The Bucket List (
2007) | IMDb:
7.4
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Morgan Freeman
,
Sean Hayes
,
Beverly Todd
,
Alfonso Freeman
,
Destiny Brownridge
Alex & Emma (
2003) | IMDb:
5.5
Writer Alex Sheldon must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if that happens, angry Mafia types to whom he owes money will come looking for him. In order to expedite things, Alex hires typist Emma Dinsmore and begins dictating his novel. The book is about a doomed love affair between a character similar to Alex and a character named Polina Delacroix. But, as Alex falls for Emma, his work takes a different turn.
Directed by:
Rob Reiner
The Story of Us (
1999) | IMDb:
6
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Starring:
Bruce Willis
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Rob Reiner
,
Colleen Rennison
,
Jake Sandvig
,
Julie Hagerty
Ghosts of Mississippi (
1996) | IMDb:
6.7
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
Starring:
Alec Baldwin
,
Whoopi Goldberg
,
James Woods
,
Craig T. Nelson
,
Susanna Thompson
,
Lucas Black
Directed by:
Rob Reiner
The American President (
1995) | IMDb:
6.8
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Annette Bening
,
Martin Sheen
,
Michael J. Fox
,
Richard Dreyfuss
,
David Paymer
North (
1994) | IMDb:
4.5
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.
Directed by:
Rob Reiner
A Few Good Men (
1992) | IMDb:
7.7
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Misery (
1990) | IMDb:
7.8
After stalking and saving the life of her favorite fiction author in a car accident, his manic obsessor holds him captive in her remote Colorado home then forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
Starring:
James Caan
,
Kathy Bates
,
Richard Farnsworth
,
Frances Sternhagen
,
Lauren Bacall
,
Graham Jarvis