The Big Year (
2011) | IMDb:
6.2
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
Lucky You (
2007) | IMDb:
5.9
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
Starring:
Eric Bana
,
Drew Barrymore
,
Robert Duvall
,
Debra Messing
,
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Phyllis Somerville
8 Mile (
2002) | IMDb:
7.2
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
Wonder Boys (
2000) | IMDb:
7.2
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Tobey Maguire
,
Frances McDormand
,
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Katie Holmes
,
Rip Torn
L.A. Confidential (
1997) | IMDb:
8.2
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.