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Breaking Away
Dave (Dennis Christopher), nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril (Daniel Stern), the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley), and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike (Dennis Quaid). Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance. Meanwhile, the 4 friends try to break away from their townie, Indiana reputation while fighting with nearby college snobs.
(1979) Directed by Peter Yates
MPAA Rating: PG
USCCB: A-II -- adults and adolescents
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, "Let's go to Bolivia". Based on the exploits of the historical characters.
(1969) Directed by George Roy Hill
MPAA Rating: PG
USCCB: A-III -- adults
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Driving Miss Daisy
An elderly Jewish widow (Jessica Tandy) living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son (Dan Aykroyd) insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life, but a driver, Hoke (Morgan Freeman), is hired by her son anyway. Miss Daisy refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play by Alfred Uhry. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
(1989) Directed by Bruce Beresford
MPAA Rating: PG
USCCB: A-II -- adults and adolescents
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Stand By Me
Based on Stephen King's Short story "The Body", "Stand By Me" tells the tale of Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), a writer who looks back on his preteen days when he and three close friends Chris (River Phoenix), Teddy (Corey Feldman), and Vern (Jerry O'Connell) went on their own adventure to find the body of a kid their age who had been found near the railroad tracks. The stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are closely tailing - and it becomes a race to see who'll be able to uncover the body first.
(1986) Directed by Rob Reiner
MPAA Rating: R
USCCB: A-III -- adults
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Steel Magnolias
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop in Louisana owned by Truvy (Dolly Parton), and the stories of all of her clients.Shelby (Julia Roberts) is a diabetic and getting married to a rich southern hunk of a lawyer. Her mother M'Lynn (Sally Field) is bossy, but caring. M'Lynn's friends include a cast of colourful and dynamic southern women of a multitude of ages and views (Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah, and Shirley MacLaine). Through the views of these different women we see love, apathy, pain, loss, secrecy, and the bond that can be so unbreakable between true friends.
(1989) Directed by Herbert Ross
MPAA Rating: PG
USCCB: A-III -- adults
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The Soloist
A schizophrenic, Nathaniel Ayers (Jaime Foxx), is a Juilliard trained but homeless musician from Skid Row, Los Angeles who dreams of playing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Through "chance," he meets an LA journalist, Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), who tries to help this mentally disturbed man get "back on his feet" and make his dreams come true. Based on a book by Lopez, which is an account of his relationship with Ayers. Dr. Oliver Sacks, a famed neurologist, authenticates the Lopez account in his most recent book, "Musicophilia."
(2009) Directed by Joe Wright
MPAA Rating: PG-13
USCCB: A-III -- adults |
