Ryan Phillippe appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions and 54 within a few years, which made him a fixture of late-1990s teen cinema.
Gosford Park and Crash gave him ensemble work in Best Picture winners, and Flags of Our Fathers gave him a Clint Eastwood lead. Shooter gave him a television lead, and he has directed a feature.
Don CheadleCrash (2005) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Paul Haggis assembled a multi-strand Los Angeles film in which every character holds one racial attitude the plot then corrects, won Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain, and has spent…
Alan BatesRobert Altman's 2001 English country house mystery with substantial class commentary. Julian Fellowes screenplay foreshadows Downton.
Josh LucasThe Lincoln Lawyer is Brad Furman's 2011 American courtroom thriller adapting Michael Connelly's 2005 novel. The work launched the McConaughey career resurgence that subsequent productions including Mud (2012), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), and True Detective (2014) would extend.
Reese WitherspoonCruel Intentions is the best classical adaptation American teen cinema has produced. The 10 rating is honest evaluation.
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