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Tomb Raider [theatrical release 06.15.2001]

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Iein Glen, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor.

SYNOPSIS: Angelina Jolie(Lara Croft) begins the moving destroying an evil robot and bringing it back to her house where her mechinical technician, Bryce, works on fixing it. She then goes upstairs to take a shower and get dressed. Followed by that, she realizes what day it is, May 15th, the day her father passed away 14 years ago. It is also the first day of the alignment of all 9 planets. Lara wakes up in the middle of the night to the sound of a clock ticking, and breaks into a room downstairs; breaks into a wooden box and removes an old clock. The next morning, she smashes it open with a hammer, only to reveal a mysterious round glowing "key" which is counting backwards.

Lara takes the clock to an appraiser and en route runs into the token old flame character that stole an object from her in the past. They exchange supposed witty remarks and are off. The appraiser -- an old man who knew Lara's father -- says he doesn't know what the clock/key thing is but reccomends she meet with a client of his.

Lara then goes to meet with this client(forgot his name) and he tells her that this clock is amazing and he can't beleive she didnt bring it with.

We then cut to Lara at home, practicing ballet hanging from the ceiling on bungee cords. She falls just inches above the ground and sees that their is an intruder break in. She then flings back up and stands on the chandeleir as about 15 bad guys in black with guns fall through the ceiling. She then begins kicking major ass, taking all of them out. She then procides to go find the key so that they don't steal it, but she ends up in her garage. Bryce hooks up with her and tells her where they are in the garage and she kills them with some sort of weird looking gun. At one point, she gets on her motorcycle and grabs a TMP and kills more bady guys and then whacks one of them in the face with the wheel of the motorcycle. Pretty cool stuff.

The next morning Lara gets a package from a friendly product-placement-UPS delivery man (where again more "wit" is used, as the driver looks around and sees the mess from all the broken windows and bullet holes and asks what happened, and Lara replies "I just woke up this morning and decided that everything had to go."), which turns out to be from her father, which is a poem, which leads her to a book in the library, which leads her to a hidden part of the book she cuts open, which turns out to hold a letter from her father, which tells her where to find the 2nd key, which leads her to Asia (Singapore, I believe, don't recall), where token evil guy already is with a troop of Asians trying to tear down a Buddha image, which then gets torn down to the sound of their cheering, Lara finds the back entrance, a ghost girl spirit leads her to the room with the key, evil guy and hench men (along with her ex-flame from earlier scene) make their way to there, evil guy finds place to put the key, Lara finds the REAL place to put the key, Lara shouts to them and they don't kill her and instead toss her the key, she puts it in, jumps on and "rides" a giant swinging phallic symbol which busts open a globe of goo, she grabs the first triangle piece, rock/cement stone monkeys come to life, guns are fired, a giant six-armed statue comes to life, Lara crushes it, then she flies away on the claws of a rock gargoyle (!?!?) where it mysteriously explodes ouside, dropping her, and she runs off into the jungle, where she then meets a Buddhist in town who helps her place a call, where she then meets another Buddhist in a temple, who gives her tea which removes her gunshot wounds instantly, Lara eventually meets with evil guy in the throne room, then meets him a SECOND time and gives him the triangle piece and agrees to cooperate because if the triange can become whole then she can bring her dead father back to life, there's a LOOOOOOOONG scene (almost as long as this review!) of them travelling to the artic, and traveling, and traveling some more, finally reaching an ICE temple (very creative, nothing at ALL like the first temple, a TROPICAL temple!), where there's little three-by-three-foot "time storms" all over the place, where Lara finds the place to put the key and she gets sucked into a giant globe then spit back out with the 2nd half of the triangle, where the cult leader gets killed by evil guy, and Lara's old flame is killed by evil guy, and he commands her to help him put the triange togeather, and she figures out the puzzle and puts it togeather, and in a total "Contact" rip-off she has a conversation with her father, and he tells her to destroy the triangle, and she goes back to just before her old flame is killed, and she "turns" the mid-air knife around in the opposite direction so that when time resumes it kills evil guy instead of old flame guy, and she shoots a bullet at the triangle (which is supposedly made of metal from a meteor long ago and is stronger than steel) and it explodes, and everyone leaves, but evil guy -- on the ground bleeding to death, barely able to speak and on his deathbed -- shows Lara her clock with her mother's picture that he stole from her, so she goes back, has the token "final fight" with him (where his previous state of on-his-deathbed is seemingly reversed and he fights with the vigor of a tiger), and she wins, and leaves, and skates out this ice passage using her shoes and dogs pulling her. (whew!)

