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Last updated April 17, 2025
The Notebook
2004 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsTwo young lovers (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel. Their story is told by a man (James Garner) who, years later, reads from a notebook while he visits a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands). Nick Cassavetes directs this heart-tugging romance about the sacrifices people will make to hang on to their one true love.
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The Ice Storm
1997 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsPrep-schooler Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) returns home for Thanksgiving weekend and finds his family about to implode. While his father (Kevin Kline) tries to douse his sorrows with booze and infidelity, Paul's mother (Joan Allen) looks for answers in self-help books. The experimentation and liberalism that defined the 1970s lead to ruin as the family's environs literally freeze over during a freak storm in this insightful drama helmed by Ang Lee.
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The Crucible
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsPlaywright Arthur Miller's parable of the 1950s anti-communist crusade (thinly veiled here as the Salem, Mass., witch trials of 1692) receives lush treatment in this Oscar-nominated film adaptation from director Nicholas Hytner. After being spurned by her married lover (Daniel Day-Lewis), young Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder) stirs up a frenzy of hysteria and fear with accusations of witchcraft. Joan Allen earned an Oscar nod for her role.
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The Upside of Anger
2005 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsTerry Wolfmeyer (Joan Allen) has been dumped by her husband -- who, in a clichéd ending, ran off with his secretary -- and is left to raise her four daughters alone. But there could be a silver lining to it all when Terry hooks up with a retired baseball player (Kevin Costner). Erika Christensen, Alicia Witt, Keri Russell and Evan Rachel Wood co-star in this comic drama about tangled family ties from writer-director Mike Binder.
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