Movies produced in 2002

A quartet of young rush-seeking master thieves, made up of Slim (Stephen Dorff), Otis (Clé Bennett), Frank (Steven McCarthy) and Alex (Karen Cliché), commit dozens of audacious bank robberies, using their skills in various extreme sports like rollerblading, scuba diving, parachuting, and rock climbing to make their getaway. Slim and his crew plan to pull off the ultimate heist before resting on their laurels and fabulous wealth. But this time, the police mobilize forces to bring them down. Things get even more complicated when the mafia throws obstacles in their way.

In this animated musical comedy movie, Davey Stone (Adam Sandler) is a 33-year-old grumpy boozing loser who hates himself, everyone and everything, especially the holidays. When he faces Hanukah in his New England hometown, he goes on a drunken rampage and ends up arrested. The judge (Norm Crosby) is about to throw the book at the delinquent but decides to give him one last chance at redemption and sentences him to service community. Davey must work at the community center as an assistant referee for the Junior Basketball League. He reluctantly accepts the job, though he realizes it's much better than going to the state prison for 10 years. But when he meets Whitey Duvall, a good-natured but eccentric head referee, his sentence turns into a nightmarish disaster...

There is an ancient legend that says weird things happen when there's a full moon. Imagine what may happen on the night of thirteen moons. Everything is turned upside-down and the whole life can drastically change. The dramedy follows nine odd characters whose lives intersect by chance on a full moon night in Los Angeles. Complete strangers to each other, they end up helping a bail bondsman named Mo Peter (David Proval) to find new kidneys for his sickly son Timmy (Austin Wolff).

Fortune unexpectedly smiles on a hapless New York City cab driver named Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) who gets a good job he has never bargained for. Jimmy is hired to be a personal chauffeur for dandified millionaire Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs). Jimmy's new prestigious job appears to be quite peaceful until the cabbie discovers that his boss is a spy for the U.S. government. After a terrorists' attempt to kill Devlin sends him into a coma, Jimmy decides to pose as his injured boss and tries on Devlin's new tuxedo which is in fact a high-tech gadget capable of giving its wearer extraordinary powers. Teamed up with a rookie secret agent, Del Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Jimmy sets out to foil a nefarious plan of a mad scientist, Dr. Simms (Peter Stormare).

On her way to meet her lover Russell (Martin Cummins), Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), a gun company owner, receives a creepy cell phone call saying that she is held at gunpoint. A gunman who calls himself Joe (Wesley Snipes) tells Liberty to handcuff herself to a nearby hot dog stand. The frightened woman follows the terrorist's order, only to find that the stand is rigged with a bomb which will go off if she refuses to fulfil his demands. Meanwhile, Russell, who is tied up and also attached to a bomb, sits still in his dressing room just before the performance in a local theatre. Liberty is forced to play a life-and-death game with the desperate man.

An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. 'Fred Ward (I)' (qv) has a guest-starring role.

An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?

Matt (Patrick Muldoon) is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making Matt's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms. Now, years later Matt goes away for weekend with his new girlfriend Dawn. After a wild session of lovemaking, Dawn goes for a walk. While she is away a strange man with an axe comes into the motel room and attacks Matt. After that incident Matt goes into the woods, looking for Dawn. There he encounters Dawn's family who tie him down and put him on trail for the murder of the girl years before. They find him guilty and he is sent back into the forest to be hunted down by the family. The deeper Matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the Blackwoods.

Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds.

A sheriff (Thornton) begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.

For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. Enraged, Pruitt pummels the man. Once at the ER, however, she changes her mind and names a male nurse as her attacker. But before Pruitt can make amends, he learns that his victim, the son of Sheriff Morgan McKenna, is dead.

After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Fin (Peter Sarsgaard) and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette (Debra Kara Unger) from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents (Anthony Lapaglia and Doug Hutchison) and sadistic dealer Pooh Bear (Vincent D'Onfronio).

Even at the start of his singing career, Dean Martin is an impressive gentleman, big, tall, hansom, exquisitely dressed, fitting his nightingale voice and naturally classy appeal, even though his womanizing costs him enough in alimony to declare bankruptcy. Jerry Lewis on the other hand is an unsightly schmuck, whose buffoon version of stand-up comedy is an agent's nightmare. When he accepts playing MC in a show with Dean, he tries interacting with him, and they hit gold judging by the audience's reactions. Initially Dean wants to walk off and stay a solo act, but success as a duo is irresistible, and they rocket together, even in Hollywood. However in time they fall out of friendship as their characters and lifestyle clash, and Dean still dreams of solo success.

When Rex, a good-natured Golden Retriever, is given bionic super powers by an eccentric scientist, he becomes the target of an evil genius determined to possess the new technology at any cost.

Kermit (Whitmire) is enjoying their Christmas with their usual selection of shows at the Muppet Theatres, but then trouble starts. Miss Bitterman (Cusack) enters the Theatre and demands that the money on the Theatre is paid back to her bank, or the Theatre is hers. Problems arise, and the money does not make it to Miss Bitterman in time. Up in heaven, Daniel (Arquette) has been watching Kermit and asks Daniels 'Boss' (Goldberg) to deal out some much needed discipline. Will Kermit get back the Theatre?

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood), who has recently had a heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers (De Jesus), to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria, who happens to have given McCaleb his heart. On the case, he soon deducts that the killer, who staged the murder to look like a random robbery, may actually be a serial killer Terry was trailing for years in the FBI. Can the elderly and feeble McCaleb, who had intended to spend his retirement living on his boat in the Los Angeles harbor, and who can't drive, and has to nap regularly, muster up the endurance to find the killer?

Pooh Bear and his pals in the Hundred Acre Wood celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve in a pair of adventures folded into this 65-minute made-for-video feature. In the first, the silly old bear plays Saint Nick to his buddies ("I always thought he'd be taller") after failing to get an errant wish list off to Santa, while identity crisis strikes the gang in the second half. Piglet inherits Tigger's hop and jumps like a pogo stick, and Eeyore (dressed in Pooh's shirt) becomes a happy-go-lucky honey lover. Welcome to The Twilight Zone according to Winnie the Pooh. There's not much A.A. Milne in this TV-style holiday special, but it's a bouncy little production that should entertain the wee ones with its warm fuzzies, good company, slapstick energy, and life lessons.

A non-stereotyped portrayal of a person with mental illness and an at times difficult, but loving relationship with her sister. A true story. Book by the same name. It both opens minds and entertains. Great acting by Kathy Bates: an informative contrast to her role in the movie Misery.

Christina walters (Cameron Diaz) spent years avoiding men and then suddenly met her perfect match (Thomas Jane) while hanging out with her best girlfriends Courtney (Christina Applegate) and Jane (Selma Blair). Then she finds out that he left town. So she and Courtney set off on a trip.

Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda's and Phoebus' little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch's assistant. But greedy Sarousch forces Madellaine to help him steal the Cathedral's most famous bell.