The final scene shows Lara in a dress, at home, with the butler holding a silver tray with a napkin over it. They eyeball Lara in a dress, then pull the napkin off revealing two guns -- she grabs them, the robot from the beginning comes to life, and it freeze frames Lara mugging her "I'm a bad-ass" mug as it fades out and rolls to credits.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO:Director: Simon West. Producers: Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin. Screenplay penned by such writers as, Michael Werb and Michael Colleary (Face/Off), Patrick Massett and John Zinman. Budget is said to be between $35-$50 million.

Original Sin (aka Dancing in the Dark) [theatrical release 02.23.2001]

CAST: Angelina Jolie as Julia Russel, Antionio Bandarras

SYNOPSIS: In 1880 Luis Antonio Vagas (Antonio Banderas) arrives in humid and exuberant coast of Santiago de Cuba, bringing with him a passanger that will change the life of this man forever.

Besides from enjoying all the richness and respect from all high society, Luis still yearns for somebody to share his life and richness...until one day receives a letter from a young lady: Julia Russel (Angelina Jolie) from Wilmington, Delaware, who responded from an add that he had published in a newspaper from Baltimore saying: "Looking Long-Distance Wife." The same day that they meet in the harbor of Santiago, the two stranger join in marriage despite the skeptisism from friends and associates of Luis. But Luis believes more in companionship more so than love. What he wants is a very good "wife;" a stable and kind woman who will bring upon support.

Luis gets a big surprise when he encounters a beautiful and sensual woman, who resembles not so much her own image which she had sent with the letter. Julia explained that she had decided to send a picture of her sister, because she didn't want a man only interested in her beauty. Luis, also confessed that he had written in the letter that he was just a worker at the coffee plant [which he is the owner of] to avoid women only getting interested in his money.

At first only marriage unites them, but little by little desire and passion sets in. The more Luis gets near Julia, more enigmatic she becomes. With time more contradictions come up about what she had written in the letter and things she says during intimacy; her terrible nightmares, her questionable scars in her back, and the coffin that remains closed.

Mistery grows even more when Luis meets Walter Downs (Thomas Jane), a private investigator from the U.S., paid by Julia's worried sister, who's apperance in the island threatens to invade and destroy the almost-perfect happiness that the couple have created in their new life together.

To Luis, loneliness takes him to love, which in turn lead to passion and breaks all reason. Both him and Julia become tangeled in a torturous and dangerous dance that take them both across the parts of Cuba until they reach obsession, eroticness, deceptions...and maybe, murder.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Producers: Denise Di Novi, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Guinzburg, Steven Reuther, Carol Lees, Sheldon Abend. Director: Michael Cristofer.

Gone in 60 Seconds [available on video/dvd 12.05.00]

CAST: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie as Sarah 'Sway' Wayland, James Duval, Vinnie Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, William Lee Scott, Robert Duval, Delroy Lindo, Scott Caan.

SYNOPSIS: Jolie plays Cage's love interest, an aspiring singer-songwriter who supports him as he engages in an elaborate car heist in exchange for cash that will help his younger brother get out of hock to the mob. The Disney/Touchstone film is a remake of the 1974 feature of the same name.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO:Directed by Dominic Sena. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Shooting Dates: begins 24 May 1999.

1999

Girl, Interrupted [available on video]

CAST:Winona Ryder as Susanna Kaysen, Angelina Jolie as Lisa, Brittany Murphy, Clea Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg

SYNOPSIS:In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder - an affliction with symptoms so ambiguous almost any adolescent girl might qualify - and sent to a renowned New England psychiatric hospital where she spent the next two years in a ward for teenage girls. There, Susanna loses herself in an OZ-like nether world of seductive and disturbed young women: among them Lisa (Angelina Jolie), a charming sociopath who stages a disastrous escape with Susanna, Daisy (Brittany Murphy), a pampered girl with a predilection for rotisserie chicken, and Polly, a remarkably kind burn victim. Ultimately, assisted by the hospital's head psychiatrist, Dr. Wick (Vanessa Redgrave), and a no-nonsense ward nurse, Valerie (Whoopi Goldberg), Susanna, like Dorothy, resolves to leave this Oz and reclaim her life. GIRL INTERRUPTED, from the searing bestseller, questions the boundaries between confinement and freedom, friendship and betrayal, and madness and sanity at a time when it seemed the whole world might be going crazy.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: James Mangold. Based on the book by Susanna Kaysen. Produced by: Douglas Wick and Cathy Konrad. Executive Producers: Winona Ryder and Carol Bodie. Co-Producer: Georgia Kacandes. Director of Photography: Jack Green. Filming Locations: Harrisburg State Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Shooting Date: January 1999 to ?

