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<FONT SIZE=+3>The Movies of 1997</FONT SIZE=+3><br>
(Movies Marked With a <img src="fullrev.jpg"> Are Reviewed in Full)</center>
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<center><Font Size=-1>(<i>Includes films first exhibited to commercial audiences in America between Jan. 1, 1997, and Dec. 31, 1997.<br>
Consequently, certain entries, especially foreign films, are indexed here despite being produced in earlier years.)</Font></center></i>
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<FONT COLOR="#0090FF" SIZE=+2><strong>My Top Ten List</strong></FONT><br>
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<Font Size=+1>  1. <a href=haptoget.html>Happy Together</a></Font> Dir. Wong Kar-Wai. With Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, Chang Chen <Font Color="#FF0000">A</Font><br>
<Font Size=+1>  2. <a href=laconf.html>L.A. Confidential</a></FONT> <Font Color="#80FFFF">˛</Font> Dir. Curtis Hanson. With Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey <Font Color="#FF0000">A</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg><br>
<Font Size=+1>  3. <a href=sweeth.html>The Sweet Hereafter</a></FONT> Dir. Atom Egoyan. With Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood <Font Color="#FF0000">A</Font><br>
<Font Size=+1>  4. <a href=boogie.html>Boogie Nights</a></FONT> Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson. With Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore <Font Color="#FF0000">A</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg><br>
<Font Size=+1>  5. <a href=titanic.html>Titanic</a></FONT> <Font Color="#80FFFF">˛</Font> Dir. James Cameron. With Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane <Font Color="#FF0000">A</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg><br>
<Font Size=+1>  6. <a href=oscluc.html>Oscar and Lucinda</a></FONT> Dir. Gillian Armstrong. With Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Tom Wilkinson <Font Color="#FF0000">A</Font> <br>
<Font Size=+1>  7. <a href=brasco.html>Donnie Brasco</a></FONT> Dir. Mike Newell. With Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen <Font Color="#FF0000">A</Font><br>
<Font Size=+1>  8. <a href=wingdove.html>The Wings of the Dove</a></FONT> <Font Color="#80FFFF">˛</Font> Dir. Iain Softley. With Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott <Font Color="#FF0000">A–</Font><br>
<Font Size=+1>  9. <a href=crash.html>Crash</a></FONT> <Font Color="#80FFFF">˛</Font> Dir. David Cronenberg. With James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas <Font Color="#FF0000">A–</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg><br>
<Font Size=+1>10. <a href=bayou.html>Eve's Bayou</a></FONT> Dir. Kasi Lemmons. With Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson, Debbi Morgan <Font Color="#FF0000">A–</Font><br>
<b>NOTE:</b> <a href=irmavep.html><Font Size=+1>Irma Vep</Font></a> is only missing from this list because I didn't see it until several years later.
