THE
LAST STATION (PG-13)
2
Academy AwardŽ Nominations:
Best Actress, Best Supporting
Actor
Helen
Mirren, Christopher Plummer
Drama,
Art, Biospic
Set
in the last tumultuous years of
famed Russian author Leo
Tolstoy's life, centers on the
battle for his soul waged by his
wife Sofya Andreyevna and his
leading disciple Vladimir
Cherkov. Torn between his
professed doctrine of poverty
and chastity and the reality of
his enormous wealth, his
thirteen children and a life of
hedonism, Tolstoy makes a
dramatic flight from his home.
Too ill to continue beyond the
tiny rail station at Astapovo,
he believes that he is dying
alone, while over one hundred
newspapermen camp outside
awaiting hourly reports on his
condition.
CRAZY
HEART
(R)
Academy AwardŽ
WINNER:
Best Actor - Jeff Bridges, Best Song
Jeff
Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Drama,
Music, Adaptation
Bad
Blake is a broken-down,
hard-living country music singer
who's had way too many
marriages, far too many years on
the road and one too many drinks
way too many times. And yet, Bad
can't help but reach for
salvation with the help of Jean,
a journalist who discovers the
real man behind the musician. As
he struggles down the road of
redemption, Bad learns the hard
way just how tough life can be
on one man's crazy heart.
AN
EDUCATION (PG-13)
3
Academy AwardŽ Nominations:
Best Picture, Best Actress,
Adapted Screenplay
Carey
Mulligan, Peter sarsgaard
Drama,
Romance, Art
In
the post-war, pre-Beatles London
suburbs, a bright schoolgirl is
torn between studying for a
place at Oxford and the more
exciting alternative offered to
her by a charismatic older man.
