Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Patrika Darbo, Lenny von Dohlen, Maury ChaykinDirected By: Edward Zwick
One of the very best films about the Civil War, this instant classic from 1989 is also one of the few films to depict the participation of African American soldiers in Civil War combat. Based in part on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard, the film also draws from the letters of Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick), the ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi KennedyDirected By: Edward Zwick
A group of anti-arms activists hold a nuclear testing plant "hostage". Staged as an actual late-breaking news event.
Manufacturer: Karl-Lorimar Home VideoStarring: Christopher Allport, Mary Armstrong, Steve Arvin, Bernard Behrens, Edwin BernsteinDirected By: Edward Zwick
A box-office hit when released in 1994, this sprawling, frequently overwrought familial melodrama may get sillier as its plot progresses, but it's the kind of lusty, character-based epic that Hollywood should attempt more often. It's also an unabashedly flattering star vehicle for Brad Pitt as Tristan--the rebellious middle son of a fiercely independent Montana rancher and military veteran ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry ThomasDirected By: Edward Zwick
A high-profile action/exploitation thriller set in the present, The Siege is really a fantasy that extrapolates from major terrorist attacks. Denzel Washington is FBI special agent Hubbard, "Hub" to his friends, whose anti-terrorist task force must track down the terrorist cells responsible for a spate of bombings in New York. His partner is an FBI agent of Arabian extraction (played ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century FoxStarring: Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, Sami BouajilaDirected By: Edward Zwick
For better or worse, David Mamet's hit play Sexual Perversity in Chicago is watered down into this romantic comedy about a couple (played by Rob Lowe and Demi Moore) who get together and then fall apart due to Lowe's character's inability to commit. Jim Belushi is on hand as the gratuitously swinish best friend who looks at women as meat, and Elizabeth Perkins is entertainingly arch as ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzoDirected By: Edward Zwick
Having It All is a tailored-for-television attempt at "screwball" comedy from the director of About Last Night... and Glory. Dyan Cannon plays a fashion designer who believes that all good things come in pairs. She not only has two different clothing lines in two different cities (New York and LA), but also has two different husbands. Husband #1, Barry Newman, is a straight-arrow type in New York, ...
Manufacturer: U.S.A. Home VideoDirected By: Edward Zwick
Epic Action Drama. Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, William Atherton, Chad LindbergDirected By: Edward Zwick
A year after a devastating friendly fire incident during the Gulf War, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is in a Washington, D.C., desk job assigned the rudimentary task of overseeing a Medal of Honor candidate who died in the war. However, the case and soldier in question are a political hot potato--Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) is America's first female soldier to be killed in ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century FoxStarring: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt DamonDirected By: Edward Zwick