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0090FF" SIZE=+2><strong>Other Releases from the Year 1997</strong></FONT>
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<LI><a href=addict.html>Addicted to Love</a> Dir. Griffin Dunne. With Matthew Broderick, Meg Ryan, Tchéky Karyo <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=afglow.html>Afterglow</a> Dir. Alan Rudolph. With Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Jonny Lee Miller <Font Color="#FF0000">D+</Font><img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=afo.html>Air Force One</a> Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. With Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font>
<LI><a href=alienres.html>Alien: Resurrection</a> Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=allovrme.html>All Over Me</a> Dir. Alex Sichel. With Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=amistad.html>Amistad</a> Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=apostle.html>The Apostle</a> Dir. Robert Duvall. With Robert Duvall, John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett <Font Color="#FF0000">A–</Font>
<LI><a href=asgood.html>As Good As It Gets</a> Dir. James L. Brooks. With Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=apowers.html>Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery</a> Dir. Jay Roach. With Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=bent.html>Bent</a> Dir. Sean Mathias. With Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Mick Jagger <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=bliss.html>Bliss</a> Dir. Lance Young. With Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee, Terence Stamp <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=bloodwin.html>Blood and Wine</a> Dir. Bob Rafelson. With Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Michael Caine <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=boxer.html>The Boxer</a> Dir. Jim Sheridan. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox <Font Color="#FF0000">D+</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=breakd.html>Breakdown</a> Dir. Jonathan Mostow. With Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=cgirls.html>Career Girls</a> Dir. Mike Leigh. With Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Mark Benton <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=chasing.html>Chasing Amy</a> Dir. Kevin Smith. With Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee <Font Color="#FF0000">D+</Font>
<LI><a href=childrev.html>Children of the Revolution</a> Dir. Peter Duncan. With Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Richard Roxburgh <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=concvada.html>Conceiving Ada</a> Dir. Lynn Hershmann-Leeson. With Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Karen Black <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=contheor.html>Conspiracy Theory</a> Dir. Richard Donner. With Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=contact.html>Contact</a> <Font Color="#80FFFF">˛</Font> Dir. Robert Zemeckis. With Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=couchny.html>A Couch in New York</a> Dir. Chantal Akerman. With Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Stephanie Buttle <Font Color="#FF0000">D–</Font>
<LI><a href=dharry.html>Deconstructing Harry</a> Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Hazelle Goodman, Billy Crystal <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=eyeofgod.html>Eye of God</a> Dir. Tim Blake Nelson. With Martha Plimpton, Kevin Anderson, Nick Stahl <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=faceoff.html>Face/Off</a> Dir. John Woo. With Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen <Font Color="#FF0000">A–</Font>
<LI><a href=fastchp.html>Fast, Cheap & Out of Control</a> Dir. Errol Morris. Documentary. Features four men with bizarre occupations <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=femperv.html>Female Perversions</a> Dir. Susan Streitfeld. With Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=fifth.html>The Fifth Element</a> Dir. Luc Besson. With Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font>
<LI><a href=4lgirls.html>4 Little Girls</a> Dir. Spike Lee. Documentary. Chonicle of Alabama church bombing <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=fmonty.html>The Full Monty</a> Dir. Peter Cattaneo. With Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=funnygam.html>Funny Games</a> Dir. Michael Haneke. With Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=gabbeh.html>Gabbeh</a> Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf. With Shaghayeh Djodat, Rogheih Moharami, Hossein Moharami <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=game.html>The Game</a> Dir. David Fincher. With Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=gattaca.html>Gattaca</a> Dir. Andrew Niccol. With Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Loren Dean <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=gwill.html>Good Will Hunting</a> Dir. Gus Van Sant. With Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=grosse.html>Grosse Pointe Blank</a> Dir. George Armitage. With John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=hollreed.html>Hollow Reed</a> Dir. Angela Pope. With Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Sam Bould <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=iknowhat.html>I Know What You Did Last Summer</a> Dir. Jim Gillespie. With Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=icestorm.html>The Ice Storm</a> Dir. Ang Lee. With Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Christina Ricci <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font>
<LI><a href=inout.html>In & Out</a> Dir. Frank Oz. With Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font>
<LI><a href=intheco.html>In the Company of Men</a> Dir. Neil LaBute. With Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=jackie.html>Jackie Brown</a> Dir. Quentin Tarantino. With Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster <Font Color="#FF0000">A–</Font>
