Estella Warren Movies
Though fashion magazine enthusiasts may recognize her as the face of Chanel No. 5, in addition to her numerous appearances on the covers such industry mainstays as Elle and Italian Vogue, and sports fanatics may drool over her revealing layout in the 2000 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, filmgoers may be scratching their heads in wonder as to where exactly toothsome beauty Estella Warren came from before she ignited the screen in the Sylvester Stallone racer Driven (2001).Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Warren began a dedicated and successful synchronized swimming career at age eight, blasting through numerous national level victories from 1994 to 1996, and winning the sought after title of Canada's Senior Solo Champion. Gracing the catwalk at a high school fashion show, Warren was inspired to leave her aquatic career behind in favor of a more glamorous modeling career. Jetted to New York in a move that would spark the wildfire of her eventual status as Chanel No. 5 icon, Warren was soon bouncing between Rome and New York in a furious frenzy of camera flashes and commercial shoots. Her comfort in front of the camera increasing, Warren shot to number one on Maxim magazine's 100 Hot Babes List for 2000 and made the leap to the silver screen in Driven before taking a role as a primitive beauty in Tim Burton's 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Credit cards and women on skates prove to be a dangerous mixture in this comedy. Frank Hopper (Jon Bon Jovi) is a former lawyer whose career has hit the skids, and he currently lives off the largesse of his more successful sister, Leona (Nora Dunn). Frank has dozens of business ideas, but has no way to finance them, until he heads out with his friend Carl (David Faustino) one evening and fills out a questionnaire in which he jokingly states his income is a million dollars a year. Suddenly Frank's mailbox is flooded with pre-approved credit cards, and with his new line of credit, Frank launches his dream project -- a women's hockey league. But it seems that the world is not yet ready for women playing professional ice hockey, and before long Frank is 300,000 dollars in debt, with a handful of credit agencies taking him to court to get back the money he's spent so far. Frank turns to his former girlfriend Jessica (Estella Warren), now a successful lawyer, to help him stay out of jail, but it seems their work is cut out for them when they learn Jessica's very competitive former beau Norman (Cary Elwes) is prosecuting Frank's case. National Lampoon's Pucked was directed by Arthur Hiller; it was his first directorial project since 1997's An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn, for which Hiller opted not to take credit. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jon Bon Jovi, Estella Warren, (more)
The ongoing war of the sexes soars to new and hilarious heights in this tale of a successful twenty-five-year old professional lusted after by every man in the city after her boyfriend reveals on live television that she is a virgin. Pursued by men who long to be her first and flooded with advice from women who implore her to punish her boyfriend for his public blunder, the one time die-hard romantic soon finds her belief in love quickly fading. Estella Warren, Rachel Dratch, Kathy Griffin, and Victoria Jackson star in a film directed by Charlie Matthau. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Estella Warren, Christian Kane, (more)
In this thriller, Ben Keats (Gil Bellows) is a top executive at a leading information technology firm. Ben is happy with his job and doesn't want to leave, but that isn't about to stop Vincent Palmer (Christian Slater) from trying to lure him away. Vincent is a head-hunter who recruits personnel for leading companies and earns a seven-figure salary for getting whoever his clients want, no matter what it takes. Vincent starts with the traditional offers of more money, more power, and better perks, but when Ben refuses to be swayed, Vince starts playing hardball with his tactics escalating into violence and death threats against Ben's family. Will Ben fight fire with fire or will he be forced to do Vincent's bidding? Pursued also stars Michael Clarke Duncan, Conchita Campbell, and Estella Warren. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christian Slater
In the years following a gruesome murder at a sprawling Louisiana plantation, local legend states that anyone who sets foot on the cursed property will suffer an excruciating and agonizing death. Compelled by the horrific tales and determined to prove the stories to be nothing more than urban legend, a local student convinces four friends to accompany him on an excursion into the unwelcoming backwoods property. As the group begins to learn more about the blood-soaked history surrounding the property, they are forced to confront their worst fears in a terrifying explosion of unimaginable horror. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeff Davis
Writer/director Wayne Kramer offers a glimpse into the aging Las Vegas casino world with the romantic drama The Cooler. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is extremely unlucky at gambling, and he owes the Shangri-La casino over 100,000 dollars. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler," someone to gamble next to high rollers and give them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, until Bernie has almost paid off his debt and meets cocktail waitress Natalie Belisario (Maria Bello). The two start to fall in love and Bernie's luck begins to change. However, the old-fashioned mob boss Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin) isn't going to let Bernie go so easily. Meanwhile, Larry Sokolov (Ron Livingston) arrives on the scene to help update the business management of the old mobster-run casino. Also starring Joey Fatone and Paul Sorvino as lounge singers. The Cooler was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- William H. Macy, Maria Bello, (more)
