7.9

Fight for Your Right Revisited

2011, USA

• Actors: Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Rashida Jones, Will Arnett, Adam Scott, Mike Mills, Rainn Wilson, Arabella Field, Ted Danson, Roman Coppola, Shannyn Sossamon, Steve Buscemi, Amy Poehler, Mary Steenburgen, Alicia Silverstone, Laura Dern, Arthur Scipio Africano, Alfredo Ortiz, Milo Ventimiglia, Jody Hill, Silvia Suvadova, Jason Schwartzman, Losel Yauch, Chloë Sevigny, Kirsten Dunst, Maya Rudolph, Clint Caluory
• Genre: Short, Comedy, Music
• Director(s): Adam Yauch
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Following the conclusion of the storyline in the "Fight For Your Right" music video, the Beasties break into a liquor store, drop acid with groupies, and get into a breakdance competition with time-traveling future versions of themselves.

  8.1

The Help

2011,

• Actors: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis, Ted Welch, Shane McRae, Roslyn Ruff, Tarra Riggs, Leslie Jordan, Mary Steenburgen, Tiffany Brouwer, Carol Sutton, Millicent Bolton, Ashley Johnson, Ritchie Montgomery, Don Brock, Florence 'Flo' Roach
• Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Action, Sci-Fi, Family, Romance, Comedy, Crime, Adventure, Documentary, History, Musical
• Director(s): Tate Taylor
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times.

  6.7

The Proposal

2008, USA

• Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O'Hare, Malin Åkerman, Oscar Nuñez, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Nouri, Michael Mosley, Dale Place, Alicia Hunt, Alexis Garcia, Kortney Adams, Chris Whitney, Jerrell Lee, Gregg Edelman, Phyllis Kay, Kate Lacey, Gene Fleming, Mary Linda Rapelye, Anne Fletcher, B. Johnson, Alexander 'Alex' Garde, Niecy Nash, Salvatore Santone, G.A. West, Brian Bradbury, Desiree April Connolly
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Anne Fletcher
• Available languages:
  • English English.

For three years, Andrew Paxton has slaved as the assistant to Margaret Tate, hard-driving editor at a New York publisher. When Margaret, a Canadian, faces deportation for an expired visa, she hatches a scheme to marry Andrew - he agrees if she'll promise a promotion. A skeptical INS agent vows to test the couple about each other the next Monday. Andrew had plans to fly home that weekend for his grandma's 90th, so Margaret goes with him - to Sitka, Alaska - where mom, dad, and grams await. Family dynamics take over: tensions between dad and Andrew, an ex-girlfriend, Andrew's dislike of Margaret, and her past color the next few days, with the INS ready to charge Andrew with fraud.

  6.1

In the Electric Mist

2008, USA, France

• Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Kelly Macdonald, Mary Steenburgen, Justina Machado, Ned Beatty, James Gammon, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Levon Helm, Buddy Guy, Julio Cedillo, Alana Locke, Randy Austin, Sandra Leigh Babineaux, Samantha Beaulieu, Cindy Blanchard, Walter Breaux, Steve Broussard, Zach Broussard, Herman Brown, Andrea Frankle, Adella Gauthier, Danny Grisaffe, Gary Grubbs, Greg Guirard, Rio Hackford, Louis Herthum, Bernard Hocke, Richard Jones
• Genre: Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): Bertrand Tavernier
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.

  4.4

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

2008, USA

• Actors: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Natalia Klimas, Vincenzo Amato, Jesse Liebman, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Kelly, Seth Gilliam, Sándor Técsy, Kevin Brown, Steven Boyer, Sharon Wilkins, Sam Elliott, Mary Steenburgen, Kim Shaw, David Call, Dana Ivey, Wilford Brimley, Gracie Lawrence, Beth Fowler, Christopher Atwood, Bobbie Bates, Carol J. Connors, Brad Dulin, Laura Fremont, Michael Higgins, Brent Keast, Anthony Marciona, Sarah Mitchell, Mandy Moore
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Marc Lawrence
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Meryl and Paul Morgan have separated since his infidelity. He's a Manhattan lawyer, seeking forgiveness. She's moved on, focusing on real estate sales. As he walks her to an appointment one evening, pleading his case, they witness a murder; the murderer sees them. The FBI wants them in witness protection until the killer is caught. He's already hunting them. The FBI sends them to Ray, Wyoming, a tiny ranch town, where they stay with the aging sheriff and his gun-toting wife (who's his deputy). Meryl and Paul must sort out their relationship while their New York ways bump up against those of the West. Meantime, Meryl knows two things that Paul doesn't.

