The actress that played Gina Montana in "Scarface" stars with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in a 2000 film based on a book by what author?
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The Perfect Storm (film) The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American biographical disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on the 1997 non-fiction book of the same name by Sebastian Junger. The film tells the story of the "Andrea Gail", a commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands after being caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991. The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, Karen Allen and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. It was released on June 30, 2000, by Warner Bros.
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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (born November 17, 1958) is an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of "West Side Story", and went on to appear in the 1983 film "Scarface" as Al Pacino's character's sister, Gina Montana. For her role as Carmen in the 1986 film "The Color of Money", she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include "The Abyss" (1989), "" (1991), and "The Perfect Storm" (2000). In 2003, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the Broadway revival of "Man of La Mancha".
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The Lion, the Fox &amp; the Eagle The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia is a non-fiction book by Canadian journalist Carol Off. The hardcover edition was published in November 2000 by Random House Canada. The writing was favourably received and the book was short-listed for the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing. With numerous interviews and extensive research behind it, the book presents biographies of three Canadians in United Nations roles in the 1990s: Roméo Dallaire (the "lion"), Lewis MacKenzie (the "fox"), and Louise Arbour (the "eagle").
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Joanne Harris Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 July 1964) is an English author, known for her award-winning novel "Chocolat". It was later turned into the 2000 film "Chocolat".
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Sex and the City (film) Sex and the City (advertised as Sex and the City: The Movie) is a 2008 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Michael Patrick King in his feature film directorial debut, and a sequel to the 1998-2004 HBO comedy series of the same name (itself based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell) about four female friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), dealing with their lives as single women in New York City. The series often portrayed frank discussions about romance and sexuality.
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Joe the King Joe the King is a 1999 drama film, written and directed by Frank Whaley, based largely on his own childhood and the childhood of his brother. It stars Noah Fleiss, Val Kilmer, Karen Young, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Austin Pendleton, Camryn Manheim, Max Ligosh and James Costa. The film premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (shared with "Guinevere").
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Merci pour le Chocolat Merci pour le Chocolat is a 2000 French thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert. The film is based on the novel "The Chocolate Cobweb" by Charlotte Armstrong.
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Holiday Heart Holiday Heart is a 2000 TV movie starring Ving Rhames, Chandra Currelley, Alfre Woodard, and Mykelti Williamson. It was directed by Robert Townsend, aired on the cable TV channel Showtime, and was distributed on DVD by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on a play by Cheryl L. West, and involves a gay drag queen befriending a single mother and her daughter and trying to protect them from the criminal environment around them. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, for Woodard's performance, among other award nominations.
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The Bogus Witch Project The Bogus Witch Project is a 2000 comedy film satirizing "The Blair Witch Project". It uses different tellings of the Blair Witch, such as "The Blair Underwood Project".
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Gina Ford Gina Ford (born c. 1960) is the bestselling author of childcare books in the United Kingdom and a former maternity nurse who has cared for over 300 babies during her career. Ford's 1999 book "The Contented Little Baby Book" advocates a daily routine for both the baby and the parents, with the day divided up into very precise slots. Ford has written nine books on childcare.
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Felicia Mason Felicia Mason (born May 8, 1962) is an African-American novelist and journalist born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States. She is best known for writing in the romance genre. Her novel "Rhapsody" was adapted into a television movie in 2000.
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Big Trouble (2002 film) Big Trouble is a 2002 American comedy film based on the novel "Big Trouble" by Dave Barry. It was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and featured a large cast including Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina, Zooey Deschanel, Sofia Vergara and Jason Lee. Like much of Dave Barry's fiction, it follows a diverse group of people through a series of extremely strange and humorous situations against the backdrop of Miami.
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The Best Awful There Is The Best Awful There Is (retitled the The Best Awful as a paperback), is a 2004 novel by actress and author Carrie Fisher published in 2004. It is a sequel to her debut novel "Postcards from the Edge".
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Flap (film) Flap (distributed in Britain as The Last Warrior) is a 1970 American comedy-drama western film directed by Carol Reed and starring Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins and Shelley Winters. Set in a modern Native American reservation, it is based on the novel "Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian" by Clair Huffaker.
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Filming Women in the Third Reich Filming Women in the Third Reich is a 2000 book written by Jo Fox and Angela Gaffney.
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Donna Leon Donna Leon ( ; born September 28, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.
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Mallika Chopra Mallika Chopra (born July 24, 1971) is an American author and businesswoman.
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LouAnne Johnson LouAnne Johnson is an American writer, teacher and retired United States Marine. She is best known for the book "My Posse Don't Do Homework", which was adapted as the film "Dangerous Minds" in 1995, and a TV series in 1996. She was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in the film, and by Annie Potts in the TV series.
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Gangster No. 1 Gangster No. 1 (pronounced Gangster Number One) is a 2000 British crime drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany in the title role. It also features Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Saffron Burrows. It is based on the play "Gangster No.1" by Louis Mellis and David Scinto.
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Mrs. Harris Mrs. Harris is a 2005 American-British drama film written and directed by Phyllis Nagy. The teleplay, based on the book "Very Much a Lady" by Shana Alexander, focuses on the tempestuous relationship between Herman Tarnower, noted cardiologist and author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet", and headmistress Jean Harris. Produced by Killer Films, Number 9 Films, and John Wells for HBO Films, it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 16, 2005, before its broadcast on HBO on February 25, 2006.
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The Princess of Dhagabad The Princess of Dhagabad is a 2000 novel, the first book of a trilogy by Anna Kashina.
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The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The book's first chapter appeared in "The Paris Review" in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides told "3am Magazine": "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus". The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola.