Other
Movies to Look Forward to This Summer
By Disco
Stu - Editor in Chief : 04.26.02
Can
I see some ID, please?
Though
these movies may not be as anticipated as those that
made the top
10 list, they still deserve to be looked at. There
are tons of promising movies coming out this summer.
Here's a thorough list and description of the most
promising ones.
 The
New Guy
Director:
Ed Decter
Starring:
DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, Zooey
Deschanel, Lyle Lovett
Nerdy
high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten
lucky. Locked in the pen for an array of misdeeds at
his old school, Dizzy learns the art of intimidation
and other fine points of 'prison cool' from fellow
inmate Luther. This mismatched duo joins forces,
ultimately transforming geeky dud Dizzy into the hip,
studly "Gil Harris." Transferred to a new
school after his release, "Gil" destroys the
popularity-obsessed social system, boosts school
morale and wins the heart of Danielle, the gorgeous
girl-next-door. Life as the new guy is great-or is it?
Release
Date: May 10
Unfaithful
Director:
Adrian Lyne
Starring:
Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Chad
Lowe, Dominic Chianese
From
the director of "Fatal Attraction" comes an
erotic thriller about the body language of guilt,
centering on a couple living in the New York City
suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the
wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Release
Date: May 10
The
Importance of Being Earnest
Director:
Oliver Parker
Starring:
Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth,
Judi Dench, Frances O'Connor
Two
young gents living in 1890’s England have taken to
bending the truth in order to put some excitement into
their lives. Worthing (Firth) has invented a brother,
Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his dull
country life behind to visit the ravishing Gwendolyn
(O’Connor). Montcrieff (Everett) decides to take the
name “Earnest” when visiting Worthing’s young
and beautiful ward, Cecily (Witherspoon) at the
country manor. Things start to go awry when they end
up together in the country and their deceptions are
discovered - threatening to spoil their romantic
pursuits.
Release
Date: May 17
CQ
Director:
Roman Coppola
Starring:
Jeremy Davies, Angela Lindvall, Elodie Bouchez,
Gerard Depardieu, Massimo Ginni
Paris,
1969: The filming of a sci-fi movie set in the distant
year 2000 is in trouble. The director's obsession with
the actress who plays sexy secret agent Dragonfly has
clouded his judgment and the film has no ending. A
young American in Paris to document his life on film
"with total honesty" is brought in to finish
the movie. THis prives to be difficult when the line
between his fantasy life and reality becomes blurred
and he, too, finds himself seduced by the charms of
Dragonfly.
Release
Date: May 24
Enough
Director:
Michael Apted
Starring:
Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis,
Ruben Madera
A
woman thinks she's found the man of her dreams, but
after the wedding he quickly becomes abusive. After
she tries and fails to get away from him, she decides
that her only option is murder.
Release
Date: May 24
Insomnia
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Starring:
Al Pacino, Hillary Swank, Robin Williams, Martin
Donovan, Nicky Katt
A
sleep-deprived detective tries to track down the
murderer of a teenage girl, but in the course of the
investigation accidentally shoots and kills his own
partner. The killer then blackmails him to frame
someone innocent for the murder.
Release
Date: May 24
 Undercover
Brother
Director:
Malcolm D. Lee
Starring:
Eddie Griffin, Aunjanue Ellis, Dave Chappelle,
Denise Richards, Chris Kattan
He's
back. He's bad. And he's here to rescue us all from
The Man. Blasted from the past and ready to take care
of business, Undercover Brother is recruited to
infiltrate a sinister underground movement headed by
The Man. Partnered with the stunning Sistah Girl, our
hero must first undergo the ultimate attitude
adjustment and trade in his 'fro and platforms for
tennis sweaters and penny loafers. Once the
transformation is complete, he's ready to take on the
evil perpetrators of Operation Whitewash - Mr.
Feather, Penelope Snow AKA White She Devil and
ultimately, The Man. Get ready for action in the
affirmative. Ya dig?
