Cast Away (2000)

Director: Robert Zemeckis. 
Cast: Paul Sanchez, Lari White, Leonid Citer.


Cast Away is a 2000 drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. The film depicts his successful attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo, as well as his eventual escape and return to society

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Touching the Void

Director: Kevin Macdonald. 

Cast: Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking.

Touching the Void is a 2003 documentary film based on the book of the same name by Joe Simpson about Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near fatal attempt to climb the 6,344 metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

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Yes Man (2008)

Director: Peyton Reed. 
Starring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper.

Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins, Rhys Darby, Danny Masterson and Terence Stamp. The film is based loosely on the true story and 2005 book Yes Man by British humourist Danny Wallace (who has a cameo appearance in the film).

The film was a box office success despite receiving mixed reviews from critics. It was released on December 19, 2008, opening at #1 at the box office in its first weekend with $18.3 million and was then released on December 26, 2008 in the United Kingdom going straight to the top of the box office in its first weekend after release. Production for the film began in October 2007 in Los Angeles, CA.

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Glory Road (2006)

Director: James Gartner.
Starring: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols

Glory Road is an American film directed by James Gartner, released on January 13, 2006. The film is based on a true story dealing with the events leading to the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which the late Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), head coach of the Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) led a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history.

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Into the Wild (2007)

Director: Sean Penn. 
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt.

Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer based on Christopher McCandless and his travels across North America. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless with William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden as his parents. The film premiered during the Rome Film Fest and later opened outside of Fairbanks, Alaska in September 2007.

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Facing the Giant (2006)

Director: Alex Kendrick. 
Starring: Erin Bethea, James Blackwell, Bailey Cave.

Facing the Giants is a 2006 American Christian drama film directed by and starring Alex Kendrick. The supporting cast was composed of volunteers from Sherwood Baptist Church, and it is the second film that Sherwood Pictures have done. Shot in Albany, Georgia, the film relates an underdog story about American football from an evangelical Christian worldview.

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The Terminal (2004)

Director: Steven Spielberg. 
Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci.

The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It is about a man trapped in a terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country, the fictitious Krakozhia, due to a revolution. The film is partially inspired by the 18-year-stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in the Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Terminal I, Paris, France from 1988 to 2006.

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Simon Birch (1998)

Director: Mark Steven Johnson. 
Starring: Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt.

Simon Birch is a 1998 American comedy-drama film loosely based on A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. It was directed and written for the screen by Mark Steven Johnson. The film stars Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, and Jim Carrey. It omitted much of the latter half of the novel and altered the ending. The movie does not share the book's title at Irving's request; he did not believe that this novel could successfully be made into a film. The name "Simon Birch" was suggested by him to replace that of Owen Meany. The main plot centers around 12-year old Joe Wenteworth and his best friend Simon Birch.

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Fireproof (2008)

Director: Alex Kendrick. 
Starring: Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel.

When a man is trying to win the heart of a woman, He studies her.He learns Her likes, dislikes, habits and hobbies. But after he wins Her heart and marries Her,He often stops learning about Her.If the amount He studied Her before marriage was equal to a high school degree,He should continue to learn about Her until He gains a College Degree, a Master's Degree and ultimately a Doctorate Degree.It is a lifelong journey that draws His heart ever closer to Hers.

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Forest Gump (1994)

Director: Robert Zemeckis. 

Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise.

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks,Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a simple Alabama man who travels across the world, sometimes meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture, and experiencing firsthand historic events of the late 20th century.

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A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Director: Ron Howard

Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris and Jennifer Connellys

 

      A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany.

     In 1947, John Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton University as a new graduate student. He is a recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Prize for mathematics; although he was promised a single room, his roommate Charles Herman (Paul Bettany), a literature student, greets him as he moves in and soon becomes his best friend. Nash also meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Martin Hansen (Josh Lucas), Richard Sol (Adam Goldberg), Ainsley (Jason Gray-Stanford), and Bender (Anthony Rapp), with whom he strikes up an awkward friendship. Nash admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than he is with people.

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WANTED (2008)

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Stars: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman

      Quote: "..Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life on a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.." (Sloan) 

      The film is lifted from a comic created by Mark Millar and JG Jones, it is inspiring us who are confused and afraid to act. This film tells the story of Wesley Gibson, an loser employee  whose life is always governed by the people around him like a boss, his girlfriend, and his friend who was having an affair with his girlfriend. But all changed when he met with Fox, a beautiful woman who is also a professional assassin who intends to recruit him into the Fraternity (organization of professional assassins.) But not easy for Wesley to join the Fraternity, there are several exams which he must done in order to be accepted as a member of the Fraternity.

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