The Bone Collector [available on video 3.14.00]

CAST: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie as Amelia Donaghy, Queen Latifah, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rooker

SYNOPSIS: When a gruesomely mutilated corpse is found buried next to the railroad tracks in Spanish Harlem, an independent, street-smart policewoman (Jolie) is forced to team up with the brilliant but bed-bound forensics expert Lincoln Rhymes (Washington), in order to solve the murder. After pressuring her to work with him on the case, Rhymes grows to depend more and more on her as she becomes his eyes and legs in the outside world. When they begin to suspect that the murder was more than just a random act, the two must race against time to track down this killer before he strikes again.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Phillip Noyce. Writers: Christopher Crowe and Jeremy Iacone. Based on: The novel by Jeffrey Deaver. Budget: $65 million. Filming Locations: New York City and Montréal, Canada

Pushing Tin [available on video]

CAST: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie as Mary Bell, Vicki Lewis, Jake Weber.

SYNOPSIS: Set in the pressure-cooker environment of air traffic control, the story revolves around two controllers (Cusack and Thornton) whose intense rivalry and penchant for one-upsmanship threatens to unravel their careers, marriages ' and the planes in their airspace.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Mike Newell. Producer: Art Linson. Writers: Glen Charles and Les Charles. Based on: Darcy Frey's cover article, "Something's Got to Give" in the 3/24/96 issue of New York Times Magazine. Filming Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1998

Gia [available on video 4.11.00]

CAST: Angelina Jolie as Gia Marie Carangi, Elizabeth Mitchell as Linda, Michael Cole, Mercedes Ruehl, Faye Dunaway, Kylie Travis

SYNOPSIS: The movie chronicles the rise and fall of model Gia Marie Carangi. Gia came to New York City as a 17 year-old punk rocker in the late-1970's and took the modeling world by storm. She had attitude, which was backed up by beauty. Her reign was short lived and after only nine years, in and out of the business, Gia died of AIDS at the age of 26. Her case was one of the first *documented* cases where acquired immunodeficiency virus was listed as the cause of death. Through a powerful and convincing performance by Angelina Jolie, we glimpse the tragedy of a young life lost.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Michael Cristofer. Based on the book by Stephen Fried. Writers: Stephen Fired and Jay McInerney. Filming Locations: New York City and Los Angeles, California

REVIEW: This movie totally brought Angelina to my attention. After she won the Golden Globe (1999), I ran out and rented Gia. I was particularly drawn to the emotion she was able to convey throughout the movie. Particularly in scenes such as, when Katharine, Gia's mother, is leaving New York to return home. Incredible heart wrenching emotion, "But, I need you now!" and watching Gia cling to her mother one moment and the next kick her out. Powerful stuff, which really highlights Angelina's acting talents. Also, we really get a sense of Gia's venerability and need for love after her first night with Linda. In the hallway, naked, begging Linda to stay for breakfast. Truly a sad scene wonderfully understated, but clearly, depicted. All and all, Gia is a sad look into the world of modeling and drugs, but a wonderful example of Angelina Jolie's talents. (by Adrienne 1999)

Hell's Kitchen [available on 3.17.00]

CAST: Mekhi Phifer, Rosanna Arquette, William Forsythe, Angelina Jolie as Gloria McNeary, Johnny Whitworth, Stephen Payne, James Russo

SYNOPSIS: After his release from prison for a murder he didn't commit, Johnny (Mekhi Phifer) is confronted by the dead boy's sister Gloria (Angelina Jolie). Meanwhile, having witnessed the killing and fingered Johnny for it, Patty (Johnny Whitworth) is asked by Gloria to kill Johnny, but instead falls into a drug-addled stupor with Gloria's mother Liz (Rosanna Arquette). Oddly, for someone trained at the Actors' Studio Cinciripini has no sense of delicacy with any of his talent, and as a result the movie is less performed than bellowed (although it looks good). The one note of modulation is provided by William Forsythe as Lou, the ex-boxer for whom Johnny works at the 37th Street horse stables.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Directed and written by: Tony Cinciripini

