1997 movies

Odyssey, The (1997)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | Greece | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Assante, Armand | Scacchi, Greta | Rossellini, Isabella | Peters, Bernadette | Roberts, Eric | Papas, Irene | Krabbé, Jeroen | Chaplin, Geraldine | Lee, Christopher | Williams, Vanessa | Clay, Nicholas | Anastassopoulos, Adoni | Baeza, Paloma | Cook, Ron | Asato, Reid
Directors: Konchalovsky, Andrei
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This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic—replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat—chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!

G.I. Jane (1997)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Mortensen, Viggo | Stephen Ramsey | Gregg Bello | Vadim, David | Hopkins, Josh | Wilson, Scott | Higgins, John Michael | Morris Chestnun | David, Angel | Boyd Kestner | Bancroft, Anne | Moore, Demi | von Bargen, Daniel | Jenney, Lucinda | Beghe, Jason | Jim Caviezel | Gage, Kevin | Warshofsky, David
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the elite Navy SEALS commando force. Lt. Jordan O’Niel is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O’Niel is determined to prove everyone wrong.

Wishmaster (1997)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Lauren, Tammy | Divoff, Andrew | Englund, Robert | Lemmon, Chris | Benson-Landes, Wendy | Crane, Tony | O'Hara, Jenny | Hodder, Kane | Todd, Tony | Ross, Ricco | Byner, John | Flower, George 'Buck' | Palmer, Gretchen | Raimi, Ted | Scrimm, Angus
Directors: Kurtzman, Robert
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In ancient Persia, an evil creature called the Djinn wreaks havoc on a local kingdom before being sealed inside a stone - a fire opal. Centuries later, the stone, encased in a statue, is discovered when the statue is broken apart in a loading accident. A young gemologist, Alexandra Amberson, examines the jewel to appraise it. But she unwittingly awakes the horrible Djinn inside. Soon the Djinn is loose on the streets, twisting people’s wishes and and killing them so he can steal their souls. Eventually the Djinn disguises himself as an elegant man-about-town, Nathaniel Demarest. In both human & Djinn form, he pursues Alexandra to trick her into making three wishes, to enable his unholy legions to conquer the Earth…

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Thewlis, David | Wong, B. D. | Mako | Denzongpa, Danny | Wong, Victor | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Wangchuk, Jamyang Jamtsho | Tsamchoe, Lhakpa | Pema, Jetsun | Dongtse, Ama Ashe
Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques
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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.

Jackie Brown (1997)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Crosby, Denise | Grier, Pam | Jackson, Samuel L. | Forster, Robert | Fonda, Bridget | Keaton, Michael | De Niro, Robert | Bowen, Michael | Tucker, Chris | Hamilton, Lisa Gay | Lister Jr., Tom 'Tiny' | Winston, Hattie | Haig, David | Graham, Aimee | Williams, Ellis | Ambrose, Tangie
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin
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Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss’ gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don’t even know. Here’s when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you’re talking about him, you’re dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That’s when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max’s help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff…

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Hurley, Elizabeth | York, Michael | Rogers, Mimi | Wagner, Robert | Green, Seth | Udenio, Fabiana | Sterling, Mindy | Dillon, Paul | Napier, Charles | Ferrell, Will | Richter, Joann | Sakelaris, Anastasia | Alaouie, Afifi | Mazur, Monet
Directors: Roach, Jay
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Austin Powers (Myers) is a 60’s spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990’s. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortuantly for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington (Hurley) to stop the evil Dr. Evil (Myers), who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90’s) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil’s henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!

Scream 2 (1997)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Kennedy, Jamie | Metcalf, Laurie | Neal, Elise | O'Connell, Jerry | Olyphant, Timothy | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Schreiber, Liev | Arquette, Lewis | Martin, Duane | Gayheart, Rebecca | de Rossi, Portia
Directors: Craven, Wes
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It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, “The Woodsboro Murders,” which has been turned into the film, “Stab,” starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film’s play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his “surrogate sister.” But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up!

Life Less Ordinary, A (1997)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Diaz, Cameron | Hunter, Holly | Lindo, Delroy | Hedaya, Dan | McNeice, Ian | Kanig, Frank | Winkler, Mel | Tucci, Stanley | Decker, Anne Cullimore | Dodds, K.K. | Shalhoub, Tony | Gorham, Christopher | Holm, Ian | Chaykin, Maury
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss’s daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two “angels” who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The “angels” are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor.

Orgazmo (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bachar, Dian | Raab, Robyn Lynne | Jacobs, Michael Dean | Jeremy, Ron | Kemler, Andrew | Dunn, David | Matt Stone | Walters, Toddy | Lain, Chasey | Ashton, Juli | Maki, Masao | Arsenault, Joseph | Schubert, Jeff | Singh, Desi
Directors: Parker, Trey
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Joe Young is a young Mormon actor who preaches the word of God in LA and can’t get anything from it. One day he stumbles on the set of new porno movie shot by well known porn director Maxxx Orbison. Maxxx chooses Joe for the title part in his new movie Captain Orgazmo. Joe soon befriends short and skinny Ben Chapleski (his sidekick in the film), who invented a ray-gun which emits a light beam that causes the most intense orgasm in whoever it hits (called Orgasmorator). Unexpectedly movie Captain Orgazmo becomes a cult hit, and Joe’s girlfriend Lisa accidentally sees the movie in the video store - and the problems begin.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Spacey, Kevin | Thompson, Jack | Hall, Irma P. | Law, Jude | Alison Eastwood | Hipp, Paul | Chablis, Lady | Loudon, Dorothy | Haney, Anne | Hunter, Kim | Lewis, Geoffrey | Herd, Richard | Rippy, Leon | Gunton, Bob
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim’s violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim’s buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy’s murder, Kelso has his hands full.