111. Inventing the Abbotts
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pat O'Connor
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Will Patton, Liv Tyler, Kathy Baker, Jennifer Connelly
112. Playing God
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andy Wilson
Actors: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Peter Stormare, Gary Dourdan, Michael Massee
Plot: Former L.A. surgeon Eugene Sands, stripped of his license after operation while on drugs, meets up with infamous counterfeiter Raymond Blossom and soon becomes entangled in the underground crime when he becomes a "gun-shot" doctor to the criminals.
113. Love and Other Catastrophes
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan
Actors: Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski, Alice Garner, Frances O'Connor, Radha Mitchell, Suzi Dougherty
114. Secrets of the Heart ( Secretos del corazón )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Andoni Erburu, Silvia Munt, Vicky Peña, Álvaro Nagore
115. Deep Crimson ( Profundo carmesí )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Actors: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovanni Florido, Fernando Palavicini, Patricia Reyes Spíndola
116. Don King: Only in America
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Herzfeld
Actors: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Darius McCrary, Keith David, Loretta Devine
117. What the Deaf Man Heard
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Kent Harrison
Actors: Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones, Jerry O'Connell, Bernadette Peters
Plot: The last words Sammy Ayres' mother every says to him are "Not one more word out of you." as they ride the bus to a new life. When he wakes up in the morning, however, his mother is gone and the bus is at the end of the line. He takes his mothers advice to heart and grows up at the bus station, pretending to be deaf and dumb. As an adult, he continues the charade until events arise in his adopted town which force him to choose between justice and silence.
118. The Education of Little Tree
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Actors: James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Joseph Ashton, Mika Boorem, Graham Greene, Christopher Heyerdahl
119. The Jackal
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Actors: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J.K. Simmons
Plot: Update of the 1973 spy thriller The Day of the Jackal. Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down.
120. Fierce Creatures
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Fred Schepisi, Robert Young
Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Carey Lowell
