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My Best flicks of 2002.
These were my favorite of all the movies I saw in 2002.

most plot outlines from internet movie data base at www.imdb.com

Endurance	A retelling of Sir Earnest Shackleton 's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews. Bring a coat to the theatre.....you will feel cold watching this movie.
Lantana	A fascinating combination of three stories entangled to demonstrate the value of honesty within relationships.
Read My Lips	She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Minority Report	In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.
Y Tu Mama Tambien	In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Monsoon Wedding	A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Monsoon Wedding	Music, photography, rhythm and humour are chorused together to form a delightful visual experience.
Gosford Park	Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Kandahar	An Afganistan-born Canadian woman returns to Kandahar to rescue her sister. Her journey through the desert introduces her to many people, including a camp for amputees, waiting for arms and legs to be airdropped from the sky.
Living In The Shadow of Motown	Documentary about the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists. Excellent music.

My favorite of 2001

Ghost World	After High School ends Enid strays away from her plans when she meets Seymour, a musically obsessed middle-age man.
Ghost World	Very dark humour. Not for the easily offended. Hillarious. Tragic.
Femme Fatale	A glamorous woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her. As is expected in any femme fatale, her cons are so villanous, the viewer wants to wring her neck. However in a creative twist of repentance, she redeems herself, and leaves the audience cheering for her in the end.
Bourne Identity	A man washes ashore, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia.
Dark City	A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Dark City	This movie combines mystery, thriller and sci-fi into a great story.
Snatch	Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. Hillarious. (Caution - Violence, brutality, blood, violence and more violence.)
Bandits	A couple of quirky, misfit bandits decide to rob banks a new way - by kidnapping the manager the night before and having him open the safe for them in the morning. Known for their polite kidnapping style, they become popular media icons. "Why did you take so long to rob my husband's Bank?" One wife asks when they show up at her house one night. A fun quirky romp through their adventures.
Monsters Inc.	Monsters generate their city's power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley find his world disrupted. This movie is even enjoyable without kids!!!
RushHour2	Jackie Chan's humour keeps me rolling on the floor. (I'm not usually keen on physical humour but Jackie knows how to do it.
Amelie	Photobooth bandits, melting into a puddle of water, speculating how many people are having orgasms at that exact moment,.... it doesn't get much funner. (NB We got to see Jean-Pierre Jeunet after the show and hear him talk about his film at a special preview presentation.)
Memento	A man, suffers from short term memory loss. We the audience get to see the ending first and then the film proceeds in short segments backwards in time. We see the movie as the main character may have percieved it, knowing only the ending, not the events that led up to the ending.