Top 10 most attractive movies of 2003 you should not miss

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Big Fish

Big Fish (2003) Official Trailer 1 - Ewan McGregor Movie

At Will Bloom's wedding reception, his father Edward recalls the day Will was born, recounting that he caught a giant catfish that stole his wedding ring. Will, having heard these stories all his life, believed them to be lies and distanced himself from his father. Three years later, Edward has cancer, so Will and his pregnant French wife Joséphine return to the town of Ashton, Alabama to spend time with his father. During the plane ride, Will recalls a story about Edward's childhood encounter with a witch who shows him his death in the Glass Sphere.

Edward, despite his illness, continues to tell the story of his life to Will and Joséphine. He reported being bedridden for three years due to his rapid growth. He later became a famous local sportsman before being driven by his ambition to leave his hometown. He enters the world with a misunderstood giant, Karl, who is terrorizing the town by eating livestock from the surrounding farms. Edward and Karl found a fork in the road and they went down separate paths. Edward follows a path through a swamp and discovers the secret town of Spectre, where the locals happily declare that he was expected.

There he befriended the poet Ashton, the North Winslow and the mayor's daughter Jenny. However, Edward leaves Spectre, not wanting to settle down in that town but promising Jenny he will return. Edward and Karl meet again and visit Calloway Circus, where Edward falls in love with a beautiful woman. Karl and Edward get jobs in the circus, where ringmaster Amos Calloway reveals to Edward one detail about the woman at the end of each month. Three years later, Edward discovered that Amos was secretly a werewolf and was attacked by him, but avoided being bitten by him with his sharp iron teeth by playing fetch until he turned back into a human. in the morning.

Director: Tim Burton
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
Screenplay: John August
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Duration: 125 minutes
Year of release: 2003
America

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Lost in translation

The connection of lonely souls

Job Harris (Murray) is a washed-up American actor who goes to Tokyo to film a commercial for Suntory wine company for a salary of two million dollars. Charlotte (Johansson) is a recent graduate who is left behind at the hotel by her husband, John (Ribisi), a celebrity photographer, on a business trip to Tokyo. Charlotte is worried about the future of her marriage with her husband, who prefers leggy models, especially a beautiful young American actress named Kelly (Faris), more than his wife. At the same time, Bob realized that his 25-year marriage was getting tired, no longer passionate, and Bob himself was in a mid-life crisis.

One night, after taking pictures, Bob returned to the bar. Charlotte, sitting with John and her friends, recognized Bob and called the waiter to give the cup of peanuts at her table to Bob. And then from then on, Bob and Charlotte met every night, a brief meeting, until Charlotte asked Bob to meet some of her friends in Tokyo. Bob agrees and then goes to Charlotte's hotel room, wearing clothes designed for the younger generation. The two form a friendship and bond over their sightseeing in Tokyo while experiencing the differences between American and Japanese cultures and between their two generations: one older, one younger.

On the penultimate night, one day before Bob had to leave, Bob was attracted to a singer in the hotel. The next morning, he woke up and saw the woman, perhaps the two had slept together. Charlotte goes to Bob's room to invite him to breakfast but only meets the other woman, leading to a tense argument at lunch. That night, the hotel's fire alarm rang, everyone was evacuated from the building, and Bob and Charlotte made up and said how they would miss each other when they met at the bar again on another trip.

The next morning, Bob departed to return to America. He said a brief goodbye to Charlotte in the lobby before checking out of the hotel and sadly watched her obscured by the elevator door. While taking a taxi to the airport, Bob saw Charlotte on a busy street, he immediately got out of the car and walked towards her. Bob hugged Charlotte and whispered in her ear (actually the audience could not hear), at this time her face was wet with tears. The two kissed, said goodbye and Bob continued on his way to the airport.

Director: Sofia Coppola
Producer: Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz
Author: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi
Duration: 101 minutes
Country: United States, Japan

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Oldboy

In 1988, a businessman named Oh Dae-su was temporarily arrested at the Seoul Police Department for causing disorder while drunk. After he was bailed out by a friend, he was kidnapped and imprisoned in a mysterious room for 15 years for unknown reasons. While in captivity, he learned that his wife was murdered, evidence collected at the crime scene made him the number one suspect at that time and his daughter was adopted by a married couple. Swedish. Wanting to avenge his family, Dae-su practiced martial arts through TV, his only connection to the outside world. After 15 years in prison, he was released and accidentally met a young girl named Mi-do who worked as a chef in a sushi restaurant.

