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Desperate Housewives: Season Two
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Teri Hatcher
Felicity Huffman
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Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood, after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor.
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Down In The Valley
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Edward Norton
Evan Rachel Wood
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When a wild teenage girl (Evan Rachel Wood) invites a gas station worker named Harlan (Edward Norton) to go to the beach with her friends, a serious relationship ensues. Soon the two are sneaking behind her father's (David Morse) back to see each other. Harlan, who believes is a true cowboy, begins to reveal his true colors and scares his newfound love, Tobe. When she decides to cool things off, she realizes she may have made a mistake in getting involved with the older stranger. Harlan, desperate to win Tobe back, develops an odd relationship with her younger brother, Lonnie (Rory Culkin) and shows the boy how to survive in the Wild West.
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Dark Water
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Jennifer Connelly
Pete Postlethwaite
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When newly divorced mom Dahlia (Jennifer Connolly), rents an apartment, it looks like a new start for her and daughter Ceci (Arial Gade). But it's an uphill battle with ultra-creepy maintenance man Veeck (Pete Postlethwaite) and the apartment's owner (John C. Reilly) to get a nasty, recurring water leak in her ceiling fixed and Dahlia soon finds herself and her daughter pulled into a horrific journey of discovery with the apartment upstairs – and its long gone tenants - taking center stage.
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Desperate Housewives: The Complete First Season
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Felicity Huffman
Marcia Cross
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Audiences were captivated by the women of Wisteria Lane in the first season of Desperate Housewives, the breakout hit from ABC that almost single-handedly lifted the network from its ratings doldrums and brought back the classic TV soap, remixed now with satire, comedy, and mystery. An affectionate yet darkly tinged send-up of suburbia that skirted Twin Peaks territory as much as that of Knots Landing, Desperate Housewives opened with a bang--literally--as perfect-seeming housewife Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) went through her picture-perfect day before putting a handgun to her temple and pulling the trigger. Mary Alice's sudden suicide leaves her four closest friends, all housewives of a sort, with a surfeit of grief, a re-examination of their own lives, and a mystery to solve. It also proves to be a catalyst for a seamy study of what goes on inside the finely appointed homes of Wisteria Lane--the tales of which Mary Alice narrates from beyond the grave with a sardonic tone dipped in both honey and arsenic. There's Martha Stewart-perfect Bree (Marcia Cross), who rules her household with an iron fist in a tailor-made garden glove and seems to have it all, until she finds out her husband (Steven Culp) is cheating on her--and had a serious fetish habit to boot. Sultry Gaby (Eva Longoria), the youngest of the set, is a bored trophy wife whose predilection for shopping and clothes are the perfect decoy for her affair with the hunky teenage gardener (Jesse Metcalfe). Former career woman Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is the most stereotypical housewife, raising four (or was it five?) kids and frustrated at using her cutthroat business skills for suburban politics. And daffy Susan (Teri Hatcher), the divorcee looking for love, sees her prospects brighten with the arrival of hunky plumber Mike (James Denton), who has some desperate secrets of his own. And did we mention the neighborhood hussy (Nicollette Sheridan), the snotty busybody (Christine Estabrook), and Mary Alice's increasingly agitated son (Cody Kasch)? It was a fast and wild mix of plot and characters that gave Desperate Housewives the zing that made it a number one hit, as it never got too bogged down in any dilemma before moving on to the next. And though it was neither as hard-hitting nor salacious as it was trumpeted to be, the show nevertheless breathed fresh, funny air into comedy television, for even though it hewed to the hour-long soap format, the content was far more dark comedy than sudsy drama. There were fun bright spots to be had, but the story behind Mary Alice's death--which included drugs, murder, blackmail, secret identities, and vengeance in equal amounts--hovered over all the characters, tingeing the farce with the specter of danger. The show's other source of strength is in its peerless ensemble cast, headed by four perfect leading ladies, all Emmy-worthy. Hatcher received the (deserved) lion's share of praise (and a Golden Globe), but her co-stars--especially the underrated Longoria--matched her scene for scene. And though the mystery of Mary Alice's death was ultimately solved (no Twin Peaks teasing here), it was just the beginning of the troubles on Wisteria Lane, where no life went unexamined for too long. --Mark Englehart
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Daredevil
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Ben Affleck
Paul Ben-Victor
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"Daredevil" is a movie based on the comic book superhero. The film features Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, alias Daredevil. A childhood accident leaves Murdock blinded. However, his other senses become much more acute after this tragedy, giving him ultra sensitive hearing and other heightened senses. As he grows up, he learns to try acrobatic moves and take a lot of physical risks. He practices martial arts and daring jumps, which are things which aid him in becoming the superhero Daredevil. As an adult, Murdock works as a lawyer by day, but a crime fighter by night. Despite being blind, he is a skilled fighter and battles injustices which he encounters through his day job as an attorney. The main enemy in the movie is Bullseye, portrayed by Colin Farrell. Bullseye is hired by a criminal overlord to battle Daredevil. A side plot is the introduction of Electra, played by Jennifer Garner. A budding friendship between Electra and Daredevil is apparently ended when it appears that she has been killed by Bullseye. The plot revolves around introducing the superhero and his ongoing conflict with Bullseye.
