Category Archives: High IMDB rating

My Last Love

IMDB Rating: 6.40
135 votes

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An attorney, Susan (Nancy Travis) battling Cancer returns home to California with her daughter Carson (Jamie Renee Smith). And then falls for a free-spirited young man (Scott Bairstow). While trying to resolve various family issues.
Also posted in 1999, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

The Talented Mr. Ripley

IMDB Rating: 7.10
37955 votes

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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
Actors
Tom RipleyMatt Damon
Marge SherwoodGwyneth Paltrow
Dickie GreenleafJude Law
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (28)

Bowfinger

IMDB Rating: 6.30
21376 votes

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Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood's number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he's being filmed.
Actors
Bobby BowfingerSteve Martin
Kit Ramsey/Jiffernson 'Jiff' RamseyEddie Murphy
DaisyHeather Graham
Also posted in 1999, Comedy | Comments (17)

Cookie’s Fortune

IMDB Rating: 6.80
5259 votes

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Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk--with the exception of Camille Dixon (Glenn Close)--a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora (Julianne Moore), whose estranged daughter Emma (Liv Tyler) has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton), who also happens to be Cookie's best friend. Although the rest of the town is convinced Willis didn't commit the crime, an outside investigator (Courtney B. Vance) isn't so sure. As Easter Sunday and opening night of the play arrive, the truth comes out, revealing more secrets than anyone could have possibly imagined. Director Altman tells his story at a leisurely pace, beautifully recreating the eccentricities of small town life in this sweet-natured tale.
Actors
Camille DixonGlenn Close
Cora DuvallJulianne Moore
Emma DuvallLiv Tyler
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, Drama | Comments (0)

Sweet and Lowdown

IMDB Rating: 7.10
8880 votes

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A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music.
Actors
Emmet RaySean Penn
HattieSamantha Morton
BlancheUma Thurman
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, Drama, Music | Comments (0)

Magnolia

IMDB Rating: 8.00
53877 votes

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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced "WDKK" when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl's trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her... The host of "WDKK", Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia's house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away... Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on "WDKK", who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He's been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness...
Actors
Frank T.J. MackeyTom Cruise
Sir Edmund William GodfreyPat Healy
Linda PartridgeJulianne Moore
Also posted in 1999, Drama | Comments (21)

The Planets

IMDB Rating: 8.90
232 votes

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Interesting narrative, excellent computer generated images (for its time), extensive interviews with numerous scientists (mostly Americans and Russians-thank goodness this documentary isn't biased towards any country) and a memorable soundtrack combined to make compelling viewing for anyone interested in astronomy.
Actors
A&E NarratorKaren Stone
BBC NarratorSamuel West
Also posted in 1999, Documentary | Comments (0)

Drop Dead Gorgeous

IMDB Rating: 6.20
8519 votes

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In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps. Explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but nice) Amber Atkins won't be stopped. There could well be more death and disappointment to come.
Actors
Amber AtkinsKirsten Dunst
Annette AtkinsEllen Barkin
LorettaAllison Janney
Also posted in 1999, Comedy | Comments (0)

The Iron Giant

IMDB Rating: 7.80
22088 votes

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"Iron Giant" is based upon the 1968 story,'Iron Man,' by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.
Actors
Annie HughesJennifer Aniston
Dean McCoppinHarry Connick Jr.
The Iron GiantVin Diesel
Also posted in 1999, Animation, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Any Given Sunday

IMDB Rating: 6.50
29420 votes

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When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D'Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father's death. Christina's driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties.
Actors
Tony D'AmatoAl Pacino
Christina PagniacciCameron Diaz
Jack 'Cap' RooneyDennis Quaid
Also posted in 1999, Drama, Sport | Comments (13)
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