August 2002 Movies

With Joaquin Phoenix • Mel Gibson • M. Night Shyamalan • Rory Culkin • Abigail Breslin

A thriller set in Bucks County, Pennsylvania focusing on the mysterious appearance of a five-hundred-foot design of circles and lines carved into a family's crops. Mel Gibson stars as Graham Hess, the family patriarch, who is tested in his journey to find the truth behind the unfolding mystery. Joaquin Phoenix is Merrill Hess, brother to Graham and a former minor league baseball star.

With Tom Hanks • Lainie Kazan • Joey Fatone • Nia Vardalos • Joel Zwick • Michael Constantine

Toula is 30. And unmarried. Which means as a nice Greek girl -- she's a failure. All her cousins did the right thing -- married Greek boys and made Greek babies. So everyone worries: what will become of Toula? Then one day she sees the ultimate unattainable guy and realizes the only way her life will get better is if he gets away from her big, fat Greek family. Toula escapes from the family restaurant. She exchanges her seating hostess jacket for a college diploma, convinces her aunt to give her a new job, and trades in her coke-bottle glasses for contact lenses, just in time for "him" to walk back into her life. Ian Miller is tall, handsome but defnitely not Greek. Their courtship is an Olympian culture clash. Can Ian handle Toula, her parents, her aunts, uncles, cousins and several centuries of Greek heritage? Will Toula discover the love she's been missing right in the heart of her big, fat family? One thing is for sure, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, with Ian's proposal Toula is headed for her big, fat Greek wedding.

With Steve Buscemi • Robert Rodriguez • Bill Paxton • Carla Gugino • Alexa Vega • Danny Trejo • Daryl Sabara • Ricardo Montalban • Elizabeth Avellan

With Michelle Rodriguez • Faizon Love • Kate Bosworth • Brian Grazer • Karen Kehela • Sanoe Lake • Matthew Davis • Mika Boorem • John Stockwell • Lizzy Weiss

Nothing gets between Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) and her board. Living in a beach shack on Oahu with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Working as a hotel maid to pay the bills, Anne Marie finds everything else she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis) comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt.

With Aaron Eckhart • Gwyneth Paltrow • Toby Stephens • Jennifer Ehle • Lena Headey • Jeremy Northam • Graham Crowden • Trevor Eve • Neil LaBute

Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), a brilliant English academic given to doing things by the book, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel LeMotte (Jennifer Ehle). Roland Mitchell (Aaron Eckhart) is an upstart American scholar in London on a fellowship to study the great Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), now best known for a collection of rapturous, late-life poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to LaMotte, they follow a trail of clues across England to the Continent, echoing the journey of the impassioned couple a century earlier.

With Robin Williams • Connie Nielsen • Michael Vartan • Gary Cole • Christine Vachon • Pamela Koffler • Eriq LaSalle • Dylan Smith • Mark Romanek • Stan Wlodkowski

Robin Williams portrays Sy Parrish, a lonely photo technician at the local SavMart one-hour photo counter who develops an unsettling obsession with long time customers, the Yorkin family, with whom he invents a familial connection.

With Al Pacino • Winona Ryder • Evan Rachel Wood • Andrew Niccol • Jason Schwartzman • Catherine Keener • Pruitt Taylor Vince • Stanley Anderson • Sean Cullen • Jay Mohr • Rebecca Romijn-Stamos • Susan Chuang • Rachel Roberts • Chris Coppola • Tony Crane • Robert Musgrave • Jeffrey Pierce

The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world.

With Wesley Snipes • Ving Rhames • Master P • Michael Rooker • Wes Studi • Fisher Stevens • Walter Hill • Michael Bailey Smith • Peter Falk • Steve Heinze

A heavyweight-boxing champ is accused of raping a woman and sent to prison. There he faces the prison-boxing champ.

With Amy Adams • Cedric the Entertainer • Reginald Hudlin • Matthew Perry • Bruce Campbell • Elizabeth Hurley

Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) might just have one of the worst jobs in the world, but he'll stop at nothing to do it. A down-and-dirty process server with ingenious methods of laying legal documents on everyone from mobsters to millionaires, Joe is a man determined to serve his man - or woman - at all costs. Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) is Joe's next victim. Her conniving partner, Gordon (Bruce Campbell), a wealthy cattle rancher with whom she has amassed a fortune, has hired Joe to serve Sara with papers that threaten to cut her off. While at first Sara might not know what hit her, once the shock wears off, she's ready to strike back and go after waht she's entitled to - the money she earned with Gordon, a sizeable chunk of his ego...and just maybe a shot at true love.

With Stephen Rea • Jeffrey Combs • Stephen Dorff • Udo Kier • Natascha McElhone • Amelia Shankley • Nigel Terry • Gesine Cukrowski • William Malone

When four bodies are discovered in New York City, brash detective Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health researcher Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to uncover the cause of their inexplicable deaths. The only link between the dead is that they each died exactly 48 hours after logging on to feardot.com.