1999 Madeleine
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Actors: Véra Briole, Manuel Blanc, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Michel Fête, Jean-François Gallotte, Aurélia Petit
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Gary Halvorson
Actors: Kevin Clash, Mandy Patinkin, Vanessa Williams, Sonia Manzano, Roscoe Orman, Stephanie D'Abruzzo
Plot: Kevin Clash stars as Elmo in this film about sharing and viewing trash differently. Elmo loses his blanket after taking it to the city laundromat and fighting with Zoe. As he chases it, Elmo enters Oscar's trashcan and accidentally opens the door to Grouchland. Following the trail of the blanket to a mysterious trashy tycoon, Huxley, (Mandy Patinkin) he is sidetracked into the realm of The Queen of Trash (Vanessa Williams) and learns that he too has been acting like Huxley sometimes. He loses his fight with Huxley when Huxley declares that both the blanket and Elmo are his now, but Elmo is saved by the rest of the Sesame Street gang and the Grouchland Grouches that Oscar is able to organize against Huxley.
Asunder
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Reid
Actors: Blair Underwood, Debbi Morgan, Michael Beach, Marva Hicks, Desiree Marie Velez, Ira Hawkins
City, The ( Medina, El )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
Actors: Bassem Samra, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Abla Kamel, Roschdy Zem, Inês de Medeiros, Amr Saad
Divorce Iranian Style
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Drive Me Crazy
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Schultz
Actors: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Collins, Susan May Pratt, Mark Webber, Kris Park
Plot: A popular, preppy girl must find a substitute to the prom after her "perfect" boyfriend goes after a cheerleader from another school. Setting on her neighbor, she thinks she has found the plan to make her ex-boyfriend jealous but it leads to a far more unexpected path.
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Strickland
Actors: Steve John Shepherd, Ben Waters, Alec Newman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anjela Lauren Smith, Melanie Gutteridge
Grey Owl
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau, Neil Kroetsch, Serge Houde
Happy, Texas
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mark Illsley
Actors: Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam, William H. Macy, Ally Walker, M.C. Gainey, Illeana Douglas
In the Rye ( Co chytnes v zite )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roman Vávra
Actors: Andrea Elsnerová, Klára Issová, Adam Chajkin, Ladislav Frej Jr., Jaroslav Mastalír, Daniel Oliva
Letter, The ( lettre, La/1999 )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Pedro Abrunhosa, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Silveira, Françoise Fabian, Maria João Pires
Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, The ( petite vendeuse de soleil, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Actors: Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Tayerou M'Baye
Longest Summer, The ( Hui nin yin fa dak bit doh )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fruit Chan
Actors: Tony Ho, Sam Lee, Jo Kuk, Yik Wai Pang, Bobby Lam, Robby Cheung
Love Will Tear Us Apart ( Tin seung yan gaan )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nelson Yu Lik-wai
Actors: Tony Leung Ka Fai, Liping Lü, Ning Wong, Rolf Chow
Love, etc.
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marion Vernoux
Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Charles Berling, Thibault de Montalembert, Élodie Navarre, Marie Adam
Lovers - Dogme 5
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Marc Barr
Actors: Élodie Bouchez, Sergej Trifunovic, Thibault de Montalembert, Geneviève Page, Irina Decermic, Dragan Nikolic
Lucia
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Don Boyd
Actors: Amanda Boyd, John Daszak, Andrew Greenan, John Osborn, Mark Holland, Ann Taylor
Mystery, Alaska
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jay Roach
Actors: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich
Plot: Mystery, Alaska's amateur hockey team accepts a challenge to play against the New York Rangers, the entire population must put their petty differences aside and pull together to defend the honor of their small town.
New God, The ( Atarashî kamisama )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yutaka Tsuchiya
Actors: Karin Amemiya, Hidehito Itô, Yutaka Tsuchiya
New Rose Hotel
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, Gretchen Mol, John Lurie
Plunkett & Macleane
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jake Scott
Actors: Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Tommy Flanagan, Iain Robertson, Ken Stott, Stephen Walters
Post Mortem
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Louis Bélanger
Actors: Gabriel Arcand, Sylvie Moreau, Hélène Loiselle, Sarah Lecomte-Bergeron, Ghislain Taschereau, Pierre Collin
Public Enemy
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jens Meurer
Actors: Noam Chomsky, Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, Bobby Seale, Nile Rodgers
Sex, Shame and Tears ( Sexo, pudor y lágrimas )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antonio Serrano
Actors: Demián Bichir, Susana Zabaleta, Jorge Salinas, Cecilia Suárez, Víctor Huggo Martin, Mónica Dionne
Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ron Myrick
Actors: Andrew Hawkes, Jeff Bennett, Charles Adler, Rocky Carroll, Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett
Three Kings
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David O. Russell
Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis, Nora Dunn
Plot: At the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War a group of American soldiers
find a map detailing the location of gold hidden near their base. Deciding
to plunder the loot for themselves, they soon become involved with a moral
crisis after finding out a group of Iraqi civilians face certain death at
the hands of the Iraqi army if they don't intervene.
You're Dead...
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1999
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andy Hurst
Actors: John Hurt, Rhys Ifans, Claire Skinner, Barbara Flynn, John Benfield, Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Melancholic Chicken, The ( Kure melancholik )
Theatrical Release Date: 09/30/1999
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jaroslav Brabec
Actors: Karel Roden, Anna Geislerová, Radko Chromek, Vilma Cibulková, Martin Huba, Diana Mórová
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein
Theatrical Release Date: 09/28/1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Kathi Castillo
Actors: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Michael Bell, Jim Meskimen, Frank Welker, Kevin Michael Richardson
Desert Heat ( Inferno )
Theatrical Release Date: 09/25/1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pat Morita, Danny Trejo, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Jaime Pressly, Larry Drake
Plot: Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) is a veteran soldier sick of life, wandering the desert looking for a reason to die. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town who steal Eddies motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie a flame for revenge. Helped by Mr. Early, and some other good fellows, Eddie is out for vengeance.
