1997

Film Decades: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 187 – starring Samuel L. Jackson – aka One Eighty Seven
• Absolute Power – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Dennis Haysbert, Scott Glenn, E.G. Marshall
• Addicted to Love – starring Meg Ryan & Matthew Broderick
• Airbag – (Spain)
• Air Bud
• Air Force One – directed by Wolfgang Peterson – starring Harrison Ford, Glenn Close, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, & Paul Guilfoyle
• The Alarmist, starring David Arquette and Stanley Tucci
• Albino Alligator, directed by Kevin Spacey, starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, Viggo Mortensen
• Alien Resurrection – directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Joss Whedon, starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya, J.E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, Michael Wincott
• All Over Me
• An American Werewolf in Paris – starring Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy
• American Vampfire, starring Carmen Electra
• Amistad – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan Skarsgård, & Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Anaconda, starring Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Jon Voight
• Anastasia* – directed by Don Bluth & Gary Goldman, starring the voices of Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst, & Angela Lansbury
• Another Day in Paradise, starring Melanie Griffith, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Woods
• The Apostle, directed by & starring Robert Duvall, with Miranda Richardson, Farrah Fawcett
• As Good as It Gets, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, & Shirley Knight
• The Assignment – directed by Christian Duguay, starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland & Ben Kingsley
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach and starring Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Mimi Rogers, & Michael York
• Bang
• Batman & Robin* – directed by Joel Schumacher, starring George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris O’Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone
• Bean, directed by Mel Smith, starring Rowan Atkinson – (UK)
• Bent, starring Clive Owen – (UK)
• Best Men, starring Dean Cain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Drew Barrymore, Fred Ward, Andy Dick
• Beverly Hills Ninja, starring Chris Farley
• Blackrock, starring Heath Ledger – (Australia)
• Boogie Nights – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham
• Booty Call, starring Jamie Foxx
• Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball
• The Borrowers* – starring John Goodman
• Le Bossu (The Hunchback), starring Daniel Auteuil – (France)
• The Boxer – directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, & Kenneth Cranham
• The Brave – directed by and starring Johnny Depp, with Marlon Brando, Marshall Bell, Frederic Forrest, & Elpidia Carrillo
• Breakdown – starring Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J.T. Walsh
• Brother (Brat) – (Russia)
• Buddy* – starring Rene Russo
• The Butcher Boy – directed by Neil Jordan – Ireland
• Buud Yam – (Burkina Faso)
• Campfire Tales
• Career Girls, directed by Mike Leigh – (UK)
• The Castle – (Australia)
• Cats Don’t Dance, directed by Mark Dindal
• Character (Karakter) – (Netherlands/Belgium)
• Chasing Amy – directed by Kevin Smith, starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell, & Jason Mewes
• Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسمان), directed by Majid Majidi – Iran
• City of Industry – directed by John Irvin, starring Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Timothy Hutton, Femke Janssen, Lucy Liu
• Clockwatchers, starring Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow
• Commandments, starring Courteney Cox
• Con Air – directed by Simon West, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi
• Conspiracy Theory – directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts
• Contact – directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, John Hurt
• Cop Land – directed by James Mangold, starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro
• Crayola Kids Adventures: Tales of Gulliver’s Travels
• Cube – (Canada)
• Dakan (Destiny) (Guinea)
• Dangerous Ground, starring Ice Cube
• Dante’s Peak, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton
• Deconstructing Harry – directed by and starring Woody Allen
• Def Jam’s How to Be a Player
• Defying Gravity
• The Devil’s Advocate – starring Keanu Reeves & Al Pacino
• The Devil’s Own – directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Harrison Ford & Brad Pitt
• Different Strokes, starring Dana Plato and Bentley Mitchum
• Dogtown, starring Mary Stuart Masterson, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Jon Favreau
