The film tracks several intertwined stories around Rio County Texas. The main character is reluctant Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) who has little heart for the politics or tough-on-crime policies that the job requires. Sam got the job because of his father, legendary Sheriff Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey) who is remembered as fair and just…
Mole’s underground home is knocked in when the field is bulldozed by Weasels; the field has been owned by Mr. Toad (Terry Jones), who has sold it to finance his latest fad; caravanning. Mole (Steve Coogan) flees to the river and meets the Water Rat (Eric Idle), who is getting ready to embark on a…
The film tells the story of Isabel Archer (Kidman), an innocent young woman of independent means who is manipulated by her “friend” Madame Merle (Hershey) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (Malkovich).
In 1898, Sir Robert Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson), the primary financier of a railroad project in Tsavo, Kenya, is furious because the project is running behind schedule. He seeks out the expertise of John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer), a military engineer, to get the project back on track. Patterson travels by train to Tsavo, where he…
Tom Thompson (David Schwimmer) is a 25-year-old man who sleeps in a bunk bed and lives with his mother. One day Tom is contacted by his high school classmate’s mother, Ruth Abernathy (Barbara Hershey), to tell him that his ‘best friend,’ Bill Abernathy, committed suicide, and is asked to give a eulogy at the funeral.…
The film is set during World War II and depicts a critically burned man, at first known only as “the English patient,” who is being looked after by Hana, a French-Canadian nurse in an abandoned Italian monastery. The patient is reluctant to disclose any personal information but through a series of flashbacks, viewers are allowed…
When Martians surround Earth with an armada of flying saucers, President James “Jimmy” Dale addresses America concerning the historic event. People around the country follow the story, including news anchors in New York, employees and guests at the Luxor Las Vegas hotel in Nevada and a trailer trash family in fictional Perkinsville, Kansas. The President’s…
A policeman from the macho attitudes gets drunk and wakes up in the bed of a mechanic homosexual. From that moment one doubts his sexual orthodoxy, because he happens to go in white with a beautiful colleague. He also investigates the trafficking of stolen cars, and it turns out that the mechanic by which the…
A mentally fragile woman is pushed over the edge by the death of her brother, to whom she was inordinately close.
Matthew Poncelet has been in prison for six years, awaiting his execution by lethal injection for killing a teenage couple. Poncelet committed the crimes with a man named Carl Vitello, who received life imprisonment. As the day of his execution comes closer and closer, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to help him with a final appeal.…
