11. Love Actually
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Curtis
Actors: Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Sienna Guillory, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Gregor Fisher
Plot: Follows the the love lives of eight different couples, and their loosely interrelated interactions, in one, frantic month before Christmastime in London.
12. Lost in Translation
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Nancy Steiner
Plot: An actor past his prime and a bored, young wife form an unlikely companionship in Tokyo.
13. The Fog of War
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Robert McNamara
14. Whale Rider
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Niki Caro
Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Cliff Curtis, Mabel Wharekawa, Elizabeth Skeen, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
Plot: Based on tradition and culture a young girl fulfills her grandfathers wish and prayers.
15. Cowboy Bebop
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shinichirô Watanabe
Actors: Steven Jay Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, Melissa Fahn, Jennifer Hale, Nicholas Guest
Plot: Three bounty hunters investigate a truck explosion in order to get an enormous bounty.
16. Triplets of Belleville, The ( triplettes de Belleville, Les )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Actors: Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau, Mari-Lou Gauthier, Charles Linton, Michel Robin, Michèle Caucheteux
Plot: A grandmother raises her lone grandson. In an effort to find something that makes the boy happy, she buys him a bike. With Grandma has his trainer, the boy grows to enter the Tour de France. A sinister mobster kidnaps the boy and it's up to Grandma, the boy's dog, and three over-the-hill singing sisters to rescue him.
17. 21 Grams
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benecio Del Toro, Danny Huston, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo
Plot: The lives of three people are forever changed by a single accident - the man driving the truck, the wife of the victim and a man in need of a heart transplant. All three lives intersect leading up to a final confrontation.
18. The Station Agent
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Actors: Peter Dinklage, Richard Kind, Patricia Clarkson, Michelle Williams, Bobby Cannavale, Jayce Bartok
Plot: A dwarf moves to isolation, but he can't seem to truly get away as he
makes friends (against his will) with a near by hot dog vendor and a woman
who had family problems.
19. Spellbound
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Actors: Angela Arenivar, Nupur Lala, Neelima Marupudi, Mrs. Slaughter, Ted Brigham, Emily Stagg
Plot: Spellbound is a Documentary that follows eight children through the National spelling bee.
20. Angels in America
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker, Emma Thompson, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk
