201. 10 Things I Hate About You
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gil Junger
Actors: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan
Plot: This update of Taming of the Shrew has a new transfer student pining for popular, cute Bianca Stratford... problem is she isn't allowed to date unless her older, hot-tempered sister Kat dates as well. Rebel senior Patrick Verona is recruited to date Kat, but will he succeed where so many have failed?
202. Before the Rain
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Actors: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Jay Villiers, Silvija Stojanovska
203. Liberty Heights
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, David Krumholtz
Plot: Baltimore 1954-55 - the world is changing and a family is changing with the times. Ben, a high school senior, strikes up a friendship with black student Sylvia; his older brother Van parties in with the WASP crowd and becomes involved with a debutante and their father loses big in the numbers game but finds a way back in with Little Melvin.
204. Double Life of Veronique, The ( double vie de Véronique, La )
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Kalina Jedrusik, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton
Plot: The story of two Veroniques who live in different places at the same time where one dies and the other chooses a different path at what seems like the same time as the others death.
205. Ju Dou
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
Actors: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Wei Li, Zhang Yi, Ji-an Zheng, Xingli Niu
Plot: A woman contends with her brutal, infertile husband - owner of a local dye
mill in rural China. When she conceives a male child by her husband's
nephew, she is forced to raise the boy and convince her husband it is his
while keeping the real parentage a secret.
206. Cape Fear
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Juliette Lewis, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck
Plot: Fourteen years ago public defender Sam Bowden his evidence from his client Max Cady, a rapist, that could have acquitted him. Now, a just-released Cady, smarter, stronger and more psychotic, is ready to take revenge against the attorney and his family.
207. The Ice Storm
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ang Lee
Actors: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood
Plot: Change is coming to a 1973 suburban Connecticut neighborhood. Drugs, alcohol and casual sex begin to affect the lives of several middle-class familites.
208. Happy Together ( Chun gwong cha sit )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chen Chang, Gregory Dayton
Plot: Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina via Hong Kong on holiday but their relationship his a rocky stretch and the two men part. While Yiu-Fai finds success and maybe even a new relationship, Po-Wing's life spirals ever downward.
209. Buffalo '66
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vincent Gallo
Actors: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Anjelica Huston
Plot: After serving five year in prison, Billy Brown faces an even more dire place: going home to his parents. Not wanting to face them alone, he kidnaps a teen girl and forces her to go along with his plan presenting her as his future wife.
210. The Rock
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe
Plot: When a group of home-grown terrorists take over Alcatraz with 15 chemical warheads it's up to a federal prisoner with intimate knowlege of the prison and a young chemical weapons expert to stop them from launching the deadly missiles.