Release
Date: May 31
Bad
Company
Director:
Joel Schumacher
Starring:
Chris Rock, Anthony Hopkins, Gabriel Macht, John
Slattery, Peter Stormare
CIA
operative Kevin Pope is suave, brilliant, and right on
the verge of completing a top-secret mission to keep a
rogue nuclear weapon off the black market when he is
suddenly killed. With the clock ticking and no other
options available, the CIA reluctantly enlists Kevin's
long-lost identical twin brother, Jake, to take his
place. But since Jake is the mirror opposite of Kevin,
a working-class Joe, it's up to veteran CIA agent
Gaylord Oakes to train him within 9 days before having
to negotiate a sensitive nuclear weapons deal with
terrorists.
Release
Date: June 7
The
Bourne Identity
Director:
Doug Liman
Starring:
Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive
Owen, Brian Cox
Set
against dramatic European backdrops, The Bourne
Identity is the story of a man salvaged, near death,
from the ocean by the crew of an Italian fishing boat.
When he recuperates, the man suffers from total
amnesia. He is completely without identity or
background, but possesses a range of extraordinary
talents in fighting, linguistic skills and
self-defense that speak of a dangerous past. He sets
out on a desperate search—assisted by the initially
rebellious Marie to discover who he really is, and why
he is being pursued by assassins.
Release
Date: June 14
 Lilo
and Stitch
Director:
Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Starring:
Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Jason Scott Lee,
Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames
Walt
Disney Pictures’ new animated comedy, “Lilo and
Stitch,” tells a tale of a young girl’s close
encounter with the galaxy’s most wanted
extraterrestrial. Lilo is a lonely Hawaiian girl who
adopts a small ugly ‘dog,’ whom she names Stitch.
Stitch would be the perfect pet if he weren’t in
reality a genetic experiment who has escaped from an
alien planet and crash-landed on Earth. Through her
love, faith and unwavering belief in “ohana” (the
Hawaiian concept of family), Lilo helps unlock
Stitch’s heart and gives him the one thing he was
never designed to have – the ability to care for
someone else.
Release
Date: June 21
Eight
Legged Freaks
Director:
Ellory Elkayem
Starring:
David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson,
Matt Czuchry, Doug E. Doug
The
residents of a rural mining town discover that an
unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of
little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs.
It's up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff
Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of
townspeople into battle against the bloodthirsty
eight-legged beasts. With state-of-the-art visual
effects, Eight Legged Freaks updates such inspired
genre classics as Them and Black Scorpion into a
terrifyingly fun experience.
Release
Date: July 12
Reign
of Fire
Director:
Rob Bowman
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco,
Gerard Butler
In
present-day London, twelve-year-old Quinn watches as
his mother, a contruction engineer, inadvertently
wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its
centuries-long slumber. Twenty years later, much of
the world has been scarred by the beast and its
offspring. As a fire chief, Quinn (Christian Bale) is
responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a
small community alive as they eke out a meager
existence. Into their midst comes a hotshot American,
Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), who says he has a way
to kill the beasts and save mankind - a way Quinn's
never seen done. Directed by Rob Bowman ("The X
Files"), "Reign of Fire" fuses a
medieval past with a post-apocalyptic future in this
exciting tale of adventure and survival.
Release
Date: July 12
Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Director:
Callie Khouri
Starring:
Ellen Burstyn, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Maggie
Smith, Fionulla Flanagan
A
Southern tale of life, love and family follows a group
of lifelong friends as they stage a rather unorthodox
intervention to help a young playwright unravel the
truth about her eccentric mother, find forgiveness and
come to terms with her painful past.
Release
Date: July 12
Stuart
Little 2
Director:
Ron Minkoff
Starring:
Geena Davis, High Laurie, Michael J. Fox, Jonathan
Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Steve Zahn
Plucky,
pint-sized hero Stuart Little returns in Stuart Little
2, delighting audiences with even more action-packed
adventure. This time, Stuart must go on a journey
through New York City with a reluctant Snowbell to
rescue a new friend, Margalo, from a villainous
Falcon.
