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This Week’s Movie Ratings

03/05/2001

Driven PG-13

Violence: Not Suitable
Sexual Content: Medium
Language: Medium
Drugs/Alcohol: Mild


Summary: Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue), a talented but unfocused rookie racecar driver, is slipping in the rankings and cracking under the pressure from his ambitious promoter brother, DeMille (Robert Sean Leonard). Bly is also pursuing an affair with Sophia (Estella Warren), the ex-girlfriend of his nemesis, top racer Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger). 

With so much riding on Bly, seasoned car owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds) seeks help from former racing star Joe Tanto (Sylvester Stallone) whose once-promising career spun out after a tragic accident that nearly killed him and another driver. In an effort to steer Bly to the top, Tanto must navigate his scarred emotional past, maneuver around the hovering presence of a reporter covering the male-dominated racing scene, and contend with Cathy (Gina Gershon), his ex-wife, who has since married rival racing sensation Memo Moreno (Cristian De La Fuente). 

Caught between success, failure, regret, and the need for speed, the four competitors are driven to put the pedal to the metal in pursuit of redemption and glory.

See Movie Review


The Forsaken R

Violence: Definitely Not Suitable
Sexual Content: Definitely Not Suitable
Language: Definitely Not Suitable
Drugs/Alcohol: Definitely Not Suitable


Summary: Sean (Kerr Smith) is on a cross-country road trip to attend his sister's wedding when he does the one thing he was warned not to do - he picks up a hitchhiker. Soon, this casual trip is transformed into a surreal nightmare of hapless victims and bloodletting vampires. Sean's new companion, Nick (Brendan Fehr), is infected with a deadly blood disease and has been tracking the blood letters. 

With each mysterious delay, Sean is in jeopardy of missing his sister's wedding. They pick up a dazed and frightened girl, Megan (Izabella Miko), who was left for dead by the vampires. Unfortunately, Megan is not only a victim but also human bait. Sean becomes infected and then forces Nick to tell him everything he knows about the legend of the Forsaken. He is informed that the only cure for their disease is to kill Kit (Johnathon Schaech), the vicious leader of the vampire gang. What started as a casual cross-country trip is now a deadly race against time.

Town And Country R

Violence: Medium
Sexual Content: Definitely Not Suitable
Language: Not Suitable
Drugs/Alcohol: Medium


Summary: Porter Stoddard (Warren Beatty), a supremely successful Manhattan architect, has just had an affair with Alex (Natassja Kinski), a beautiful cellist. Meanwhile, his best friend Griffin (Gary Shandling), also having an affair, is discovered when his wife Mona (Goldie Hawn) follows him one day.

Mona files for a divorce, not knowing that her husbands' lover is a man. Porter tries to pull his own life together before it's too late. Instead, he winds up making matters worse. After a series of comic mishaps, he finds his devoted wife Ellie (Diane Keaton) is suspicious of his whereabouts, and his soon-to-be adult children (Josh Harnett and Tricia Vessey) don't seem to need him anymore. 

As Mona and Ellie ponder over the foolish choices men make, Porter slips into a series of bizarre comic adventures. He and Mona grow dangerously close as his life with Ellie begins to fall apart. Not knowing what to do, Porter does what any other self-respecting American male would do - he escapes to Sun Valley Ski Resort with his best friend to search for some meaning to their quietly disintegrating lives. 

While there, they meet Eugenie (Andie MacDowell), a jet-setting heiress, and her daffy eccentric parents (Charlton Heston and Marian Seldes); Auburn (Jenna Elfman), the free-spirited owner of a bait and tackle shop; and Porters' lover, Alex, who may or may not be carrying Porters' child. 

Just as it becomes evident that neither man is the person he thought he was, each decides to use the one final weapon he has left - honesty. Suddenly, the lives of both couples come together in a raucous denouement as they seek to reclaim that part of themselves they seemed destined to forget.

Freddy Got Fingered (2001) R

Violence: Medium
Sexual Content: Definitely Not Suitable
Language: Definitely Not Suitable
Drugs/Alcohol: Not Suitable


Summary: Gord Brody (Tom Green) is a 28-year old struggling animator who is constantly harassed by his father (Rip Torn) who wants him to get a job and move out. At the beginning of the movie, we see Gord moving to Hollywood and trying to make it big. Working on the side at a factory placing cheese on sandwiches, he fails in his attempt and ends up going back home. 

The father-son relationship appears to be just an excuse to get the film going than anything sincere. Moreover, the sick and annoying comedic sequences in the film are so out of place that you want to leave before the first half is over. SEE REVIEW

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles PG-13

Violence: Not Suitable
Sexual Content: Not Suitable
Language: Medium
Drugs/Alcohol: Medium


Summary: Synopsis: He's back! Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan) returns to the screen - sporting a few more wrinkles and the same leather vest - thirteen years after his last adventure as Australia's topnotch croc hunter in Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. However, this time Mick Dundee is hunting cold-blooded beasts of a different breed in the middle of the concrete jungle.