  5.4

The Open Road

2008, USA

• Actors: Justin Timberlake, Ted Danson, Harry Dean Stanton, Mary Steenburgen, Kate Mara, Jeff Bridges, Bret Saberhagen, Robert Casserly, Tony Sanford, Kevin Foxx, Paxton Brown, Douglas M. Griffin, Wayne Douglas Morgan, Clay Chamberlin, Yohance Myles, J. Omar Castro, E. Roger Mitchell, Ann Marie Guidry, Lawrence Turner, Michael P. Cahill, James Palmer, Donna DuPlantier, Karson Kendall, Yvonne Landry, Billy Slaughter, Allen O. Battle III, Lyle Lovett, Ryan Rottman, Laurie Foxx, Katrell Dixon
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Michael Meredith
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Carlton Garrett, son of Hall of Famer Kyle Garrett, plays minor league ball in Corpus Christi. He's in a slump when his grandfather calls to say that his mother, in Houston, is refusing a heart operation she needs to prolong her life. She says she won't have the operation until Kyle, her ex-husband, comes to see her. So Carlton, with his close friend Lucy, who used to be his girlfriend, goes to Columbus, Ohio, where Kyle is signing autographs. They haven't spoken in four years. Will Kyle go to Texas or will he find a way to duck out, as he's done for years? In addition to the father and son relationship, what about Lucy, and what about the slump?

  5.6

Four Christmases

2007, USA, Germany

• Actors: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw, Kristin Chenoweth, Katy Mixon, Colleen Camp, Jeanette Miller, Jack Donner, Steve Wiebe, Zak Boggan, Skyler Gisondo, True Bella Pinci, Patrick Van Horn, Marissa Tejada Benekos, Cedric Yarbrough, Brian Baumgartner, Peter Billingsley, Sterling Beaumon, T'y Brown, Ryder Bucaro, Callie Croughwell, Taylor Geare, Zachary Gordon, Reef Graham
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Seth Gordon
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Brad and Kate have been together three years, in love, having fun, doing all sorts of things together with no intention of marriage or children. Christmas morning, they're on their way to Fiji, having told their two sets of divorced parents that they're off to do charity work. Through a fluke, they have no choice but to visit each of their four idiosyncratic parents. As the day progresses, Brad and Kate remember growing up, each learns more about the other, and Kate realizes that her life may not be as good as it could be. Do they know each other well enough to weather the storms families bring?

  6.7

Step Brothers

2007, USA

• Actors: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Andrea Savage, Lurie Poston, Elizabeth Yozamp, Logan Manus, Travis T. Flory, Lili Rose McKay, Shira Piven, Seth Morris, Wayne Federman, Maria Quiban, Danielle Schneider, Gillian Vigman, Brian Huskey, Seth Rogen, Chris Henchy, Mary Catherine Hamelin, Ian Roberts, Erica Vittina Phillips, Phil LaMarr, Rob Riggle, Jason Davis, Paula Killen, Ken Jeong, Horatio Sanz
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Adam McKay
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both about 40 when Brennan's mom and Dale's dad marry. The sons still live with the parents so they must now share a room. Initial antipathy threatens the household's peace and the parents' relationship. Dad lays down the law: both slackers have a week to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic disarray compounded by the boys' sleepwalking. Hovering nearby are Brennan's successful brother and his lonely wife: the brother wants to help sell his step-father's house, the wife wants Dale's attention, and the newlyweds want to retire and sail the seven seas. Can harmony come from the discord?

  6.7

Numb

2007, Canada, USA

• Actors: Matthew Perry, Lynn Collins, Kevin Pollak, Bob Gunton, Helen Shaver, William B. Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Benjamin Ratner, Noah Danby, Monique Ganderton, Mark Acheson, Patricia Harras, Brad Ganes, Ingrid Torrance, Brian George, Graham Kosakoski, Jovanna Huguet, Burkely Duffield, Suzanne Serwatuk, Angela Besharah, Jerry Rector, Benjamin Ayres, Donny James Lucas, Barry W. Levy, Rachel Hayward, Reg Tupper, Melanie Yeats, Keegan Tracy, Tony Alcantar, Peter Hall
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Harris Goldberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.