Playing By Heart [available on video 3.7.00]

CAST: Gillian Anderson, Angelina Jolie as Joan, Madeleine Stowe, Anthony Edwards, Ryan Phillippe, Gena Rowlands, Sean Connery, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Burstyn, Jay Mohr, Jon Stewart, Patricia Clarkson, Nastassja Kinski

SYNOPSIS: In the city of Los Angeles, various individuals try to ascertain what will make them happy in their current or possible future relationships. Meredith (GILLIAN ANDERSON), a socially shy theater director, doesn't know how to respond to the advances made by Trent (JON STEWART), an architect who meets her after a bookcase falls on top of her. Joan (ANGELINA JOLIE), a struggling actress who's just acrimoniously broken up with her live- in boyfriend, meets Keenan (RYAN PHILLIPPE), a blue-haired club hopper who mysteriously refuses her obvious advances toward him, thus peaking her interest and causing her to try harder. On the other hand, Gracie (MADELEINE STOWE), who's having an affair with Roger (ANTHONY EDWARDS), wants nothing more than casual, noncommital sex out of their adulterous relationship. Meanwhile, an older married couple, Hannah (GENA ROWLANDS) and Paul (SEAN CONNERY), who produce a cooking show on which Hannah stars, try to cope with the revelation that he was in love with someone else twenty-five years earlier, while an apparently pathological liar, Hugh (DENNIS QUAID), bar hops and blurts out drunken tales of misery and woe to anyone who'll listen. Finally, there's Mildred (ELLEN BURSTYN), a concerned and distraught mother who's come to the bedside of her sick and dying gay son, Mark (JAY MOHR). As these seemingly disparate people try to make sense of their lives, events soon transpire that show their troubles and lives aren't exactly unrelated.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Willard Carroll. Writer: Willard Carroll. Filming Location: Los Angeles, California, USA. Also known as: Dancing About Architecture and If They Only Knew.

1997

Playing God [available on video]

CAST: David Ducovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie as Claire, Michael Massee, Peter Stormare, Andrew Tiernan, Gary Dourdan, John Hawkes.

SYNOPSIS: Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr. Eugene Sands (Ducovny) abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom (Hutton), an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a "gun-shot doctor" when Raymond's associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss's girlfriend (Jolie).

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Andy Wilson. Writer: Mark Haskell Smith. Filming Location: Los Angeles, California, USA.

George Wallace [available on video]

CAST: Gary Sinise as George Wallace, Mare Winningham, Angelina Jolie as Cornelia Wallace, Clarence Williams III, Joe Don Baker, Terry Kinney, William Sanderson

SYNOPSIS:Made for TV movie (TNT) which chronicles the rise, and subsequent fall, of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Angelina plays Wallace's' second wife Cornelia. This role earned her the first of her three Golden Globe awards.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: John Frankenheimer. Writer: Marshall Frady. Filming Location: Los Angeles and Sacramento, California, USA.

True Women [available on video]

CAST: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie as Georgia Lawshe, Tina Majorino, Rachael Leigh Cook as young Georgia Lawshe, Michael York, Jeffrey Nordling

SYNOPSIS: The story is about 3 women and how their lives were touched and influenced by several now historical events such as the Trail of Tears and the Alamo. We see how they actually played their own parts in influencing the OUTCOME of some of these events as well.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Karen Arthur. Writer: Christopher Lofton. Filming Location: Austin and McDade, Texas, USA.

Without Evidence [re-released on DVD] CAST: Scott Plank, Andrew Prine, Anna Gunn and Angelina Jolie as Jodie.

SYNOPSIS: On January 17 1989, head of corrections for the state of Oregon Michael Francke was stabbed in the heart outside the Corrections Department Headquarters in Salem. His slaying was one of America's most sensational murders cases. Even before the case hit the courtroom, it had hatched several conspiracy theories and speculation that Francke was killed because he was preparing to rule out corruption in the Corrections Department. Francke's family was told to stop asking questions and important evidence was ignored or sensored.

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1996

Love Is All There Is

CAST: Lainie Kazan, Joseph Bologna, Barbara Carrera, Renee Taylor, Angelina Jolie as Gina Malacici, William Hickey, Dick Van Patten, Abe Vigoda, Connie Stevens, Paul Sorvino.

