Black Hawk Down
Theatrical Release Date: 12/28/2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor, William Fichtner, Eric Bana, Ewen Bremner
Plot: Based on the sololian rescue mission in which US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down.
Charlotte Gray
Theatrical Release Date: 12/28/2001
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Actors: Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, Rupert Penry-Jones, Abigail Cruttenden, Charlotte McDougall, Robert Hands
Dark Blue World ( Tmavomodrý svet )
Theatrical Release Date: 12/28/2001
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jan Sverák
Actors: Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance, Oldrich Kaiser, David Novotný
I Am Sam
Theatrical Release Date: 12/28/2001
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jessie Nelson
Actors: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Laura Dern
Plot: A mentally challenged man fights to keep custody of his young daughter.
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me ( So weit die Füße tragen )
Theatrical Release Date: 12/27/2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hardy Martins
Actors: Bernhard Bettermann, Michael Mendl, Anatoli Kotenyov, Irina Pantaeva, Iris Böhm, Anna Hermann
Gosford Park
Theatrical Release Date: 12/26/2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Camilla Rutherford, Kristin Scott Thomas , Tom Hollander, Ryan Phillippe
Plot: A mystery involving a party in a wealthy persons house in which the servants are upstairs and the guests are down stairs. Set in 1932.
Monster's Ball
Theatrical Release Date: 12/26/2001
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher
Ali
Theatrical Release Date: 12/25/2001
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright
Plot: The life and times of Muhammad Ali.
Kate and Leopold
Theatrical Release Date: 12/25/2001
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Lyonne, Bradley Whitford
Plot: Leopold is an English and broken baron living in New York in the end of the Nineteenth Century. He needs to get married with a rich fiancée to recover his family position from ruin. Kate is a successful businesswoman living also in New York, but in 2001. Due to a time incident, they meet each other in the present days and they fall in love to each other.
The Shipping News
Theatrical Release Date: 12/25/2001
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lasse Hallström
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn
Plot: Traumatizing events finds a man and his young daughter returning to his ancestral Newfoundland home where he finds kinship in the town with the local newspaper column and maybe a connection that will help him rebuild his life.
