The Aviator 2004

The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan, produced by Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, and Charles Evans, Jr., and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. The supporting cast features Ian Holm, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law as Errol Flynn, Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow, Willem Dafoe, Alan Alda, and Edward Herrmann. The film depicts the true story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, who later became the world's wealthiest man, drawing upon numerous sources including a biography by Charles Higham. The picture centers on Hughes' life from the late 1920s to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder exacerbated by airplane crashes.The Aviator was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor in a Leading Role for DiCaprio,Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Alan Alda and Best Sound Mixing, and winning five for Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Cate Blanchett. This feat would later be duplicated by Scorsese's film Hugo seven years later.
            In 1914, nine-year-old Howard Hughes is being bathed by his mother. She warns him of disease, afraid that he will succumb to a flu outbreak: "You are not safe." By 1927, Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) has inherited his family's fortune and is living in California. He hires Noah Dietrich (John C. Reilly) to run the Hughes Tool Company.
Following an interest in film and aviation, at the age of 22, Hughes begins directing the silent film, Hell's Angels. He becomes obsessed with shooting the film realistically and when the The Jazz Singer, the first partially talking film, premieres, he converts Hell's Angels to a sound film. As a result, it takes several years and an enormous amount of money to finish. Finally, despite press skepticism, Hell's Angels is a hit. However, Hughes is unsatisfied with the end result and orders the film re-cut after its Hollywood premiere. He later produces Scarface (1932) and The Outlaw (1943).
Initial release: December 25, 2004 (USA)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Running time: 170 minutes
Screenplay: John Logan
Awards: Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Academy Award for Best Production Design, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Composer, BAFTA Award for Best Makeup & Hair, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year, MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Costume Design, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Production Design, PGA Producer of the Year Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Art Direction, Special Silver Ribbon, San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Production Design, BAFTA Award for Best Production Design

The Wolf of Wall Street 2013

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name. It was released on December 25, 2013. The screenplay was written by Terence Winter, and the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, a New York stockbroker who runs a firm that engages in securities fraud and corruption on Wall Street in the 1990s.
The film also features Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau, and Jean Dujardin. It is the fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, and the second between Scorsese and Winter following Boardwalk Empire.
       Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) narrates the film showing his monstrous success with his firm complete with ribaldry at work, a sumptuous home on the Gold Coast of Long Island and a trophy wife who is a former model. He then flashes back to 1987, where he began a low-level job at an established Wall Street firm. His boss (Matthew McConaughey) advises him to adopt a lifestyle of casual sex and cocaine to succeed. However, shortly after he passes his exam to become a certified stockbroker, he loses his job on account of the firm's bankruptcy as a result of Black Monday.
Now unemployed in an economy that is unaccomodating to stockbrokers and sufficiently discouraged to consider a new line of work, Jordan's wife Teresa (Cristin Milioti) encourages him to take a job with a Long Island boiler room dealing in penny stocks, which are also largely ignored by regulators. Belfort impresses his new boss with his aggressive pitching style, and earns a small fortune for the boiler room and himself as penny stocks have a much higher commission than blue chips. Jordan also befriends Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), a salesman living in the same apartment complex and they decide to go into business together. To facilitate this, his accountant parents are recruited as well as several of Jordan's friends, some of them experienced marijuana dealers. The basic method of the firm is a pump and dump scam. To cloak this, Belfort gives the firm the respectable name of Stratton Oakmont. An article in Forbes dubs Jordan the "Wolf of Wall Street", and soon hundreds of ambitious young financiers flock to his company.
Initial release: December 17, 2013 (New York City)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Running time: 180 minutes
Story by: Jordan Belfort
Awards: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, AFI Movies of the Year, National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor in a Comedy