The psychological thriller I Accuse stars Estella Warren as a woman who discovers she was sexually assaulted by her physician after he put her under the effect of a narcotic. She must overcome a variety of obstacles in order to get justice. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Two low-level American crooks head to Australia, where they match wits with a kangaroo (who appears to have an intellectual edge on his pursuers) in this broad comedy. Charlie Carbone (Jerry O'Connell) is a hairdresser from Brooklyn whose best friend, Louis Booker (Anthony Anderson), scrapes together a living moving stolen merchandise. Charlie's stepfather, Sal Maggio (Christopher Walken), is a crime kingpin who has loaned Charlie a lot of money and wants to know when he'll get it back; Sal's not especially fond of Louis, especially after he and Charlie accidentally lead the police to a storehouse of burgled goods owned by Sal. Charlie owes Sal a big favor, and Sal wants Charlie and Louis out of his hair for a while, so Sal sends them to Australia, where they're to deliver a large amount of cash to a mysterious Mr. Smith (Marton Csokas). En route to their meeting in the outback, Charlie and Louis accidentally run over a kangaroo, and the half-bright tourists decide to dress the dead marsupial in sunglasses and Louis' favorite jacket for snapshots. However, the animal wasn't as dead as they imagined, and it soon hops away, shortly after Louis realizes the payment to Mr. Smith was in the pocket. Now Louis and Charlie are out to find the fast-moving critter, with the help of Jessie (Estella Warren), a wildlife expert; Mr. Jimmy (David Ngoombujarra), a wilderness guide; and Blue (Bill Hunter), a pilot familiar with the outback. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, (more)
This big budget "re-imagining" of the 1968 original departs somewhat from both that classic science fiction film and the source novel by author Pierre Boulle. Mark Wahlberg stars as Leo Davidson, an astronaut of the early 21st century whose unauthorized mission to rescue a chimp companion from a mysterious space storm goes awry when he and his ship are lost through a rip in the fabric of time. Leo crash-lands on a planet where intelligent, talking apes are the dominant species and humans a conquered slave class. Befriending both a chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham Carter), who's sympathetic to humans, and a beautiful human rebel, Daena (Estella Warren), Leo quickly becomes a prominent figure of resistance to his fellow humans. This makes him an instant source of irritation for the militant and ambitious General Thade (Tim Roth) and his trusted adjutant, Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan), who intend to hunt Leo down and crush the burgeoning human uprising. War looms between ape and human as Leo and his band head for a sacred site deep in an off-limits desert, where secrets about the planet's ape and human ancestry wait to be revealed. Planet of the Apes is directed by Tim Burton and features the original film's star, Charlton Heston, in a cameo role as the dying father of Thade. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, (more)
Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for this action-packed drama directed by Renny Harlin and set in the dangerous, high-stakes world of CART auto racing. Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) is an up-and-coming young star of the open-wheel circuit, but he's slipping in the rankings as the championships loom. Under pressure from his promoter brother Demille (Robert Sean Leonard) and wheelchair-bound owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds), Jimmy is given a mentor -- Joe Tanto (Stallone), a once great CART competitor whose career and marriage to Cathy (Gina Gershon) were destroyed by a tragic accident. Joe must earn the rookie's trust, while attempting a career comeback, dealing with persistent reporter Lucretia Clan (Stacy Edwards), and facing Cathy, who's remarried to rival racing sensation Memo Moreno (Cristian de la Fuente). Meanwhile, Jimmy is stirring up his own romantic trouble by pursuing Sophia (Estella Warren), the girlfriend of top driver Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger). Long interested in creating a car racing drama, Stallone penned Driven after abandoning a film biography of real-life Formula One legend Ayrton Senna. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, (more)
- 2000
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Shot on location in Mexico and Malaysia, this documentary follows the photo shoots that produced the images for the year 2000 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Hosted by comedian and actor Damon Wayans and produced much like a Playboy Playmate video, the video consists of sequences that find models like Kristy Hinze, Heidi Klum and Kylie Bax posing and then talking with Wayans about life on the set. Several of the magazine photographers are also interviewed. The footage featured during Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Video: 2000 is often times more explicit than the images in the magazine and may not be suitable for young viewers. Sports Illustrated has been filming the many models that have graced its pages since the early 1990's and also has produced an interesting retrospective, ports Illustrated Swimsuit Video: 25th Anniversary. ~ Ed Atkinson, All Movie Guide
