THE HOUSE OF YES (1997)

 

Written & Directed By: Mark Waters Based on The play By: Wendy Macleod Cinematography: Michael Spiller Editor: Pamela Martin 

Cast: Parker Posey, Tori Spelling, Josh Hamilton, Freddie Prinze Jr., Genevieve Bujold, Rachael Leigh Cook

A mentally unbalanced young woman - convinced she is Jackie Kennedy - flies into a murderous rage when her brother returns home to reveal he is engaged.

SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR (1997)

 

Directed By: Michael Cohn  Written By: Tom Szollosi & Deborah Serra Based on the story “SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS” By: Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm  Cinematography: Mike Southon  Editor: Ian Crafford 

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Monica Keena, Gil Bellows, David Conrad, Brian Glover, Anthony Brophy

In this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.

CURE (1997)

 

Written & Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cinematography: Tokusho Kikumura Editor: Kan Suzuki

Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tsuy Oshiujik, Masato Hagiwara, Anna Nakagawa 

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

BREAST MEN (1997)

 

Directed By: Lawrence O’Neil  Written By: John Stockwell Cinematography: Robert Stevens  Editor: Michael Jablow 

Cast: David Schwimmer, Chris Cooper, Emily Procter, Matt Frewer, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Stockwell, Louise Fletcher, Terry O’Quinn, Lisa Marie, Amanda Foreman, Lyle Lovett, Julie McCullough, Rena Riffel, Raphael Sbarge 

Two doctors create breast implants. However, when success and money come their way, they separate and follow different paths.

STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997)

 

Directed By: Paul Verhoeven  Written By: Ed Neumeier  Based on the book by: Robert A. Heinlein  Cinematography: Jost Vacano  Editor: Mark Goldblatt & Caroline Ross 

Cast: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey, Michael Ironside, Neil Patrick Harris, Seth Gilliam, Patrick Muldoon, Dean Norris, Rue McClanahan, Marshall Bell, Matt Levin, Brenda Strong, Amy Smart, Greg Travis, Dale Dye

In the distant future, high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don't know is that they'll soon be engaged in a full-scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity.

187 (ONE EIGHT SEVEN) (1997)

 

Directed By: Kevin Reynolds Written By: Scott Yagemann Cinematography: Ericson Core Editor: Stephen Semel

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins Jr., Karina Arroyave, Tony Plana, Lobo Sebastian, Jack Kehler, Jonah Rooney, Method Man, Richard Riehle, Antwon Tanner 

15 months after being stabbed 9 times by a student at work as a high school teacher in NYC, Mr. Garfield is working in LA as a substitute teacher come full-time. He refuses to be a victim anymore.

HURRICANE STREETS (1997)

 Written & Directed By: Morgan J. Freeman 

Cinematography: Enrique Chediak Editor: Sabine Hoffman 

Cast: Brendan Sexton III, Mtume Gant, Carlo Alban, Edie Falco, Lynn Cohen, Shawn Elliott, Adrian Grenier, L.M. Kit Carson, Isidra Vega, Jose Zuniga, Heather Matarazzo, David Moscow 

A teenage petty criminal dreams of escaping his increasingly unlawful lifestyle when he meets a sweet girl who hopes to one day travel to Alaska.

GUMMO (1997)

Written & Directed by: Harmony Korine 
Cinematography: Jean-Yves Escoffier 
Editor: Christopher Tellefsen 

Cast: Chloe Sevingy, Max Perlich, Linda Manz, Jacob Sewell, Harmony Korine, Nick Sutton, Jacob Reynolds, Carisa Glucksman 


Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.

SCREAM 2 (1997)

Directed By: Wes Craven 
Written By: Kevin Williamson 
Cinematography: Peter Deming 
Editor: Patrick Lussier 

Cast: Neve Campbell, Jerry O’Connell, Elise Neal, Timothy Olyphant, Jamie Kennedy, David Arquette, Courtney Cox, Rebecca Gayheart, Portia DeRossi, Liev Schrieber, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jada Pinkett, Omar Epps, Duane Martin, David Warner, Luke Wilson, Heather Graham, Tori Spelling, Lewis Arquette, Joshua Jackson, Marisol Nichols 

Two years after the events of Scream, Sidney Prescott and Randy are attending Windsor college. They are trying to get on with their lives...Until a new Ghostface killing spree begins. With the help of Dewey and Gale, Sidney must find out who's behind the murders. As the body count goes up, the list of suspects goes down.

ONE NIGHT STAND (1997)

Written, Music & Directed By: Mike Figgis 
Cinematography: Declan Quinn 
Editor: John Smith 

Cast: Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Natassja Kinski, Ming-Na Wen, Kyle Maclachlan, Amanda Donohoe, Marcus T. Paulk, Vincent Ward, John Calley, Glenn Plummer, Thomas Haden Church, John Ratzenberger, Annabelle Gurwitch, Julian Sands, Saffron Burrows, Ione Skye, Donovan Leitch, Xander Berkeley 


Los Angeles advertisement director Max visits his friend, artist Charlie, who was diagnosed with A.I.D.S. in New York City. There he meets Karen, they are attracted to each other and after they meet later that day at the concert, they have a passionate night. Then he returns home to Los Angeles to his family, and wife Mimi. A year later, Max returns to New York City again to visit Charlie, who is now dying, and there he meets Karen again, who is married to Charlie's brother Vernon.