Catch Me If You Can 2002

Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. His primary crime was check fraud; he became so skillful that the FBI eventually turned to him for help in catching other check forgers. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, with Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, and Nathalie Baye in supporting roles.Development for the film started in 1980 but did not progress until 1997 when the film rights to Abagnale's book were purchased by Spielberg's DreamWorks. David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Lasse Hallström, Miloš Forman and Cameron Crowe had all been possible candidates for director before Spielberg decided to direct. Filming took place from February to May 2002. The film was a financial and critical success, and the real Abagnale reacted positively to it.
In 1963, teen-aged Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives in New Rochelle, New York with his father Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken), and French mother Paula (Nathalie Baye). When Frank Sr. is denied a business loan at Chase Manhattan Bank due to unspecified difficulties with the IRS, the family is forced to move from their large home to a small apartment. Paula carries on an affair with Jack (James Brolin), a friend of her husband. Meanwhile, Frank poses as a substitute teacher in his French class. Frank's parents file for divorce, and Frank runs away. When he runs out of money, he begins to rely on confidence scams to get by. Soon, Frank's cons grow bolder and he even impersonates an airline pilot. He forges Pan Am payroll checks and succeeds in stealing over $2.8 million.
Meanwhile, Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), an FBI bank fraud agent, begins to track down Frank. Carl and Frank meet in a hotel, where Frank convinces Carl his name is Barry Allen of the Secret Service. Frank leaves, Carl angrily realizing his mistake just as it is too late. Later, at Christmas, Carl is still working when Frank calls him, attempting to apologize for duping Carl. Carl rejects his apology and tells him he will soon be caught, but laughs when he realizes Frank actually called him because he has no one else to talk to. Frank hangs up, and Carl continues to investigate, suddenly realizing (thanks to a waiter) that the name "Barry Allen" is from the Flash comic books and that Frank is just a teenager.
Initial release: December 25, 2002 (USA)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Jeff Nathanson
Story by: Stan Redding, Frank Abagnale
Awards: BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Composer, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, BMI Film Music Award, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Teen Choice Award for Film - Choice Liar, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Liar, ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards - Contemporary Film

This Boy's Life 1993

This Boy's Life is a 1993 film adaptation of the memoir of the same name by Tobias Wolff. It is directed by Michael Caton-Jones and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Tobias Wolff, Robert De Niro as stepfather Dwight Hansen, and Ellen Barkin as Toby's mother, Caroline. The film also features Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino, Eliza Dushku, and Tobey Maguire in his feature film debut.
      Nomadic, flaky Caroline Wolff (Ellen Barkin) just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent man, and provide a better home for her and her son, Tobias "Toby" Wolff (Leonardo DiCaprio). When she moves to Seattle, Washington, and meets the seemingly respectable Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro) (in real life Dwight Thompson worked as a mechanic for Seattle City Light at the time), she thinks she has it made. Toby, however, comes to feel differently; Dwight's true personality is revealed after Toby spends a few months separated from his mother with Dwight and his children. The boy's stepfather-to-be seems to want to mold Toby into a better person, but his method includes emotionally, verbally, and physically abusing the boy.The marriage proceeds, and soon Caroline too recognizes Dwight's need to dominate everyone around him. She sticks with it, though, convinced this is best for her son, and several years of dysfunction ensue. During this time, Toby befriends a classmate, the misfit and ambiguously homosexual Arthur Gayle (Jonah Blechman). Toby continues to chafe under the yoke of his repressive stepfather. Hoping to leave Concrete and live with his older brother Gregory, Toby decides to apply for East Coast prep-school scholarships. Realizing his grades are not good enough to be accepted, Toby devises a plan to submit falsified grade reports. Meanwhile, the friendship between Arthur and Toby becomes strained when Arthur confronts Toby, saying he is behaving more and more like Dwight, and asks, "Why should you be the one who gets to leave?" Even so, Arthur helps his friend get the papers he needs to falsify his grade records and Toby sends off his prep-school applications. When Toby assures Arthur he too can leave Concrete and have a better life, Arthur replies he will most likely stay. After numerous rejections, Toby is finally accepted by the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with a full scholarship.
Initial release: April 9, 1993 (USA)
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Adapted from: This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Story by: Tobias Wolff
Characters: Dwight Hansen, Caroline Wolff Hansen, Tobias "Toby" Wolff, Chuck Bolger, Norma, Pearl

Born on the Fourth of July 1989

Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic.Tom Cruise plays Ron Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone (himself a Vietnam veteran) co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also produced and directed the film. Stone wanted to film the movie in Vietnam, but because relations between the United States and Vietnam had not yet been normalized, it was instead filmed in the Philippines. The film is considered part of Stone's "trilogy" of films about the Vietnam War—following Platoon (1986) and preceding Heaven & Earth (1993).
         The film begins with Ron Kovic's childhood during a summer in Massapequa, New York. He plays war in the woods, attends a Fourth of July parade, plays and wins at a local neighborhood baseball game, and watches President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, which later inspires him to enlist in the Marines.After Ron Kovic and his classmates hear an impassioned lecture about the Marine Corps, Ron decides to enlist. He misses his prom because he is unable to secure a date with his love interest, Donna. He confronts her at the prom and has a dance with her on his last night before leaving.
Initial release: December 20, 1989 (USA)
Director: Oliver Stone
Prequel: Platoon
Sequel: Heaven & Earth
Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic

