1.
"Forrest Gump"
(1994)
Drama
, Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Robin
Wright, Gary Sinise, Mikelti
Williamson
Directed
by Robert Zemeckis
The title character leads viewers
through an accidental travelogue
of American social history from
the early 1960s through the
present in this revisionist
fable. Vietnam, desegregation,
Watergate and more are presented
from the perspective of Hanks'
lovably slow-witted character
as he finds himself embroiled
in situations he can't quite
comprehend. Academy Award Nominations:
13, including Best Picture,
Best Actor--Tom Hanks, and Best
Director. Academy Awards: 6,
including Best Picture, Director,
Actor and Adapted Screenplay.
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2.
"Powder" (1995)
Drama
Starring:
Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeff Goldblum,
Mary Steenburgan
Directed
by Victor Salva
An abused albino boy is cursed
as different when he is integrated
with teens his own age at school.
His classmates, teachers, and
others around him are both inspired
and terrified by the strange-looking
boy who apparently possesses certain
inexplicable powers.
3.
"Cast Away" (2000)
Drama, Twentieth
Century Fox
Starring:Tom
Hanks, Helen Hunt
Directed
by Robert Zemeckis
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is
a FedEx troubleshooter, whose charter
flight crashes near the South Pacific,
and leaves him stranded alone on
an island for four years. While
his fianceé and co-workers
assume he's dead, he must give up
everything that he once took for
granted and learn how to survive
both physically and emotionally.
From director Robert Zemeckis, CAST
AWAY is a story of adventure and
discovery surrounding one man's
will to stay alive.
4.
"Saving Private Ryan"
(1998)
Action/Adventure,
Drama ; DreamWorks SKG
Starring:
Tom Hanks, Matt Demon, Edward Burns,
Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Giovanni
Ribisi, Vin Deisel
Directed
by Steven Speilberg
Steven Spielberg's grisly realistic
account of a squad of D-Day survivors
sent behind enemy lines on a PR
mission to rescue the last son of
a devastated Iowa family. Tom Hanks
gives a staggering performance as
the squad's tormented leader, but
be warned, the carnage is as explicit
as it is persistent.
5.
"The Green Mile" (1999)
Thriller
and Drama ;Castle Rock Entertainment
Starring:
Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan,
David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James
Cromwell, Barry Pepper
Directed
by Frank Darabont
Set on Death Row in a Southern
prison in 1935, The Green Mile is
the remarkable story of the cell
block's head guard, who develops
a poignant, unusual relationship
with one inmate who possesses a
magical gift that is both mysterious
and miraculous.
6.
"Girl, Interrupted" (1999)
Drama ;
Columbia Tristar
Starring:
Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Brittany
Murphy
Directed
by James Mangold
Adapted from Kaysen's popular
memoir, GIRL, INTERRUPTED is handled
with extreme sensitivity by director
James Mangold (HEAVY, COPLAND.)
Winona Ryder stars as Susana, a
troubled teenager whose confused
attempt at suicide lands her in
a mental hospital. Once there, she
meets an odd assortment of characters,
including Lisa (Angelina Jolie),
who at first mesmerizes Susana with
her uninhibited demeanor. The pair
form a tight bond, but that connection
is threatened when Lisa begins to
spiral even further out of control.
Ryder and Jolie's intense performances
are just one of many reasons to
watch this picture.
7.
"Road to Perdition" (2002)
Action and
Drama ;DreamWorks Pictures
Starring:
Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Paul Newman
Directed
by Sam Mendes
In Depression-era Chicago, hit
man Michael O'Sullivan (Tom Hanks)
is known to friends and enemies
alike as the "Angel of Death".
Uncompromising in his work, O'Sullivan
is just as devoted to his private
life as an upstanding husband and
father of two young boys. But when
those worlds collide, taking the
lives of his wife and younger son,
O'Sullivan and his surviving son
leave their sedate home life behind
and embark on a startling journey
of revenge.
8.
"The Pianist" (2002)
Drama, Musical/Performing
Arts and Art/Foreign ;Focus Features
Starring:
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann,
Frank Finlay
Directed
by Roman Polanski
The film is adapted from the
autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman,
a Polish Jew who detailed his survival
during World War II. A composer
and a pianist, he played the last
live music heard over Polish radio
airwaves before Nazi artillery hit.
During the brutal occupation, he
eluded deportation and remained
in the devastated Warsaw ghetto.
There, he struggled to stay alive
even when cast away from those he
loved. He would eventually reclaim
his artistic gifts and confront
his fears, with aid from the unlikeliest
of sources.
9.
"Elizabeth" (1998)
Drama ;
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Starring:
Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher
Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes and Richard
Attenborough
Directed
by Shekhar Kapur
Set in
England in 1554, with England financially
troubled, under threat from abroad
and fiercely divided along religious
lines. The ailing Queen Mary maneuvers
to restore Catholicism as the country's
single faith after the break from
Rome by her father, Henry VIII.
Having no heir to throne, she under-handedly
attempts to prevent her Protestant
half-sister, Elizabeth, from succeeding
her. But the ploy fails, and when
Mary dies, Elizabeth is crowned,
she turns increasingly for guidance
to Master of Spies Sir Francis Walsingham,
she must shed her lover and her
naivete in a bid to hold on her
throne.
10.
"Shakespeare in Love"
(1998)
Comedy
and Romance ;Miramax Films
Starring:
Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes,
Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Judi
Dench
Directed
by John Madden
A witty,
fast-moving romantic comedy set
in London in 1593, follows the trials
and tribulations of Will Shakespeare,
a struggling young playwright suffering
from a dreadful bout of writer's
block. No matter how hard he tries,
he just can't seem to make any headway
with his latest work, "Romeo
and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter."
Somehow, even the title doesn't
sound quite right. But then, Will
meets and falls instantly in love
with the startlingly beautiful Viola
who, desperate to become an actor
(in a time when women are not allowed
to perform in the theater), disguises
herself as a man to audition for
his play. Inspired by love, Will's
creative powers are unleashed as
his great love story, "Romeo
and Juliet," is brought to
life for the first time.
