Drama Movies 2003 List

With Peter Dinklage • Bobby Cannavale • Michelle Williams • Patricia Clarkson • Mary Jane Skalski • Paul Benjamin • Jayce Bartok • Maile Flanagan • Thomas McCarthy • Raven Goodwin • Joe Lo Truglio • Robert May • Kathryn Tucker

When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly-friendly Cuban hot dog vendor.

With Gina Gershon • Drea de Matteo • Marc Blucas • Eddie Driscoll • Shelly Cole • Lori Petty • Ivan Martin • Ashley Drane • Shakara Ledard • Nancy Pimental • Greg Rikaart

"Prey for Rock & Roll" is the adrenaline-filled story of a contemporary LA all-girl punk band led by singer/guitarist Jacki (Gina Gershon), bassist Tracy (Drea De Matteo), lead guitarist Faith (Lori Petty), and drummer Sally (Shelly Cole). The directing debut of esteemed music supervisor/producer Alex Steyermark, the film captures the color and energy of a veteran band struggling to make it while personal obstacles and disturbing new events threaten to tear them apart.

With Sarah Polley • Parker Posey • Don McKellar • Olympia Dukakis • Cynthia Preston • Joanna Adler • Brent Carver • Jane Leeves • Rejean Cournoyer • Gianna Marciante • Jaclyn Markowitz • Glen Michael Grant • Christina Zorich • Thom Fitzgerald

Posey plays a district attorney in New York investigating a series of unexplained deaths in the gay community. As she digs deeper, she discovers some shocking facts behind the cases.

With François Maistre • Claude Chabrol • Benoît Magimel • Nathalie Baye • Suzanne Flon • Bernard Lecoq • Mélanie Doutey • Thomas Chabrol • Kevin Ahyi • Henri Attal • Caroline Baehr • Didier Bénureau • Françoise Bertin • Jérôme Bertin • Yvon Crenn • Michèle Dascain • Marius de Laage • Jean-Marc Druet • Michel Herbault • Edmond Kastelnik • Isabelle Mamère • Jean-Pierre Marin • Juliette Meyniac • Léa Pellepaut • Yves Pignot • Dominique Pivain • Valérie Rojan

The film follows the story of a respected upper middle class family whose high social stature is burst following a murder. Chabrol reexamines the individual family members' lives in the time period leading up to the crime unveiling their secrets and probing their character.

With Rachael Leigh Cook • Henry Thomas • Hilary Swank • Tripp Vinson • Ben Foster • Clark Gregg • Jason Segel • Patrick Swayze • Rick Gomez • Barbara Hershey • Blake Heron • Stark Sands • Greg Marcks • Mark Damon • Sammy Lee • Stewart Hall • Raju Patel • Jeff Kwatinetz • David Scott Rubin

"11:14" tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. It's a sort of musical chairs with a corpse, with the structurally intriguing storytelling style of Memento and Run Lola Run. The story starts at - 11:14pm - one evening with a young man named Jack who is driving down the freeway, on his way to a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His car hits a body at that moment. Thinking he killed him, Jack tries to hide the body. From there, we backtrack to follow the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge and become party to Jack's hitting the body at 11:14pm.

With Dustin Hoffman • John Cusack • Cliff Curtis • Rachel Weisz • Arnon Milchan • Gary Fleder • David Levien • Christopher Mankiewicz • Jeremy Piven • Bruce McGill • Bruce Davison • Nora Dunn • Stanley Anderson • Brian Koppelman • Nick Searcy • Rusty Schwimmer • Gene Hackman • Rhoda Griffis • Bill Nunn • Guy Torry • John Grisham • Matthew Chapman

n their first film together, screen legends Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman face off in this electrifying nail-biter about a ruthless jury consultant who'll do anything to win. With lives and millions of dollars at stake, the fixer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a jury member (John Cusack) and a mysterious woman (Rachel Weisz) who offer to "deliver" the verdict to the highest bidder.

With Hayden Christensen • Rosario Dawson • Steve Zahn • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Hank Azaria • Billy Ray • Chloë Sevigny • Peter Sarsgarrd

Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks. "Shattered Glass" is a study of a very talented - and at the same time very flawed - character. It is also a look inside our culture's noblest profession, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called into question.

