The Sweetest Thing (2002)

The Sweetest Thing

Why do women go to the ladies room together? One answer is to fondle one another or, at least, that’s what two lads think as they spy upon Courtney Rockcliffe (Christina Applegate) squeezing her breasts, while another occupant wonders whether they are real, egged on by Christina (Cameron Diaz).


Director:  Roger Kumble
Writer:  Nancy Pimental; Nancy M. Pimental
Cast:
Lillian Adams -  Aunt Frida
Herbert Ankrom -  Wedding Guest #3
Bryan Anthony -  Geeky Guy
Christina Applegate -  Courtney Rockcliffe
Linda Asuma -  Brawling Bridesmaid
Jason Bateman -  Roger Donahue
Vahe Bejan -  Taxi Driver
Joe Bellan -  Mr. Martin
Selma Blair -  Jane Burns
Chelsea Lee Bond -  Greta
Alexander S. Chance -  Wedding Guest #1
Judith Chapman -  Judy’s Mother
Charlie Dell -  Wedding Priest
Richard Denni -  Gramps
Cameron Diaz -  Christina Walters
Timothy J. Dodge -  Bar Counter Guy









Total Recall (1990)

Total Recall

Memory is about all we have to distinguish us from everybody else. We could all look like an androgynous Arnold Schwarzenegger but it would be our memories which would forge us into the persons we are. So the implant of false memories even for something as trivial as a fake holiday like they do at Rekall can cause some consternation if it isn’t done properly. This happened to Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and it really plays havoc with his personality and his life. You see it was fake to begin with so that friends aren’t really and his wife Lori (Sharon Stone) isn’t. At least she is honest with him, explaining that what’s there now is only two months old after trying to kick him into next week.


Director:  Paul Verhoeven
Writer:  Philip K. Dick; Ronald Shusett; Dan O’Bannon; Jon Povill; Gary Goldman
Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger -  Douglas Quaid/Hauser
Rachel Ticotin -  Melina
Sharon Stone -  Lori
Ronny Cox -  Vilos Cohaagen
Michael Ironside -  Richter
Marshall Bell -  George/Kuato
Mel Johnson Jr. -  Benny
Michael Champion -  Helm
Roy Brocksmith -  Dr. Edgemar
Ray Baker -  Bob McClane
Rosemary Dunsmore -  Dr. Lull
David Knell -  Ernie
Alexia Robinson -  Tiffany
Dean Norris -  Tony
Mark Carlton -  Bartender
Debbie Lee Carrington -  Thumbelina









Closure (2007)

Closure

Most crimes that police investigate involve ones against other persons or ones involving property. Property can be replaced or repaired. But what about people? How can they be fixed? Civilized society prescribes that incarceration is about the best they can do. But is that enough? Sometimes healing requires other avenues. Alice (Gillian Anderson) has let society try but it has given her no satisfaction. She decided the perps need a remedial less in what revenge can mean. Notwithstanding their excuses for their crimes, some folks have trouble in understand what goes around comes around. But they will.


Director:  Dan Reed
Writer:  Dan Reed
Cast:
Danny Dyer -  Adam
Gillian Anderson -  Alice
Adam Rayner -  Jago
Antony Byrne -  Misha
Anthony Calf -  Heffer
Ralph Brown -  Jamie
Steven Robertson -  Bill
Gugu Mbatha-Raw -  Young PA
Neil Finnighan -  Man On Horse
Francesca Fowler -  Sophie









Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Ocean's Eleven

Do you ever wonder if some of these actors are as smart as they appear in the movies and on TV? Or are they as dumb as a bag of rocks? I’d imagine it is somewhere in between. However, when Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) is picking up a few bucks by tutoring some actors in the rules of poker, you hope that Barry Watson, Shane West, Holly Marie Combs, Topher Grace and Joshua Jackson are smarter than how they come across.


Director:  Steven Soderbergh
Writer:  George Clayton Johnson; Jack Golden Russell; Harry Brown; Charles Lederer; Ted Griffin
Cast:
George Clooney -  Danny Ocean
Brad Pitt -  Rusty Ryan
Bernie Mac -  Frank Catton
Elliott Gould -  Reuben Tishkoff
Casey Affleck -  Virgil Malloy
Scott Caan -  Turk Malloy
Eddie Jemison -  Livingston Dell
Shaobo Qin -  Yen
Carl Reiner -  Saul Bloom
Matt Damon -  Linus Caldwell
Andy Garcia -  Terry Benedict
Julia Roberts -  Tess Ocean
Jerry Weintraub -  High Roller
James Curatola -  Baccarat Dealer
Henry Silva -  Himself
Eydie Gorme -  Herself









Catwoman (2004)

Catwoman

He self-tans. He eats vitamins like they’re Viagra. He dates girls that were born the same day as they invented the cell phone. He is married to Laurel Hedare (Sharon Stone). George Hedare (Lambert Wilson) is losing it as he has discovered that his new product mains and disfigures the women who stop using it. His chief scientist has been murdered and his wife has turned literally to stone after years of using these cosmetics. No wonder he is panicked.


Director:  Pitof
Writer:  Bob Kane; Theresa Rebeck; John D. Brancato; Michael Ferris; John Rogers
Cast:
Halle Berry -  Patience Phillips/Catwoman
Benjamin Bratt -  Tom Lone
Sharon Stone -  Laurel Hedare
Lambert Wilson -  George Hedare
Frances Conroy -  Ophelia
Alex Borstein -  Sally
Michael Massee -  Armando
Byron Mann -  Wesley
Kim Smith -  Drina
Christopher Heyerdahl -  Rocker
Peter Wingfield -  Dr. Ivan Slavicky
Berend McKenzie -  Lance
Chase Nelson-Murray -  Kid #1
Manny Petruzzelli -  Kid #2
Harley Reiner -  Kid #3
Ona Grauer -  Sandy






Wimbledon (2004)

Wimbledon

Peter Colt’s (Paul Bettany) agent Ron Roth (Jon Favreau) ducked and skipped his calls for the better part of a year. Now that Peter is in the limelight and Ron is back to slime his way into representing him for endorsements once again. Ron seems to everywhere disrupting people and events just to get his percentage. How much pond scum can one man spread before he clears a room?


Director:  Richard Loncraine
Writer:  Adam Brooks; Jennifer Flackett; Mark Levin
Cast:
Kirsten Dunst -  Lizzie Bradbury
Paul Bettany -  Peter Colt
Kyle Hyde -  Monte Carlo Opponent
Robert Lindsay -  Ian Frazier
Celia Imrie -  Mrs. Kenwood
Penny Ryder -  Mrs. Littlejohn
Annabel Leventon -  Mrs. Rossdale
Amanda Walker -  Country Club Tennis Lady
James McAvoy -  Carl Colt
Bernard Hill -  Edward Colt
Eleanor Bron -  Augusta Colt
Marina Morgan -  Hotel Receptionist
Barry Jackson -  Danny Oldham
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau -  Dieter Prohl
Sam Neill -  Dennis Bradbury
Beti Sekulovski -  Lizzie’s 1st Opponent