Knight and Day 2010

Knight and Day,(formerly titled Wichita and Trouble Man) is a 2010 action comedy film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The film, directed by James Mangold, is Cruise and Diaz's second on-screen collaboration following the 2001 film Vanilla Sky. Diaz plays June Havens, a classic car restorer who unwittingly gets caught up with the eccentric secret agent Roy Miller, played by Cruise, who is on the run from the Secret Service.
          Knight and Day follows Roy Miller (Cruise) and June Havens (Diaz). After colliding with Miller twice in the airport departure terminal on the way home from Wichita to pick up car parts, Havens is told she has been bumped to a later flight. Meanwhile, Agent John Fitzgerald (Peter Sarsgaard), believing Havens is working with Miller, puts her back on the plane. Completely taken with Miller, Havens goes to the restroom. While she is in there, the remaining passengers attack Miller who kills them all. After a forward moment where Havens kisses Miller, he calmly informs her that both of the plane's pilots are dead and he is responsible. Believing it a joke, Havens plays along until Miller enters the cockpit and the bodies of the passengers begin to flop lifelessly in their seats. Crashing into a corn field, Miller delivers Havens home after drugging her and explaining that other agents will visit and that, if they constantly repeat that she is being taken somewhere "safe and secure", they are planning to kill or imprison her.
Initial release: June 16, 2010 (Spain)
Director: James Mangold
Music composed by: John Powell
Screenplay: Patrick O'Neill
Budget: 117 million USD

Invincible 2006

Invincible is a 2006 sports film directed by Ericson Core set in 1976. It is based on the true story of Vince Papale, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1976–78. Mark Wahlberg portrays Papale and Greg Kinnear plays Papale's coach, Dick Vermeil. The film was released in the United States on August 25, 2006.
       During the 1970s, the Philadelphia Eagles endure a string of losing seasons and irate fans. To spice things up for his organization, newly hired Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil decides to hold open tryouts in 1976 for a spot on the pro football team's roster. Vince Papale is a 30-year-old bartender who has just lost his part-time teaching job. He had gone to Saint Joseph's University (then known as St. Joseph's College) on a track scholarship. Disgusted with his professional failure, his wife Sharon (Lola Glaudini) abruptly leaves him, taking all of their furniture with her and leaving a note saying that he will never be anything in the world.
Initial release: August 25, 2006 (USA)
Director: Ericson Core
Music composed by: Mark Isham
Initial DVD release: December 19, 2006
Screenplay: Brad Gann

The Fighter 2010

The Fighter is a 2010 biographical sports drama film directed by David O. Russell, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. The film centers on the life of professional boxer Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his older half-brother Dicky Eklund (Bale). The film also stars Amy Adams as Micky's love interest, and Melissa Leo as Micky's and Dicky's mother. The Fighter is Russell and Wahlberg's third film collaboration, following Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees.
         Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) is an American welterweight boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts. Managed by his mother, Alice Ward (Melissa Leo), and trained by his older half-brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), Micky has not had a particularly successful career: He's become a "stepping stone" for other boxers to defeat on their way up. Complicating matters, Dicky, a former boxer whose peak of success was going the distance with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1978 (before Leonard became a world champion), has fallen apart since then, becoming addicted to crack cocaine. He is now being filmed for an HBO documentary he believes to be about his "comeback".
Initial release: December 17, 2010 (USA)
Director: David O. Russell
Music composed by: Michael Brook
Awards: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, more
Screenplay: Paul Tamasy, Scott Silver

Lone Survivor 2013

Lone Survivor is a 2013 American war film written and directed by Peter Berg, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana. It is based on the 2007 nonfiction book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson. Set during the War in Afghanistan, the film dramatizes the failed United States Navy SEALs mission Operation Red Wings, in which a four-man SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team was tasked to track Taliban leader Ahmad Shah.
   The film is based on SEAL Team 10's failed mission: Operation Red Wings on June 28, 2005, to capture and kill notorious Taliban leader, Ahmad Shah, during the War in Afghanistan.
Initial release: December 25, 2013 (USA)
Director: Peter Berg
Running time: 121 minutes
Adapted from: Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Awards: BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Action Movie, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor in an Action Movie

The Basketball Diaries 1995

The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, and Mark Wahlberg. It is based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Jim Carroll.The film was shot in New York City.
        The film is an adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's (Leonardo DiCaprio) juvenile diaries chronicling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an appetite for cocaine and heroin all begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star.
Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He cannot go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity, which ultimately ends with Jim's incarceration in a state penitentiary. After months in the hospital, he gets out and later does a talk show about his drug life, but before that he turned down free drugs given to him by his old friend, Pedro. The film is set in the early 1990s, while Carroll's actual book recounts experiences from growing up in the 1960s. Jim started out as a practice basketball player, and moved on to writing his Basketball Diaries.
^{Initial release: April 21, 1995 (USA)
Director: Scott Kalvert
Adapted from: The Basketball Diaries
Screenplay: Bryan Goluboff
Initial DVD release: June 30, 1998}