HOW TO BE A PLAYER (1997)

Directed By: Lionel C. Martin 
Story By: Mark Brown 
Written By: Mark Brown & Demetria Johnson 
Editor: William Young 


Cast: Bill Bellamy, Pierre, Natalie Desselle, Mari Morrow, Lark Voorhies, Bernie Mac, Jermaine Hopkins, A.J. Johnson, Beverly Johnson, Gilbert Gottfried, Max Julien, Amber Smith, Elise Neal, Jazsmin Lewis 


Dray is a young playboy whose only objective in life seems to be to have sex with as many girls as he can without getting caught by his girlfriend Lisa. Dray's sister Jenny and her friend Katrina plan to show him that the way he lives is wrong and organize a party in Malibu, inviting all of his girlfriends.

CONSPIRACY THEORY (1997)

Directed By: Richard Donner 
Written By: Brian Helgeland 
Cinematography By: John Schwartzman 
Editor: Kevin Stitt & Frank J. Urioste 


Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Troy Garity, Sean Patrick Thomas, Peter Jacobson, Thomas McCarthy, Rick Hoffman 


Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know.

DONNIE BRASCO (1997)

Directed By: Mike Newell 
Written By: Paul Attanasio 
Based On The Book By: Joseph D. Pistone & Richard Woodley 
Cinematography By: Peter Sova 
Editor: Jon Gregory 


Cast: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Anne Heche, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Zeljko Ivanek, Zach Grenier, Gretchen Mol, Tim Blake Nelson, Paul Giamatti,


An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one. This film seems set apart from the supposed usual gangster dramas. Maybe because it's more about the difficulties of going undercover aspect of the scenario more Han the mob wars and community. So that is seems a bit more elegant and not asking you necessarily to go with the mobsters and presenting them more as the heroes or at least the leads we care about.

DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (1997)

Written & Directed By: Woody Allen 
Cinematography By: Carlo DiPalma 
Editor: Susan E. Morse 



Cast: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crystal, Elisabeth Shue, Tobey Maguire, Kirstie Alley, Mariel Hemmingway, Robin Williams, Eric Bogosian, Caroline Aaron, Richard Benjamin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julie Kavner, Bob Balaban, Peter Jacobson, Hazelle Goodman, Amy Irving, Jennifer Garner, Jonathan LaPaglia, Lynn Cohen, Paul Giamatti, Philip Bosco, Arden Myrin, Tony Sirico


 *Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review

VOLCANO (1997)

Directed By: Mick Jackson 
Written By: Billy Ray & Jerome Armstrong 
Story By: Jerome Armstrong 
Cinematography By: Theo Van De Sande 
Editor: Don Brochu & Michael Tronick 
Music By: Alan Silvestri 


Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle, Jaqueline Kim. Keith David, Richard Schiff, Gaby Hoffman, John Corbett, Marcello Thedford, John Carroll Lynch, Michael Rispoli, Susie Essman, Lou Myers, Robert Wisdom, Valente Rodriguez

AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN (1997)

Directed By: Arthur Hiller (As Alan Smithee) 
Written By: Joe Esztherhas 
Cinematography By: Reynaldo Villalobos 
Editor: L. James Langlois 


Cast: Eric Idle, Ryan O’Neal, Richard Jeni, Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, Chuck D, Coolio, Sandra Bernhard, Harvey Weinstein, Leslie Stefanson, MC Lyte, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jim Piddock, Suli McCullough, Naomi Campbell, Robert Evans, Robert Shapiro, Shane Black, Billy Bob Thornton, Dominick Dunne, Joe Eszterhas, Larry King, Peter Bart

A LIFE LESS ORDINARY (1997)

Directed By: Danny Boyle 
Written By: John Hodge 
Cinematography By: Brian Tufano 
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo 

 Cast: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Holly Hunter, Maury Chaykin, Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm, Ian McNeice, Dan Hedaya, Tony Shaloub, Timothy Olyphant, Judith Ivey, Christopher Gorham

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997)

Directed By: Jim Gillespie 
Written By: Kevin Williamson 
Based on the book by: Lois Duncan 
Cinematography By: Denis Crossan 
Editor: Steve Mirkovich 


Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., Johnny Galecki, Anne Heche, Muse Watson, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

MAD CITY (1997)

Directed By: Costa-Gravas 
Written By: Tom Matthews 
Story By: Tom Matthews & Eric Williams 
Cinematography By: Patrick Blossier 
Editor: Francoise Bonnet 

Cast: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Blythe Danner, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky, William Atherton, Ted Levine, Tammy Lauren, Raymond J.Barry, Lucinda Jenney, John Landis

THE HOUSE OF YES (1997)

Written & Directed By: Mark Waters 
Based On The Stage Play By: Wendy MacLeod 
Cinematography By: Michael Spiller 
Editor: Pamela Martin 
Music By: Rolfe Kent 

Cast: Josh Hamilton, Parker Posey, Genevieve Bujold, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook