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FILM SELECTIONSCompiled by Harrison

Presented to Elise



300

King Leonidas and a f orce of 300

men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

Director:Zack Sny der

Writers:Zack Sny der (screenplay),

Kurt Johnstad (screenplay)

Stars:Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and David W enham



A BEAUTIFUL MIND

After a brilliant but asocial

mathematician accepts secret w ork incryptog raphy, his lif e takes a turn to the

nightmarish.

Director:R on Howard

Writers:Ak ivaGoldsman, Sylvia

Nasar (book) Stars: R ussell Crow e, Ed Harris

and Jennif er Connelly



THE BOUR NE IDENTITY

Aman is picked up by a fishing

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led and with

out

memory, then races to elude assassins

and recov er f rom amnesia.

Director:Doug Liman

Writers: Tony Gilroy (screenplay),

W. Blake Herron (screenplay), Stars: Frank a Potente, Matt Damon

and Chris Cooper



A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr.

who, bef ore his 19th birthday, successfully

conned millions of dollars w orth of

check s as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and

legal prosecutor.

Director: Stev en Spielberg

Writers: Jeff Nathanson (screenplay),

Frank Abagnale Jr. (book),

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom

Hank s and Christopher Walken

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN



An office employee and a soap

salesman build a g lobal organization to

help v ent male agg ression.

Director:

David Fincher

Writers: Chuck Palahniuk (nov el),

Jim Uhls (screenplay)

Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

and Helena Bonham Carter

FIGHT CLUB



Disg runtled K orean War v et Walt

K owalsk i sets out to ref orm his neighbor,

a young Hmong teenag er, who tried to

steal K owalsk i's prized possession: his

1972Gran Torino.

Director: Clint Eastw ood

Writers: Nick Schenk (screenplay),

Dav e Johannson (story)

Stars: Clint Eastw ood, Bee Vang and

Christopher Carley

GR AN TOR INO



LIV E FR EE OR DIE HAR D

John McClane takes on an Internet-

based terrorist organization who is

sy stematically shutting down the United

States.

Director: Len Wiseman

Writers: Mark Bomback

(screenplay), Mark Bomback (story) Stars: Bruce Willis, Justin Long and

Timothy Olyphant



MILLION DOLLAR BABY

A hardened trainer/manag er w ork s

with a determined w oman in her

attempt to establish herself as a boxer.

Director: Clint Eastw ood

Writers:Paul Haggis (screenplay),

F.X. Toole (stories)

Stars:Hilary Swank, Clint

Eastw ood and Morgan Freeman



SAV ING PR IV ATE R Y AN

Following the Normandy Landings,

a g roup of US soldiers g o behind

enemy lines to retriev e a paratrooper

whose brothers hav e been k illed in

action.

Director: Stev en Spielberg

Writer:R obert R odat

Stars: Tom Hank s, Matt Damon

and Tom Sizemore



A Mumbai teen who g rew up in the slums,

becomes a contestant on the Indian v ersion of "Who

Wants To Be A

Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating , and while being interrogated,

ev ents f rom his lif e history are shown which explain

why he k nows the answ ers.

Directors: Danny Boyle, Lov eleen Tandan

Writers: Simon Beauf oy (screenplay), Vik as

Swarup (nov el)

Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Saurabh

Shukla

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIR E



Tw o men f rom opposite sides of the law

are undercov er within the Massachusetts State

Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and

bloodshed boil when discov eries are made,

and the moles are dispatched to find out their

enemy 's identities.

Director:Martin Scorsese

Writers:William Monahan (screenplay),

Alan Mak (2002 screenplay Mou gaan dou)

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon

and Jack Nicholson

THE DEPAR TED



A Las V egas-set comedy centered

around three g roomsmen who lose

their about-to-be-w ed buddy during

their drunken misadv entures, then must

retrace their steps in order to find him.

Director: Todd Phillips

Writers: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

Stars:Zach Galifianak is, Bradley

Cooper and Justin Bartha

THE HANGOV ER



THE HUR T LOCK ER

Iraq. Forced to play a dang erous game

of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an

elite Army bomb squad unit must come

tog ether in a city where ev eryone is a

potential enemy and ev ery object could be

a deadly bomb.

Director: Kathry n Big elow

Writer: Mark Boal

Stars: Jeremy R enner, Anthony

Mack ie and Brian Geraghty



THE PR ESTIGE

The rivalry betw een tw o magicians

is exacerbated when one of them

perf orms the ultimate illusion.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writers: Jonathan Nolan

(screenplay), Christopher Nolan

(screenplay)

Stars: Christian Bale, Hugh

Jack man and Scarlett Johansson



TOP GUN

The macho students of an elite US

Fly ing school f or advanced fighter

pilots compete to be best in the class,

and one romances the teacher.

Director: Tony Scott

Writers: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.

Stars:Tom Cruise, K elly Mc

Gillis

and Val Kilmer



In an alternate 1985 where f ormer

superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague

sends activ e vigilante R orschach into his own

spraw ling inv estigation, uncov ering

something that could completely chang e the

course of history as w e k now it.

Director:Zack Sny der

Writers:David Hay ter (screenplay), Alex

Tse (screenplay) Stars: Jack ie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson

and CarlaGugino

W ATCHMEN



After seek ing to liv e a normal lif e,

Logan sets out to av eng e the death of his

girlf riend by underg oing the mutant

W eapon X prog ram and becoming

W olv erine.

Director: Gavin Hood

Writers: David Benioff (screenplay),

Sk ip W oods (screenplay)

Stars: Hugh Jack man, Liev Schreiber

and R y an R ey nolds

X-MEN OR IGINS

W OLV ER INE

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