Movie Releases by Genre

Out of Sight

Out of Sight

June 26, 1998 | R
Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight tells the story of the unlikely relationship that forms between a sexy US Marshal (Lopez) and a charming career criminal (Clooney).
Metascore:
84
User Score:
8.7
Edge of Seventeen

Edge of Seventeen

June 14, 1998 | Not Rated
A teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
tbd
Can't Hardly Wait

Can't Hardly Wait

June 12, 1998 | PG-13
A teen-age romantic comedy set amid a night of wild partying in honor of high school graduation.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
7.1
High Art

High Art

June 12, 1998 | R
An award-winning romantic drama about a photo magazine editor (Mitchell) and the heroin-addicted former photo prodigy (Sheedy) with whom she falls in love.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
8.2
Six Days Seven Nights

Six Days Seven Nights

June 12, 1998 | PG-13
A dream vacation that turns into a tropical nightmare. A gruff, rough-hewn cargo pilot living in the islands, Quinn Harris (Ford) hates tourists ... though he's not above making a fast buck from a sharp-tongued New Yorker, Robin Monroe (Heche), when she's desperate for a quick flight to Tahiti. But this already uneasy relationship suddenly takes a nosedive when his weather-beaten old plane is forced down in a storm, stranding the duo. (Buena Vista)
Metascore:
51
User Score:
7.9
Mr. Jealousy

Mr. Jealousy

June 5, 1998 | R
Lester is an occasional substitute teacher and he's very jealous. He is jealous about the last boyfriend of his slightly wacky current partner Ramona - arrogant bestselling author Dashiell. Lester joins Dashiell's therapy group under an alias to find out if Dashiell still has any feelings for her.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
7.0
Hope Floats

Hope Floats

May 29, 1998 | PG-13
Birdee Calvert (Bullock) seems to have it all. She's been married for years to her handsome high school sweetheart Bill and has a brilliant and sensitive child. But when her picture perfect life comes crashing down around her, Birdee must start over. With no place else to turn, the former beauty queen heads back home...to Smithville, Texas.  (Fox)
Metascore:
43
User Score:
7.1
The Last Days of Disco

The Last Days of Disco

May 29, 1998 | R
In the last months of the disco era, a popular dance club becomes the center of nightlife for a group of young people who recently arrived in Manhattan. [Castle Rock]
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.0
The Opposite of Sex

The Opposite of Sex

May 22, 1998 | R
Lessons of life and love are learned as various characters confront and explore their own sexuality, learn to let go of their traditional beliefs and ultimately discover that what they really want is "the opposite of sex" - lasting, committed and loving relationships. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
69
User Score:
7.1
Bulworth

Bulworth

May 19, 1998 | R
A 'tragic-farce,' Bulworth takes a comedic look at race and class in the United States, campaign finance, and the power of big money and media in America. [Twentieth Century Fox]
Metascore:
75
User Score:
7.6
The Horse Whisperer

The Horse Whisperer

May 15, 1998 | PG-13
After her daughter is injured in a horseback riding accident, a sophisticated New York woman (Thomas) desperately seeks the help of a Montana horse whisperer (Redford) to help her daughter and the horse recover from the trauma.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
6.3
Shooting Fish

Shooting Fish

May 1, 1998 | PG
Smooth-talking American Dylan (Futterman) and his English friend Jez (Townsend), with the help of bright young typist Georgie (Becknisale) fleece as many wealthy people as it takes to buy themselves the stately home of their dreams. They run a scam involving selling bogus voice-activated computer hardware to company executives.
Metascore:
47
User Score:
7.5
Les Misérables

Les Misérables

May 1, 1998 | PG-13
Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
6.5
Wilde

Wilde

May 1, 1998 | R
The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
tbd
Sliding Doors

Sliding Doors

April 24, 1998 | R
Parallel story lines explore the concept of fate and how simple moments have the ability to change our lives.
Metascore:
59
User Score:
2.7
The Object of My Affection

