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Paradise Road
This drama reveals the heroic actions of a group of women held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. These diverse women from different countries unite to form a vocal orchestra, creating a life-affirming symphony of human voices.
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Patriot Games
CIA desk jockey Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) plunges into the heart of international terrorism after spoiling an assassination attempt on a British royal family member. Ryan's heroics earn him noble gratitude – and a death warrant from the Irish Republican Army! Director Phillip Noyce deftly juggles high-tech spy-craft and high-tension thrills, and Sean Bean (Ronin) chills as Ford's nemesis.
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Patriot, The
Widower Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) wants nothing more than to live in peace and farm his land. But when a cruel British officer (Jason Isaacs) brings the American Revolution to Benjamin's door and threatens what he cherishes most, the former war hero is forced to take action. With the help of his son (Heath Ledger), Benjamin becomes a feared militia leader. But before he can defeat the British, he must win a battle within himself.
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Pay it Foward
Haley Joel Osment is riveting as a young student who responds to a social studies assignment with a plan to unselfishly help three strangers … who will then help three more, and so on, in an ever-widening circle. Helen Hunt provides fine support as his abused mother, as does Kevin Spacey as a teacher with a painful secret.
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Payback
After scoring big on a robbery, thief Mel Gibson's partners rip him off and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Soon, his partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn that payback can indeed be a bitch. Oozing retro cool and packed with twists, Payback is a rock-'em, sock-'em tale about nasty retribution.
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Peacemaker, The
Terrorists be damned! After some baddies trigger a nuclear explosion in Russia, U.S. Special Forces intelligence agent Thomas Devoe (George Clooney) and White House nuclear weapons expert Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) come to the rescue. Trouble is, the web of conspiracy stretches from Europe to New York, and the terrorists have no demands. Clooney, hip and hard as nails, riffs wonderfully off a more circumspect Kidman.
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Pearl Harbor
Ten-hut! Studly Air Force fighter pilots Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett are tough-as-nails risk-takers who must battle Japanese Zeros -- and then battle each other for the affections of comely nurse Kate Beckinsale. Set against the cataclysmic events of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor comes at you like a white-hot tracer bullet fired point-blank. Batten down the hatches, it's gonna be a bumpy war!
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Perfect Murder, A
It's murder most foul when Michael Douglas (at his cold-blooded best) hires a hit man to drop a dime on his philandering wife (Gwyneth Paltrow). But things get snarky when the murderer turns out to be Paltrow's lover! A nice spin on the moody Hitchcock thriller Dial M for Murder, with cool, aloof Paltrow the quintessential 1990s substitute for Grace Kelly.
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Pitch Black
After crash-landing on a seemingly lifeless planet, a group of desperate passengers encounter an army of subterranean creatures whose only weakness is light.
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Planes, Trains, & Auto.
John Candy has seldom been better as Del Griffith, a recurring nightmare for Neal Page (Steve Martin), a businessman who just wants to make it home for Thanksgiving. Del is overbearing, loudmouthed and, unfortunately, headed the same direction as Neal. Will this odd couple make it home for the holidays before killing each other? It looks like even money to us.
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Planet of the Apes
This remake of the 1960s camp classic starring Charlton Heston (who makes an appearance here) is anything but monkey business. After flying through a space "worm hole," astronaut Mark Wahlberg crashes on a planet where simians rule over humans. Aided and abetted by a sympathetic chimpanzee (Helena Bonham Carter), Wahlberg leads a small band of rebels against their captors. The finale's a doozy.
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Platoon
A young, untested soldier (Charlie Sheen) steps off a troop transport in Vietnam and quickly learns that the first casualty of war is innocence. Writer-director Oliver Stone put himself on the Hollywood map (and won several Academy Awards) with this autobiographical account of his own tumultuous tour of duty in Vietnam. Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe excel as battle-hardened sergeants who offer Sheen starkly differing role models.
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Play it To The Bone
Talk about one-two punches! Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas play a couple of over-the-hill palookas who are last-minute substitutes on a prime Las Vegas boxing card. Driving from Los Angeles to Vegas for the big fight, they're accompanied by their shared girlfriend -- a feisty Lolita Davidovich -- whose verbal jabs could knock anyone flat. Novelist Ron Shelton directs from his own screenplay.
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Point Break
Young FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) goes undercover at the suggestion of his partner to learn if a group of wild surfers is actually a gang of bank robbers.
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Pollock
Neurotic, misogynistic, brilliant: All are apt descriptions of that enfant terrible of the 1950s art world, Jackson Pollock. Ed Harris inhabits the skin of the tortured abstract expressionist in a movie that plays almost like a documentary of Pollock's life. Matching Harris stroke for stroke is Marcia Gay Harden, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the role of Pollock's ambitious, hard-bitten wife.
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Presumed Innocent
Harrison Ford is a Chicago prosecutor assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a beautiful co-worker (Greta Scacchi). Ford can't conceal that he and the victim had an affair, and all the evidence implicates him as the prime suspect. With excellent supporting work from Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia and Raul Julia, Presumed Innocent is a tightly wound shocker that delivers.
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Pretty Woman
The #1 box office hit about a corporate raider who hires a hooker to pose as his girlfriend for a week ... and falls in love with her.
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Prizzi's Honor
Charley has always been loyal to "The Family." Boss Don Prizzi's daughter has eyes for Charley but he's in love with Irene, a sultry hit woman. Their unlikely romance hits a snag when Irene and Charley are hired to knock each other off!
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Proof of Life
This flick branded Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan a scorching Hollywood item. Ripping a page from Casablanca's playbook, Proof of Life mixes action, suspense, foreign intrigue and forbidden romance in immoderate doses. When terrorist thugs in South America kidnap Ryan's husband (David Morse), hostage negotiator Crowe is sent in to get him out alive.
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Pushing Tin
Welcome to the fast-paced, superhyped world of air traffic control! John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton are thrill-seeking adrenaline cases who live to compete against each other -- in the control booth and the bedroom. But when Thornton flies the coop, Cusack is left without the partner who's become his tether. Angelina Jolie plays Thornton's kinky wife (they fell in love while making this movie).
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