SYNOPSIS: There are bad feelings between two Italian families who run competing Italian restaurants in the Bronx, and those relations don't improve when one family's son (Nathaniel Marston) and the other's daughter ("Hackers'" Angelina Jolie) fall in love during a production of the Shakespeare classic. Unwisely, Bologna and Taylor keep the focus of attention on the disputing adults (Bologna happens to play one of them, while Taylor portrays a goofy psychic) and away from the romantic couple. Lots of lame humor and uncomic contention ensue as the acting corps make sure never to let slip a chance to overplay their parts, making their turns as big and bangly as the bad jewelry and neo-'70s attire the women and men sport here. A closing sign of trouble: Though bearing a 1996 copyright at its end, the film has opening credits boast it "introduces" Angelina Jolie, who now has two major screen credits on her c.v. A strange film to be coming from art-houser Goldwyn, "Love Is All There Is" might prove a fitfully pleasant diversion for undemanding senior citizens and the Lawrence Welk crowd.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Writer: Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Filming Location: City Island, Bronx, New York, USA.

Foxfire [available on video]

CAST: Maddy Wirtz - Hedy Burress, Margaret 'Legs' Sadovsky - Angelina Jolie, Rita Faldes - Jenny Lewis, Goldie Goldman - Jenny Shimizu, Violet Kahn - Sarah Rosenberg, Ethan Bixby - Peter Facinelli.

SYNOPSIS: One rainy day in walks Legs Sadowsky (Angelina) & the lives of four girls, once strangers, are forever changed. After an incident of sexual harassment by a teacher, the 5 girls band together to help each other and eventual learn who they are, and who they are not.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Annette Haywood-Carter. Writer: Elizabeth White. Based on the book by: Joyce Carol Oates. Filming Location: Portland, Oregon, USA.

Mojave Moon [available on video]

CAST: Danny Aiello, Anne Archer, Michael Biehn, Angelina Jolie as Ellie, Alfred Molina, Jack Noseworthy, Zack Norman, Peter MacNicol, John Getz, Corin Nemec, Lewis Arquette.

SYNOPSIS: Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman (Ellie) who is looking for a ride from the city out into the Mojave Desert, where her mother lives. Little does he know that while Ellie is falling in love with him, he is falling for her mother (Julie), despite the nearby presence of Julie's boyfriend who seems likely to go berzerk at any moment. Even more strange, hilarious events follow and it's up to Al to find some explanation. His life may never again be the same.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Kevin Dowling. Writer: Leonard Glasser. Filming Location: Palmdale, California, USA.

1995

Hackers [available on video 4.4.00]

CAST: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie as Kate 'Acid Burn' Libby, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago, Fisher Stevens, Alberta Watson, Darren Lee, Peter Y. Kim, Ethan Browne, Lorraine Bracco, Wendell Pierce.

SYNOPSIS: Having been banned from touching a computer until his 18th birthday after a hacking stunt which brought the whole of Seattle to a standstill, Dade Murphy (Miller) and his mom (Alberta Watson) move to New York, where he resumes his techno boffin activities and meets a gang of like-minded folk at his new school, including the dreadlocked Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard) and the gutsy Kate (Jolie). However, when one of their number accidentally infiltrates a corporate scam masterminded by The Plague (Stevens), it's down to the gang to divert computer catastrophe and the finger of suspicion pointed at them.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Iain Softley. Writer: Rafael Moreu. Filming Location: Stuyvesant High School, Battery Park City, New York City, New York, USA.

1993

Cyborg 2 [available on video]

CAST: Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie as Cassandra 'Cash' Reese, Jack Palance, Billy Drago, Karen Sheperd, Allen Garfield.

SYNOPSIS: In the year 2074 the PinWheel corporation creates a 'almost-human' cyborg Cassandra Reese, aka. Cash designed specifically to charm/seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Things go awry, when she starts to have feelings for a human Colson Ricks, aka. Colt 45 who works for PinWheel as a martial arts instructor. He falls for Cash as well, and with the help of Mercy, they escape. PinWheel Corp. sends Danny Bench, a 'Cyborg Tracker' after both Colt and Cash. Violence ensues.

MISCELLANEOUS INFO: Director: Michael Schroeder. Writer: Mark Geldman and Michael Schroeder.

1982

Looking To Get Out [available on video]