Drama Movies 2007 List

With Denzel Washington • Russell Crowe • Ron Howard • Ridley Scott • Josh Brolin • Carla Gugino • Steve Zaillian • John Ortiz • Brian Grazer • Yul Vazquez • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Dania Ramirez • Ted Levine • Terry George

Based on the life of drug-kingpin-turned-informant, Frank Lucas, who grew up in segregated North Carolina where he watched as his cousin was shot by the Klan for looking at a white girl. He eventually made his way to Harlem where he became a heroin kingpin by traveling to Asia's Golden Triangle to make connections, shipping heroin back to the US in the coffins of soldiers killed in Vietnam. He soon made upwards of one million dollars a day in drug sales. Lucas was shadowed by lawman, Richie Roberts, who finally helped bring the kingpin to justice. The two then worked together to expose the crooked cops and foreign nationals who made importing heroin so easy.

With John Cusack • Sophie Okonedo • Oliver Platt • Corey Sienega • Ed Albert • Bobby Coleman • Menno Meyjes • David Kirschner • Toby Emmerich • Seth Bass • Jonathan Tolins • Mark Kaufman • Matt Moore • David Gerrold • Mike Drake

The romantic drama "Martian Child" stars John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister (Joan Cusack) and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be true. Based