Drama Movies 2005 List

With Channing Tatum • Samuel L. Jackson • Rob Brown • Brian Robbins • John Gatins • David Gale • Ashanti Douglas • Robert Ri'chard • Nana Gbewonyo • Thomas Carter • Michael Tollin • Mark Schwahn

Inspired by true-life story of controversial high-school basketball coach Ken Carter, who received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team for poor academic performance.

With Scarlett Johansson • Dennis Quaid • Paul Weitz • Selma Blair • Topher Grace • Clark Gregg • Chris Weitz • David Paymer • Marg Helgenberger • Philip Baker Hall

Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea (played by Topher Grace) is half his age--a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and "Krispity Krunch," an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters--Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16--and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant with a new child. Between college tuition, the mortgage and a new baby, Dan can't afford to lose his job in the wave of corporate layoffs. Carter, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Carter's uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Carter falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson).

With Nicolas Mauvernay • Philippe Du Janerand • Jacques Perrin • Jean-Baptiste Maunier • Marie Bunel • Christophe Barratier • Gérard Jugnot • Kad Merad • Arthur Cohn • Philippe Lopes-Curval

The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively effect the students' lives through music.