Category Archives: Drama

More Dogs Than Bones

IMDB Rating: 5.00
161 votes

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Storyline
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
Actors
De SalvoJoe Mantegna
Detective Darren CodyPeter Coyote
Victoria 'Vic' GallettiMercedes Ruehl

The Perfect Storm

IMDB Rating: 6.10
27843 votes

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Storyline
Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait.
Actors
Capt. Billy TyneGeorge Clooney
Bobby ShatfordMark Wahlberg
Dale 'Murph' MurphyJohn C. Reilly

Red Letters

IMDB Rating: 4.90
283 votes

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Storyline
After a sexual harassment incident, Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote), a Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar, goes to work at a California college. He begins correspondence with an imprisoned murderer, Lydia Davis (Nastassja Kinski). Burke is finding old habits hard to break, developing relationships with obsessive coeds. Meanwhile, Lydia escapes from prison. Dennis and his colleague Thurston, a computer scientist and hacker, find themselves caught in a web of intrigue.
Actors
Dennis BurkePeter Coyote
Lydia DavisNastassja Kinski
Gretchen Van BurenFairuza Balk

Reindeer Games

IMDB Rating: 5.30
10394 votes

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Storyline
After being imprisoned for six years on a grand theft auto charge, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (James Frain) are finally going to be paroled. After hearing endless stories during his incarceration of Nick's romantic correspondence to a woman named Ashley he has never met (Charlize Theron), Rudy is looking forward to returning to his family and having a fresh cup of hot chocolate. When Nick is killed during a prison riot, Rudy decides to assume Nick's identity upon release from prison and meet up with the unknown woman. Burdened with a base knowledge of Nick's Indian casino employment past, Rudy finds himself in too deep with Ashley's brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and is violently forced to cooperate with a casino robbery that Gabriel and his gang have been planning with Nick in mind.
Actors
Rudy DuncanBen Affleck
Gabriel MercerGary Sinise
Ashley MercerCharlize Theron

Shaft

IMDB Rating: 5.90
19356 votes

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Storyline
Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father's money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who's willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?
Actors
John ShaftSamuel L. Jackson
Carmen VasquezVanessa L. Williams
Peoples HernandezJeffrey Wright

Love & Sex

IMDB Rating: 5.90
2161 votes

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Storyline
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
Actors
Kate WellesFamke Janssen
Adam LevyJon Favreau
EricNoah Emmerich

Romeo Must Die

IMDB Rating: 5.70
14872 votes

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Storyline
In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approves of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah.
Actors
Han SingJet Li
Trish O'DayAaliyah
MacIsaiah Washington

Pay It Forward

IMDB Rating: 6.70
15767 votes

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Storyline
A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can "pay it forward" and so forth, positive changes can occur. What appears to initially be a failure, is indeed a success that is not immediately known but is traced backwards by a reporter who is a benefactor. The initial recipients of the boy are a drug addict (James Cavaziel), his badly scarred school teacher (Kevin Spacey), and his alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt). While physically and mentally scarred by past events, the teacher is not the only one bearing scars. The young boy fears his mother's fate, particularly at his brutal, alcoholic father's (Jon Bon Jovi) hands. The mother also bears scars from her childhood with a homeless, alcoholic mother (Angie Dickinson).
Actors
Eugene SimonetKevin Spacey
Arlene McKinneyHelen Hunt
Trevor McKinneyHaley Joel Osment

Coyote Ugly

IMDB Rating: 5.30
19631 votes

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Storyline
Sexy, romantic comedy about a girl in her early 20s named Violet Sanford going to NYC to pursue a dream of becoming a songwriter. Violet gets a "day" job as a bar maid at a nightclub called Coyote Ugly. Coyote Ugly is the city's newest hot spot were the employees are a team of sexy, resourceful women that provoke the clientele and press with their mischief.
Actors
Violet SanfordPiper Perabo
Kevin O'DonnellAdam Garcia
Bill SanfordJohn Goodman

Men of Honor

IMDB Rating: 6.60
15619 votes

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Storyline
The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is strife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulance and ultimately triumph.
Actors
Master Chief/Senior Chief/Chief Leslie W. 'Billy' SundayRobert De Niro
BM2/Chief/Senior Chief Carl BrashearCuba Gooding Jr.
Gwen SundayCharlize Theron