Movie #386 - Heartbreakers

Heartbreakers
2001 - Rated PG-13 - 2 hr 3 min
Director: David Mirkin
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Anne Bancroft, Jeffrey Jones, Nora Dunn, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifiankais, Shawn Colvin, Michael Hitchcock

Mother-daughter con artists Weaver and Hewitt are pretty well paired in this movie.  While it's not the best of films, the relationship between them has all the right elements. They're slightly competitive, they love each other, they trust each other, but they have way too much in common sometimes.  Shame on Weaver's character for bringing her daughter up to be a con, but I guess it's like they say about that apple and the tree.

There's not much too exciting about this one, save Sigourney Weaver's accent, and the whole Jason Lee as a love interest thing just doesn't make sense in my head.  But it's nice to see at least that Hewitt tries to make it legit by the end!

Movie #295 - Identity

Identity
2003 - Rated R - 1 hr 30 min
Director: James Mangold
Starring: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, John C McGinley, Jake Busey, Rebecca De Mornay

I really love this movie.  The early misdirection gets you looking the wrong way and just when you suspect something's up, they tell you what's going on.  They don't try to drag out the big twist too long.

And then of course, that ending just BAM.

I realize if you haven't seen this movie, you have no idea what I'm talking about.  But I can't really go any further into detail than that.  A group of strangers wind up at a motel on a rainy night and bad stuff starts happening.  What happens after that, I can't spoil.

Just be prepared for a some really unique story-telling and a great cast of characters.

Movie #201 - Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams
1989 - Rated PG - 1 hr 47 min
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Kevin Costner, James Earle Jones, Ray Liotta

Here's a classic, for you.  But watching it now, as an adult, it's kind of a weird movie.  I mean, his cornfield talks to him and within the first ten minutes of the movie, he's already figured out what the voice in the corn wants him to do.  Build a baseball field, obviously.  I remember this taking longer, but it's seriously only the first ten minutes.

So he builds it.  They come. "He" comes (Is it Shoeless Joe, the "he"? Or someone else? Hmmm?) And no one ever explains why ghost baseball players come out of the corn and play ball. Or why old men can step over the line and become younger and play ball with them.  Or why said old man can't go back once he steps out.  The message of this movie still resonates, but it's a little cheesy after all this time.  If you can ignore the slight lameness, you'll enjoy it now just as much as you might have before.

For the rest of you, you can just reminisce about when Kevin Costner had a career.