171. Girl, Interrupted
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder, Jared Leto, Whoopi Goldberg
Plot: Based on a true story about a young woman's time spent in a mental institute in the 1960's.
172. State of Grace
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phil Joanou
Actors: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro, John C. Reilly
Plot: After ten years, Terry Noonan returns to Hell's Kitchen where he quickly finds himself kindling an old flame but also getting involved with his brother and the mob. Soon he must decide where his true loyalties lie.
173. Pretty Woman
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Garry Marshall
Actors: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Jason Alexander, Alex Hyde-White, Hector Elizondo
Plot: A rich lawyer type falls in love with a prostitute as he takes her to his social events and uses her for sex until they both realize there is something more.
174. Happy Gilmore
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Dennis Dugan
Actors: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers, Julie Bowen, Allen Covert
Plot: A short-tempered wannabe hockey player parlays his talent at driving a golf ball into the P.G.A. tour in order to save his grandma's house from forclosure.
175. Dracula
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Cary Elwes, Monica Bellucci
Plot: A young lawyer travels to a gloomy eastern European village, where the local count, Dracula, takes an interest in him. He learns too late the count is a powerful vampire, one who would very much like take his wife-to-be, Mina, for his own.
176. Porco Rosso ( Kurenai no buta )
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Cary Elwes, Michael Keaton, Brad Garrett, David Ogden Stiers, Susan Egan, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Plot: In Italy in the 1930's, the sky is filled with sky pirates and bounty hunters. One of the most cunning amongst them is Porco Rosso, who helps those attacked by the no-gooders, but who is also cursed with the head of a pig for watching the dead spirits rise to the heavens during the last great sky battle.
177. A Little Princess
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Actors: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Rusty Schwimmer, Arthur Malet, Vanessa Lee Chester
Plot: When her father enlists to fight for the Brits during World War I, Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend boarding school and clashes with an overbearing headmistress, who attempts to stifle her creativity and sense of self-worth. But she's severely tested when word comes that her father has been killed in action and that his vast estate has been seized.
178. The Hurricane
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya
Plot: Academy Award winner Denzel Washington plays Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man who, in the prime of his boxing career finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, 'The Sixteenth Round', inspired a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believed in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence. Their extraordinary efforts ultimately secure his release, leaving "Hurricane" to sum up his 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit by simply stating, "Hate got me into this place, love got me out." Don't miss the movie Rolling Stone called, "A stirring fight for freedom! Denzel Washington at his powerful, poignant best!"
179. Vive L'Amour ( Ai qing wan sui )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Actors: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
Plot: A look into the lives of three people who share (partially unknowingly) the same apartment: Mei, the real estate agent who uses the room for her trysts, her current lover Ah-jung and Hsiao-ang, who takes a key and uses the place as his own retreat.
180. Kolya ( Kolja )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jan Sverák
Actors: Zdenek Sverák, Andrei Chalimon, Libuse Safránková, Ondrej Vetchý, Stella Zázvorková, Silvia Suvadova
Plot: A Czech concert cellist, and consummate ladies man, Franta Louka finds himself out of a job and running up debts. In order to secure cash, he agrees to marry a Russian woman so she can get her papers - but immediately after she runs to the arms of a West German boyfriend, leaving her five-year-old child behind with her grandmother. After she suddenly dies, it falls to Louka to take care of the young boy.
