he finds a note, which Owl misreads and
convinces the team of fuzzy creatures that their dear friend has been
captured by the 'Backson', and they set out to capture the great beast and
save their friend.
835. Pride and Prejudice
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Keira Knightley, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Donald Sutherland
Plot: Young and beautiful but too spirited Elizabeth Bennet will find her equal
in mind of proud Mr. Darcy, who considers himself much above her class and
yet finds himself enchanted by her.
836. Day for Night ( nuit américaine, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion
Plot: Truffaut's seriocomic, strangely documentarian, and always affectionate look at the trials and travails of filmmaking.
837. Hoop Dreams
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steve James
Actors: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates, Sheila Agee, Arthur 'Bo' Agee
Plot: A documentary detailing the lives of two high school basketball players.
838. A Place in the Sun
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor, Shepperd Strudwick, Keefe Brasselle, Frieda Inescort
Plot: A blue collar worker is quickly promoted in his uncle's business where he meets a beautiful girl of upper class and dumps his lower class girlfriend.
839. East of Eden
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Albert Dekker
Plot: In Salinas Valley, California, WWI looms as Cal Trask, a defiant, confused young man comes to terms with his estranged mother, his perfect brother and kind, yet distant father.
840. 13 Assassins ( Jûsan-nin no shikaku )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Gorô Inagaki, Masachika Ichimura, Mikijiro Hira
Plot: After an evil warlord threatens to throw Japan back into a feudal warring state, a group of assassins comes together and plot a suicide mission in order to stop him.