The Object of My Affection

April 17, 1998 | R
George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a devotion to ballroom dancing and they love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get particularly complicated.
Metascore:
52
User Score:
5.5
City of Angels

City of Angels

April 10, 1998 | PG-13
Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan star in this story of the love between a celestial angel and a very human woman. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
8.1
Sonatine

Sonatine

April 10, 1998 | R
Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
5.0
Fireworks

Fireworks

March 20, 1998 | R
Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Metascore:
83
User Score:
tbd
The Real Blonde

The Real Blonde

February 27, 1998 | R
A hilarious look at ambitious young entertainment and fashion-industry denizens and the gulf between their dreams...and reality. (Paramount Pictures)
Metascore:
48
User Score:
tbd
Senseless

Senseless

February 20, 1998 | R
An outrageous comedy about two college students who'll try anything to get ahead! (Miramax)
Metascore:
38
User Score:
7.7
Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty

February 20, 1998 | R
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.
Metascore:
51
User Score:
tbd
Palmetto

Palmetto

February 20, 1998 | R
Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him.  (Warner Home Video)
Metascore:
43
User Score:
7.0
The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer

February 13, 1998 | PG-13
Robbie, a wedding singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Luckily, fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.
Metascore:
60
User Score:
7.8
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

January 30, 1998 | R
An updated version of the story by Charles Dickens, set in modern day New York City.
Metascore:
55
User Score:
6.2
Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

January 30, 1998 | R
Set in the neon-washed underworld of present-day Hong Kong, Fallen Angels intertwines two exhilarating tales of love and isolation in a blitz of ultra-hip style and classical cinematic sensibilities. (Kino International)
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.8
Live Flesh

Live Flesh

January 16, 1998 | R
An obsessed Víctor (Rabal) tries to get with Elena (Neri). Policemen David (Bardem) and Sancho (Sancho) are called in. Victor is sent to jail after accidently shooting David and seeks them out after he gets out of jail.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
7.2
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

January 1, 1998
Peter Glahn is released after years of incarceration as a political prisoner and is now returning to his homeland, the mythical Mandragora where the sun never sets. On board the ship home, he meets the mysterious Juliana Kossel who vanishes after stealing his heart. Once he arrives on the island, he goes to the family ostrich farm run by his sister Amelia. He finds Amelia living with a farmhand named Cain Ball who fears that Peter's return will endanger the agreement he made with Amelia that will see him inherit the farm. Amelia has since fallen for the vain Dr. Isaac Solti who controls the island and has a hold on both Zephyr Eccles, the widow of a local fisherman, and Juliana, Peter's dream girl from the ship. Solti's true obsession is a recently discovered statue of Venus that possesses strange powers. All the characters meet at Solti's lab where the sexual tensions erupt.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
tbd
Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

December 31, 1997 | R
Oscar (Fiennes) is a priest who gambles discreetly and donates his winnings to help the poor. Lucinda (Blanchett) is an Australian businesswoman who boldly defies society’s rules. When they meet over an innocent game of cards, their lives are changed forever. (Fox Searchlight)
Metascore:
65
User Score:
7.7
Afterglow

Afterglow

December 26, 1997 | R
Set in the city of Montreal, Alan Rudolph's romantic comedy-drama Afterglow paints a wryly comic portrait of two modern marriages drifting toward the rocks. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
68
User Score:
5.0
As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets

December 23, 1997 | R
An unusual friendship develops between three people in New York City: a single mother working as a waitress (Hunt), a writer with obsessive-compulsive disorder (Nicholson), and his neighbor, a gay artist (Kinnear).
Metascore:
67
User Score:
8.4
Titanic

Titanic

December 19, 1997 | PG-13
A fictional romantic tale of a rich girl (Winslet) and a poor bohemian boy (DiCaprio) who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
8.4
Deconstructing Harry

Deconstructing Harry

December 12, 1997 | R
This film revolves around the problems of a New York writer's creative and erotic life.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
7.4
The Tango Lesson