• Donnie Brasco – directed by Mike Newell, starring Al Pacino & Johnny Depp
• Double Team – directed by Tsui Hark, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mickey Rourke, Paul Freeman
• Dream with the Fishes – directed by Finn Taylor
• The Edge – directed by Lee Tamahori, written by David Mamet, starring Anthony Hopkins & Alec Baldwin
• Ed Mort – (Brazil)
• The Eel – directed by Shohei Imamura – Japan
• The End of Evangelion – (Japan)
• Evangelion: Death and Rebirth – (Japan)
• Event Horizon – directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, & Joely Richardson
• Eve’s Bayou – starring Lynn Whitfield & Samuel L. Jackson
• Excess Baggage, starring Alicia Silverstone and Benicio del Toro
• Face, starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone – (UK)
• Face/Off – directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta & Nicolas Cage
• Fathers’ Day* – directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, & Nastassja Kinski
• FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue – straight to video
• Fever Pitch, starring Colin Firth – (UK)
• Fierce Creatures – starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin – UK/US
• The Fifth Element** – directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker – France
• Fire Down Below, starring Steven Seagal
• …First Do No Harm – directed by Jim Abrams, starring Meryl Streep, Fred Ward – TV movie
• First Time Felon, starring Omar Epps and Delroy Lindo
• Floating, starring Norman Reedus
• Flubber* – directed by Les Mayfield, starring Robin Williams, Christopher McDonald, Clancy Brown, voices by Jodi Benson
• Fools Rush In – starring Salma Hayek & Matthew Perry
• For Richer or Poorer, starring Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley
• Free Willy 3: The Rescue, directed by Sam Pillsbury
• The Full Monty, directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle –(UK
• Funny Games, directed by Michael Haneke – (Austria)
• G.I. Jane – directed by Ridley Scott, starring Demi Moore & Anne Bancroft
• The Game – directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas & Sean Penn
• Gang Related, starring James Belushi, Dennis Quaid, Tupac Shakur
• Gattaca – starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
• George of the Jungle* – directed by Sam Weisman, starring Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree, & John Cleese (voice)
• Glam, starring William McNamara, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Tony Danza, Jon Cryer
• Gone Fishin’* – starring Joe Pesci & Danny Glover
• Good Burger* – starring Kenan Thompson & Kel Mitchell
• Good Will Hunting – directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Ben Affleck, & Stellan Skarsgård
• Goodbye America – (Philippines/US)
• Gridlock’d – starring Tim Roth & Tupac Shakur
• Grosse Pointe Blank – starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, & Joan Cusack
• Hacks, starring Stephen Rea, Illeana Douglas, John Ritter
• Hamam – (Italy/Spain/Turkey)
• Hana-bi (Fireworks), directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano – Japan
• Heaven’s Burning, starring Russell Crowe and Youki Kudoh – (Australia)
• Henry Fool, directed by Hal Hartley
• Hercules*
• Highball – directed by Noah Baumbach (as Ernie Fusco), starring Justine Bateman, Baumbach, Peter Bogdanovich, Rae Dawn Chong, Chris Eigeman, Annabella Sciorra, Ally Sheedy, & Eric Stoltz
• Hold You Tight, directed by Stanley Kwan – (Hong Kong)
• Home Alone 3 – directed by Raja Gosnell, written by John Hughes, starring Alex D. Linz, Scarlett Johansson
• Hoodlum – starring Laurence Fishburne
• The Hound
• The House of Yes – directed by Mark Waters, starring Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Geneviève Bujold, Freddie Prinze Jr., & Tori Spelling
• Hugo Pool – directed by Robert Downey Sr., starring Alyssa Milano, Patrick Dempsey, Robert Downey Jr., Richard Lewis, Malcolm McDowell, Cathy Moriarty, & Sean Penn
• Hurricane Streets
• I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe
• The Ice Storm – directed by Ang Lee, starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jamey Sheridan, & Sigourney Weaver
• In & Out – directed by Frank Oz, starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck, Matt Dillon, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Newhart, Shalom Harlow, & Wilford Brimley
• In the Company of Men – directed by Neil LaBute, starring Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, and Stacy Edwards
• Incognito, starring Jason Patric
• Into Thin Air – TV movie
• Inventing the Abbotts, starring Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly
• The Jackal, starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere
• Jackie Brown** – directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forester, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro
• Jack Frost
• Joey – (Australia)
• Josh and the Big Wall!
