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List Of Drama Films Of The 2000s
This is a list of drama films of the 2000s. 2000 * '' 28 Days'' * ''Adanggaman'' * '' Aberdeen'' * '' Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets'' * '' Almost Famous'' * ''Before Night Falls'' * '' Blackboards'' * '' Cast Away'' * '' The Circle'' * ''Dancer in the Dark'' * '' The Day I Became a Woman'' * '' Dinosaur'' * ''Faithless'' * ''George Washington'' * '' The Girl'' * '' Hamlet'' * ''In Vanda's Room'' * '' Our Lady of the Assassins'' * ''Our Song'' * '' Pollock'' * '' Remember the Titans'' * '' Requiem for a Dream'' * ''Road Home'' * ''The Sea'' * '' Taboo'' * '' Traffic'' * ''Under the Sand'' * '' Water Drops on Burning Rocks'' * '' Where the Heart Is'' * ''Yi Yi'' * '' You Can Count on Me'' 2001 * '' A.I. Artificial Intelligence'' * ''All About Lily Chou-Chou'' * '' A Beautiful Mind'' * ''Dog Days'' * ''Fat Girl'' * '' Ghost World'' * ''In the Bedroom'' * '' In Praise of Love'' * '' The Last Castle'' * '' Kandahar'' * '' Lagaan'' * '' Lantana'' * '' Maangamizi: The Ancient One'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet (2000 Film)
''Hamlet'', also known as ''Hamlet 2000'', is a 2000 American drama film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the William Shakespeare, Shakespeare Hamlet, play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Prince Hamlet, Hamlet as a film student, Kyle MacLachlan co-stars as King Claudius, Uncle Claudius, with Diane Venora as Gertrude (Hamlet), Gertrude, Liev Schreiber as Laertes (Hamlet), Laertes, Julia Stiles as Ophelia (character), Ophelia, Steve Zahn as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Rosencrantz, Bill Murray as Polonius, and Sam Shepard as Ghost (Hamlet), Hamlet's father. In this version of ''Hamlet'', Claudius is "king" of the Denmark Corporation, having taken over the firm by killing his brother, Hamlet's father. This adaptation keeps the Shakespearean dialogue but presents a modern setting, with technology such as video cameras, Instant camera#Cameras and film, Polaroid cameras, and Covert listening device, surveillance bugs. For exa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where The Heart Is (2000 Film)
''Where the Heart Is'' is a 2000 American romantic drama film directed by Matt Williams and starring Natalie Portman, Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd, and Joan Cusack with supporting roles done by James Frain, Dylan Bruno, Keith David, and Sally Field. The screenplay, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, is based on the best-selling 1995 novel of the same name by Billie Letts. The film follows five years in the life of Novalee Nation, a pregnant 17-year-old, who is abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart in a small Oklahoma town. She secretly moves into the store, where she eventually gives birth to her baby, which attracts media attention. With the help of friends, she makes a new life for herself in the town. Plot Pregnant, 17-year-old Novalee Nation and her boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens, are moving from Tennessee to California. He abandons her at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma when she enters to use the restroom and buy a pair of shoes. There, Sister Thelma Husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Drops On Burning Rocks
''Water Drops on Burning Rocks'' (french: Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes) is a 2000 French romantic comedy drama film directed by François Ozon, based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play ''Tropfen auf heiße Steine''. The plot concerns a 50 year old businessman in 1970s Germany, who becomes infatuated with a man 30 years his junior. The film premiered at Berlinale on 13 February 2000 and was theatrically released on 15 March by Haut et Court to generally positive reviews from critics. Plot Act 1 A 50-year-old businessman Léopold (Bernard Giraudeau) arrives home with 20-year-old Franz (Malik Zidi), whom he has just met. Franz is not quite sure why he agreed to come home with Léopold as he is supposed to be meeting his fiancée Anna, but he accepts drinks from Léopold and they begin to get to know each other. Franz tells Léopold that he is not sure whether or not he loves Anna, that he does not really enjoy sex with her, finding more pleasure in books, theatre and life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Sand
''Under the Sand'' (french: Sous le sable, ) is a 2000 French drama film directed and written by François Ozon. The film was nominated for three César Awards and was critically well received. It stars Charlotte Rampling and Bruno Cremer. Cast * Charlotte Rampling as Marie Drillon *Bruno Cremer as Jean Drillon *Jacques Nolot as Vincent * Alexandra Stewart as Amanda *Pierre Vernier as Gérard * Andrée Tainsy as Suzanne Plot Marie is an English professor at a Parisian university. She has been happily married to Jean for 25 years. They vacation in the Landes, where his family has a house. At the beach, he goes for a swim while she sunbathes and later falls asleep. He never returns. There are no witnesses to any accident, and his body cannot be found; he may have committed suicide, he may have drowned in an accident. Marie does not accept his death, and she keeps seeing him (perhaps an apparition) after her return to Paris. Marie begins an affair, even while she denies her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traffic (2000 Film)
''Traffic'' is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. The film is an adaptation of the 1989 British Channel 4 television series ''Traffik''. The film stars an international ensemble cast, including Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Erika Christensen, Luis Guzmán, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Tomas Milian, Topher Grace, James Brolin, Steven Bauer, and Benjamin Bratt. It features both English and Spanish-language dialogue. 20th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded that Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. Soderbergh refused and proposed the script to other major Hollywood studios, but it was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taboo (2000 Film)
