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Subgenre Sampler
Contender, The (2000)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges… - Strongly performed political thriller centred around the confirmation of Vice–Presidential candidate Joan Allen, whose enemies try every trick…
Gossip (2000)- Dir. Davis Guggenheim
Feat. Lena Headey, Kate Hudson, Norman Reedus… - Three media students decide to create a story out of pure, unfounded gossip, targeting a affluent and prudish classmate. The story of her sexual…
Mr. Rice's Secret (2000)- Dir. Nicholas Kendall
Feat. David Bowie - David Bowie is the 400–yr old ‘friend’ of a terminally ill boy who is directed into a magical adventure in this British–Canadian…
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (2000)- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson, Robin Laing, Charles Dance - A rather fascinating speculation which dramatises the real–life relationship between "Sherlock Homes"–author Arthur Conan Doyle (Laing)…
O (Othello) (2000)- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles - Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Pledge, The (2000)- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren… - Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson. As…
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke - The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
Sins, The (TV Mini-series) (2000)- Feat. Pete Postlethwaite, Geraldine James, Frank Finlay…
- BBC miniseries with Pete Postlethwaite playing an aging getaway driver who decides to go straight – after one last robbery. A light hearted…
Takedown (2000)- Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Skeet Ulrich, Tom Berenger - This telemovie depiction of infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, who went on the run in the 1990s, is less flashy than expected, with some…
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