Moneyball 2011

Moneyball is an American 2011 biographical sports drama film directed by Bennett Miller from a screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Wikipedia
Initial release: September 19, 2011 (USA)
Director: Bennett Miller
Adapted from: Moneyball
Awards: New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, more
Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin

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12 Years a Slave 2013 Yahoo Trailer

In the hands of any other director, the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man kidnapped and forced into slavery from 1841 to 1853, could very well have been formulaic, run-of-the-mill, and overly sentimental. Thankfully, it landed in the hands of Steve McQueen ("Shame"), who portrays the brutality of slavery by framing Northrup's tale as a taut thriller, creating a visceral experience for viewers akin to someone grabbing you by the throat and not letting go for two hours (in a good, somewhat cathartic way). What results is an instant classic, and the definitive slavery film of our time. Believe the hype: "12 Years a Slave" will knock you out … again, in a good way.

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Martin Scorsese's previous movie was "Hugo," a sweet, kid-friendly romp that made some wonder if the old master had lost his edge. But he shut critics down with this, his fifth and best collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio. This adaptation of Jordan Belfort's memoir of unlimited greed and debauchery in the financial world of the early '90s has the manic energy of Scorsese classics like "Goodfellas." It's also flat-out hilarious, with Jonah Hill heading up a deep bench of comedic talents. The film does run long, and it could be seen as unintentionally glamorizing the reckless behavior it actually decries. It's still the most potent jolt of pure cinema you'll see this year.

Dallas Buyers Club 2013 Yahoo Trailer

Every bit as great as Tom Hanks Oscar-winner "Philadelphia," "Dallas Buyers Club" -- also about a man with HIV-AIDS -- is vastly different, showcasing a visceral, rousing cowboy spirit. "I prefer to die with my boots on," Matthew McConaughey's Ron protests as he goes against doctor's orders. Jared Leto is searing and heart-wrenching as Ron's unlikeliest of sidekicks. Intuitive in all the right ways, "Dallas" flaunts its star's most important performance to date.

Saving Mr. Banks 2013 Yahoo Trailer

This one -- about Walt Disney's (Tom Hanks) wooing of author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) in his attempt to adapt "Mary Poppins" for the big screen -- pushed every button on our emotional dashboard: We laughed, we cried, we pondered, we sang. It's about so many things, yet it covers them all with resonance. It's about the hopeful power of storytelling; it's about finding common ground when ground is not easily given; it's about forgiving past sins to move onto future greatness; it's about the price of art, and how very valuable it can be. Somehow, though its messages are heavy indeed, in the end, there’s a therapeutic catharsis, eerily akin to flying a kite.

Rush 2013 Yahoo Trailer

Ron Howard's '70s era Formula 1 racing flick has it all: compelling and colorful characters, fast-paced pedal-to-the-metal action, and beautiful people taking off their swanky clothes. Though he's still bigger than life as playboy James Hunt, it's nice to see Chris Hemsworth convincingly lose the cape. While Golden Globe nominee Daniel Brühl manages to steal some of Thor's thunder with his cold and calculated portrayal of rival racer Niki Lauda, what really drives the movie is the real-life competitive nature of the two men, and of the head and the heart.

Fruitvale Station 2013 Yahoo Trailer

Fruitvale Station" is one of those ultimate "movies you need to see, but will never want to watch again." Ryan Coogler's slow-burn directorial debut tracks the final 24 hours in the life of Oscar Grant ("Friday Night Lights" alum Michael B. Jordan, who, it turns out, could one day be "the Michael Jordan of acting"), the Oakland father killed by a BART cop who later claimed he mistook his gun for a Taser. It's a damning indictment of excessive force, and contains the most devastating climax of any film this year.

Captain Phillips 2013 Yahoo Trailer

If ever there was a story primed to receive the big-screen treatment it is the harrowing ordeal of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking of U.S. cargo ship Alabama by Somali pirates. When you throw in Oscar winner Tom Hanks as your cinematic hero and Oscar nominee Paul Greengrass ("The Bourne Supremacy" as director and combine them with edge-of-your seat/based-on-a-true-story action, you have one of the most satisfying moviegoing experiences of the year.