Top grossing: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
$345,141,403
Summary: On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.
Starring: Jim Carrey
Director: Ron Howard – Willow, Backdraft, Far and Away, Apollo 13, Ransom, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Rush, In the Heart of the Sea
Writer: Jeffrey Price – Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Wild Wild West
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Best picture: Gladiator
Summary: A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Starring: Russell Crowe), Djimon Hounsou ,Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Director: Ridley Scott – From Alien, Blade Runner, GI Jane, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, American Gangster, Body of lies, The Martian
Writer: David Franzoni – Amistad, King Arthur
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Critically Acclaimed: Almost Famous Meta Score 90
Summary: A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances Mcdormand, Jason Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Writer / Director: Cameron Crowe – Say Anything, Jerry MaGuire, Vanilla Sky, and Aloha(terrible POS…if there is a god, Cameron will judged for his of this movie)
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Personal favorites:
High Fidelity
Summary: Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
Starring: John Cusack, Todd Louiso, Jack Black
Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: D.V. DeVincentis
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Snatch
Summary: Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Vinnie Jones, Dennis Farina, Jason Statham
Writer / Director: Guy Ritchie – Lock Stock 2 smoking barrels, RocknRolla, sherlock holmes
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Final Destination
Summary: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Sean William Scott
Director: James Wong – The one, final Destination 3,
Writer: Glen Morgan – the one, a bunch of TV Stuff
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Unbreakable
Summary: A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis, Robin Wright
Writer / Director: M. Night Shyamalan – lady in the water, the village, signs, split
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The Perfect Storm
Summary: An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.
Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, William Fichtner, John Hawkes
Director: Wolfgang Petersen – das boot, the neverending story, outbreak, air force one, troy
Writer: William D Wittliff
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Honorable Mentions
Cast Away
What lies Beneath
Crouching Tiger
Remember the titans
American Psycho
Shaft
Requiem for a dream
Whole Nine Yards
Memento
Tigerland
Movies I Really didn’t like
Mission Impossible II
What Women Want
Meet the Parents
Miss Congeniality
Dude Where’s My Car
Coyote Ugly
BattleField Earth
Un Honorable Mentions
The Yards
Red Planet
Ladies Man
Vertical Limit
Bring it on
Shanghai Noon
Charlie’s Angels
Box office bombs:
The adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
76m Budget – Made 35m at box office
Robert De Niro, Jason Alexander
Battlefield Earth 70m-100m Budget
Box Office 29.7
John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Berry Pepper
Red Planet 80m budget
Box Office 33.5m
Val Kilmer, Carrie Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore
Supernova 90m budget
Box Office 14.8
James Spader, Angela Bassett
Titan AE 80m Budget
Box Office 36.8
Matt Damon