When Alice`s husband dies, she has no money but must support her 11 year old
son. She decides she wants to move to Monterey, California to be a singer. They
start from New Mexico and begin traveling towards Monterey, Calif. and along the
way gets a job as a singer, then as a waitress in Phoenix. In Phoenix, while working
as a waitress, she meets a generous man, Kris Kristopherson
Movie Review
Freaky Friday (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster,
John Astin, Dick Van Patten, Kaye Ballard
Director: Gary Nelson
Dr. Tess Coleman and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna, are not getting along.
They don`t see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music and certainly not in each other`s
taste in men. One Thursday evening, their disagreements reach a fever pitch--Anna
is incensed that her mother doesn`t support her musical aspirations and Tess, a
widow about to remarry, can`t see why Anna won`t give her fiance a break. Everything
soon changes when two identical Chinese fortune cookies cause a little mystic mayhem.
On the next morning, their Friday gets freaky when Tess and Anna find themselves
inside the other`s body. As they literally walk a mile in each other`s shoes, they
gain a little newfound respect for each other`s point of view. But with Tess` wedding
coming on Saturday, the two have to find a way to switch back (and fast).
Movie Review
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Drama
Starring: Robert De Niro,
Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle,
Jodie Foster, Diahnne Abbott
Director: Martin Scorsese
4 Academy Award? nominations including Best Picture! (1976) Special Collector`s
Edition is digitally remastered and includes a never-before-seen making-of documentary
featuring interviews with the creators and stars of the film. Robert De Niro stars
with Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks
in the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence
in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute actor.
Movie Review
Candleshoe (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Starring: David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie
Foster, Leo McKern, Vivian Pickles
Director: Norman Tokar
Jodie Foster plays a street-wise L.A. kid who is planted in a mansion to help
a con man bilk an elderly woman out of a fortune. Niven dons a variety of colorful
disguises as the butler in this slapstick Disney offering.
Movie Review
Stealing Home (1988)
Genre: Drama
Starring: Blair Brown, Harold Ramis, Helen
Hunt, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Silverman, Mark
Harmon
Director: Steven Kampmann, William Porter
Release Date: August 26, 1988
An irresponsible ex-ballplayer returns to his hometown following the suicide
of his boyhood babysitter. She has willed him the task of disposing of her ashes.
As he struggles with this responsibility, he flashes back to important moments in
his childhood.
Movie Review
The Accused (1988)
Genre: Drama
Starring: Kelly McGillis,
Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Steve
Antin
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Release Date: January 1, 1988.
What are the limits of justice? Of social responsibility? The Accused takes a
powerful and thought-provoking look at human nature and individual moral conscience,
and a judicial process that treats the victim like a criminal.
Movie Review
Little Man Tate (1991)
Genre: Drama, Kids/Family
Starring: Adam Hann-Byrd, David Hyde Pierce, Dianne Wiest,
Jodie Foster, Harry Connick Jr.
Director: Jodie Foster
Release Date: October 18, 1991
Seven-year-old genius Fred is desperate to fit in with other kids. Recognizing
his talents, his mom (and best friend) Dede enrolls him in a school for gifted children,
where Fred befriends a teacher who offers him opportunities his mother cannot. Dede
must choose between possibly losing her son or compromising his education.
Movie Review
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Drama
Starring: Jodie Foster,
Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Brooke
Smith
Director: Jonathan Demme
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins will likely be forever associated with their
roles in this bone-chilling masterpiece, based on the novel by Thomas Harris and
directed by Jonathan Demme. FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Foster) is sent by her
supervisor (Scott Glenn) to interview ferociously intelligent serial killer Hannibal
`The Cannibal` Lechter (Hopkins) at his cell in a Maryland mental hospital. The
FBI hopes Lechter can provide insight into the mind of killer-at-large, Buffalo
Bill (Ted Levine), whose current abductee happens to be the daughter of a senator.
Intrigued by Clairice, Lechter demands information about her personal life and in
exchange for clues, and the two begin to form a strangely intimate connection, with
a girl`s life hanging in the balance. Starling is gradually revealed as a woman
struggling out of her own darkness, bound to aid the dysfunctional males around
her on their own paths of transformation, liberation, and destruction. This is a
film of brilliant and distu rbing beauty that transcends its B-movie origins (though
it does honor them with a cameo appearance by Roger Corman). Its enduring influence
has led to a slew of similarly dark-toned serial killer films, and a sequel, HANNIBAL
(2001).
Movie Review
Shadows and Fog (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Suspense
Starring: Jodie Foster,
John Cusack, Kathy
Bates, Mia Farrow,
Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
Release Date: March 20, 1992
A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious
stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the
madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript
local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of the crimes by an angry mob. And
every effort Kleinman makes to clear himself ends up making him look more and more
guilty. Woody Allen`s black-and-white mood piece is dark and eerie and very funny,
with new twists and turns lurking behind each shadow. Once again he has amassed
a stellar, eclectic cast, including John Cusack, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster, Donald
Pleasence, John Malkovich, Fred Gwynne, Lily Tomlin, and Madonna, among others.
Movie Review
Sommersby (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Starring: Bill Pullman, Frankie Faison,
James Earl Jones, Jodie Foster,
Richard Gere
Director: Jon Amiel
Release Date: February 5, 1993
A man returning home after six years in the Civil War struggles to reconstruct
his life and marriage. His idyllic hopes are shattered when he is accused of not
being who he claims. Based on the French film THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE.
