211. Half Nelson
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ryan Fleck
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Karen Chilton, Monique Curnen, Anthony Mackie, Nathan Corbett
Plot: A great teacher is caught in a life of drug addiction while one young girl he teaches becomes his only friend and goes through drug problems of a different kind.
212. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Tom Hollander
Plot: Jack Sparrow's debt to Davy Jones is due, but, with a little help from his friends, he hopes to do the impossible and escape his fate.
213. Partly Cloudy
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Peter Sohn
Actors: Tony Fucile, Lori Richardson
214. In the Shadow of the Moon
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Sington
Actors: Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, Michael Collins, Eugene Cernan, Alan Bean, Dave Scott
215. In the Loop
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Armando Iannucci
Actors: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Paul Higgins, Anna Chlumsky, Chris Addison, James Gandolfini
Plot: When the US and UK decide to go to war, it takes the right group of people, along with a lot of spin, backroom politics and gossip, to make the war go away.
216. Dogville
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, James Caan, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Blair Brown
Plot: A young lady who appears to be running from trouble ends up in a small Colorado town where she agrees to work them since she has no money of her own. As innocent as the town seems she finds flaws and weaknesses just like in herself.
217. Stardust
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Jason Flemyng, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro
Plot: Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. A
young man promises to retrieve a fallen star for his love. He must travel
to a magical land full of adventures.
218. 5 Centimeters per Second ( Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura, Ayaka Onoue, Risa Mizuno, Yuka Terazaki
Plot: Two childhood friends, pulled apart by family and distance, arrange one final meeting.
219. Michael Clayton
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Gilroy
Actors: George Clooney, Pamela Gray, Sydney Pollack, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe, Tilda Swinton
Plot: Michael Clayton is a "Clean up man" or a "Fixer" at a law firm that
fixes people's legal problems by pulling strings of politicians and
powerful people.
He gets involved in a case that wreaks of corruption. He tries
desperately to get to the bottom of why the lead attorney has quit the
case and gone missing.
220. Inside Man
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Plot: The bank heist film with the catch phrase "This ain't no bank robbery!".
