51. Metropolis ( Metoroporisu )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rintaro
Actors: Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi, Kouki Okada, Tarô Ishida, Jamieson Price, Kousei Tomita
Plot: A story of a young boy, and his uncle from Japan are on the hunt for a mad doctor who supposedly uses human body parts to creating new robots. But in the midst of the investigation, Kinichi.. nephew to his great detective uncle finds himself kneeling face to face to a small girl who the mad scientist himself had created.
Now both are on the run from a hit squad lead by a boy named Rock who must hunt them down to cover for his adopted father's tracks against humanity. Sealed within this girl however is a fail safe switch if she was ever to come to harm. If it activates, it would mean all life on earth would be wiped out in eighteen hours.
52. Daniel Deronda
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May, Jamie Bamber, Edward Fox
Plot: Based on George Eliot's masterpiece, it is a story about an adopted gentleman in seek of his own ancestors and a woman whose vanity and desire for financial security lead her to the selfdestruction.
53. Storytelling
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Solondz
Actors: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Paul Giamatti, Mark Webber, John Goodman
Plot: A story of a high-school couple and a dysfunctional Livingston family. Somebody creates a documentary on modern suburban living. Morals and values play a huge part.
54. Antwone Fisher
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Denzel Washington
Actors: Derek Luke, Malcolm David Kelley, Denzel Washington, Joy Bryant, Cory Hodges, Salli Richardson
Plot: Antwone Fisher, while serving in the navy, is forced to see a navy therapist after a violent outburst.
55. Resident Evil
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Anderson
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriquez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes, Colin Salmon
Plot: A special task force must fight their way through zombies and try to escape from a facility called "the hive"
56. Brotherhood of the Wolf ( pacte des loups, Le )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christophe Gans
Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Émilie Dequenne, Jérémie Renier, Mark Dacascos
Plot: In 1765 strange killings were happening in France. The "beast" that was stalking people became so notorious that the King of France hired hunters to find and slay the beast.
57. About Schmidt
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Kathy Bates, Dermot Mulroney, Phil Reeves, June Squibb
Plot: A recent retiree (Jack Nicholson) deals with the death of his wife, the marriage of his daughter to a man he doesn't like and life he feels has been wasted.
58. White Oleander
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Kosminsky
Actors: Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn, Renée Zellweger, Billy Connolly, Patrick Fugit
Plot: A young girl called Astrid is moved from foster home to foster home, whilst her mother has time in jail for killing her lover with the poisonous flower White Oleander. Over this time, Astrid goes through many phases, changing with each foster home. Thoguh she once looked up to her mother as a role model, she finds herself questioning whether she really is a good mum.
59. A Walk to Remember
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Adam Shankman
Actors: Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German, Clayne Crawford
Plot: The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.
60. John Q
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Actors: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Anne Heche, James Woods, Ray Liotta, Eddie Griffin
Plot: After his insurance company declines to pay for his son's heart operation, a factory worker takes hostage the inhabitants of an emergency room.