The Tango Lesson

November 14, 1997 | PG
A filmmaker (Sally Potter), dissatisfied wth her latest screenplay, stumbles upon the tango and an Argentinian tango dancer (Pablo Veron) living in Paris. Fascinated by both, she places herself under Pablo's tutelage, striking a deal — if Pablo will make her a tango dancer, she will let him star in her next film. He accomplishes his side of the bargain when they perform in a show, but her attempt to make a film with Pablo in Buenos Aires exposes the complexities at the heart of the story — how do you follow when your instinct is to lead? [Sony Pictures Classics]
Metascore:
65
User Score:
tbd
The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove

November 7, 1997 | R
Based on the Henry James novel, this is a provocative tale of passion, temptation, and greed. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
Metascore:
73
User Score:
8.2
An American Werewolf in Paris

An American Werewolf in Paris

October 31, 1997 | R
On the loose in Europe, three wild college grads from America bring their "Daredevil Tour" to Paris in search of some serious fun. There, Andy (Scott) falls for the beautiful and mysterious woman of his dreams (Delpy). The only problem is ... when the moon is full, Andy's dream girl turns into a total nightmare! (Buena Vista)
Metascore:
31
User Score:
5.8
Happy Together

Happy Together

October 30, 1997
Yiu-Fai (Leung) and Po-Wing (Cheung) travel from Hong Kong to Argentina in an attempt to save their relationship.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
7.9
Gattaca

Gattaca

October 24, 1997 | PG-13
An engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection.  [Sony]
Metascore:
64
User Score:
8.5
A Life Less Ordinary

A Life Less Ordinary

October 24, 1997 | R
After being fired, an angry janitor kidnaps his boss’s spoiled daughter and finds himself on the road to romance.
Metascore:
37
User Score:
5.9
Gang Related

Gang Related

October 8, 1997 | TV-14
After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
tbd
Going All the Way

Going All the Way

September 19, 1997 | R
After returning home from the Korean War, two young men search for love and fulfillment in middle America.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
tbd
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument

September 17, 1997 | Not Rated
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? Is he avoiding the despairing life his father can't escape from?
Metascore:
76
User Score:
tbd
Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage

August 29, 1997 | PG-13
An offbeat adventure about a poor little rich girl and the car thief who steals her heart. (Sony)
Metascore:
34
User Score:
6.0
She's So Lovely

She's So Lovely

August 29, 1997 | R
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
6.2
Fire

Fire

August 22, 1997 | Unrated
Deepa Mehta's tender, passionate and controversial love story of two Indian women torn between their devotion to duty and their desire for love and companionship. (Zeitgeist Films)
Metascore:
64
User Score:
8.0
Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy Theory

August 8, 1997 | R
Mel Gibson is a New York cabbie whose fascination with "conspiracies" in everyday life enmeshes him and a Justice Department attorney (Roberts) in a dangerous situation when one of his paranoid theories may indeed be true. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
50
User Score:
6.7
Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect

August 1, 1997 | PG-13
Caught up in career complications and romantic roundabouts, Kate (Aniston) is about to learn what truly makes the perfect mate -- and that a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. (Fox)
Metascore:
46
User Score:
7.2
Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown

Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown

July 18, 1997 | PG
Queen Victoria (Dench) was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown (Connolly) was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together, the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
Metascore:
71
User Score:
7.3
George of the Jungle

George of the Jungle

July 16, 1997 | PG
Deep in the heart of the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz who has a rain forest full of animal friends. When poachers mess with George's pals, the King Of Swing swings into action. (Disney)
Metascore:
53
User Score:
6.5
Out to Sea

Out to Sea

July 2, 1997 | PG-13
A failed gambler, intent on meeting a rich widow, tricks his widowed brother-in-law into boarding a cruise ship as dance hosts.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
6.0
Hercules

Hercules

June 27, 1997 | G
In order to return home to Mount Olympus, Hercules needs to prove he can move from "zero" to true hero with Pegasus, the flying stallion, and Phil -- a feisty personal trainer. Along the way, Hercules must match wits with Grecian beauty Meg and a comical hothead named Hades who, with the help of Pain and Panic, plans to take over the Universe.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
7.7
My Best Friend's Wedding