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Daddy Day Care
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Eddie Murphy
Jeff Garlin
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The movie opens upon Charlie Hinton and his colleague Phil trying to pitch a new vegetable cereal for kids. After the campaign flops, Charlie and Phil lose their jobs and become stay-at-home dads while looking for work. Taking care of their kids together gives Charlie and Phil the idea of starting a day care. They figure that supervising a whole day care can't be much harder than looking after their own kids. But they find themselves in way over their heads, and enlist the help of Marvin at the day care. Things begin to turn around, and Charlie even starts to bond with his own son and experience the joys of parenting. Daddy Day Care ends up giving the expensive, high-profile preschool in town a run for its money!
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Dances With Wolves
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Kevin Costner
Rodney A. Grant
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The epic western Dances With Wolves is the story of a lone man sent to the American frontier during the Civil War. After heroically rallying his unit while attempting to commit suicide, John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is given the opportunity to be reassigned and chooses a distant frontier post. When Dunbar reaches his post he finds it has been abandoned and left in ruins by the previous soldiers stationed there. Refusing to leave his post he sets out to fix things and soon finds himself in contact with a local Sioux tribe and begins a diplomatic undertaking with them. While befriending the Sioux, he meets Stands With a Fist (Mary McDonnell) who is a white woman raised by the Sioux, and eventually marries her. Receiving the name Dances With Wolves from the natives because of his pet wolf, Two Socks, Dunbar slowly becomes very enveloped in the Sioux life near to forgetting that he isn't one of them. That all changes when the Army comes to reclaim his post and everything changes for him as he becomes the enemy of a state on the edge of the Native American frontier.
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Dead Silence
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Michael Fairman
Julian Richings
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Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) decides to take matters into his own hands when his wife, Lisa (Laura Regan) dies gruesomely in their apartment after a mysterious package containing a ventriloquism doll arrives at their doorstep. Returning home determined to solve the crime, he begins investigating the curse of Mary Shaw (Judith Roberts), a murdered ventriloquist who was buried with her dolls. But he is in for more than he expected when he delves into the mystery behind the old rhyme that warns never to scream or you’ll be dead. With a cynical cop (Donnie Wahlberg) following his every move, Jamie is determined to uncover the truth and put an end to this nightmare.
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Death Of A President
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Hend Ayoub
Brian Boland
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Death of President is a hypothetical documentary from a future that never happened. Utilizing a cast of relative unknowns, the movie employs digitally remastered and computer generated footage of actual speeches of George W. Bush to insert fictional characters for the story to revolve around. The movie examines the 'historical' circumstances and consequences of the assassination of American president George W. Bush, taking on the imagined perspective of an unofficial chronology piecing together events and perspectives surrounding the crime. With many parallels to the actual historical assassination of American President, John F. Kennedy, the story in "Death of a President" is presented as a series of interviews, reenactments, and security camera footage of the event, combined with the opinions and motives of those involved. The movie seeks to paint the picture of an official conspiracy theory around these elements. Controversial upon it’s release, the movie is even handed, and quite possibly the ultimate “what if”.
