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Oct. 10 - Oct. 17, 2004 |
Harvest season brings stars and fun
Biopics, sequels, remakes and adaptations on their way before the Holiday blockbusters come out
By Angela Baldassarre
Adventures, comedies, futuristic thrillers and family films. There's something for everyone this harvest season. And for those wanting some of the same 'ole, there's plenty of sequels, remakes and adaptations on the way as well.
John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix heat up the screen as heroic firefighters in Ladder 49, where the former plays captain to the younger who ponders on his life while waiting to be rescued.
Jude Law reprises the role made famous four decades ago by Michael Caine in the remake of Alfie, about cad who gets his comeuppance when he meets the woman he loves. This is the pic where the gorgeous Law met his current squeeze, Sienna Miller.
In a markedly different role, Law co-stars opposite Dustin Hoffman in the caper comedy I Heart Huckabees, about "existential detectives" hired by Jason Scwhartzman (Rushmore) to help with his problems. Odd movie also stars Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, Lily Tomlin and Schwartzman's real-life mom Talia Shire.
Collateral was just a warm up for Jamie Foxx. The stand-up comedian turned serious actor portrays the late, great R&B musician Ray Charles in Ray, that traces the singer's youth to his early adulthood when he becomes famous. South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone use marionettes in their raunchy new comedy Team America: World Police, where the hilarious antics are very reminiscent of the television series Thunderbirds.
In Friday Night Lights, (based on H.G. Bissinger's bestseller) Billy Bob Thornton plays an overzealous Texas high school football coach determined to win the state championship. Another tearjerker for sports lovers. In A Sound of Thunder, based on a Ray Bradbury short story, Ed Burns plays a big game hunter who goes on a time-traveling safari to hunt dinosaurs. But his accidental killing of a butterfly causes a disastrous effect in the future unless it can be corrected.
Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez kick up their heels in the romantic comedy Shall We Dance?, a remake of the critically acclaimed Japanese movie of the same name where a married office worker finds renewed zest in life when he takes up ballroom dancing. Queen Latifah plays New York's fastest cabbie, who teams with an undercover cop (Saturday Night Live's Jimmy Fallon) to bust up a team of bank robbers in Taxi.
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