My Best Friend's Wedding

June 20, 1997 | PG-13
Best friends since college, Jules (Roberts) and Michael (Mulroney) made a pact that if neither had found someone to love by the age of 28, they would marry each other. Now it's their 28th year of life, and Michael just popped the question. There's only one problem: he popped it to someone else. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Metascore:
51
User Score:
8.0
Speed 2: Cruise Control

Speed 2: Cruise Control

June 13, 1997 | PG-13
Speed Redux – this time by sea.
Metascore:
24
User Score:
2.6
The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

June 6, 1997 | NC-17
Three experiences make an indelible impression in a young girl's childhood: her father's tender calligraphy on her face and neck, the text of a noblewoman's sensual diary (or pillow book), and the discovery that her father is being blackmailed. These three images become a single obsession when the girl becomes a woman (Vivian Wu of The Joy Luck Club) and meets a man (Trainspotting's Ewan McGregor) who offers his body to her, both as a blank page to write upon and as a weapon of revenge. (Columbia TriStar)
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.7
Brassed Off

Brassed Off

May 23, 1997 | R
A story about two old friends -- and ex-lovers -- whose surprise reunion turns their lives, and the lives of everyone else in town, hilariously upside down! (Miramax)
Metascore:
60
User Score:
8.0
Addicted to Love

Addicted to Love

May 23, 1997 | R
First they got mad. Now they're getting even. Two dumped lovers (Broderick & Ryan) team for comic revenge when their exes team up for romance. (Warner Bros.)
Metascore:
49
User Score:
7.7
Love! Valour! Compassion!

Love! Valour! Compassion!

May 16, 1997 | R
This film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play focuses on eight gay men as they spend three summer holiday weekends together at a rural country house. What transpires is a tender, humorous and poignant story about love, valour and compassion among friends. (New Line Cinema)
Metascore:
59
User Score:
6.8
Fathers' Day

Fathers' Day

May 9, 1997 | PG-13
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Metascore:
43
User Score:
5.5
The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element

May 9, 1997 | PG-13
New York cab driver Korben Dallas didn't mean to be a hero. But he just picked up the kind of fare that only comes along every five thousand years - a perfect beauty, a perfect being, a perfect weapon. Now, together, they must save the world. (Columbia TriStar)
Metascore:
52
User Score:
8.7
Traveller

Traveller

April 18, 1997 | R
Bokky (Paxton) shows Pat (Wahlberg) the ropes of being a Traveller - a nomadic clan of Irish-American con artists. Bokky begins doubting their lifestyle when he falls for Jean (Margulies), one of their intended victims.
Metascore:
57
User Score:
tbd
Grosse Pointe Blank

Grosse Pointe Blank

April 11, 1997 | R
In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10-year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point, Michigan.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.4
Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance?

April 11, 1997 | PG
A middle-aged workaholic's incredibly dull life takes a funny turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class -- just to meet the sexy dance teacher. But when he finally muscles up the nerve for lessons he winds up with a different instructor and her colorfully eccentric class of beginners! And now he'll have to step lightly -- and do some fancy footwork -- if he expects to keep his new secret passion from his family and friends! (Miramax)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
7.5
Chasing Amy

Chasing Amy

April 4, 1997 | R
Lifelong best friends Holden (Affleck) and Banky (Lee) are enjoying success as the creators of the cult hit comic book "Bluntman and Chronic." When they meet fellow comic book artist Alyssa (Adams), Holden's desire for the beautiful charmer is immediate. Alyssa, however, has set her romantic sights elsewhere. (Miramax Films)
Metascore:
71
User Score:
8.3
The Saint

The Saint

April 4, 1997 | PG-13
Val Kilmer plays suave espionage hero Simon Templer - aka The Saint - and Elisabeth Shue costars in this atmospheric mix of bold adventure and grand romance. An array of sophisticated gadgetry is at Templer's command as he plunges into a cloak-and-dagger netherworld of move and countermove.  (Paramount)
Metascore:
50
User Score:
6.8
Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