Movie Review
Maverick (1994)
Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Western
Starring: Corey Feldman,
Mel Gibson, Jodie
Foster, James Garner,
James Coburn
Director: Richard Donner
Release Date: May 20, 1994
An updating of the classic Western TV series `Maverick,` this comic oater finds
our fast-talking, hard-gambling hero surviving many adventures while trying to come
up with enough money to play in a high-stakes poker game. Penned by William Goldman
with music by Randy Newman. Academy Award Nominations: Best Costume Design.
Movie Review
Nell (1994)
Genre: Drama
Starring: Jodie Foster,
Liam Neeson,
Natasha Richardson, Nick Searcy, Richard
Libertini
Director: Michael Apted
Release Date: December 23, 1994
The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell (Jodie Foster) lives, all alone.
She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of
land. Then civilization enters her life in the form of two doctors (Liam Neeson
and Natasha Richardson), who discover the untamed wild child. Now that they have
come to study her, Nell`s life will never be the same again--but neither will theirs.
Based on Mark Handley`s play IDIOGLOSSIA, which means a language for one, NELL is
an intriguing look at a person who has grown up without any contact with the modern
world--like the famous wild boy of Aveyron portrayed in Fran?ois Truffaut`s WILD
CHILD. Foster is excellent in delivering Nell`s unique language and body movements,
while Neeson and Richardson are intense in their sparring over how Nell should be
treated. For eclectic director Michael Apted, this film is just one of several (COAL
MINER`S DAUGHTER and GORILLAS IN THE MIST) he has made about women who are not easily
categorized . NELL is also the first film from Foster`s production company, Egg
Pictures.
Movie Review
Contact (1997)
Genre: ScienceFiction/Fantasy
Starring: Angela Bassett,
James Woods, Jena
Malone, Jodie Foster,
Matthew McConaughey
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Release Date: July 11, 1997
Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey
after receiving the message she`s waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed
in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft
that will presumably survive the passage from Earth to their home. While struggling
to fund her mission, Arroway also struggles with her feelings about the nature of
things, particularly after meeting a charismatic New Age believer who questions
her disbelief in God. A deliberately-paced, meditative adaptation of the eponymous
novel by Ann Druyan and `pop` astronomer Carl Sagan, who died during production.
Academy Award Nomination: Best Sound.
Movie Review
Anna and the King (1999)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Starring: Bai Ling,
Chow Yun-Fat, Jodie
Foster, Randall Duk Kim, Tom Felton
Director: Andy Tennant.
Release Date: December 17, 1999
English schoolteacher Anna travels to Siam to educate King Monkut`s fifty-eight
children. Amid the danger of growing political unrest, Anna and the King`s mutual
respect slowly turns into something more.
Movie Review & Trailer
Panic Room (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, and Thriller
Starring: Dwight Yoakam,
Jared Leto, Jodie
Foster, Forest Whitaker, Kristen Stewart
Director: David Fincher
Release Date: March 29, 2002.
Trapped in their New York brownstone`s panic room, a hidden chamber built as
a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster)
and her daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with
three intruders--Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jared
Leto) -- during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because
what the intruders really want is inside it.
Movie Review & Trailer
The Dangerous Lives of
Altar Boys (2002)
Release Date: January 18, 2002 (Sundance Film Festival), June 14, 2002
(limited)
One of the most critically acclaimed films of the year, THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF
ALTAR BOYS is a movie experience you won`t forget. Tim (Kieran Culkin) and Francis
(Emile Hirsch) are best friends, doing their best to cause trouble without getting
caught. Under the watchful eye of Sister Assumpta (Jodie Foster), the boys plot
to unleash the ultimate prank, involving a man-eating cougar, their school`s statue
and a lot of cough medicine. While the boys imagine their exploits in a comic book
called The Atomic Trinity, Francis begins his growth to adulthood with Catholic
schoolgirl Margie Flynn (Jena Malone). Growing up is never easy, but it`s never
boring either.
From the director and star of Amelie(Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes
a very different love story, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT, based on the acclaimed novel
by Sebastien Japrisot. Screenplay adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant.
The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of
the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable
provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman`s relentless, moving and
sometimes comic search for her fianc?e, who has disappeared. He is one of five French
soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and
pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man`s land. What
follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity
of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
Movie Review & Trailer
Flightplan (2005)
Genre: Drama and Thriller
Starring: Erika Christensen,
Jodie Foster,
Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Marlene Lawston
Director: Robert Schwentke
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Academy Award? winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991)
gives an outstanding performance in the heart-pumping action thriller FLIGHTPLAN.
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle
Pratt`s (Foster) 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she?
No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and
alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
From the producer of APOLLO 13 and A BEAUTIFUL MIND, FLIGHTPLAN is an intense, suspense-filled
thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire flight.
Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, Academy Award nominee Clive Owen and
Academy Award winner Jodie Foster star in this intense and explosive crime thriller.
The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse
between a criminal mastermind (Owen), a determined detective (Washington), and a
power broker with a hidden agenda (Foster). As the minutes tick by and the situation
becomes increasingly tense, one wrong move could mean disaster for any one of them.
From acclaimed director Spike Lee comes the edge-of-your-seat, action-packed thriller
that The Wall Street Journal calls `a heist film that`s right on the money.`
Movie Review & Trailer
The Brave One (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Starring: James Biberi, Jodie Foster,
Michelle DiBenedetti, Naveen Andrews, Terrence
Howard
Director: Neil Jordan
Release Date: September 28, 2007
A female radio host turns ruthless vigilante after she`s beaten and her fiance
is murdered in an act of random, savage violence