  6.4

Nobel Son

2006, USA

• Actors: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, Lindy Booth, Tracey Walter, Ted Danson, Ernie Hudson, Hal B. Klein, Kevin West, Kirk Baily, Dawn Balkin, Marina Black, Mark Charran, Greg Collins, Reid Collums, Lucy DeVito, Tiffany Downey, Bennett Dunn, Mark Famiglietti, Mary Pat Gleason, Brendon Graham, Joyce Guy, Larry Hankin, Juliette Jeffers, Matthew Kimbrough, Joe Koons
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Randall Miller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge. In the words of Michel De Montaigne, the 16th century philosopher: "There is more barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead."

  6.8

The Brave One

2006, USA, Australia

• Actors: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen, Ene Oloja, Luis Da Silva Jr., Blaze Foster, Rafael Sardina, Jane Adams, Gordon MacDonald, Zoë Kravitz, John Magaro, Victor Colicchio, Jermel Howard, Dennis L.A. White, Julia Garro, James Biberi, Brian Delate, Lenny Venito, Carmen Ejogo, Dana Eskelson, Angel Sing, Yolande Bavan, Ivo Velon, Tina Sloan, Jaime Tirelli, Larry Fessenden, An Nguyen, Brian Tarantina
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Neil Jordan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

David Kirmani,a medical professional, lives in an apartment with his sweetheart, Erica Bain, a radio host, and his dog. They usually take the dog out for a stroll in nearby Central Park and let him run and fetch. One day while at the park they let the dog run without a leash, and when he does not return or respond to their calls, they frantically search for him. They eventually find him being held by three men who want a reward. When David refuses, they start to molest Erica and David intervenes. Two of the men assault the couple, while the third uses a camcorder to film this incident. Erica is knocked unconscious, and regains her senses several days later in a hospital. She is told the shocking news that David was killed and the dog is missing. A traumatized Erica returns home to try and regain her life. She also visits the police station but does not get much help. Fearful of a repeat of this type of incident, she gets an unlicensed gun and carries it with her all the time. One day she witnesses some youths terrorizing subway passengers, forcing them to get off at the next station. When they approach her, she shoots them dead. She uses her gun several more times, always gunning down people committing violent crimes. One day she is summoned to the police station to identify a man who may have been responsible for David's death and the assault on herself. She does recognize him, but refuses to identify him. Subsequently she finds out his whereabouts and plans to avenge her lover's death, not realizing that Detective Mercer has her as a suspect in the recent killings and is set to apprehend her. The question remains: will Erica be able to avenge David's death and her attack before being arrested herself?

  6.8

The Dead Girl

2006, USA

• Actors: Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Don Smith, Michael Raysses, Earl Carroll, Dorothy Beatty, Eva Loseth, Giovanni Ribisi, Rose Byrne, Joanie Tomsky, James Franco, Christopher Allen Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Bruce Davison, Kate Mulligan, Mary Beth Hurt, Nick Searcy, Dan Callahan, Gus Buktenica, Marcia Gay Harden, Bobby Hosea, Lee von Ernst, Kerry Washington, Carla Jimenez, Gillian Pernoll, Elizabeth Pernoll, Brittany Murphy, Daniel Leavitt, Lea Nicole Carranza, Amy Benedict
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Karen Moncrieff
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In Los Angeles, a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.

  6.8

Elf

2002, USA, Germany

• Actors: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Edward Asner, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel, Daniel Tay, Faizon Love, Peter Dinklage, Amy Sedaris, Michael Lerner, Andy Richter, Kyle Gass, Artie Lange, Leon Redbone, Ray Harryhausen, Claire Lautier, Ted Friend, Patrick Ferrell, Patrick McCartney, Jon Favreau, Annie Brebner, Lydia Lawson-Baird, Brenda McDonald, Meghan Black, Luke Pohl, Patrick Baynham, Michael Roberds, Peter A. Hulne, Patrick Hulne
• Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Jon Favreau
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.