April 4, 1997 | R
A tale of class division and forbidden love set in the 1950's.
Metascore:
49
User Score:
6.3
Love and Other Catastrophes

Love and Other Catastrophes

March 28, 1997 | R
A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
tbd
Love Jones

Love Jones

March 14, 1997 | R
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Mosley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friend, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.
Metascore:
65
User Score:
tbd
Booty Call

Booty Call

February 26, 1997 | R
An outrageous comedy about the one thing men and women both want: each other. (Sony)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
5.7
Touch

Touch

February 14, 1997 | R
When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.
Metascore:
56
User Score:
tbd
Fools Rush In

Fools Rush In

February 14, 1997 | PG-13
A New Yorker (Perry) transplanted to Las Vegas and a beautiful local artist (Hayek) impetuously decide to tie the knot.
Metascore:
38
User Score:
7.5
Hotel de Love

Hotel de Love

February 7, 1997 | R
This comedy of errors finds twin brothers battling for the attention of the same woman.
Metascore:
47
User Score:
tbd
Thieves

Thieves

December 25, 1996 | R
The fates of four different people - a thief, a cop, a female professor of philosophy, a suicidal girl - unexpectedly collide.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
tbd
Michael

Michael

December 25, 1996 | PG
John Travolta plays an angel who's no saint in this divinely romantic comedy. (Warner Bros. Entertainment)
Metascore:
38
User Score:
7.9
The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

December 24, 1996 | PG-13
Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman), a head strong American finds herself trapped in a marriage to Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich).
Metascore:
60
User Score:
6.0
One Fine Day

One Fine Day

December 20, 1996 | PG
The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.
Metascore:
56
User Score:
tbd
Whisper of the Heart

Whisper of the Heart

December 13, 1996 | G
A chance encounter with a mysterious cat sends Shizuku, a quiet schoolgirl, on a quest for her true talent. Together with Seiji, a boy determined to follow his dreams, and enchanted by The Baron, a magical cat figurine who helps her listen to the whispers of her heart, Shizuku embarks on a life-changing adventure that takes her beyond the boundaries of her imagination.
Metascore:
75
User Score:
8.3
Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire

December 13, 1996 | R
Maguire (Cruise), a high-powered sports agent, is enchanted by a young mother (Zellweger) who believes in him and oversees the career comeback of his struggling football player client Ron Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.).
Metascore:
77
User Score:
8.2
Ridicule

Ridicule

November 22, 1996 | R
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
tbd
Shine

Shine

November 20, 1996 | PG-13
Inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott, Shine focuses on Helfgott's painful retreat into a private world while still in his early 20's and on the brink of a glittering international career. Spanning the 1950's to the 1980's, Shine dramatizes the deeply moving way in which Helfgott, after a decade of obscurity, achieves both personal and professional fulfillment through the love and support of a remarkable woman. (Fine Line Features)
Metascore:
87
User Score:
8.2
The English Patient

The English Patient

November 15, 1996 | R
An epic film of adventure, intrigue, betrayal and love about four strangers whose diverse lives become inextricably connected. (Miramax Films)
Metascore:
86
User Score:
7.3
Blue Juice

Blue Juice

November 15, 1996 | R
JC (Pertwee), a Cornish surfing legend, is thinking of putting his board away and settling down with his girlfriend (Zeta-Jones). He gets sidetracked when his friends from London come to visit.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
8.8
The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces

November 15, 1996 | PG-13
A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.
Metascore:
50
User Score:
tbd
Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves

November 13, 1996 | R
Set in a remote coastal village in northern Scotland, this is the extraordinary tale of a young woman's love and devotion to her husband, recently paralyzed in an oil rig accident.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.0
Set It Off

Set It Off

November 6, 1996 | R
Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
Metascore:
62
User Score:
5.8
Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet

