New movies top the list for entertainment in town
JAKARTA (JP): Some movies create suspense and curiosity. Others can make you cry, laugh or scare you to death. But all have one thing in common, they are made to entertain the viewer.
Movies are still at the top list for favorite entertainment. At weekends, local cinemas are packed with moviegoers who do not mind standing in long queues for tickets.
Below is a synopsis of some movies playing in the city.
The Edge. Cast: Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. Director: Lee Tamahri.
The film takes you to a remote corner of the world, and to the edge of motion-picture adventure and suspense.
The hidden tensions between two men -- one an intellectual billionaire (played by Hopkins), the other a hotshot fashion photographer (Baldwin) -- are gradually unleashed as they engage in a desperate struggle for survival after their plane crashes in the hostile Alaskan wilderness. One man eventually learns that the greatest danger comes not from Nature, but from fear, treachery and, possibly, murder.
Deep Rising. Cast: Treat Williams, Famke Jansenn and Derrick O'Connor. Director: Stephen Sommers.
This Hollywood action-thriller, is a roller-coaster ride, life-and-death journey to escape terrifying sea creatures that have come from the ocean floor to infest Argonautica, one of the largest luxury liners in the world.
Trapped in the middle of nowhere and stalked by the relentless invaders that have pervaded the entire ship, time is running out for the last of the human prey, including Finnegan (Treat Williams), jewel thief Trillian (Famke Jansenn), the captain (Derrick O'Connor), the ship's owner (Anthony Heald) and Pantucci (Kevin J. O'Connor).
Seven Years in Tibet. Cast: Brad Pitt and David Thewlis. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Heinrich Harrer (Pitt), an Austrian mountaineer, is captured and imprisoned by the British in India at the beginning of World War II. He manages to escape and travels to Tibet, where he befriends the young Dalai Lama and becomes his tutor.
Mouse Hunt. Cast: Nathan Lane and Lee Evan. Director: Gore Verbinski.
Upon the death of their father, brothers Ernie (Nathan Lane) and Lars Smunthz (Lee Evan), are surprised to learn that their inheritance is a crumbling, old mansion that both assume is worthless. But they couldn't be more wrong. The dilapidated homestead is an architectural masterpiece worth millions.
But just as the hapless Smuntzes are all set to cash in, they discover there's one very small problem keeping them from life on Easy Street -- the house is occupied by a tenacious mouse who has no intention of vacating the premises.
Two Oscar-winning movies, Titanic and As Good As It Gets, are still playing in town. Other pieces being screened include Jim Gillepsie's thriller I know What You Did Last Summer starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Geller, and Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo, which is based on British journalist Michael Nicholson's book Natasha's Story and features Stephen Dillane, Marisa Tomei and Emira Nusevic.