<LI><a href=jgrainmk.html>John Grisham's The Rainmaker</a> Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. With Matt Damon, Danny DeVito <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=kissed.html>Kissed</a> Dir. Lynne Stopkewich. With Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=kundun.html>Kundun</a> Dir. Martin Scorsese. With Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Sonam Phuntsok, Tencho Gyalpo <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font>
<LI><a href=liarliar.html>Liar Liar</a> Dir. Tom Shadyac. With Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=lfjesus.html>Life of Jesus</a> Dir. Bruno Dumont. With David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Kader Chaatouf <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=lilies.html>Lilies</a> Dir. John Greyson. With Danny Gillmore, Jason Cadieux, Matthew Ferguson <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=livflesh.html>Live Flesh</a> Dir. Pedro Almodóvar. With Liberto Rabal, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=lworld.html>The Lost World: Jurassic Park</a> Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=ljones.html>love jones</a> Dir. Theodore Witcher. With Nia Long, Larenz Tate, Lisa Nicole Carson <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=lovalour.html>Love! Valour! Compassion!</a> Dir. Joe Mantello. With Stephen Bogardus, Jason Alexander, John Glover <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=mavie.html>Ma vie en rose</a> Dir. Alain Berliner. With Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe écoffey <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=margsmus.html>Margaret's Museum</a> Dir. Mort Ransen. With Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Kate Nelligan <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=mib.html>Men in Black</a> Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld. With Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Vincent D'Onofrio <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=midgar.html>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</a> Dir. Clint Eastwood. With John Cusack, Kevin Spacey <Font Color="#FF0000">D</Font>
<LI><a href=milfloss.html>The Mill on the Floss</a> Dir. Graham Theakston. With Emily Watson, Ifan Meredith, James Frain <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=mrsbrown.html>Mrs. Brown</a> Dir. John Madden. With Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Antony Sher <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=mybest.html>My Best Friend's Wedding</a> Dir. P.J. Hogan. With Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=mythfing.html>The Myth of Fingerprints</a> Dir. Bart Freundlich. With Noah Wyle, Julianne Moore, Roy Scheider <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=nappy.html>Nappy</a> Dir. Lydia Ann Douglas. Documentary. Short examination of African-American women's hair <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=1ntstand.html>One Night Stand</a> Dir. Mike Figgis. With Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Downey Jr. <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font>
<LI><a href=prdsroad.html>Paradise Road</a> Dir. Bruce Beresford. With Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Jennifer Ehle <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=pillow.html>The Pillow Book</a> Dir. Peter Greenaway. With Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=ponette.html>Ponette</a> Dir. Jacques Doillon. With Victoire Thivisol, Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=rhcinder.html>Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella</a> Dir. Robert Iscove. With Brandy, Paolo Montalban, Bernadette Peters <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=romy.html>Romy & Michele's High School Reunion</a> Dir. David Mirkin. With Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Alan Cumming <Font Color="#FF0000">D+</Font>
<LI><a href=scream2.html>Scream 2</a> Dir. Wes Craven. With Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=seethsea.html>See the Sea</a> Dir. François Ozon. With Sasha Hails, Marina de Van, Paul Raoux <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=sevyears.html>Seven Years in Tibet</a> Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Brad Pitt, Jamyang Wangchuk, David Thewlis <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=shesso.html>She's So Lovely</a> Dir. Nick Cassavetes. With Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta <Font Color="#FF0000">C</Font>
<LI><a href=starship.html>Starship Troopers</a> Dir. Paul Verhoeven. With Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=thouacre.html>A Thousand Acres</a> Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards <Font Color="#FF0000">C+</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=ulees.html>Ulee's Gold</a> Dir. Victor Nuñez. With Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Jessica Biel <Font Color="#FF0000">B</Font>
<LI><a href=uturn.html>U-Turn</a> Dir. Oliver Stone. With Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte <Font Color="#FF0000">F</Font>
<LI><a href=wagdog.html>Wag the Dog</a> Dir. Barry Levinson. With Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=wguffman.html>Waiting for Guffman</a> Dir. Christopher Guest. With Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=washsq.html>Washington Square</a> Dir. Agnieszka Holland. With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font> <img src=fullrev.jpg>
<LI><a href=watwoman.html>The Watermelon Woman</a> Dir. Cheryl Dunye. With Cheryl Dunye, Valarie Walker, Guinevere Turner <Font Color="#FF0000">B–</Font>
<LI><a href=welcsar.html>Welcome to Sarajevo</a> Dir. Michael Winterbottom. With Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Emira Nuševic <Font Color="#FF0000">B+</Font>
<LI><a href=wguest.html>The Winter Guest</a> Dir. Alan Rickman. With Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood <Font Color="#FF0000">A–</Font><br>
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