Her best friend Patti is there for her all along and as she sees that she is feeling worse every day, she convinces Frances to move to Tuscany.

In Italy, she buys a villa and starts a new life; she soon starts feeling better and likes her life amongst Italians.

At some point, she meets Marcelo, an antique dealer from Portobello, and she falls so crazily in love that she is even thinking about remarrying.

Release Date: 26 September 2003

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cast: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Dan Bucatinsky, Vince Riotta, Giulia Steigerwalt, Kate Walsh

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He is a real Casanova and his image as a ladies man is destroyed when he is found in Fat Donna’s bedroom.

After this incident , Victor sets his eyes on a new girl, named Judy. But Judy is not like the other girls. She rejects Victor many times and humiliates him in public.

Victor persists, and with the help of Judy’s younger brother Carlos, manages to win Judy’s heart.

As growing up, Victor realizes that there is a huge difference between acting like a man and becoming one.

Release Date: March 28, 2003

Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance

Cast:

Victor Rasuk (Victor Vargas)

Judy Marte (Judy Gonzalez)

Director: Peter Sollett

The bride manages to survive although she is shot in the head. She is the ex partner of the leader of the killers, known as Bill.

The movie follows the revenge of this woman. After 4 years spent in a coma, she wants revenge. And she will get it…

And if the description of the movie doesn’t tell you too much, then I’ll inform you that the movie is directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Release Date: October 10, 2003

Genre: Action, Thriller

Cast:

Uma Thurman (The Bride)

David Carradine (Bill)

Julie Dreyfus (Sofie Fatale)

Lucy Liu

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Still, his other senses are very well developed; so developed that he becomes a famous hero known under the nickname of Daredevil.
During the day he looks and acts just like an ordinary person, going to his job. When night comes across town, he transforms into the fearless man, the masked hero that patrols around Hell’s Kitchen.

He fights off felons of all kinds and he never looses, but his real challenge is Bullseye, the killer who never misses his victims.

Release Date:  14 February 2003

Genre: Action, Crime,  Fantasy, Thriller

Cast: Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, Jennifer Garner

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

‘Bad Santa’ is the story of two men named Willie and Marcus, who, once a year, near Christmas, go to rob malls and hypermarkets.

Dressed as Santa and his elf, they plan to rob very store, but their plan fails because of an 8 year old kid, who teaches them the real Christmas spirit.

Not only that this Santa is a bad one, but he’s also a sexy one because he is played by Billy Bob Thornton. And his partner is the hot Lauren Graham from the ‘Gilmore Girls’. All the good reasons to watch this movie!

Release Date: November 26, 2003

Genre: Comedy

Cast:

Billy Bob Thornton (Willie/Santa)

Tony Cox (Marcus)

Lauren Graham (Sue)

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Radio (2003)

In “Radio” the action takes place in the sixties, in a small town in Carolina.

Harry Jones coaches the local high school team and he is very committed to his job; so committed that he doesn’t have enough time to spend with his little girl, Mary Helen, or with his wife, Linda.

He meets Radio, a student with severe mental problems and takes him as his help in coaching the team.

People are not sure whether Radio can make it or not, or if he can help the tea in any way; but he decides not to give up and he will remain with the high school team for a long period of thirty years.

It is a dramatic store based on real facts and it means to show that all it takes is good will and respect for other human beings in order to help those less fortunate lead a normal life.

Release Date: 24 October 2003

Genre: Drama, Sport

Cast:  Debra Winger, Patrick Breen, Ed Harris, Chris Mulkey, Sarah Drew, Riley Smith, Alfre Woodward, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bill Roberson, S. Epatha Erkerson

Director: Michael Tollin

The Magdalene Sisters

‘The Magdalene Sisters’ is a challenging drama about the abuses and the physical and mental tortures suffered in the Magdalene Sisters Asylum in Ireland.

Four young women (Bernadette, Rose, Margaret and Crispina) are sent by their families to this institution, ruled by nuns, in order to expiate their supposed sins. Here they suffer terrible tortures and abuses for the sins they committed.

Crispina and Rose had children without being married, Margaret was raped by her own cousin and the orphan Bernadette was caught flirting with boys.

At the asylum, they are terribly punished for their sins and they have to suffer very cruel treatments. The superior mother, forces the four women to do infinite tasks and applies on them a sadist correction treatment.

