Crime Movies 2002 List

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Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is all about the mighty dollar and fashions himself as a businessman on par with Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Bill Gates. With an iron fist, he runs a successful "street pharmaceutical" business that peddles a heroin mix he has named Empire. His beautiful fiancée, Carmen, a Baruch College student, befriends a classmate with an investment-banker boyfriend, Jack Wimmer. Victor meets Jack, and they instantly connect. Both are hard-core businessmen from two different sides of the legal fence. When Jack offers Victor a piece of the action on the stock market, he sees his ticket out of the violent streets of the South Bronx and jumps at the opportunity. But there is a bigger price to be paid than clean money for his gorgeous new Soho lifestyle. For the first time, Victor is confronted with a price tag that he will find difficult to pay.

Franc Reyes, John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Nestor Serrano, Vincent Laresca, Denise Richards, Isabella Rossellini, Ruben Blades

58% WILL SEE

2.6 / 5

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Released Friday, December 20th

55%

3.1 / 5

(9)

Gangs of New York

Set during the mid 1800s, this story is based upon the non-fiction book of the same title by Herbert Asbury, about the beginning of the mob in America. The story centers around two rival gangs, the Dead Rabbits and the Native Americans. When the leader of the Dead Rabbits is murdered, his son Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) seeks revenge on the man held responsible Bill "The Butcher" (Daniel Day-Lewis).

Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Alberto Grimaldi, Jay Cocks, Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Zaillian, Steven Zallian, Kenneth Lonergan

55% WILL SEE

3.1 / 5

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Released Wednesday, December 25th

83%

4.3 / 5

(15)

Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) worked as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline—all before his 18th birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill gave him his first real claim to fame: At the age of 17, Frank Abagnale, Jr. became the most successful bank robber in the history of the United States. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) had made it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him, baiting him to continue the chase.

Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, Brian Howe, Jennifer Garner, Walter F. Parkes, Jeff Nathanson, Steven Spielberg

PG-13

83% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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Released Friday, December 27th

45%

3.8 / 5

(9)

Chicago

It's the long-awaited film version of the Broadway hit. Set in the roaring 20's, this is the story of Chicago chorus girl Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger), who shoots her unfaithful lover (Dominic West). Landing in jail, she meets Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), another chorus girl and murderess, currently enjoying media attention and legal manipulation, care of her attorney, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), king of the old "Razzle Dazzle." Soon enough, however, Flynn takes Roxie's case as well, and Velma finds herself old news as Roxie is now the most famous murderess in town, on her way to getting out of jail and becoming a star. The two go through a series of attempts at getting what they both want: freedom and fame.

Queen Latifah, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere, Rob Marshall, John C. Reilly, Christine Baranski, Dominic West, Catherine Zeta-Jones

45% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

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Released Friday, October 11th

22%

1 / 5

(2)

Knockaround Guys

The film follows four sons of well-known Brooklyn-based mobsters and their desperate fight to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff. As they unite to find the money, they come face-to-face with the bloodshed and betrayal that is their birthright.

Vin Diesel, John Malkovich, Seth Green, Tom Noonan, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Barry Pepper, Andrew Davoli

22% WILL SEE

1 / 5

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Released Friday, October 18th

33%

2.6 / 5

(5)

Welcome to Collinwood

When petty thief Cosimo is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in prison--the kind of job you dream about, the kind of job that the reprobates on the block refer to as a 'Bellini'--he has to get out of jail, fast. Opportunities like this don't come along every day for the hard-luck folks who hang around the streets of Collinwood, a working class neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. What Cosimo needs is a fall guy, a 'Mullinski,' somebody who needs the $15,000 Cosimo can offer more than they need one to three years of freedom. But with Cosimo stuck in the joint, it's up to his girl Rosalind to track down a patsy. But while no one wants to do the time for Cosimo's crime, everybody seems to know a guy who will--and for a share in the Bellini, they're willing to track him down. Before long, Rosalind has five guys trailing behind her, looking to get their bungling hands on a piece of the action. Led by Pero, a very amateur boxer who schemes to get the particulars of the job from Cosimo before leaving him in the joint to rot, the group assembles itself. The motley crew consists of: photographer and frustrated artist Riley, a single father with an infant on his hands who needs a thousand bucks to spring his wife from jail; Leon, who desperately wants to secure a better life for his sister, Michelle; Basil, a handsome Italian gigolo who's as broke as a one-wheeled wagon; and Toto, a thief way past his prime who's got nothing but time.

William H. Macy, Gabrielle Union, George Clooney, Anthony Russo, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jeter, Isaiah Washington, Joe Russo

33% WILL SEE

2.6 / 5

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Released Friday, September 6th

29%

3 / 5

(8)

City by the Sea

New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. But on his latest case, the stakes are higher for Vincent - the suspect he's investigating is his own son, Joey. Vincent and Joey have been painfully estranged ever since Vincent divorced Joey's mother and left the decaying boardwalks of Long Beach, Long Island for the anonymity of Manhattan and a successful career with the NYPD. He lives his life in solitude, keeping his girlfriend at arm's length; the closest relationship he maintains is with his partner, Reg - and Vincent makes sure that friendship stops at the precinct door. As long as Vincent lives in the protection of the present, he doesn't have to deal with the pain of his past - or his sorrow over his broken relationship with Joey. But this murder investigation is drawing Vincent home to Long Beach, the self-proclaimed "City by the Sea," where the past has been waiting for him to return. The agonizing memory that has tortured him all his life - the death of his father, a convicted murderer who was executed when Vincent was just a boy - still plagues him. In the course of the investigation, he discovers that his own unresolved pain and failures as a father have deeply influenced Joey's life, and the destructive choices he has made. As a cop, Vincent must bring a criminal to justice; as a father he must find a way to save his son. Now he will put his life on the line in order to do right by both his family and his profession.

Robert De Niro, Matthew Baer, James Franco, Patti LuPone, Michael Caton-Jones, Brad Grey, Elie Samaha, Ken Hixon

29% WILL SEE

3 / 5

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Released Friday, September 20th

1.3 / 5

(4)

Ecks vs. Sever

Haunted by the mysterious death of his wife, reclusive former FBI manhunter Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) is blackmailed back into service to track down an unstoppable ex-Defense Intelligence Agency operative, code-named Sever (Lucy Liu), who has kidnapped the young son of the head of a secret committee of international security agencies.

Lucy Liu, Ray Park, Terry Chen, Aidan Drummond, Gregg Henry, Talisa Soto

0% WILL SEE

1.3 / 5

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Released Friday, August 30th

47%

2.2 / 5

(11)

fear dot com

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.

Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea, Natascha McElhone, Udo Kier, Gesine Cukrowski, William Malone, Amelia Shankley, Jeffrey Combs

47% WILL SEE

2.2 / 5

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Released Friday, July 12th

100%

Road to Perdition

Theaters

A mob enforcer's son witnesses a murder, leading to a journey of revenge and redemption.

Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci, Sam Mendes, Dean Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck, David Self, Paul Newman, Jude Law

100% WILL SEE

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Released Friday, June 21st

67%

4.5 / 5

(14)

Minority Report

Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be's identity. When he kidnaps Agatha (Samantha Morton), one of the precogs, he begins to formulate a theory about a possible frame-up from within his own department.

Tom Cruise, Neal McDonough, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Samantha Morton, Steven Spielberg, Jessica Capshaw

PG-13

67% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

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