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Edward Norton gives an impassioned performance as Derek Vinyard a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail his mind opens and he sees the error of his ways. Upon reentering the real world he must now turn his attentions to his younger brother Danny who is swiftly heading down the same path as his brother. Controversy surrounded the film when director Tony Kaye disowned it claiming that Norton had the film re-edited without Kaye's permission. Norton still got an Oscar Nomination for his intense performance.

George Jung Johnny Depp doesn't want to live like his father Ray Liotta--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother Rachel Griffiths. So he sets off for California to live on the beach where he finds he can make a living selling drugs. Soon George's drug dealing business expands into shipping drugs across the country. Needing a bigger supply of drugs he travels to Columbia and meets Pablo Escobar Cliff Curtis. Before long George becomes the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the United States. In BLOW director Ted Demme and scriptwriters Nick Cassevetes and David McKenna chart George's strange course into a world of girls and sun drugs and fun. It's all so easy until events change George's life forever. Depp gives one of his best performances as George instilling the character with a complicated mixture of emotions. For the supporting roles Demme's eccentric casting includes German actress Franka Potente as George's girlfriend; Spanish actress Penlope Cruz as his wife; Australian actress Rachel

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Spike Lee's bracing adaptation of David Benioff's novel is a vibrant vital motion picture. Edward Norton plays Monty Brogan a harmless drug dealer who has 24 hours of freedom before serving a seven-year jail sentence. Nervous confused and terrified Monty turns to his closest friends for support: Frank Slattery Barry Pepper a cocky stockbroker who resents Monty for throwing his life away; Jakob Elinsky Philip Seymour Hoffman a hapless high school teacher who is attracted to one of his students Anna Paquin; and Monty's heartbroken father Brian Cox who blames himself for Monty's demise. And then there is Naturelle Rosario Dawson Monty's beautiful girlfriend who may or may not be guilty of ratting Monty out to the cops. Monty spends his last day trying to ignore the inevitability of time but everyone and everything only reminds him of the bleak unpromising days that lay ahead. With 25TH HOUR Spike Lee revisits the fiery territory of 1989's DO THE RIGHT THING. Frustrated by Hollywood's cold shoulder toward the tra

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Tony Curtis stars as Lepke, head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that spattered the headlines of the day with blood. From his rough-and-toumble East Side childhood to his rise in the drug trade to his 1944 execution at Sing Sing, Lepke depicts with brute force the criminal career of a man with more than 60 murders to his credit.

John Q. Archibald Denzel Washington is struggling through a recession trying to provide for his son Mikey Daniel E. Smith and his waitress wife Kimberly Elise. Mikey collapses at a Little League game and is rushed to a hospital. The situation is bleak. Only a heart transplant will save Mikey's life. John's HMO refuses to cover the expensive surgery. With the hospital and his insurance provider unwilling to help and his wife pleading with John to act he takes matters into his own hands holding the hospital's renowned heart surgeon James Woods and several others hostage in an emergency care wing until the surgery will be performed. Nick Cassavetes directed this attack on the American health care system. Like his previous feature SHE'S SO LOVELY Cassavetes proves adept at mining the political ramifications out of human drama. The film criticizes hospitals and health care providers for working in collusion against the working class. This moving drama is propelled by the intense lead performance by Washington as o

In Clint Eastwood's MYSTIC RIVER a murder mystery in South Boston unites three men who have been friends since childhood. Grippingly powerful performances from the entire cast--Sean Penn Tim Robbins Marcia Gay Harden Kevin Bacon Laurence Fishburne and Laura Linney--combined with gritty photography an exceptionally emotional script and a convincing working-class Boston setting make this film one of Eastwood's most consistent and penetrating works. Though they live in the same houses where they grew up Jimmy Penn Dave Robbins and Sean Bacon have drifted apart over time. Their distance is due to a disturbing and violent episode that occurred when they were children. Even now as adults married with kids they have never managed to overcome their fear and guilt about what happened. Dave and his wife Harden still live next door to Jimmy who is married to a tough-sexy blond Linney and has three daughters. When Jimmy's 19-year-old girl is murdered he turns to Sean who works as a policeman and delivers an ultimatum: fi