Best Movies from the 1990's
Hollywoodism looks at mainstream American cinema from a startling perspective: The American dream – of white picket fences and the outsider who becomes an insider.
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998) Read More
A Cool, Dry Place movie storyline. A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago.
A Cool, Dry Place (1998) Read More
Dream for an Insomniac storyline. Frankie works at her uncle Leo’s Cafe Blue Eyes in San Francisco, and is hoping to meet her ideal lover, ideally one with blue eyes like Sinatra.
Dream for an Insomniac (1998) Read More
Mr. Jealousy storyline. An urbane screwball comedy for the ’90s, Mr. Jealousy, the sophomore effort from director Noah Baumbach, is filled with obscure references to famous films.
Mr. Jealousy (1998) Read More
Nightwatch movie storyline. Like The Vanishing (1988 and 1993), Nightwatch is an English-language version of a foreign-made film with the original director hired to remake his own movie. Ole Bornedal was the writer-director of the suspenseful 1994 thriller, Nattevagten, which had no U.S. release immediately on the heels of its success in Denmark.
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Ride movie storyline. NYC film school graduate Leta Evans (Melissa De Sousa) has just become the assistant to hot music video director Bleau Kelly (Downtown Julie Brown). She almost loses the job before her first day’s barely even started when Bleau decides budget cuts must be made for her next project.
Ride (1998) Read More
Zero Effect movie storyline. Daryl Zero is an enigma. In his personal life, he is a paranoid, anti-social recluse whose sole interaction is with his business associate.
Zero Effect (1998) Read More
The appeal of You’ve Got Mail is as old as love and as new as the Web. It stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as lovable people whose purpose it is to display their lovability for two hours.
You’ve Got Mail Movie Trailer (1998) Read More