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Roseanna's Grave (1997) on 6 march 1997
, 1h38Directed by Paul Weiland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jean Reno, Mercedes Ruehl, Polly Walker, Mark Frankel, Trevor Peacock, Fay Ripley
Rating70%
Marcello est la crème des hommes, et aussi le meilleur des maris pour sa chère Roseanna. Malheureusement, celle-ci vit ses derniers jours, et le brave Marcello doit multiplier les efforts pour exaucer le vœu de sa tendre épouse : reposer au cimetière de Trivento, où il ne reste que 3 concessions, que l'on ne peut réserver...
The Eighth Day (1996) on 7 march 1997
, 1h58Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Henri Garcin, Alexandre von Sivers, Isabelle Sadoyan
Rating74%
Harry (Daniel Auteuil) est un homme seul qui se voue sept jours sur sept à son travail. Tout va basculer quand il rencontre Georges (Pascal Duquenne), une personne handicapée mentale atteinte de trisomie 21, qui vit dans l'instant. Ces deux êtres que tout oppose vont devenir inséparables.
Strawberry Fields (1997) on 9 march 1997
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Ghost films, Political films
Actors Suzy Nakamura, Chris Tashima, James Sie, Takayo Fischer
Rating65%
The story of the film centers on Irene Kawai, a Japanese American teenager in Chicago in the 1970s who is haunted by a photo of her grandfather she never knew, standing by a barracks in a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans. Prompted by visits from the ghost of Terri, her dead baby sister, Irene journeys with her boyfriend, Luke, on a road trip to Arizona, where the Poston War Relocation Center once stood, and where the photo of her grandfather was taken.
Good Luck (1997) on 7 march 1997
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Gregory Hines, Vincent D'Onofrio
Rating60%
Hines plays a former dental student, Bern Lemley, who had to quit school just before finals due to a car accident that left him in a wheelchair. D'Onofrio plays a former pro football player, Ole Olezniak, who was blinded in a freak accident on the field. Before their accidents, Bern had been a tutor for Ole, and, after quitting his post-accident job as a denture technician, approaches Ole about teaming up to enter a white water rafting race on Oregon's Rogue River.
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) on 7 march 1997
, 1h45Directed by John Pasquin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Tim Allen, Martin Short, Sam Huntington, Lolita Davidovich, David Ogden Stiers, JoBeth Williams
Rating52%
Michael Cromwell (Tim Allen) is a self-absorbed, successful commodities broker living in New York City. Wanting to marry his new fiancée Charlotte (Lolita Davidovich), he needs to obtain a final divorce from his first wife, Patricia (JoBeth Williams), who left him some years earlier. Patricia now lives with a semi-Westernised tribe in Canaima National Park, Venezuela. Michael travels there to get her signature on divorce papers, but upon arriving, discovers that he has a 13-year-old son named Mimi-Siku (Sam Huntington).
Boys Life 2 (1997) on 7 march 1997
, 1h14Directed by Nickolas Perry, Mark Christopher
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Saucedo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mary Beth Hurt, Eileen Brennan, Seth Green
Rating65%
The Watermelon Woman (1997) on 5 march 1997
, 1h30Directed by Cheryl Dunye
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Guinevere Turner, Cheryl Dunye, Camille Paglia
Rating70%
Cheryl is a young, African American lesbian who works in a video rental store in Philadelphia with her friend Tamara. They earn extra money by making professional home videos for people. Cheryl becomes interested in films from the 1930s and 40s which feature black actresses. She notices that these actresses are often not credited. She watches a film called Plantation Memories with a black actress who is credited simply as "The Watermelon Woman". Cheryl decides to make a documentary about the Watermelon Woman and find out more about her life.
The Daytrippers (1997) on 5 march 1997
, 1h27Directed by Greg Mottola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Hope Davis, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, Anne Meara, Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
Rating69%
Eliza (Davis) discovers a love letter that may prove that her husband (Tucci) is having an affair, so she decides to go to New York City and confront him. Her family, including her sister, Jo, and her live-in boyfriend, Carl, as well as her parents, Jim and Rita, go along for the ride in the family station wagon from Long Island.
DNA (1997) on 7 march 1997
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Marc Dacascos, Jürgen Prochnow, Roger Aaron Brown, Mark McCracken, Joel Torre
Rating35%
Ash Mattley (Mark Dacascos), a doctor in a small village deep in the jungles of Borneo, is approached by another scientist, Carl Wessinger (Jürgen Prochnow) regarding his studies of an enzyme found in a rare beetle. With the aid of Mattley and a group of natives, Wessinger secures several of the beetles, but then betrays his team and leaves them behind in a cave. Later, Wessinger uncovers a fossil in the jungle, but the natives in his new team fall in fear and worship before the deceased creature, which they call "Balacau."
No Child of Mine (1997) on 3 march 1997
Directed by Peter Kosminsky
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Brooke Kinsella, Colin Salmon, Sharon Small
Rating72%
Private Parts (1997) on 7 march 1997
, 1h49Directed by Betty Thomas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Actors Mary McCormack, Howard Stern, Fred Norris, Paul Giamatti, Carol Alt, Allison Janney
Rating68%
Howard Stern boards a flight home following an appearance at the MTV Music Video Awards as his alter-ego, "Fartman". He finds himself seated next to Gloria (Carol Alt), who is visibly repulsed by him. He begins to tell his life story in his mind from his childhood, explaining the verbal abuse he received from his father Ben (Richard Portnow). Stern dreams of being on the radio after going to work with his father, a recording engineer, and grows up to be a quiet, socially awkward teenager. He then studies communications at Boston University, where he becomes a disc jockey at WTBU, the college radio station. He meets and becomes close to Alison (Mary McCormack), the girl of his dreams before graduating. It is 1977, and Howard works at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York. He gets promoted to program director, where his increase in salary allows him to marry Alison. After being forced to fire a fellow DJ, he quits the station.
Rhyme & Reason (1997) on 4 march 1997
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Dr. Dre, Nas, Sean Combs, RZA, Method Man, Ice-T
Rating73%
Rhyme & Reason est un documentaire de 1997 sur le hip hop et plus spécifiquement sur le rap. Le réalisateur de documentaires Peter Spirer a interviewé plus de 80 artistes importants du rap et de la musique hip hop.