In Movie Theaters the Week of
December 21st, 19989 films are being released this week
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Rated: PG-13
Patch Adams is a comedy based on the true story of a compassionate but outrageous medical student who risks his career by defying the medical profession with his unwavering belief that laughter is contagious.
Inspired to become a doctor while institutionalized for depression as a teenager, Patch Adams attended the Medical College of Virginia in the late '60s and early '70s. After graduation, he formed the Gesundheit Institute, dedicated to a more connected, personalized approach to medicine.
Using unconventional methods and wacky surprises to ease patients' anxiety and enhance their healing, Patch helped pioneer the then-startling idea that doctors should treat people, not just disease. Compassion, involvement and empathy, Patch holds, are as great a value to physicians as breakthrough medicines and technological advancements. |
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Rated: R
Like so many schools today, Herrington High has passed its prime. Its walls are grimy, its textbooks out-dated, its teachers burned out. There's no money for field trips, new computers or the drama department's musical. Yet its crumbling corridors vibrate with the future of America - loners, leaders, hipsters, nerds, brains and jocks. Like teenagers everywhere, they struggle with parents who don't get it, teachers who never had it and hormones that won't quit.
But the students of Herrington High are about to comeface-to-face with a challenge greater than anything they could ever imagine... |
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Rated: R
A group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, change, suffer and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
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Rated: PG
Zoologist Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton) is exploring the remote Pangani Mountains in Central Africa when he comes upon an incredible discovery - an astonishing 15-foot gorilla. Fearsome and dangerous when provoked, he is tame in the hands of Jill (Charlize Theron), the 21-year-old orphan who raised the gorilla and named him Joe. When poachers threaten Joe's life, Gregg and Jill rescue Joe by moving him to a California animal preserve.
Joe is not safe for long, as his notoriety makes him a target for a ruthless poacher. Threatened and confused, Joe escapes from captivity. Jill and Gregg race to save Joe's life before he is destroyed by the authorities, and the chase culminates in an incredible and selfless display of courage by the mighty Joe, proving that within his fearsome frame beats a noble and heroic heart. |
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Rated: PG-13
In this legal thriller based on a true story, John Travolta stars as Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious personal-injury attorney whose fierce determination entangles him in a case that threatens to destroy him. The case-which appears straightforward-instead evolves into a labyrinthine lawsuit of vast dimensions, in the intelligent, fast-paced drama, A Civil Action. |
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Rated: PG-13
Isabel (Julia Roberts) is a career-minded fashion photographer forced into a role as unwelcome stepmother to her boyfriend Luke's (Ed Harris) two children-12-year-old Anna (Jena Malone) and seven-year-old Ben (Liam Aiken). When Jackie (Susan Sarandon)-the 'natural' mother and peerless supermom who not only resents Isabel's intrusion on a number of levels but is fiercely devoted to her kids-enters the mix, the often comical, always complex interplay between parents, stepparents, stepchildren, spouses-to-be, ex-spouses and significant others gets even trickier.
When Jackie discovers she is terminally ill and Isabel's relationship with Luke becomes serious, both women realize they must put aside their differences to save a family. Eventually the two women find more than common ground, they discover how to celebrate life to the fullest ... while they have the chance. |
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Rated: PG-13
Loretta (Alfre Woodard) lives with her mother and two children, but is headed down a destructive path as she succumbs to the drug and alcohol-ridden streets of her neighborhood. In efforts to pull her daughter and grandchildren (Mpho Koaho and Kulani Hassen) out of harm's way, Loretta's mother Rosa Lynn (Mary Alice) pawns her most valuable and prized family heirloom and moves the family back to their ancestral home down in the Mississippi delta. |
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