 42% (3) Wild Card 92 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Simon West] [14 Jan 2015]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 31%, Metacritic: 40%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Dominik García-Lorido, Hope Davis, Jason Statham, Michael Angarano Writer: William Goldman (based on the novel 'Heat' by), William Goldman (screenplay by) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing. Rotten Tomatoes: Simon West directs this remake of the 1987 Burt Reynold action thriller in this Sierra/Affinity production starring Jason Statham as a paid enforcer who goes after a gang leader when a group of thugs beat up a personal friend. William Goldman provides the script. 1 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  60% (3) Charlie Bartlett 97 min R [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Jon Poll] [22 Feb 2008]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 57%, Metacritic: 54%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Robert Downey Jr. Writer: Gustin Nash External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Although cheerful, friendly, intelligent, well-dressed, authentic and wealthy, Charlie Bartlett has problems. With his father gone and his mother loopy and clueless, he's been expelled from every private school for his victimless crimes. Now he's in a public school getting punched out daily by the school thug. He ever longs to be popular - the go-to guy - and the true crux of his troubles is that he invariably finds the means to this end, whatever that might be. At Western Summit High, he makes peace with his tormentor by going into business with him - listening to kids' problems and selling them prescription drugs. Charlie's a hit, but attraction to Susan (daughter of the school's laissez-faire principal), new security cameras on campus, a student's overdose, and Charlie's open world view all converge to get him in serious trouble. Can this self-made physician possibly heal himself and just be a kid? Rotten Tomatoes: Longtime film editor Jon Poll (Meet the Fockers and Austin Powers in Goldmember) makes his directorial debut with this coming-of-age comedy about a wealthy public school system newcomer (Anton Yelchin) who wins over his skeptical classmates by serving as a surrogate psychiatrist to the troubled student body. Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, and Kat Dennings co-star. 2 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 69% (3) The Matador 96 min R [Comedy, Crime, Thriller] [Richard Shepard] [27 Jan 2006]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, Metacritic: 65%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. Actors: Arlin Miller, Azucena Medina, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Jonah Meyerson, Pierce Brosnan Writer: Richard Shepard External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Spanish Country: Ireland, Germany, USA Plot: A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both forever. Rotten Tomatoes: A chance meeting between two middle-aged men leads one into a life of crime in this offbeat comedy. Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) is an American businessman whose life has been going through a sour patch after he and his wife, Carolyn (Hope Davis), lost their young son. During a business trip to Mexico City, Danny strikes up a conversation in a hotel bar with fellow out-of-towner Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan), and while Julian's loud and brassy manner initially puts Danny off, in time the two become friends, and Julian feels comfortable enough with Danny to tell him what he does for a living. It seems Julian is a hired killer working under the auspices of underworld kingpins Lovell (Dylan Baker) and Mr. Randy (Philip Baker Hall), and Julian tries to persuade Danny to help him with his latest assignment. Danny refuses, but a few months later a distraught Julian appears unannounced on Danny's doorstep. It seems Julian has blown his two most recent assignments due to a variety of psychosomatic illnesses, and now Lovell and Mr. Randy want him dead. Julian has also done something to put Danny in his debt, and the previously non-criminal businessman is forced to help his friend stage a hit, with Julian's presence in his home upsetting the precarious balance of Danny and Carolyn's marriage. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi 3 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  62% (3) The Weather Man 102 min R [Comedy, Drama] [Gore Verbinski] [28 Oct 2005]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 59%, Metacritic: 61%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Gemmenne de la Peña, Hope Davis, Michael Caine, Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage Writer: Steve Conrad External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA, Germany Plot: Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life -- his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children -- is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family. Rotten Tomatoes: A man struggles to get a grip on a life that's spinning out of control in this emotional comedy drama. Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) is a television weatherman on a high-profile Chicago news program. Professionally, Dave is doing just fine -- he makes great money for a job that demands little effort, and he has a shot at an assignment with a network morning news and chat show. But Dave's personal life leaves a lot to be desired -- his father, respected author Robert Spritzel (Michael Caine), is in failing health, he's divorced from his wife, Noreen (Hope Davis), and his relationship with his children is tenuous at best, especially his overweight daughter, Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena). If Dave is to land his new job, he'll have to move to New York City, and with his time in Chicago running short, he dedicates himself to trying to salvage his ties with his family before it's too late, though he discovers this is even harder than he imagines. 4 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 80% (3) About Schmidt 125 min R [Comedy, Drama] [Alexander Payne] [03 Jan 2003]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 85%, Metacritic: 85%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 25 wins & 69 nominations. Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates Writer: Louis Begley (novel), Alexander Payne (screenplay), Jim Taylor (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often hilarious series of events follow as Schmidt embarks on an unpredictable RV journey to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver. Rotten Tomatoes: Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman, who at age 66 has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys him, and he disapproves of the man his daughter is about to marry. When his wife suddenly dies, he sets out to postpone the imminent marriage of his daughter to a man he doesn't like, while coping with discoveries about his late wife and himself in the process. 5 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  57% (3) Hearts in Atlantis 101 min PG-13 [Drama, Mystery] [Scott Hicks] [28 Sep 2001]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 49%, Metacritic: 55%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 8 nominations. Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem Writer: Stephen King (book), William Goldman (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man, who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Bobby, Carol, and Sully) share their lives. Carol and Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss 'by which all others will be measured'. Bobby lives with his mother, a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder, who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the 'lowmen', who were seeking him. The two share a summer's adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully also changes everyone. Rotten Tomatoes: One of the short stories in a best-selling collection by author Stephen King becomes this mystery adapted for director Scott Hicks by screenwriter William Goldman, who previously transformed a King story into a box-office hit (Misery, 1990). In the summer of 1960, young Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin) is sharing adventures with his best friends Carol (Mika Boorem) and Sully (Will Rothhaar) when an enigmatic lodger named Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins) rents a room in his family's boarding house. Bobby's self-absorbed, widowed mother Liz (Hope Davis) couldn't care less about her son, so Bobby, who is being tormented by local bullies, quickly befriends the otherworldly Ted, becoming his confidante, and reading the paper to him to save the aging man's failing eyesight. Soon, Bobby learns that Ted possesses supernatural gifts, has a haunted past, and is being pursued by sinister men whose intentions are unclear. Hearts in Atlantis co-stars David Morse, who appeared in the previous King adaptation The Green Mile (1999), as the adult Bobby. 6 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 66% (3) Arlington Road 117 min R [Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Mark Pellington] [09 Jul 1999]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 62%, Metacritic: 65%, External Reviews Awards: 5 nominations. Actors: Hope Davis, Jeff Bridges, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins Writer: Ehren Kruger External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: In suburban Reston, Virginia, George Washington University American History professor Michael Faraday is still mourning the death of his wife, FBI agent Leah Faraday, after three years. His inside knowledge of the agency colors what he teaches in his classes. Although on good terms with Leah's ex-partner, Whit Carver, and the agency in general, Michael wants the agency at least to acknowledge their responsibility in her death in the line of duty. Michael is moving on with his personal life, he being in a serious relationship with his former teaching assistant Brooke Wolfe. Although he likes Brooke, Michael and Leah's nine year old son, Grant Faraday, may not yet be quite ready for Brooke to be a permanent part of their lives. It is only in helping adolescent Brady Lang who he sees in medical distress that Michael meets his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang, Brady's parents. In the process, Michael and Brooke becomes friends with the Langs, as Grant and Brady become friends. However, the more time that he spends with them and catches discrepancies in their stories, Michael becomes suspicious that the Langs may not be everything they appear on the surface. As such, Michael, against Brooke's concerns of invasion of the Lang's privacy, begins his own investigation of Oliver in particular. What Michael discovers has serious national security implications, as well as possible life threatening dangers to him, Brooke and Grant. Rotten Tomatoes: In this taut thriller, Michael Faraday is a college professor whose wife, an FBI agent, was killed by members of an extremist right-wing terrorist group. When Michael becomes friendly with his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang, he begins to suspect that something isn't quite right. 7 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  62% (3) Mumford 112 min R [Comedy, Drama] [Lawrence Kasdan] [24 Sep 1999]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 56%, Metacritic: 62%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Alfre Woodard, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Loren Dean Writer: Lawrence Kasdan External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: The story of two Mumfords - one a small town, the other a man. Mumford, the town, is full of people with problems, from a teenage girl who is unhappy with her looks to a local billionaire, 'the king of modems', who would trade everything away if he could. So when Micky Mumford, the man, turns out to be a psychologist with slightly unusual methods he soon finds a spot in people's heart as someone to whom they can tell their secrets. But Micky too has a secret, and that one's about to hunt him down. Rotten Tomatoes: Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed this comedy about a young psychologist named Mumford (Loren Dean), who arrives in a small town and sets up a practice. Mumford's style is short on analytic mumbo-jumbo and long on practical advice, and he soon finds that he has a long list of satisfied clients in his new home town, including many of the city's most prominent citizens. Mumford's advice also helps love bloom among the city's single residents. However, the city already had a psychologist, Ernest Delbanco (David Paymer), who is quickly losing business to Mumford. So Ernest starts asking questions: who is this Mumford, and just what are his qualifications? Mumford's supporting cast includes Ted Danson, Martin Short, Alfre Woodard, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, and Pruitt Taylor Vince. 8 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 71% (3) Next Stop Wonderland 104 min R [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Brad Anderson] [21 Aug 1998]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, Metacritic: 71%, External Reviews Awards: 3 wins & 2 nominations. Actors: Alan Gelfant, Callie Thorne, Hope Davis, Ken Cheeseman, Philip Seymour Hoffman Writer: Brad Anderson, Lyn Vaus External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Erin is a nurse and her longtime boyfriend has dumped her. Her mother Piper places a personal ad for her. Meanwhile the film follows the life of Alan, a volunteer at a local aquarium who dreams of becoming a marine biologist. Will their paths cross? Rotten Tomatoes: Boston-based filmmaker Brad Anderson, (The Darien Gap) directed this drama about registered nurse Erin Castleton (Hope Davis), who is dumped by her political-activist boyfriend. Her mother, Piper (Holland Taylor), who runs a successful modeling agency, feels a personal ad in the paper will solve the problem. It's possible she could meet aquarium worker Alan Monteiro (Alan Gelfant), as their paths keep them in close proximity, but destiny seems more inclined to make her a twosome with friendly Brazilian Andre (Jose Zuniga), returning soon to Sao Paulo. Will she travel to Brazil with him? Shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. 9 / 9 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |