The Butcher Boy(1997)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie ...



Telling Lies in America(1997)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a boy in school who has moved from Hungary to America in the 1960s. He is struggling in school and trying to adjust to America's culture. He then hears about a radio...



The Myth of Fingerprints(1997)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 43

An ambitious debut for writer/director Bart Freundlich charting the unrest with a family who gather together for thanks giving.



Hoodlum(1997)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.



One Eight Seven(1997)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 17

High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like ...



The Castle(1997)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.



Gridlock'd(1997)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, ...



Fire Down Below(1997)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Environmental protection agent Jack Taggart is fighting big business types led by Orin Hanner who are dumping toxic waste somewhere in the Kentucky hills region. They also killed his fellow...



Winterschläfer(1997)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Beautiful blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend, ski instructor Marco, in a small mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, a cinema projectionist, steals Marco's ...



Lucie Aubrac(1997)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the ...



Le bossu(1997)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 35

The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's ...



Air Bud(1997)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his ...



Red Corner(1997)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.



She's So Lovely(1997)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds...



A Thousand Acres(1997)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 26

"King Lear" set on a farm in Iowa.



Playing God(1997)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with ...



Bacheha-Ye aseman(1997)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.



Ma vie en rose(1997)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Ludovic is a transgender girl who is coming out. She talks of marrying her neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. Her family and neighbors struggle ...



Nil by Mouth(1997)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug ...



Bandits(1997)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to...




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