41. Soul Surfer
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sean McNamara
Actors: Dennis Quaid, AnnaSophia Robb, Jeremy Sumpter, Helen Hunt, Carrie Underwood, Craig T. Nelson
Plot: A young, female surfer battles back after suffering a near-fatal shark attack that results in the loss of an arm.
42. The Tree of Life
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Joanna Going, Fiona Shaw, Jessica Chastain, Jackson Hurst
Plot: The Tree of Life follows one boy, Jack - one of three brothers as he goes through life - as a child everything seems filled with wonderment, but as he grows, and his parents vie for his attention, sickness, death all take that sense of wonderment away. As an adult, Jack is disillusioned - a lost soul in a modern world - as he searches for meaning in the grand scheme of existence.
43. Red Dog
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kriv Stenders
Actors: Rachael Taylor, Josh Lucas, Noah Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Luke Ford, Eamon Farren
Plot: About a kepi dog who roamed the Australasian outback and brought a community together while searching for its master.
44. Miss Representation
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Actors: Margaret Cho, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Condoleezza Rice, Rosario Dawson, Katie Couric
Plot: Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary explores how women of power and influence are often overlooked, ignored or debased by mainstream media and what this accepted practice means for the average woman in American society.
45. Oranges and Sunshine
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Loach
Actors: Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham, Lorraine Ashbourne, Tara Morice, Clayton Watson
Plot: Based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who discovered a secret the British government tried to keep hidden: the forced migration of 130,000 children, many of whom suffered abuse, and nearly singlehandedly brought to scandal to world-wide attention.
46. Limitless
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Neil Burger
Actors: Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Robert John Burke
Plot: A man thinks he has solved all his problems when an untested, top-secret drug makes him smarter, leading to financial and social success. But he never considered the side effects or the people who want to keep the drug to remain a secret.
47. Super 8
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Amanda Michalka, Ron Eldard, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich
Plot: A group of six children filming a home movie with a Super 8 camera witness a horrific train crash on a remote railway crossing. Yet the crash is only the beginning of the ordeal, as the train bound from Area 51 carries an inhuman cargo that has now been set free.
48. Tyrannosaur
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Paddy Considine
Actors: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell, Ned Dennehy, Samuel Bottomley
Plot: A man consumed by anger and rage is destroying himself, until he meets a Christian charity shop worker. Yet a secret she hides threatens to derail both their lives.
49. Into the Abyss
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Werner Herzog, Michael Perry
Plot: Werner Herzog's intimate look into the mind of killer, the people affected and if capital punishment is the answer.
50. The Lincoln Lawyer
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brad Furman
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, John Leguizamo, Margarita Levieva, William H. Macy
Plot: A lawyer who works out of the back of his Lincoln Continental has made a living defending small-time cases, but he lands a the case of a lifetime when a Beverly Hills playboy murder comes his way but he soon realizes that the case makes him a target as well.
