2002 : Movies Must See
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1. Lone Hero (2002)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a small Montana town.
Director: Ken Sanzel | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean Patrick Flanery, Robert Forster, Tanya Allen
Votes: 771
2. Try Seventeen (2002)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a young man who enters college only to discover that he can learn more about life and love from his neighbors in the apartment building where he lives.
Director: Jeffrey Porter | Stars: Elijah Wood, Franka Potente, Mandy Moore, Chris William Martin
Votes: 6,213
3. Jet Lag (2002)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A worn-out businessman and a beautician on the run collide in a Paris airport. Love arrives, all its hurdles be damned.
Director: Danièle Thompson | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Jean Reno, Sergi López, Scali Delpeyrat
Votes: 6,104 | Gross: $0.54M
4. Firestarter: Rekindled (2002)
Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A young woman who has the ability to start fires with her mind, must now face the trauma of her childhood by battling with a group of very talented children and their cruel leader, John Rainbird.
Stars: Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Dennis Hopper, Danny Nucci
Votes: 3,190
5. High Crimes (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering nine villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as a US soldier under a different name. She decides to defend him in military court and find out the truth about what happened.
Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Adam Scott
Votes: 48,278 | Gross: $41.54M
6. The Transporter (2002)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Frank Martin, who "transports" packages for unknown clients, is asked to move a package that soon begins moving, and complications arise.
Directors: Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen | Stars: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze, François Berléand
Votes: 321,326 | Gross: $25.30M
7. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Christopher Adamson, JB Blanc
Votes: 148,550 | Gross: $54.23M
8. Analyze That (2002)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime
Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli
Votes: 89,520 | Gross: $32.12M
9. The Third Wheel (2002)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A man accidentally hits a homeless person with his car and then can't seem to get rid of him the rest of the night.
Director: Jordan Brady | Stars: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Luke Wilson, Denise Richards
Votes: 4,969
10. Ultimate Fights from the Movies (2002 Video)
Unrated | 53 min | Documentary
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans... See full summary »
Stars: Rab Affleck, Marc Akerstream, Ian Bannen, Andy Beckwith
Votes: 355
11. Shooters (2002)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Gilly, fresh out of prison, and J, a hustler with a major drug problem, just can't shake their criminal ways.
Directors: Glenn Durfort, Colin Teague | Stars: Adrian Dunbar, Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey, Gerard Butler
Votes: 1,222
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
PG-13 | 179 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,785,077 | Gross: $342.55M
13. The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History
The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.
Director: Moisés Kaufman | Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant, Laura Linney
Votes: 6,960
14. House Blend (2002 TV Movie)
22 min | Drama, Music
Director: John Whitesell | Stars: Amy Yasbeck, Dan Cortese, Sean Faris, Alexandra Chando
Votes: 34
15. Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs (2002)
91 min | Romance, Comedy
A mockumentary following unrelated stories of three LA bachelors (Eric K. George, Anthony Treach Criss, and Richard T.
Director: Jeffrey W. Byrd | Stars: Robin Givens, Richard T. Jones, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Eric George
Votes: 123
16. Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.
Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 13,677 | Gross: $1.59M
17. Death to Smoochy (2002)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A kids' show host, Rainbow Randolph, is fired in disgrace while his replacement, Sheldon Mopes, A.K.A. Smoochy the Rhino, finds himself a rising star. Unfortunately for Sheldon, the business of kids' television isn't all child's play.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito
Votes: 42,643 | Gross: $8.36M
18. Life or Something Like It (2002)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
A reporter interviews a psychic, who tells her that she's going to die and her life is meaningless.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane
Votes: 28,117 | Gross: $14.45M
19. Insomnia (2002)
R | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
Votes: 319,327 | Gross: $67.36M
20. Taboo (2002)
R | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
While staying at a secluded mansion, six young adults reveal their personal demons during an innocent game called Taboo. They reunite a year later, only to realize that one of them wants them dead for their moral transgressions.
Director: Max Makowski | Stars: Nick Stahl, Eddie Kaye Thomas, January Jones, Lori Heuring
Votes: 1,954
21. Storm Watch (2002)
R | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi
America's best player is being pulled in to the ultimate cyber-terror. The game's mastermind has stolen his identity, put him on the FBI's Most Wanted List, and is blackmailing him to take ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Cunningham | Stars: Nick Cornish, Vanessa Marcil, Adrian Paul, Bai Ling
Votes: 758
22. Monkey Love (2002)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
To spice up her ho-hum life, college senior Amy sleeps with Aaron and Dil, her two best friends since the 3rd grade. But her best-laid plans turn their perfect, if predictable, platonic triangle into a tangled web of supercharged emotions.
Director: Mark Stratton | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Seamus Dever, Amy Stewart, Mary Margaret Robinson
Votes: 255
23. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
Director: Callie Khouri | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner
Votes: 20,961 | Gross: $69.60M
24. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the Mafia.
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jay Mohr, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson
Votes: 27,008 | Gross: $4.42M
25. Killing Me Softly (2002)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young American woman living in London begins a passionate and kinky affair with a handsome stranger who may have a dark and dangerous past.
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Thomsen
Votes: 19,338
26. The Time Machine (2002)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Director: Simon Wells | Stars: Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law
Votes: 130,464 | Gross: $56.68M
27. Femme Fatale (2002)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney
Votes: 37,666 | Gross: $6.59M
28. Pumpkin (2002)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A sorority girl finds her life falling apart after she develops romantic feelings for a mentally-challenged man.
Directors: Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder | Stars: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain
Votes: 9,547 | Gross: $0.31M
29. The Skulls II (2002 Video)
R | 99 min | Thriller
After a college student is tapped to join the elite secret Skulls fraternity, he witnesses a girl's death and his life starts falling apart.
Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Robin Dunne, Nathan West, Ashley Tesoro, Lindy Booth
Votes: 3,224
30. Blood Work (2002)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Still recovering from a heart transplant, retired F.B.I. profiler Terry McCaleb returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus
Votes: 47,785 | Gross: $26.20M
31. Stealing Harvard (2002)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
A middle-class man turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year at Harvard University.
Director: Bruce McCulloch | Stars: Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Megan Mullally
Votes: 13,730 | Gross: $13.97M
32. The New Guy (2002)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy
A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town's other high school.
Director: Ed Decter | Stars: DJ Qualls, Lyle Lovett, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 37,680 | Gross: $28.97M
33. Last Call (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Drama
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant and protege who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Director: Henry Bromell | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek, Shannon Lawson
Votes: 988
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