Release Date: January 13, 2003

Genre: Drama

Cast:

Anne-Marie Duff (Margaret)

Nora-Jane Noone (Bernadette)

Dorothy Duffy (Rose)

Eileen Walsh (Crispina)

Director: Peter Mullan

A new war between humans and mutants begins after an attempt to kill the President of the United States.

Now all mutants have to fight together against one common enemy: General William Striker.

Striker plans to eliminate all mutants. In order to fulfill his plan, Striker uses information from Magneto, to attack professor’s Xavier school.

The night the attack takes place, Wolverine is left alone to take care of the students. Jean Grey and Storm look for the mutant assassin and Xavier and Magneto are caught in the  plastic prison.

Release Date: May 2, 2003

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cast:

Hugh Jackman (Logan)

Ian McKellen (Magneto)

Halle Berry (Storm)

Director: Bryan Singer

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Charlie and Phil are so absorbed by their jobs as advertising executives that they don’t even realize how much of their children’s lives they are loosing.

Things start to change when the two get fired for not obtaining the right results on a campaign. That means that they will not be able to send their sons to the prestigious Chapman Academy, run by Ms Gwyneth Harridan.

After failing in their attempt to get a new job, Charlie has an idea: if he and Phil can handle taking care of 2 children, what could be so difficult to take care of 10?

Well, it is difficult…and the two will soon realize what they got themselves into; fortunately, they manage to cope with it and day by day they get better.

More and more children come to their day care, and they hire a third person, so they can spend more time with their sons.

Release Date: 9 May 2003

Genre: Comedy, Family

Cast: Anjelica Huston, Eddie Murphy, Kevin Nealon, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Siobhan Fallon, Lacey Chabert, Elle Fanning, Khamani Griffin, Max Burkholder, Arthur Young.

Director: Steve Carr

Calendar Girls

The movie presents the story of Chris and Annie, two very good friends, both members of the Rylstone Institute, which deals with charitable acts.

After what Anne’s husband finds out that he has leukemia the women decide to do something to raise the money for him.

They realized that the best solution would be to … pose in a calendar … nude.

Being very convincing, they managed to make their friends to pose, too.

The director of the institute, Mary, did not agree with this idea, but she never thought that this could really be a success.

For a noble cause, they make sacrifices and, the person who comes with the idea justifies her acts with a touching speech.

“Calendar Girls” has that credible air that makes it likeable, but this is thanks to the actors like Helen Mirren and Julie Walters.

Release Date:  12 September 2003 (Norway)

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Cast: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, John Alderton

Director: Nigel Cole

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith meet again with the producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the director Michael Bay for another action movie full of amazing and intense adventures in “Bad Boys II”.

The danger coefficient is greater as well as the laughing effect because the detectives from Tactical Narcotics Team, Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are now taking part from the special team, and their duty is to stop the invasion of Ecstasy to Miami.

Without knowing, they discover a dangerous conspiracy that implies a cruel baron of drugs, decided to enlarge his empire and to have the control over the profitable narcotics trade, killing anyone who stays in his way.

The things get even worse when the beautiful sister of Marcus, Syd, a DEA undercover agent, gets caught in the middle, forcing our heroes to reach the border of illegality.

The task becomes even more difficult when Mike starts a relationship with Syd, Marcus being very overprotective.

Release Date: 18 July 2003 (USA)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare

Director: Michael Bay

Garage Days

A rock n’ roll band from Sydney, tries to enter the competitive showbiz market.

Their first concert is a big failure. Due to this,  Freddy, the lead singer and the leader of the band, promises to manage to get the most successful rock band agent in the country.

Meanwhile, the other members of the band are busy with daily things, things that complicate their life and that could lead to the break up of the band.

Tanya, Freddie’s girlfriend, starts a relationship with Lucy, and Joe’s girlfriend, who is pregnant, tells Joe that she is in love with Freddie. On the other hand, Joe starts a relationship with Angie.

This way, the band’s road to success, seems pretty long.

Release Date: July 18, 2003

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Cast:

Kick Gurry (Freddie)

Pia Miranda (Tanya)

Brett Stiller (Joe)

Director: Alex Proyas

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Jim Street is an ex member of the S.W.A.T. troops, who together with his partner, is eliminated from the team, due to a controversial decision made during a mission concerning some hostages.

Gamble doesn’t agree with this decision and quits.

For Street, on the other hand, this job is his life. He accepts to be demoted, hoping that one day he will have the chance to rehabilitate himself.

The much awaited occasion appears when Commandant Dan Harrelson has to recruit and train five top officers for the new S.W.A.T. troop.

