151. Saint Ralph
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael McGowan
Actors: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer Tilly, Shauna MacDonald, Tamara Hope
152. My Summer of Love
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Actors: Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine, Dean Andrews, Michelle Byrne, Paul Antony-Barber
153. The Jacket
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Maybury
Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro
Plot: After surviving a near-death in the Gulf War, a veteran returns to Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He hitches a ride but ends up in an asylum after the driver murders an officer and frames him. Through a series of bizarre treatments, he finds himself in the past and the future but when he foresees his own death, he must figure out how to escape before it's too late.
154. The Big White
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Mylod
Actors: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown, Woody Harrelson
Plot: Paul Barnell tries to claim the life insurance on his long-lost brother in order to remediate his financial situation, but every feasible thing that can go wrong, does go wrong.
155. Saw II
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Erik Knudsen, Glenn Plummer, Franky G
Plot: Jigsaw has been tracked down, but he has the son of the lead police officer locked in a house with a select group of people and he won't let them out unless the cop plays his game.
156. Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Actors: Maile Flanagan, Kate Higgins, Liam O'Brien, Michael Lindsay
157. Perhaps Love ( Ru guo · Ai )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Chan
Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xun Zhou, Jacky Cheung, Jin-hee Ji, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng Kwan Yue
Plot: This musical-within-a-musical amassed several 2006 Hong Kong Film Awards, and rightfully so. A sumptuous production involving a love triangle (one vertex of which is the great Takeshi Kaneshiro, of House of Flying Daggers fame) on- and off-camera. It’s best described as part Busby Berkeley and part Barnum & Bailey--with a touch of amnesia mixed in for good measure.
158. The Matador
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Shepard
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Adam Scott, Portia Dawson, Philip Baker Hall
Plot: A burnt out hitman seeks out the assistance of a down on his luck businessman he meets in Mexico City.
159. Robots
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Chris Wedge
Actors: Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes
Plot: As a robot built for invention, Rodney heads to Robot City and emulate his idol Big Weld into making the world a better place. But a change in management threatens to derail his dreams, and dismantle his new friends, if he can't find a way to overcome Ratchet and his tyrannical rule.
160. McLibel
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Franny Armstrong, Ken Loach
Actors: Geoffrey Giuliano, Helen Steel, Dave Morris