With Gwyneth Paltrow • Daniel Craig • Blythe Danner • Christine Jeffs • Jared Harris • Michael Gambon

This is the true story of the romance and marriage of American poet/novelist Sylvia Plath (Gwyenth Paltrow) and English poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Born in Boston during the Great Depression, Plath first attended Smith College, which was also the setting for her first suicide attempt. Receiving a Fulbright scholarship, she traveled to England to attend Cambridge, where she met a dashing young poet who would win her heart, and ultimately become her husband. Their marriage was rocky, however, and they eventually separated in 1963 when Hughes broke her heart by taking on another lover, Assia Wevill. Crushed, Plath attempted suicide again... and was successful. Hughes went on to publicly accept responsibility for causing her lethal anguish.

With Tim Blake Nelson • Josh Lucas • Kate Bosworth • Val Kilmer • Dylan McDermott • Christina Applegate • Lisa Kudrow • Ted Levine • Janeane Garofalo • Eric Bogosian • M.C. Gainey • Natasha Gregson Wagner • Frankie G. • James Cox

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call at 8763 Wonderland Avenue and soon discovered a grisly quadruple homicide, later compared to the gruesome slaughter at the Tate household at the hands of the Charles Manson family 10 years earlier. Ron Launius (Josh Lucas), Billy Deverell (Tim Blake Nelson), Barbara Richardson (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and Joy Miller (Janeane Garofalo) were brutally murdered, and Ron's wife Susan (Christina Applegate) was left in critical condition. The police investigation that followed - led by detectives Sam Nico (Ted Levine), Louis Cruz (Frankie G.) and Mike Peters (M.C. Gainey) - would unearth a seedy world of drugs and violence, ultimately revealing a motley crew from LA's underbelly including ex-con David Lind (Dylan McDermott), nightclub impresario Eddie Nash (Eric Bogosian), the most unlikely of American heroes - porn legend John Holmes (Val Kilmer) - Holmes' estranged wife Sharon (Lisa Kudrow) and his teenage lover Dawn Schiller (Kate Bosworth).

With Cate Blanchett • Colin Farrell • Joel Schumacher • Brenda Fricker • Gerard McSorley • Ciarind Hinds

Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for the Dublin Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down by assasins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed.

With Robert Downey Jr. • Mel Gibson • Adrien Brody • Carla Gugino • Robin Wright • Katie Holmes • Jeremy Northam • Kiva Dawson • David Dorfman • Keith Gordon

Chicago residential novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.), crippled by a horribly severe case of psioriasis, starts rewriting his 1950s noir novel "The Singing Detective" in his mind in a desperate effort to hang on to his sanity. Becoming the title character himself, he heads off in pursuit of Nazis in the 1940's who serve in place of his own personal demons. With the help of eccentric psychologist, Dr Gibbon (Gibson), who uses the book as a road map into the Dan Dark's psyche, he slowly liberates himself from the trauma of his childhood.

With Cuba Gooding Jr. • Ed Harris • Alfre Woodard • Mike Rich • Riley Smith • Debra Winger • S. Epatha Merkerson • Sarah Drew • Brian Robbins • Michael Tollin

This is the decades-long story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach (Ed Harris) in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) whom he mentors, who before that had always been the target of jokes and teasing by the community. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk, from 1964 when he first starts helping the Hanna Yellow Jackets football team, through a 38+ career with the school that continues today.

With Mark Ruffalo • Kevin Bacon • Meg Ryan • Jennifer Jason Leigh • Nick Damici • Susanna Moore • Jane Campion • Effie Brown

Based on the best-selling novel by Susanna Moore, "In the Cut" is a psychological thriller starring Meg Ryan and directed by Jane Campion. Ryan plays a lonely New York woman who discovers the darker side of passion after becoming involved with a tough homicide detective, who is investigating a series of murders in her neighborhood.

With Angelina Jolie • Clive Owen • Martin Campbell • Teri Polo • Noah Emmerich • Linus Roache

This love story chronicles the romance that develops between an American disaster relief doctor (Clive Owen) and an aristocratic philanthropist socialite (Angelina Jolie) who keep meeting over several years in countries torn apart by wars and disasters.

With Nicole Kidman • Anthony Hopkins • Wentworth Miller • Kerry Washington • Ed Harris • Gary Sinise • Anna Deavere Smith • Clark Gregg • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Margo Martindale • Harry Lennix • Lizan Mitchell • Danny Blanco Hall • Robert Benton • Scott Steindorff • Jacinda Barrett • Ron Canada • Phyllis Newman • Kristen Blevins • Mili Avital • Nicholas Meyer • Philip Roth

Set in a small New England college town, this drama follows the story of a respected classics professor with a terrible secret. His life starts crumbling after an affair with a young janitor is uncovered and the secret he had harbored for over 50 years is about to explode in a conflagration of devastating consequences.