Through The Decades: 2000s Collection [US-Version, Regio 1/ A]
Through The Decades: 2000s Collection

Feel-good dramas, pitch-black comedies, gripping thrillers! Ring in the new millennium with this this ten-film collection that sums up the decade that was a turning point for Hollywood: The 2000s!

Starring Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, Tina Fey, Morgan Freeman, and more of the iconic stars that defined a new century!

10 INCREDIBLE FILMS:

Spy Game (R, 126 min)

• Starring: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack
• Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir works under the table against agency politics to free Tom Bishop, the agent he mentored, after Bishop is captured in China during a mission gone wrong and sentenced to death in 24 hours.
• «Serves up a judicious blend of showy action, political intrigue, ticking-clock suspense and intramural CIA one-upsmanship for mainstream entertainment» - Todd McCarthy, Variety

One Night at McCool's (R, 93 min)

• Starring: Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser
• Three different men recall how the beautiful Jewel came into McCool's one night and brought chaos with her. The problem is their stories just don't seem to line up.
• «First-time feature director Harald Zwart has a real flair for farce, and he keeps the outrageous high jinks of the script lively yet grounded in reality.» - Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post

The Emperor's Club (PG-13, 109 min)

• Starring Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Rob Morrow
• Idealistic prep school teacher William Hundert takes it upon himself to mentor the unruly, troublemaking son of a U.S. Senator.
• «Kevin Kline's performance shows a deep understanding of the character, who is, after all, better than most teachers, and most men. We care for him, not because he is perfect, but because he regrets so sincerely that he is not.» - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times

The Shape of Things (R, 96 min)

• Starring: Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Mol
• A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way after meeting and falling for a beautiful art student, and his new personality doesn't sit well with his best friend.
• «LaBute has that rarest of attributes, a distinctive voice. You know one of his scenes at once. His dialogue is the dialogue overheard in trendy mid-scale restaurants, with the words peeled back to suggest the venom beneath.» - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times

Nurse Betty (R, 110 min)

• Starring: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock
• Obsessed with her favorite soap opera character, Dr. David Ravell, Betty travels across the country to meet the man of her dreams while pursued by two hired killers.
• «Few actresses can convey the kind of honesty and humanity that Zellweger does here -- it's hard to imagine the film without her dominant, thoroughly credible performance» - Steven Holden, Variety
• «Nurse Betty is a wonderful movie, unpredictably alive to the fact that the American citizenry is a lot stranger than we like to admit.» - Richard Schickel, TIME

21 Grams (R, 124 min)

• Starring: Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts
• A freak accident intersects the lives of a dying man, a grief-stricken mother, and an ex-con who found God in this gripping drama about consequence and human connection.
• «A stunning virtuoso performance by director, cast and crew. This movie knocks you out with an astonishing blend of hyper-realism, visual complexity and powerful themes» - Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter

State of Play (PG-13, 127 min)

• Starring: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck
• The murder of a congressional aide sends Washington, D.C. Journalist Cal McAffrey down a path of cover-ups, corruption, and corporate conspiracies.
• «Spins a thorny tale of political corruption laced with personal sleaze." - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

The Hitcher (R, 84 min)

• Starring: Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Neal McDonough
• When a young couple picks up a seemingly harmless hitchhiker, a good deed becomes a brutal, edge-of-your-seat fight for survival with the open road as the battlefield.
• «...a mechanical gore-fest...» - James Berardinelli, ReelViews.com

Baby Mama (PG-13, 99 min)

• Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver
• After learning that she has slim chances of getting pregnant, successful businesswoman Kate Holbrook clashes with her surrogate Angie on how best to behave when you're expecting.
• «...Fey and Poehler may well be the best female comedy duo since Lucy and Ethel.» - Claudia Puig, USA Today

Cry Wolf (PG-13, 90 min)

• Starring: Jared Padalecki, Lindy Booth, Julian Morris
• Eight students at a well-to-do boarding school find that their usual games of lies and deception are no laughing matter when people start dying and no one can be trusted.
• «A clever teen thriller with intricate plotting, deft characterizations, sharp ensemble performances and a darkly ironic twist at the end.» - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times