Mi-do assists Dae-su in finding the person who imprisoned him. Finally, he learned that the person was a rich man named Lee Woo-jin. Woo-jin made a condition with Dae-su that if Dae-su found the reason why he was imprisoned for 5 days, Woo-jin would commit suicide, and if he failed, Mi-do would have to die. During their courtship, Dae-su and Mi-do developed feelings and the two had sex. Dae-su later learns that he and Woo-jin once attended the same Evergreen Catholic School, leading to the mystery surrounding the death of Lee Soo-ah, Woo-jin's older sister. In the past, Dae-su witnessed Woo-jin having incest with Soo-ah. He later told his close friend, leading to many other students knowing about it. Rumors spread and Soo-ah committed suicide in disgrace, from which Woo-jin sadly sought revenge for her sister.

Dae-su comes to find Woo-jin. Woo-jin narrates the process of hypnotizing Dae-su and Mi-do so that they both fall in love. Imprisoning Dae-su for a period of 15 years was long enough to make him forget his daughter. Woo-jin shows Dae-su a photo album which indicates that Mi-do is Dae-su's biological daughter. This made Dae-su crazy, begged Woo-jin not to tell Mi-do and was so miserable that he cut his tongue. Woo-jin accepts Dae-su's apology and leaves Dae-su in torment. Entering the elevator, Woo-jin recalled the moment Soo-ah committed suicide and pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head.

Some time later, Dae-su contacted Woo-jin's hypnotist to ask her to help him forget the painful truth and was accidentally found by Mi-do. The film ends with Dae-su's happy but miserable expression, making viewers wonder whether hypnosis really helped him forget the dark truth.

Director: Park Chan-wook
Producer: Lim Seung-yong
Screenplay: Hwang Jo-yun, Lim Jun-hyung, Park Chan-wook
Based on: Old Boy by Garon Tsuchiya
Actors: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung
Duration: 120 minutes
Year of release: 2003

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Girl With A Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) Official Trailer

The film tells the story of the life of Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a 16-year-old girl, living in the Dutch Republic in 1665. Griet is hired as a maid in the household of famous painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). taking care of 6 children for him, his jealous wife and mother-in-law. Things got worse for the girl when his wife believed that there was an abnormal relationship between her husband and the maid and the story became even more complicated and inflamed when the wife discovered that Griet had taken the earring. hers to wear as a model for her husband instead of her. This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story of the events surrounding the creation of the painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by the world-famous Dutch master. 17th century, Mr. Verm Vermeer.
Little is known about the girl in the painting; it is speculated that she was a maid who lived in the artist's house with her family and other servants, although there is no historical evidence. This masterful film attempts to recreate the life of the mysterious girl.

Director: Peter Webber
Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker
Screenplay: Olivia Hetreed
Based on: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
Cast: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, Joanna Scanlan, Alakina Mann
Genre: Psychological Movie
Year 2003
Duration: 99 minutes
Country: UK, USA, Luxembourg

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Mystic River

Crime River Trailer

The film opens in 1975, three boys: Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle are playing hockey on the streets of Boston. Two men pretending to be policemen kidnapped Dave, locked him in a remote place and sexually abused him for 4 days. Dave then managed to escape.

25 years later, all three boys have grown up, still living in Boston, but are no longer as close to each other as before. Jimmy was once a criminal and now owns a convenience store; Sean is a detective with the Massachusetts State Police Department; Dave is a laborer and is still haunted by his past of being kidnapped. Jimmy and Dave are neighbors and are also related by marriage on both sides of the family. Sean's wife, Lauren, is pregnant and separated from him. She often called him, but never said a word on the phone. Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter, Katie, is secretly dating Brendan Harris, a young man from a family that Jimmy despises. Brendan and Katie are planning to run away together to Las Vegas.

One night, Katie was out with her girlfriends and Dave saw her in a local pub. That night, Katie was killed, and Dave returned home with an injured hand and blood all over his body. Dave told his wife that he had been in a fight with a shoplifter and that he might have killed him.

Sean and his colleague, Sergeant Whitey Powers, investigate Katie's murder. Meanwhile, Jimmy also investigated on his own by asking neighbors to use their acquaintances to collect evidence. Sean discovered that Katie seemed to know who her killer was and even the gun used to kill her, a .38-inch revolver. This gun was used in a robbery at a liquor store in 1984, and the robber was "Just Ray" Harris, Brendan's father. Ray has been gone since 1989, but Brendan said he still provides $500 a month for his family. Brendan also pretended not to know Ray's gun. Sergeant Whitey suspected that Dave was the murderer because every time he asked about why Dave's hand was injured, Dave changed his testimony. Dave continued to act strangely, making his wife so upset that she left home and went to Jimmy to tell him that Dave might be involved in the murder.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt
Screenplay: Brian Helgeland
Based on: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney
Duration: 137 minutes
Country: United States
Year of release: 2003