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Dedication
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Bob Balaban
Charlene Biton
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Henry (Billy Crudup) is a children’s book author who absolutely hates women. The only person he can call a friend is Rudy Holt (Tom Wilkinson). Rudy is an illustrator, and the only one with whom Henry consents to collaborate on his books. Henry writes, and Rudy illustrates- it’s a system that has worked well for both men for many years. On one project, Rudy can’t work with him, and Henry must find a replacement. He is forced to work with a female illustrator, Lucy (Mandy Moore). Henry must either learn to put aside his misogynistic ways so that Lucy can help him, in more ways than one.
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Delicatessen
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Dominique Pinon
Marie-Laure Dougnac
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Former clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) arrives from a post apocalyptic Paris and moves into a boarding house above a butcher’s shop. Times are tough and the butcher, Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) has taken to selling human meat. Clapet gives Louison the job of maintenance man in the run down boarding house, where the other guests include a man who lives in the cellar with a colony of snails and frogs, a suicidal woman who hears voices, Clapet’s daughter Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac) and Mademoiselle Plusse (Karin Viard) who is Clapet’s mistress. After he rescues her packet of biscuits from the ravenous and greedy lodgers Louison is invited for tea by Julie and a romance begins to bloom. Meanwhile the other house guests are counting the days until the butcher kills Louison so that they can have him for dinner. Julie is determined to save her new man so she heads to the sewers to commission the Troglodytes (an underground organisation) to kidnap Louison. Unfortunately on the very night Clapet determines to kill Louison the Troglodytes kidnap the wrong person so it’s left to Julie and Louison to fend for themselves.
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Derailed
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Vincent Cassel
Clive Owen
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The main character Charles meets a woman named Lucinda on a train and they become attracted to each other. The two meet in a hotel and prepare to have sex when a man breaks into their room attacking Charles and raping Lucinda. They do not report the crime, fearing that their spouses would find out. After the incident, Charles receives a call demanding $20,000 to keep the incident secret and he pays, but later receives another call demanding $100,000. He asks a friend for advice who agrees to help him fight off the blackmailer. They prepare to meet the man but the friend is shot in the car and dies. The blackmailer calls the next day demanding the money and threatening to kill Lucinda and Charles pays, but afterwards, Charles finds out that Lucinda and the blackmailer are a couple working together in a scam. He finds Lucinda in the process of luring another man and bursts into the room. After a fight, Charles kills everyone and gets his money back but is sent to jail for embezzling the money to pay his friend. In jail, Charles finds the blackmailer, who survived the fight, and stabs him to death.
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Dogville
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Nicole Kidman
Harriet Andersson
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In Dogville a mysterious woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman) takes up hiding out from a mafia manhunt in the aptly named town of Dogville. The entire film is shot in a soundstage, with chalk outlines on the floor serving as the very set in which the actors interact with each other. In the film Grace meets a well-intentioned if self-righteous local named Tom (Paul Bettany), and with his help the varied townsfolk, including his father Tom Sr. (Philip Baker Hall), Ma Ginger (Lauren Bacall), Chuck (Stellan Skarsgård), Vera (Patricia Clarkson), Martha (Siobhan Fallon), and Liz (Chloë Sevigny) are convinced to conditionally assist her in hiding out, that is until the heat from the mob and constabulary is turned up. With the risk rising, the nature of the residents of Dogville starts to reveal itself in their continued demands from Grace, leading to a shocking resolution that leaves the viewer questioning whether we are defined by how we appear in the best light, or in the darkest shadows.
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Double Jeopardy
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Tommy Lee Jones
Ashley Judd
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A woman named Elizabeth Parsons (Ashley Judd) is framed and consequently convicted of the murder of her husband, Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood). She spends about six years in jail and during that time she finds out that her husband is alive, and that he faked his death. She finds out that he also has taken her son from her friend whom she left her son with when she was sent to jail. A friend then tells her about the concept of "double jeopardy" (that you cannot be tried for the murder of the same person twice). Knowing this, she plots her revenge and sets out to find her husband and her son. At one point an investigator named Travis Lehman (Tommy Lee Jones) catches on to what she is about to do and starts following her.
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Dragonheart: A New Beginning
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Christopher Masterson
Harry Van Gorkum
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When Geoff, an orphaned stable boy (Chris Masterson), discovers Drake (voice of Robby Benson), the world's last living dragon...
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