August 2002 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jun. 29, 2022

Best Movies Released August 2002

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A thriller set in Bucks County, Pennsylvania focusing on the mysterious appearance of a five-hundred-foot design of circles and lines carved into a family's crops. Mel Gibson stars as Graham Hess, the family patriarch, who is tested in his journey to find the truth behind the unfolding mystery. Joaquin Phoenix is Merrill Hess, brother to Graham and a former minor league baseball star.

Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Abigail Breslin, M. Night Shyamalan, Rory Culkin

PG-13 Fantasy Suspense Sci-Fi

64%

  • 4.1
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Toula is 30. And unmarried. Which means as a nice Greek girl -- she's a failure. All her cousins did the right thing -- married Greek boys and made Greek babies. So everyone worries: what will become of Toula? Then one day she sees the ultimate unattainable guy and realizes the only way her life will get better is if he gets away from her big, fat Greek family. Toula escapes from the family restaurant. She exchanges her seating hostess jacket for a college diploma, convinces her aunt to give her a new job, and trades in her coke-bottle glasses for contact lenses, just in time for "him" to walk back into her life. Ian Miller is tall, handsome but defnitely not Greek. Their courtship is an Olympian culture clash. Can Ian handle Toula, her parents, her aunts, uncles, cousins and several centuries of Greek heritage? Will Toula discover the love she's been missing right in the heart of her big, fat family? One thing is for sure, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, with Ian's proposal Toula is headed for her big, fat Greek wedding.

Lainie Kazan, Joel Zwick, Tom Hanks, Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, Joey Fatone

PG Comedy Romance 1 hr, 35 mins

57%

  • 3.7
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The world is in trouble and top secret agents, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara) Cortez are back for another adventure in "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams". Their newest mission takes them to a mysterious island where they meet a wildly inventive genetic scientist (Steve Buscemi) and his imaginative creatures. While fighting the forces of rival SPY kids, Gary (Matt O'Leary) and Gerti (Emily Osment) Giggles, they head right into a trap that will test each and every Cortez spy, from super spies Mom and Dad (Carla Gugino, Antonio Banderas) to their SPY grandparents (Ricardo Montalban, Holland Taylor).

Alexa Vega, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara, Robert Rodriguez, Elizabeth Avellan, Ricardo Montalban, Danny Trejo, Steve Buscemi

PG Action Adventure Sequel Family Kids

86%

  • 4.1
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Nothing gets between Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) and her board. Living in a beach shack on Oahu with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Working as a hotel maid to pay the bills, Anne Marie finds everything else she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis) comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt.

Kate Bosworth, Sanoe Lake, John Stockwell, Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela, Lizzy Weiss, Michelle Rodriguez, Mika Boorem

PG-13 Action Adventure Romance Sports

70%

  • 3.1
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Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), a brilliant English academic given to doing things by the book, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel LeMotte (Jennifer Ehle). Roland Mitchell (Aaron Eckhart) is an upstart American scholar in London on a fellowship to study the great Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), now best known for a collection of rapturous, late-life poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to LaMotte, they follow a trail of clues across England to the Continent, echoing the journey of the impassioned couple a century earlier.

Neil LaBute, Jeremy Northam, Aaron Eckhart, Toby Stephens, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Ehle, Graham Crowden, Trevor Eve

PG-13 Drama Thriller Romance 1 hr, 39 mins

80%

  • 2
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Robin Williams portrays Sy Parrish, a lonely photo technician at the local SavMart one-hour photo counter who develops an unsettling obsession with long time customers, the Yorkin family, with whom he invents a familial connection.

Gary Cole, Mark Romanek, Pamela Koffler, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Christine Vachon, Stan Wlodkowski, Robin Williams

R Thriller Suspense

20%

  • 1.8
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The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world.

Sean Cullen, Catherine Keener, Al Pacino, Jay Mohr, Winona Ryder, Andrew Niccol, Rachel Roberts, Chris Coppola

PG-13 Drama Comedy Fantasy

100%

  • 3.8
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Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) might just have one of the worst jobs in the world, but he'll stop at nothing to do it. A down-and-dirty process server with ingenious methods of laying legal documents on everyone from mobsters to millionaires, Joe is a man determined to serve his man - or woman - at all costs. Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) is Joe's next victim. Her conniving partner, Gordon (Bruce Campbell), a wealthy cattle rancher with whom she has amassed a fortune, has hired Joe to serve Sara with papers that threaten to cut her off. While at first Sara might not know what hit her, once the shock wears off, she's ready to strike back and go after waht she's entitled to - the money she earned with Gordon, a sizeable chunk of his ego...and just maybe a shot at true love.

Amy Adams, Reginald Hudlin, Elizabeth Hurley, Matthew Perry, Bruce Campbell, Cedric the Entertainer

PG-13 Comedy Romance

75%

  • 2.8
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A heavyweight-boxing champ is accused of raping a woman and sent to prison. There he faces the prison-boxing champ.

Michael Rooker, Ving Rhames, Walter Hill, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk, Fisher Stevens, Wes Studi, Steve Heinze

R Drama

50%

  • 4
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When four bodies are discovered in New York City, brash detective Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) teams with Department of Health researcher Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) to uncover the cause of their inexplicable deaths. The only link between the dead is that they each died exactly 48 hours after logging on to feardot.com.

Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Udo Kier, William Malone, Stephen Rea, Amelia Shankley, Jeffrey Combs, Nigel Terry

R Thriller Horror Crime

44%

  • 2.2
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