A taboo or tabu is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, sacred, or allowed only for certain persons.''Encyclopædia Britannica Online''.Taboo. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Retrieved 21 Mar. 2012 Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies. Taboos may be prohibited explicitly, for example within a legal system or religion, or implicitly, for example by social norms or Convention (norm), conventions followed by a particular culture or organization. Taboos are often meant to protect the individual, but there are other reasons for their development. An ecological or medical background is apparent in many, including some that are seen as religious or spiritual in origin. Taboos can help use a resource more efficiently, but when applied to only a subsection of the community they can also serve to suppress said subsection of the community. A taboo a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea (2000 Film)
''The Sea'' ( ca, El mar) is a 2000 Spanish film directed by Agustí Villaronga, starring Roger Casamayor. It is based on a novel by Blai Bonet. The plot, set in Mallorca, follows the fates of three childhood friends traumatized by the violence they witnessed during the Spanish Civil War. Ten years later, they are reunited as young adults in a sanatorium for TB patients. The film won the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In the summer of 1936, the violence of the Spanish Civil war reaches a small village in Mallorca. Four children: Andreu Ramallo, Manuel Tur, Pau Inglada and a girl, Francisca, are witness to the execution of leftists at the hands of pro-Franco villagers. In a desperate act of revenge, Pau, whose father has been killed the previous day by the lead executioner, plans to avenge his father's murder torturing Julià Ballester, the son of his father's killer. His idea is to force the boy to drink castor oil. However, things go wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Home
Road Home is a program funded by the U.S. government which has provided federal grant money to help Louisiana residents rebuild or sell houses severely damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This federally funded program is administered by the State of Louisiana. Background According to the Road Home website, as of December 2017, the program had disbursed a total of $9.022 billion in awards to 130,052 individual homeowners in the area, with grants averaging $69,379 each. These are cash grants, not low interest loans, and are received income tax free. They are on top of insurance awards, private or federal, which may have already been received. Additionally, the program has been extended to provide cash grants to facilitate the elevation of homes in flood prone areas. According to the Road Home web site, "32,389 applicants have received elevation disbursements totaling $942,865,530". The Road Home Program's local office officially closed in March 2018, however, the program's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Requiem For A Dream
''Requiem for a Dream'' is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher McDonald and Marlon Wayans. It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Hubert Selby Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay. The film depicts four characters affected by drug addiction and how it alters their physical and emotional states. Their addictions cause them to become imprisoned in a world of delusion and desperation. As the film progresses, each character deteriorates, and their reality is overtaken by delusion, resulting in a catastrophe. Selby's novel was optioned by Aronofsky and producer Eric Watson. Selby had always intended to adapt the novel into a film, as he had written a script years prior to Aronofsky approaching him. Aronofsky was enthusiastic about the story and developed the script with Selby, despite initial struggles to obtain funding for the film's production. He and the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remember The Titans
''Remember the Titans'' is a 2000 American biographical sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School (now Alexandria City High School) football team in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971. Will Patton portrays Bill Yoast, Boone's assistant coach. Real-life athletes Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell are portrayed by Ryan Hurst and Wood Harris, respectively. The film was co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and released by Buena Vista Pictures. On September 19, 2000, the film's soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records. It features songs by several recording artists including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, The Hollies, Marvin Gaye, James Taylor, The Temptations, Cat Stevens, and Steam. ''Remember the Titans'' had a budget of $30 mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollock (film)
''Pollock '' is a 2000 American independent biographical drama film centered on the life of American painter Jackson Pollock, his struggles with alcoholism, as well as his troubled marriage to his wife Lee Krasner. The film stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee. Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of the 1989 biography '' Jackson Pollock: An American Saga'', written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. Plot In the 1940s, abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock exhibits paintings in occasional group art shows. Pollock lives with his brother Sande and sister-in-law Arloie at a tiny apartment in New York City. With Arloie expecting a new baby, Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