The untimely death of a news reporter sends Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), Mick's common-law wife, scampering back to California to fill in at her father's Los Angeles newspaper office with Mick and their 9-year old son in tow. Within days, suspicions begin to surface about the reporter's demise. While Sue digs in to uncover the story, Mick and Mikey (Serge Cockburn) are loose in Hollywood - bumping into movie stars, learning to meditate from an unlikely teacher, and raising a stink on the L.A. freeway. 

However, when Sue's leads point to a small time movie studio, Mick goes undercover as a bit-part actor to find out what's really happening behind the scenes.

Josie And The Pussycats PG-13

Violence: Mild
Sexual Content: Medium
Language: Medium
Drugs/Alcohol: Mild


Summary: Tired of playing bowling alleys, band leader Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), bass guitarist Valerie (Rosario Dawson), and ditsy drummer Melody (Tara Reid) can't believe their good fortune when music manager Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) comes to sleepy Riverdale and offers them a huge record deal before even hearing them play. Suspicious at first, Josie and the girls figure they have nothing to lose. Jumping to the top of the charts faster than a cat can climb a tree, the group doesn't know that Wyatt uses rock star wannabes to further a huge brainwashing project operated by his boss Fiona (Parker Posey), the CEO of Mega Records. Through subliminal messages, Fiona can convince the populace to buy into anything, and utilizes quick success groups to deliver her message, then dumps them when their own egos become infected - like the boy band, Wyatt left on a nose-diving plane in the opening scene. Now the only question is how long will these "innocent" kittens have before Fiona puts them to sleep. This movie is based on the television cartoon series.

Joe Dirt PG-13

Violence: Not Suitable
Sexual Content: Not Suitable
Language: Not Suitable
Drugs/Alcohol: Mild


Summary: Life has never been easy for Joe Dirt (David Spade), the man with the permanent 70's coiffure. At age eight, his parents while on a trip, abandon him in the Grand Canyon. Shuttled from one dysfunctional foster home to the next, he finally resorts to living in the woods and stealing what he can to survive while tracing the fading footsteps of his missing family. A decade later we find Joe, now a custodian, sitting in the cushioned hot seat of Hollywood DJ Zander Kelly (Dennis Miller), a shoddy radio journalist who pulls the pitiful details from the janitor's sordid life for the interest of his daytime listeners. Dragging out the interview for several days, Kelly prods and probes the unlikely guest and baits his audience to tune in for the next installment of this loser's life. Reading like the front page of a supermarket tabloid, Joe's story is filled with characters as diverse as imaginable--the beautiful Brandy (Brittany Daniel) who befriends the wig-wearing outcast, a mysterious mid-western school janitor played by Christopher Walken, a carnival going seductress, and the unsavory Buffalo Bill. But despite these outrageous encounters and the incessant belittling Joe receives, we are forced to believe he remains unrelentingly upbeat.


Bridget Jones's Diary R

Violence: Mild
Content: Not Suitable
Language: Definitely Not Suitable
Drugs/Alcohol: Not Suitable


Summary: It's the beginning of a new year for Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger), a 32-year-old single woman who works at a London publishing house. Determined to improve her life by losing weight, cutting down on cigarettes and booze, and finding a man, Bridget begins keeping a diary to record her attempts and thoughts about such efforts. While the first two are up to just her, the latter obviously requires a willing man. 

Among her immediate choices is Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), a staid and proper but divorced barrister whom she's known but not particularly liked since they were kids. Then, there's Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), a terribly charming and handsome chap who just so happens to be her boss. After a bout of flirting, she chooses Daniel (who claims Darcy stole his fiancée in the past) and they begin a passionate affair. 

As one part of her life goes well, the other inevitably falls apart when she discovers her parents (Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones) are separating, and her mother is beginning a relationship with her boss, a TV shopping channel host. 

Bridget's close friends, Tom (James Callis), Shazza (Sally Phillips) and Jude (Shirley Henderson) couldn't be happier for her relationship while Darcy, who's involved with fellow lawyer Natasha (Embeth Davidtz), seems a bit disturbed by that and becomes somewhat interested in Bridget.

Blow R

Violence: Not Suitable
Sexual Content: Not Suitable
Language: Not Suitable
Drugs/Alcohol: Definitely Not Suitable


Summary: George Jung is the man credited with introducing cocaine to America, making it the hip drug of choice for Hollywood's beautiful people in the '70s, thereby ensuring that the rest of the country would soon be intrigued by this new candy. Director Ted Demme, working from a screenplay by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes, follows Jung from small-town boy with no obvious skills and no real dreams or ambitions as he slowly evolves from a low-level drug dealer (marijuana) into Pablo Escobar's point man in the burgeoning drug trade. Nevertheless, Demme and his screenwriters also capture the tone and vibes of a bygone era, one of free love and no foreseeable repercussions or consequences. SEE REVIEW

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