Abandon
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Actors: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel , Fred Ward, Melanie Lynskey
Addicted ( Jungdok )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Young-hoon Park
Actors: Byung-hun Lee, Mi-yeon Lee, Eol Lee, Seon-yeong Park, Ji-eun Kim, Seung-Shin Lee
Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marc Fafard
Actors: George Morris, Charles Bryan, Mike Vail, Katarina Olikainen, Jon Devore, Adrian Nicholas
Auto Focus
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ed Begley Jr., Michael E. Rodgers
Children on Their Birthdays
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mark Medoff
Actors: Sheryl Lee, Joe Pichler, Jesse Plemons, Tania Raymonde, Christopher McDonald, Tom Arnold
Dil Vil Pyar Vyar
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anant Mahadevan
Actors: Madhavan, Jimmy Shergill, Sanjay Suri, Namrata Shirodkar, Sonali Kulkarni, Hrishitaa Bhatt
Fidel
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Attwood
Actors: Víctor Huggo Martin, Gael García Bernal, Patricia Velasquez, Cecilia Suárez, Maurice Compte, José María Yazpik
Fidel: The Untold Story
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Estela Bravo
Actors: Fidel Castro, Ted Turner, Harry Belafonte, Vlasta Vrana, Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela
Formula 51 ( 51st State, The )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ronny Yu
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Nigel Whitmey, Robert Jezek, Emily Mortimer, Meat Loaf, Jake Abraham
Plot: A master chemist runs afoul in America and decides his wares will be
better off in England where he hopes to make a tidy sum on Formula 51 - a
new drug that offers the highest of highs.
The Grey Zone
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Actors: David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Henry Stram, Mira Sorvino, Natasha Lyonne
Hansel and Gretel
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Actors: Taylor Momsen, Jacob Smith, Delta Burke, Lynn Redgrave, Dakota Fanning, Howie Mandel
Naqoyqatsi
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Actors: Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steven Soderbergh, Bella Donna, Ronald Reagan
Plot: Godfrey Reggio presents his brave new world: fusing everyday reality with digital techniques, Naqoyqatsi shows us a world once ruled by nature now ruled by technology.
Real Women Have Curves
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Patricia Cardoso
Actors: America Ferrera, George Lopez, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, Brian Sites, Soledad St. Hilaire
Plot: A young woman with a mind of her own spends the summer after high school helping out at her sister's dress factory. She hopes to go to college in the fall, but her disapproving mother wants her to stay close to home, lose weight and get married.
The Ring
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Amber Tamblyn, Jane Alexander
Plot: A reporter, following the death of her niece, follows the story of a
cursed video that supposedly kills you seven days after viewing it.
Take Care of My Cat ( Goyangileul butaghae )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jae-eun Jeong
Actors: Du-na Bae, Yu-won Lee, Ji-young Ok, Eung-sil Lee, Eung-ju Lee, Jung-Hee Moon
Touching Wild Horses
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eleanor Lindo
Actors: Mark Rendall, Jane Seymour, Charles Martin Smith, Gloria Slade, James McGowan, Danielle Bouffard
Welcome to Collinwood
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2002
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Actors: William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzmán
Plot: Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a
pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose.
Baader
Theatrical Release Date: 10/17/2002
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christopher Roth
Actors: Can Taylanlar, Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Hinnerk Schönemann, Sarah Riedel, Angie Ojciec
The Nugget
Theatrical Release Date: 10/17/2002
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bill Bennett
Actors: Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Dave O'Neil, Belinda Emmett, Peter Moon, Vince Colosimo
Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey
Theatrical Release Date: 10/17/2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas
Actors: Keith Middleton
Blink of an Eye
Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/2002
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Van Fischer
Actors: Frank John Hughes, Seidy Lopez, Lombardo Boyar, Castulo Guerra, Joseph Bologna, Dana Ashbrook
Confessions of an American Girl
Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/2002
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jordan Brady
Actors: Jena Malone, Harmony Blossom, Erik von Detten, Michelle Forbes, Brad Renfro, Chris Mulkey
Plot: A pregnant, idealistic teen finds that her chaotic trailer park existence conflicts with her dreams of having the perfect family.
Hop
Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dominique Standaert
Actors: Kalomba Mboyi, Jan Decleir, Antje de Boeck, Ansou Diedhiou, Alexandra Vandernoot, Serge-Henri Valcke
Kiss the Bride
Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vanessa Parise
Actors: Amanda Detmer, Sean Patrick Flanery, Alyssa Milano, Johnathon Schaech, Brooke Langton, Vanessa Parise
Monday Morning ( Lundi matin )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otar Iosseliani
Actors: Jacques Bidou, Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky, Narda Blanchet, Radslav Kinski, Dato Tarielachvili, Adrien Pachod
Best of Times, The ( Mei li shi guang )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/15/2002
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tso-chi Chang
Actors: Wing Fan, Meng-jie Gao, Wan-mei Yu, Mao-ying Tien, Yu-chih Wu, Shang-Ting Chang
Derailed
Theatrical Release Date: 10/15/2002
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Misiorowski
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tomas Arana, Laura Harring, Susan Gibney, Lucy Jenner, Jessica Bowman
Plot: NATO operative Jacques Kristoff is summoned into action, on his birthday, to track down Galina Konstantin, who has scampered off with an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret cargo. Finding Galina doesn't take long, and Jacques must wrap up the mission by returning Galina and the contraband to his superiors by train. Jacques's physician wife Madeline isn't happy about this turn of events. But she sees him off at the train station with the couple's teenage daughter Bailey Kristoff and son Ethan Kristoff. Galina's ill-gotten gain is three vials of SP-43, an ultra-virulent strain of smallpox, cultured in fluorescent green serum that contains several other pathogens. A group of terrorists, led by Mason Cole, intend to hijack the train and steal the virus for their own ends. But standing in their way is Jacques. The virus ends up getting loose in the train's ventilation system. Unfortunately, Jacques's family picked this moment to surprise him for his birthday by secretly tagging along for the ride. Jacques becomes a one-man army as he fights to protect his family and the other passengers, and stop Cole and his followers.
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
Theatrical Release Date: 10/15/2002
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rick Bota
Actors: Dean Winters, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley, Rachel Hayward, Jody Thompson, Kaaren de Zilva
Plot: Trevor (Dean Winters) is driving down the road with his wife, he gets distracted and the car drives off a bridge and lands in a lake. He gets out of the car, but his wife is stuck, and the door slams shut behind him. He watches his wife drown. He is in shock and his memory is full of holes. Things goes from bad to worse when during an interview at the police station, he learns that his wife is missing and the door was open when the recovered the car. Now Trevor must piece together his fragmented memory to try and figure out what really happened, as he gets haunted by more and more disturbing nightmares.
Turning Gate, The ( Saenghwalui balgyeon )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Actors: Sang-mi Choo, Ji-won Ye, George Georgiou, Hak-sun Kim, Sang-kyung Kim
This is Not a Love Song
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bille Eltringham
Actors: Michael Colgan, Kenneth Glenaan, David Bradley, John Henshaw, Adam Pepper, Keri Arnold
