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New Releases for Tuesday 6/19/01
The Mirror
(Iran, 1998)
Not Rated
Directed By Jafar Panahi
Staring
Mina Mohommed-Khani
Kazen Mojidehi
When the mother of adorable first grader Mina fails to pick her up from school, Mina is both frightened and curious. As time passes and her teachers go home, Mina decides to navigate the journey home by herself. As the child wanders through the bustling and teaming city if Tehran, she is thrown into necessary contact with a wide variety of strangers both helpful and indifferent, creating an odyssey both funny and heartwarming. However, in a surprising and unexpected twist, the determined child rebels and takes things into her own hands, creating an unforgettable change of perspective, and a new found urgency and poignancy in her journey home..
Panic
(USA, 2000)
Rated R
Directed By Henry Bromell
Staring
William H. Macy
Neve Campbell
Tracey Ullman
John Ritter
For all of his adult life, Alex has worked for his father in the family business. Now in the throes of midlife crisis, he wants out, he wants a change. Trouble is, the family business is murder-for-hire, and his father won't let him quit! After meeting and falling in love with Sarah, a confused, sexually charged woman, his life spins even further out of control.The Pledge
(USA, 2001))
Rated R
Directed By Sean Penn
Staring
Jack Nicholson
Benicio Del Toro
Helen Mirren
Director Sean Penn's (THE INDIAN RUNNER, THE CROSSING GUARD) third film features Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black, a retired detective whose final case ultimately causes his slow descent into madness. In the midst of his retirement party, Black decides to join Detective Stan Krolak (Aaron Eckhart) on one last case. The molested body of an eight-year-old girl is found in the Nevada mountains. When the chief suspect turns out to be a mentally challenged Native American (Benicio Del Toro), Black is not convinced of his guilt despite his confession. Unable to forget the promise he made to the dead girl's mother that he would find her daughter's killer, Black becomes determined to catch a monster that no one else believes is out there. His resolve increases when he realizes that two similar unsolved murders occurred in the same area in recent years, and the case hits closer to home when Black befriends Lori (Robin Wright Penn), a waitress with a threatening ex-husband, and her eight-year old daughter, Chrissy (Pauline Roberts). Nicholson is compelling in this study of a man whose obsession slowly eats away at his sanity as he attempts to keep his promise by any means necessary.
The Proof of Life
(USA, 2000))
Rated R
Directed By Taylor Hackford
Staring
Meg Ryan
Russell Crowe
Around the world, between 20,000 and 50,000 people are kidnapped each year. In Taylor Hackford's suspense-filled adventure film, American businessman Peter Bowman (David Morse) is traveling in a Latin American country when a group of criminals take him as their hostage and hold him for ransom. The megacorporation he works for sends in an expert hostage negotiator, Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), to settle on a ransom with the kidnappers, an antigovernment faction. Thorne earns the reluctant trust of Bowman's wife, Alice (Meg Ryan), and begins trying to win Bowman's freedom, but conflict with Bowman's employers, missteps with the kidnappers, and Thorne's growing attraction to Alice threaten to derail his efforts. Crowe and Ryan are excellent as thrown-together allies under pressure, and Morse's descent from collected businessman to desperate hostage anchors the film. Watch for former NYPD BLUE sensation David Caruso as Crowe's partner. PROOF OF LIFE is based on an article entitled "Adventures in the Ransom Trade," written by William Prochnau, which was published in the May 1998 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
Save the Last Dance
(USA, 2000))
Rated PG-13
Directed By Thomas Carter
Staring
Julia Stiles
Sean Patrick Thomas
Sara (Julia Stiles) is a small town girl with a big dream: to become a world class ballerina. But when her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South Side. A white girl in a predominately black neighborhood, Sara feels out of place- until she is befriended by classmate, Chenille and he handsome brother, Derek. Sparks soon fly between Sara and Derek, whose shared love for dance leads to romance. But as Sara and Derek's relationships grows, so does the opposition from their families and friends.State and Main
(USA, 2000))
Rated R
Directed By David Mamet
Staring
Alec Baldwin
Charles Durning
In the screwball comedy STATE AND MAIN, writer-director David Mamet reveals that the only thing more corrupt than Hollywood moviemaking is a small American town that is willing to stoop to any level to be a part of it. Marshalling an all-star ensemble, Mamet chronicles a movie production's arrival in sleepy Waterford, Vermont. Walt Price (William H. Macy), the smooth-talking, Machiavellian chief of the effort, has four days before shooting begins--he has to scout locations (the old mill he expected to use as a set burned down forty years ago), keep his egotistical stars out of trouble, and charm the locals. The writer, Joe White (Philip Seymour Hoffman), wrestles with endless script changes and finds himself getting involved with a charming Waterford bookshop owner (Rebecca Pidgeon). The townspeople only condemn the slick tinseltown interlopers when they're not currying their favor, hoping for a shot at the big time. Mamet lets each successive crisis among these folks build to hilarious chaos; healthy doses of one-liners and clever plotting are balanced with a character-driven comic tale. Mamet's dialogue, known for its rapid-fire, repetitious wit, is perfectly matched to both Macy's fast-talking damage control and Pidgeon's homespun wisdom--the result is light-hearted comedy that feels legitimately profound.* Not all titles available at all locations
Potomac Video’s Top Ten Renting Titles for the Week of 6/11 - 6/17
1. Castaway
(Drama, Rated R)
2. Traffic (Action,
Rated R)
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Foreign, Rated
PG-13)
4. Miss Congeniality (Comedy, Rated PG-13)
5. Best in Show (Comedy, Rated PG-13)
6. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Comedy, Rated PG-13)
7. Billy Elliot (Drama, Rated R)
8. What Women
Want (Comedy, Rated PG-13)
9. Almost Famous (Drama, Rated R)
10. Meet The Parents (Comedy, Rated PG-13)
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