981. Summer Wars ( Samâ wôzu )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Actors: Ayumu Saitô, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yôji Tanaka
Plot: A shy math genius agrees to to take a job of escorting Natuski, a girl he
secretly has a crush on, as her "fiance" during the summer to celebrate
the 90th birthday of the families matriarch. Yet the real job may be
saving the world.
982. Tower
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Animation
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keith Maitland
Actors: Violett Beane, Josephine McAdam, Reece Everett Ryan
983. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dean DeBlois
Actors: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, Kit Harington, Jonah Hill
Plot: Hiccup, now leader of his people, has nearly reached his goal of creating a dragon utopia. But when Night Fury meets a wild, untamed potential mate, he finds a whole new world - and Hiccup finds his leadership tested as both dragon and rider face impossible decisions that will determine the fate of their futures.
984. Gremlins
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller
Plot: A failed inventor brings how a new fuzzy pet for his son - but don't him
wet, feed him after midnight and especially keep him away from bright
light. When the rules are inevitably broken, something much more sinister
is released.
985. Love and Death
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, Edmond Ardisson, Féodor Atkine
Plot: A bumbling young man, in love with his beautiful cousin, sets off to fight
for Mother Russia against the invading troops of Napoleon. Eventually,
the couple hatches a madcap scheme to assassinate the warmongering leader,
with hilarious, if not altogether successful, results.
986. Food, Inc.
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Kenner
Actors: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Richard Lobb, Vince Edwards, Moe Parr, Troy Roush
Plot: Explores the way a handful of corporations control a vast amount of food Americans eat - and the danger of putting profits ahead of anything else.
987. 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.
988. An American Werewolf in London
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Landis
Actors: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye, Frank Oz
Plot: Two students on a walking trip through England are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other bitten. Villagers deny the existance of the beast, but the bitten student soon changes...
989. Breaking the Waves
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Udo Kier
Plot: In a deeply religious community the naive Bess enters into a relationship with oil-rig worker Jan. When she prays to have Jan stay home for good - her prayers are answered in the form of an accident that leaves Jan paralyzed from the neck down. She stays, but there is no longer any physical contact between the two. Jan urges her to take on a lover and tell him the details - but as the trysts become more intimate and deviant, Bess if convinced it is all a part of God's plan.
990. Viridiana
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny
Plot: A novice visits her uncle shortly before taking her vows. Events lead her
to refuse her vows, and instead to stay on at her (now deceased) uncle's
manor with his son. The virtuous woman takes in beggars at the manor
until things get out of hand in Luis Bunuel's brilliant satire of
bourgeois values and the Catholic church.