  7.4

I Am Sam

2001, USA

• Actors: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Richard Schiff, Laura Dern, Brad Silverman, Joseph Rosenberg, Stanley DeSantis, Doug Hutchison, Rosalind Chao, Ken Jenkins, Wendy Phillips, Mason Lucero, Scott Paulin, Bobby Cooper, Kit McDonough, Kimberly Scott, Michael B. Silver, Caroline Keenan, Eileen Ryan, Mary Steenburgen, Marin Hinkle, Chase MacKenzie Bebak, Rafer Weigel, Emiko Parise, Pamela Dunlap, Brent Spiner, David Nathan Schwartz
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Jessie Nelson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.

  6.9

Gulliver's Travels

1996, UK, USA

• Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Phoebe Nicholls, Karyn Parsons, Edward Petherbridge, John Standing, John Wells, Alfre Woodard, Edward Woodward, Peter O'Toole, Warwick Davis, Kate Maberly, Tom Sturridge, Annette Badland, Mac McDonald, George Harris, Ricco Ross, Gordon Sterne, John Bardon, Geraldine Chaplin, Graham Crowden, John Gielgud, Isabelle Huppert, Shashi Kapoor, Kristin Scott Thomas
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Charles Sturridge
• Available languages:
  • English English.

All star adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satirical tale about a normal man who, after returning home following eight years of absence, relates fantastical tales about how he was thought to be giant in the Land of Lilliput, but was only six inches high in the Land of Brobdingnag. He also tells of his visit to the floating island of Laputa populated by scientists who are so obsessed with reason that they act with no common sense. Finally, he tells of his journey to the land where his disturbing likeness to the bestial Yahoos and his inferiority to the intelligent horses there makes him question the very worth of his humanity.

  6.2

Powder

1995, USA

• Actors: Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Brandon Smith, Bradford Tatum, Susan Tyrrell, Missy Crider, Ray Wise, Esteban Powell, Reed Frerichs, Chad Cox, Joe Marchman, Phil Hayes, Danette McMahon, Tom Tarantini, Woody Watson, Alex Morris, Brady Coleman, Barry Berfield, Paula Engel, Meason Wiley, Dee Macaluso, James Huston, Bill Grant-Minchen, Bonnie Gallup, Sean Cain, David Scott Heck, Darla Rae, Barry Strickland
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Victor Salva
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When sheriff Barnum investigates the death of an elderly rural resident, he discovers a teenage grandson living in the basement. Raised by his grandparents, he has experienced the world only through books, never leaving the family farm. He is sent to a state home for boys where he has trouble fitting in socially. His odd appearance and unusual abilities cause the small town residents to fear and ridicule him. However, not all are afraid. Some begin to view his potential and gifts with wonderment.

  7.8

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993, USA

• Actors: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Darlene Cates, Laura Harrington, Mary Kate Schellhardt, Kevin Tighe, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover, Penelope Branning, Tim Green, Susan Loughran, Robert B. Hedges, Mark Jordan, Cameron Finley, Brady Coleman, Tim Simek, Nicholas Stojanovich, Libby Villari, Kay Bower, Joe Stevens, Mona Lee Fultz, George Haynes, Daniel Gullahorn, David H. Kramer, Drew Ebersole, Paulette Rubinstein, Peter Fernandez, Mary Griffin
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Lasse Hallström
• Available languages:
  • English English.

What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realization unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.

  7.6

Philadelphia

1993, USA

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, Karen Finley, Daniel Chapman, Mark Sorensen Jr., Jeffrey Williamson, Charles Glenn, Ron Vawter, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Lisa Talerico, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Robert Ridgely, Chandra Wilson, Ford Wheeler, David Drake, Peter Jacobs, Antonio Banderas, Paul Lazar, Bradley Whitford, Lisa Summerour, Freddie Foxxx, Paul Moore, Warren Miller, Lauren Roselli, Jane Moore, Joey Perillo
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Jonathan Demme
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him. After Andrew is fired, in a last attempt for peace, he sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller. During the court battle, Miller sees that Beckett is no different than anyone else on the gritty streets of the city of brotherly love, sheds his homophobia and helps Beckett with his case before AIDS overcomes him.