November 1, 1996 | PG-13
Baz Luhrmann's dazzling and unconventional adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic love story is spellbinding. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes portray Romeo and Juliet, the youthful star-crossed lovers of the past who now meet in the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach. Their two rival families, the Montaques and the Capulets, are now gangs and every other aspect of life surrounding Romeo and Juliet's tragic love affair has moved from its Elizabethan origins to a decidedly contemporary, brilliantly stylized reality. (Fox)
Metascore:
62
User Score:
6.3
High School High

High School High

October 25, 1996 | PG-13
Richard C. Clark (Lovitz) is an idealistic young teacher who leaves a position at a prestigious school headed by his own father to teach at Marion Barry High - a notorious inner city school so tough that it has its own cemetery. (Sony)
Metascore:
33
User Score:
7.1
Jude

Jude

October 18, 1996 | R
In 19th-century England, Jude (Eccleston) and his cousin Sue (Winslet) are ostracized when they have children together after leaving their spouses.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
7.3
Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso

September 20, 1996 | R
A cinematic portrayal of Francoise Gilot's (McElhone) relationship with Picasso (Hopkins).
Metascore:
55
User Score:
7.8
Feeling Minnesota

Feeling Minnesota

September 13, 1996 | R
Feeling Minnesota explores the tormented relationship between two brothers, Sam (D'Onofrio) and Jjaks (Reeves), and the young woman, Freddie (Diaz), who comes between them. (Fine Line)
Metascore:
30
User Score:
4.4
She's the One

She's the One

August 23, 1996 | R
The love lives of two brothers, Mickey and Francis, interconnect as Francis cheats on his wife with Mickey's ex-girlfriend, while Mickey impulsively marries a stranger.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
tbd
Tin Cup

Tin Cup

August 16, 1996 | R
Ron Shelton ("Bull Durham") directs Kevin Costner and Rene Russo in another sports tale about coulda been golf contender's romantic pursuit of a psychiatrist and his attempt to prove himself.
Metascore:
60
User Score:
8.1
Emma

Emma

August 2, 1996 | PG
Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young woman who imagines herself an authority on matters of the heart, plays matchmaker for her friends, most notably her friend Harriet (Toni Collette), who Emma links up with the Reverend Elton (Alan Cumming), and her governess, (Greta Scacchi), who she introduces to her future husband, Mr. Weston (James Cosmo). However, Emma is not nearly as good at playing Cupid as she likes to imagine, and she spends so much time trying to solve everyone else's romantic problems that it takes her quite some time to realize that she's fallen in love with Mr. Knightly (Jeremy Northam). Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
8.2
Multiplicity

Multiplicity

July 17, 1996 | PG-13
A man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do is offered the opportunity to have himself duplicated.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
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Walking and Talking

Walking and Talking

July 17, 1996 | R
This comedy follows the hilarious antics of four friends looking for love in the '90s. (BV Entertainment)
Metascore:
68
User Score:
5.3
Phenomenon

Phenomenon

July 3, 1996 | PG
An uplifting story of an ordinary man transformed by extraordinary events. (BV Entertainment)
Metascore:
42
User Score:
8.0
The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor

June 28, 1996 | PG-13
Eddie Murphy stars as Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, 'calorically challenged' genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late, or will Buddy have the last laugh? (Universal)
Metascore:
64
User Score:
6.9
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

June 21, 1996 | G
A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
7.7
Lone Star

Lone Star

June 21, 1996 | R
The unearthing of human bones and a rusty sheriff's badge on a rifle range in a Texas border town resurrects painful memories for a young lawman (Cooper), drawing him into an intricate, fascingatingly woven web of ethical, familial, and intercultural conflicts.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
7.7
Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty

June 14, 1996 | R
Liv Tyler stars as a nineteen-year old beauty who summers at a villa in Tuscany with a variety of artistic types after the death of her mother, who had stayed there years earlier.
Metascore:
60
User Score:
7.3
Heavy

Heavy

June 5, 1996 | R
This poignant film centers around an overweight chef at a rust-belt tavern.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
5.4
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