Release
Date: July 19
The
Country Bears
Director:
Peter Hastings
Starring:
Haley Joel Osment, Christopher Walken, Diedrich
Bader, Julienne Buescher, Charles S. Dutton
Like
other celebrated rock-and-roll groups, the members of
the legendary group The Country Bears were torn apart
by the perils of their own success: ego, jealousy, and
a little too much honey. The Country Bears - brothers
Ted and Fred Bedderhead, Tennessee O'Neal and Zeb
Zoober - are back together to film their first major
motion picture. "The Country Bears" is the
story of how eager young fan Beary Barrington can
convince the bitter ex-members of the rock band to put
aside their differences and perform a benefit concert
to save Country Bear Hall, the legendary venue where
the and got its start. Featuring musical performances
or appearances by real-life rock-and-roll legends Don
Henley, John Hiatt, Elton John, Queen Latifah, Willie
Nelson, Bonnie Raitt and Brian Setzer, audiences will
want to bring the cubs to the biggest rock `n roll
reunion in history.
Release
Date: July 26
Signs
Director:
M. Nigh Shyamalan
Starring:
Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory
Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Writer/Director
M. Night Shyamalan follows up "The Sixth
Sense" and "Unbreakable" with his new
feature film, "Signs," a thriller set in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania focusing on the mysterious
appearance of a five-hundred-foot design of circles
and lines carved into a family's crops. Mel Gibson
stars as Graham Hess, the family patriarch, who is
tested in his journey to find the truth behind the
unfolding mystery. Joaquin Phoenix is Merrill Hess,
brother to Graham and a former minor league baseball
star.
Release
Date: August 2
Spy
Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Director:
Robert Rodriguez
Starring:
Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl
Sabara, Cheech Marin
When
the world is in trouble they call in their top secret
agents. Carmen and Juni Cortez are back for another
adventure in Spy Kids 2. Their newest mission takes
them to a mysterious island where they meet a wildly
inventive genetic scientist and his imaginative
creatures, while fighting the forces of rival SPY
kids, Gary and Gerti Giggles, as they head right into
a trap that will test each and every Cortez spy, from
super spies Mom and Dad to their SPY
grandparents.
Release
Date: August 7
 Master
of Disguise
Director:
Perry Andelin Blake
Starring:
Dana Carvey, James Brolin, Brent Spiner, Jennifer
Esposito
Pistachio
Disguisey, a sweet-natured Italian waiter at his
father Fabbrizio's restaurant, can't figure out why he
compulsively mimics his customers and desires to
change his appearance. What he doesn't know yet is
that these traits are part of the Disguisey family
secret legacy. Fabbrizio has never told his son that
he comes from a long line of masters of disguise able
to mask themselves as almost anyone or anything by
harnessing the great power of "Energico."
Such a talent makes Fabbrizio the kidnapping target of
his former arch-enemy Devlin Bowman, a criminal
mastermind with a plot to steal the world's most
precious treasures.
Release
Date: August 16
The
Adventures of Pluto Nash
Director:
Ron Underwood
Starring:
Eddie Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Randy Quaid, Jay
Mohr, Joe Pantoliano
Set
on the moon in the year 2087, where audacious
nightclub owner Pluto Nash finds himself in hot water
when he refuses to sell his club to the local mob. The
lunar gangsters are helping the mysterious Rex Crater
mastermind a plan to take over the moon. Joining Pluto
in the danger and lunacy are Dina Lake, a beautiful
earthling who has traveled to the moon to further her
singing ambitions, and Pluto's bodyguard Bruno-a robot
quickly approaching obsolescence.
Release
Date: August 16
8
Mile
Director:
Curtis Hanson
Starring:
Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi
Phifer, Eugene Byrd
The
people of Detroit know 8 Mile as the city limit, a
border, a boundary. It is also a psychological
dividing line that separates Jimmy Smith Jr. from
where and who he wants to be. 8 Mile is a provocative
fictional examination of a critical week in Jimmy's
life.
Release
Date: Summer 2002
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