• Joyride – starring Tobey Maguire, Benicio Del Toro
• Jungle 2 Jungle* – starring Tim Allen
• Just Write, starring Jeremy Piven
• Kini and Adams – (Burkina Faso)
• Kiss or Kill – (Australia)
• Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd
• Kiss & Tell, starring Heather Graham and Rose McGowan
• Kitchen Party – (Canada)
• Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – (Germany)
• Kull the Conqueror
• Kundun – directed by Martin Scorsese
• L.A. Confidential – directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell
• Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space!
• The Last Time I Committed Suicide – starring Thomas Jane & Keanu Reeves
• Lawn Dogs – starring Sam Rockwell
• Leave It to Beaver, starring Christopher McDonald and Janine Turner
• Lewis and Clark and George
• Liar Liar* – starring Jim Carrey
• Life is Beautiful – directed by and starring Roberto Benigni – Italy
• A Life Less Ordinary – directed by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm, & Dan Hedaya – UK/US
• Little Boy Blue, starring Ryan Phillippe and Nastassja Kinski
• Little City, starring Jon Bon Jovi
• Live Flesh – directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Bardem – Spain
• Lolita, starring Jeremy Irons
• Lost Highway – directed by David Lynch, starring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park* – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee Chester, & Peter Stormare
• Love and Death on Long Island – starring John Hurt – Canada/UK
• Love Jones
• Lovelife, starring Sherilyn Fenn and Carla Gugino
• Ma vie en rose (My Life in Pink) – Belgium
• Mad City, starring Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta
• The Man Who Knew Too Little – directed by Jon Amiel, starring Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, & Richard Wilson
• Masterminds – starring Patrick Stewart
• The MatchMaker, starring Janeane Garofalo – Ireland
• Meet Wally Sparks – directed by Peter Baldwin, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, Michael Weatherly, Cindy Williams, Alan Rachins, Burt Reynolds, & David Ogden Stiers
• Men in Black* – directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rip Torn, Linda Fiorentino
• Metro, starring Eddie Murphy
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Kevin Spacey & John Cusack
• Mimic – directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, & F. Murray Abraham
• Money Talks, starring Chris Tucker
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation*
• Most Wanted
• Mouse Hunt – directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken
• Mr. Magoo* – directed by Stanley Tong, starring Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer Garner, & Malcolm McDowell
• Mrs Brown – directed by John Madden, starring Judi Dench and Billy Connolly – UK
• Mrs. Dalloway, starring Vanessa Redgrave – (UK)
• Murder at 1600, starring Wesley Snipes
• My Best Friend’s Wedding, starring Julia Roberts
• My Heart Is Mine Alone – (Germany)
• Myself in the Distant Future – (North Korea)
• Nevada, starring Amy Brenneman
• The Night Flier, starring Miguel Ferrer
• Night of the Demons 3
• Nightwatch – starting Ewan McGregor, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte
• Nil by Mouth – directed by Gary Oldman, starring Ray Winstone – UK
• Nothing to Lose, starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins
• Nowhere – directed by Gregg Araki
• Office Killer, starring Molly Ringwald
• The Old Lady and the Pigeons – (France)
• One Night Stand – directed by Mike Figgis, starring Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na Wen, & Robert Downey Jr.
