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Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer's Odyssey for a comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Pictures
Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter
Directed By: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

After creating the last great traditionally animated film of the 20th century, The Iron Giant, filmmaker Brad Bird joined top-drawer studio Pixar to create this exciting, completely entertaining computer-animated film. Bird gives us a family of "supers," a brood of five with special powers desperately trying to fit in with the 9-to-5 suburban lifestyle. Of course, in a more innocent world, ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Video
Starring: Maeve Andrews, Michael Bird (IV), Wayne Canney, Kimberly Adair Clark, Spencer Fox (II)

Holly Hunter plays a Chicago-based single mom who--on the day before Thanksgiving--loses her job and is informed by her daughter of the latter's intention to surrender her virginity while on a weekend-long affair. If that's not enough, Hunter's character then has to fly to Baltimore to join her fractious family for another difficult Thanksgiving. Robert Downey Jr. is terrifically charming as her ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr., Charles Durning, Dylan McDermott
Directed By: Jodie Foster

The third in the Notes Alive series with the Minnesota Orchestra is another fine introduction for kids to the arts. This computer-animated version of the Dr. Seuss story about the mood of colors (narrated by Holly Hunter) is combined with footage of a concert symphony. We follow a boy and his dog juggling his various moods, something soaring like a bird ("a blue day") or moping around the house ...

Manufacturer: Minnesoty Orchestra Visual Entertainment
Starring: Holly Hunter

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Holly Hunter, Jeff Allin, Dion Anderson, Marnie Andrews, Jim Antonio
Directed By: Gregory Hoblit

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands
Directed By: Lasse Hallström

Swift, graceful and yet fragile, the cheetah has always been a source of fascination for Academy Award-winning actress Holly Hunter. The journey to find it in the wild takes her to Namibia, home to a quarter of the world's cheetahs At Etosha National Park she finds the first sign of the world's fastest animal: cheetah paw prints in the sand.

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Holly Hunter

Blood Simple made it clear that the cinematically precocious Coen brothers (writer-director Joel and writer-producer Ethan) were gifted filmmakers to watch out for. But it was the outrageously farcical Raising Arizona that announced the Coens' darkly comedic audacity to the world. It wasn't widely seen when released in 1987, but its modest audience was vocally supportive, and this ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe
Directed By: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Considered by many to represent a low point in Steven Spielberg's career, 1990's Always did suggest something of a temporary drift in the director's sensibility. A remake of the classic Spencer Tracy film A Guy Named Joe, Always stars Richard Dreyfuss as a Forest Service pilot who takes great risks with his own life to douse wildfires from a plane. After promising his ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn
Directed By: Steven Spielberg

"Brace yourself" (Rolling Stone) for a raw, revealing insight into urban adolescence that's so intense and realistic, "it's possible to turn away (Interview Magazine). Anxiously trying to fit into the peer-pressure cooker environment of junior high, thirteen-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) goes to shocking lengths in order to befriend Evie (co-writer Nikki Reed), the most popular girl in school. ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens, Brady Corbet
Directed By: Catherine Hardwicke