151. Party Monster
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Actors: Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid, Chloë Sevigny, Marilyn Manson, Dylan McDermott
Plot: Michael Alig is a club promoter who creates not only an over-the-top and extravagant lifestyle in New York clubs (largely centered on drugs), but also a paranoid, confused, sociopathic reality of murder. He hosts Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the 90's, and leads a rag-tag group of raving druggies into realities they never dreamed of. This is his story.
152. Bringing Down the House
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Adam Shankman
Actors: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Angus T. Jones, Jean Smart
Plot: A divorced attorney, trying to figure out why his marriage fell apart, finds himself turning to an online relationship. But far from the Ivy Leage lawyer he thought he was chatting with, he winds up with Charlene, an escaped con looking to clear her name. His finds his well-ordered life suddenly turned upside down as both his personal and professional life are affected.
153. Toolbox Murders
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Sara Downing, Juliet Landau, Marco Rodríguez, Rance Howard
154. Spider
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Philip Craig
Plot: A schizophrenic man moves into a halfway house for the mentally ill in London after being institutionalized for 20 years. As memories from his past creep in on his life, he slides farther away from reality.
155. Piglet's Big Movie
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Francis Glebas
Actors: John Fiedler, Jim Cummings, Peter Cullen, Andre Stojka, Kath Soucie, Nikita Hopkins
156. Chinese Odyssey 2002, A ( Tian xia wu shuang )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeffrey Lau
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Wei Zhao, Chen Chang, Roy Cheung, Athena Chu
157. Mona Lisa Smile
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Dominic West
Plot: An Art History Professor challenges the gender roles of young women at Wellesey in the conservative early 1950's.
158. Owning Mahowny
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Kwietniowski
Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt, Maury Chaykin, Ian Tracey, K.C. Collins
159. Nowhere in Africa ( Nirgendwo in Afrika )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Caroline Link
Actors: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Sidede Onyulo, Matthias Habich, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz
Plot: A family of three, father, mother and little daughter, struggle to survive in Africa after fleeing Germany in WWII.
160. House of 1,000 Corpses
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Zombie
Actors: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Karen Black, Chris Hardwick, Erin Daniels
Plot: A pair of traveling couples are searching for material on odd roadside attractions when they run into Captain Spaulding who tells them the tale of Dr. Satan. Searching for the tree he was hung from, they pick up a hitchhiker who directs them to her house where murder, torture and cannibalism await.