• Orgazmo – directed by and starring Trey Parker, with Matt Stone, Dian Bachar
• Ossos (Portugal)
• Out to Sea* – starring Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon
• Paws – starring Billy Connolly, Heath Ledger – Australia
• The Peacekeeper – starring Dolph Lundgren, Montel Williams, Roy Scheider – Canada
• The Peacemaker – starring George Clooney & Nicole Kidman
• Perdita Durango – starring Javier Bardem & Rosie Perez – Spain
• The Perfect Circle (Savršeni krug), directed by Ademir Kenović – (Bosnia and Herzogovina)
• Picture Perfect – starring Jennifer Aniston
• Pippi Longstocking – (Sweden)
• Playing God, starring David Duchovny
• Plump Fiction
• The Postman – directed by and starring Kevin Costner
• Prefontaine, starring Jared Leto
• Pressure Point (1997)
• Pride Divide
• Princess Mononoke** – directed by Hayao Miyazaki – Japan
• Private Parts, starring Howard Stern
• Quiet Days in Hollywood, starring Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe, Natasha Gregson Wagner – Germany
• The Rainmaker – directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight
• The Rage, starring Gary Busey, Lorenzo Lamas, Roy Scheider
• Red Corner, starring Richard Gere
• Regeneration – starring Jonathan Pryce – UK
• The Relic – starring Penelope Ann Miller
• Retroactive
• A River Made to Drown In
• RocketMan
• Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion – starring Mira Sorvino & Lisa Kudrow
• Rosewood – directed by John Singleton, starring Ving Rhames, Jon Voight, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Esther Rolle, & Michael Rooker
• The Saint, starring Val Kilmer
• Scream 2 – directed by Wes Craven, starring Neve Campbell
• Selena, starring Jennifer Lopez
• Seven Years in Tibet, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Brad Pitt – US/UK
• Shadow Conspiracy – directed by George P. Cosmatos, starring Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, Stephen Lang, Ben Gazzara, & Sam Waterston
• She’s So Lovely, starring Sean Penn, Robin Wright, John Travolta
• Shooting Fish – (UK)
• The Sixth Man, starring Marlon Wayans
• Soul Food – starring Vanessa L. Williams & Vivica A. Fox
• The Soong Sisters – starring Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Vivian Wu – Hong Kong
• Space Marines
• Spaceman
• The Spanish Prisoner – directed by David Mamet, starring Campbell Scott, Steve Martin
• Spawn – starring Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Frank Welker, Martin Sheen
• Speed 2: Cruise Control, starring Sandra Bullock
• Spice World – starring The Spice Girls, with Richard E. Grant – (UK/US)
• Stag – starting Ben Gazzara, Andrew McCarthy, Taylor Dayne, Mario Van Peebles, Lawrence Leritz, William McNamara, John Henson, Kevin Dillon, & Jerry Stiller
• Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition)*
• Starship Troopers – directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, & Michael Ironside
• Steel, starring Shaquille O’Neal
• Strawberry Fields
• Suicide Kings – starring Christopher Walken
• Sunday
• Super Speedway
• The Sweet Hereafter – starring Ian Holm – (Canada)
• Switchback, starring Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid
• Taste of Cherry, directed by Abbas Kiarostami – Iran
• That Old Feeling – directed by Carl Reiner, starring Bette Midler & Dennis Farina
• The Thief (vor) – (Russia)
• This World, Then the Fireworks, starring Billy Zane and Gina Gershon
• Time Under Fire
• Titanic – directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Billy Zane
• Tomorrow Never Dies * – starring Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Jonathan Pryce, Judi Dench
• Trojan War
• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie*
• Turbulence, starring Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly
• Two Girls and a Guy – directed by James Toback, starring Robert Downey Jr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner
• U Turn – directed by Oliver Stone, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte
• Under the Lighthouse Dancing – (Australia)
• Ulee’s Gold – starring Peter Fonda
• Vegas Vacation – starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo
• Volcano – starring Tommy Lee Jones
• Wag the Dog – directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman
• Waiting for Guffman, directed by and starring Christopher Guest, with Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Fred Willard, Parker Posey
• Warriors of Virtue* – directed by Ronny Yu – (US/China)
• Welcome to Sarajevo – starring Woody Harrelson
• The Wiggles Movie – (Australia)
• Wild America*
• Wilde – directed by Brian Gilbert, starring Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Zoë Wanamaker, & Tom Wilkinson – UK
• The Wings of the Dove – starring Helena Bonham Carter – (UK/US)
• Wishmaster
• The Wrong Guy, starring Dave Foley – (Canada)
• Year of the Dogs – (Australia)
• Year of the Horse – directed by Jim Jarmusch– documentary about Neil Young
• Zeus and Roxanne, starring Steve Guttenberg and Kathleen Quinlan