Some Well-Connected Movies
Far from Heaven

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
2002
Julianne Moore
actor
Adaptation.

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
2002
Meryl Streep
actor
Birthday Girl

A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride.
2001
Nicole Kidman
actor
Billy Elliot

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
2000
Stephen Daldry
director
Spy Game

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
2001
Stephen Dillane
actor
The Hours
"The story of how the novel """"Mrs. Dalloway"""" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives."
2002
Julianne Moore
actor
Meryl Streep
actor
Michael Cunningham
writer
Nicole Kidman
actor
Stephen Daldry
director
Stephen Dillane
actor
Laws of Attraction

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
2004
Julianne Moore
actor
The Ant Bully

After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his watergun, he's magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.
2006
Meryl Streep
actor
A Home at the End of the World

A boy who has experienced many losses in his life grows to manhood and enters into a love triangle with a woman and his boyhood friend.
2004
Michael Cunningham
writer
Cold Mountain

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.
2003
Nicole Kidman
actor
The Reader

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
2008
Stephen Daldry
director
Savage Grace

A dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...
2007
Stephen Dillane
actor