Release Date: August 8, 2003

Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime

Cast:

Samuel L. Jackson (Dan Harrelson)

Colin Farrell (Jim Street)

Director: Clark Johnson

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L’Auberge Espagnole is a hotel in Barcelona where the Erasmus students stay during their studies.

Xavier, an economics French student, in his late twenties, signs for an European exchange program in Barcelona. He wants to go to Spain in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language.

Before he leaves, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend and promises to keep in touch.

As soon as he arrives in Barcelona, Xavier gets into a cultural melting pot. He moves into an apartment full of international students.

Xavier now lives with an Italian, a boy from Denmark, an English girl, a German, a young woman from Belgium and a girl from Andalusia. They all become friends and together go through a series of adventures that initiate them for the live ahead of them.

Release Date: May 16, 2003

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Cast:

Romain Duris (Xavier)

Kelly Reilly (Wendy)

Director: Cedric Klapisch

Cabin Fever

Five students decide to spend their weekend in the woods, so they rent a cabin there. Paul wants to spend the weekend with his buddies, Jeff and Bert, and wants to convince Karen to sleep with him.

Unfortunately, their party doesn’t last long because a homeless guy who has his skin affected by a mysterious virus, appears from the forest.

Fearing for their lives, the five students send away the homeless, that falls into a river, contaminating the water.

The students find out that they are infected with a flesh-eating virus and try anything in order to survive.

Release Date: March 9, 2003

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Cast:

Rider Strong (Paul)

Jordan Ladd (Karen)

James DeBello (Bert)

Joey Kern (Jeff)

Director: Eli Roth

28 Days Later

Jim wakes up from a coma after 28 days, in a hospital in London and realizes that all the people disappeared and that the city is deserted.

Wandering on the streets of the city, he meets a group of survivors in a church. Here he is attacked by some weird creatures.

Jim finds out the truth about what happened. An unknown virus spread throughout the UK and transformed the people in horrible furious creatures.

Release Date: June 27, 2003

Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror

Cast:

Cillian Murphy (Jim)

Naomie Harris (Selena)

Director: Danny Boyle

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21 Grams

They say the human body loses 21 grams when we die …. could just as well be the weight of the human soul….

Paul Rivers is a brilliant professor who was diagnosed with a fatal illness and whose relationship with his wife Mary isn’t going well.

If Paul doesn’t undergo a heart transplant, he will die shortly. As if things weren’t bad enough, his wife wants to have his baby through artificial insemination, idea which Paul disagrees with.

In another corner of the town, Christina Peck has finally found her tranquility after years of being addicted to drugs and alcohol. She is now married to Michael, has 2 daughters and she gets along really well with her sister Claudia.

Jack Jordan is a man of humble origin; after getting out of jail, he decides to lead a normal and tidy life, so he turns to religion in order to go back to the right track. He and his wife now fight in order to provide a future for their two children.

They have never seen eachother…until that unfortunate day…. an accident will irreversibly affect all their lives.

Release Date: 26 December 2003

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, Clea DuVall, Chance Romero, Marc Musso

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Lots of action, adrenaline and thrill. Illegal car races on the crowded streets of Miami.

Driving taken to the extremes, hot looking girls and luxury……that is ‘2 Fast 2 Furious’.

Oscar nominated director, John Singleton, brings us the much awaited sequel of ‘The Fast and The Furious’.Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) lost his job as a police officer when he allowed his friend Dom Toretto escape from prison. Dom had been arrested for being the head of an illegal racing band.

After his dismissal, Brian goes back to Miami with his friends Roman Pearce (Tyrese) and does undercover work in order to clear his past.

Also, he helps beautiful Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) to keep under surveillance a dangerous business man in Miami. He is running again and this time….for your life.

Release Date: 06 June 2003

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Paul Walker (Brian), Eva Mendes (Monica)

Director: John Singleton

Nemo will live under his father’s strict supervision, but on his first day at school his curiosity drives him away from the rest of his class and

he gets picked up by a fishnet and carried away. His poor father decides to go looking for him, but it will be a very long and difficult journey. His only help will come from Dory, a blue tang fish that suffers from temporary memory losses, and will get them in many troubles.

In the meanwhile, Nemo ends up in the fish tank of a dentist, in Sydney where he plans to escape with the help of all the other fish in the tank.

The movie was produced by Pixar, and it has an intelligent and vivid script, a subtle yet accessible humour which makes it appealing to all categories of viewers.