Drama Movies 2002 List

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

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

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

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