Lisa Owen Movies
Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president arrives in Salamanca, gunshots ring out. An American tourist (Whitaker) has captured footage of the would-be assassin on videotape, and now, as the stories of the other four witnesses unfold, each essential piece of the puzzle quickly falls into place. Only when all of the stories are told will the chilling truth to this shocking crime finally emerge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, (more)
Four stories, representing the emotional principles of love, pleasure, sorrow, and happiness, come together in this episodic drama from first-time director Jieho Lee. A powerful crime boss, Fingers (Andy Garcia), subtly controls the destinies of four people whose circumstances have brought them to a crossroads in their lives. A quiet business executive (Forest Whitaker) is told that an upcoming horse race has been rigged and bets everything he has on his belief that the story is true. A noted pop singer (Sarah Michelle Gellar) discovers her career is hanging in the balance when she's forced to sever ties with her manager. A doctor (Kevin Bacon) must set aside a physician's traditional guidelines when circumstances demand he treat the woman he loves after a serious accident. And a criminal (Brendan Fraser) has a powerful vision of the future, but can't decide if his premonitions are to be trusted. The Air I Breathe received its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser, (more)
Jared Hess (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) directs this bizarre comedy starring Jack Black as Nacho, a young man who works as a cook in the Mexican monastery where he was raised. When the institution faces a financial crisis, Nacho decides that he must come to the aid of the house of God (as well as the beautiful young nun who has recently joined the order) by competing in the local Lucha Libre tournament. Donning a spandex outfit, mask, and cape, Nacho becomes a hero for the ages -- but can he win the heart of a woman of the cloth? ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Black, Héctor Jimenez, (more)
- 2001
Combining digital video technology with stylized computer-generated imagery, this film takes a decidedly unusual approach as it combines three short stories involving one Pachito Rex (Jorge Zarate), a former pop music star who became a powerful political figure before being assassinated somewhere in South America. Or was he? In the first segment, we follow Sobrino (Ernesto Gomez Cruz) as he is released from jail after being accused of killing Pachito. In the second story, Pachito's body has gone missing, and Estrada (Pedro Altamirano), a police detective, is given the assignment of finding out what has happened to the great man's remains. And finally, Abel (Damian Alcazar) is a noted architect who is hired to design a memorial to Pachito, which brings him both good fortune and bad. Combining bizarre humor and purposefully unrealistic visual design, Pachito Rex: Me Voy Pero No Del Todo was produced through the auspices of the Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica, a film education center operated by the Mexican government. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jorge Zárate, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, (more)
A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native island, and he sends away to America for a mail-order bride. To his pleasant surprise, his fiancée from the United States, Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), turns out to be not only beautiful but passionate and devoted. But Luis' happiness proves to be short-lived when he learns that Julia is not the person he imagined her to be, and detective Walter Downs (Thomas Jane) appears, trying to get to the bottom of Julia's mysterious past and possibly deadly secrets. Original Sin is based on the novel Waltz Into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, which Francois Truffaut previously adapted for the screen as La Sirene du Mississippi. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, (more)
A thirty-something couple who met and married before the malaise of adulthood and responsibility took hold struggle to recapture the lost dreams of their youth in a romantic comedy starring Jesus Ochoa. Julia and Moises were idealistic and passionate when they exchanged their wedding vows, and they never imagined that their union would lead to a stagnant life of complacent mediocrity. Determined to re-ignite the passion that fueled their romance back in the beginning, the pair soon find their efforts complicated when Julia is pursued by a handsome young student activist. When Julia finds herself to giving in to the advances of her young pursuer, she soon finds that the affair may provide just the excitement needed to keep her marriage to Moises alive. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jésus Ochoa, Lisa Owen, (more)
In this suspense thriller, a man with amnesia finds that the more he remembers, the more dangerous his life becomes. A man (Ray Liotta) stranded in a desert wasteland awakens with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Looking for shelter among the burning sands, the man finds the home of Vicky (Gloria Reuben), an artist. Vicky takes him in, and with her help, the man begins to reassemble the shards of his memory in an effort to reconstruct his past. He eventually remembers that his name is Jack, and that he recently came into a large amount of money, which he can't find. However, it takes a while for Jack to realize that he was a gangster, and that several of his old business associates want to see him dead. Inferno was also released under the title Pilgrim, and features Armin Mueller-Stahl, Daniel Kash, and Lisa Owen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ray Liotta, Gloria Reuben, (more)
Maten Al Candidato concerns a gangster who plots the assassination of a political candidate. A mime suffering through some serious problem with his wife becomes embroiled in the plan. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
This Mexican political thriller follows the feud of a mobster and a noble politician intent on bringing down organized crime. When congressman Jose Ramirez (Hector Bonilla) has Ramon Alvarado (Manuel Ojeda) arrested and jailed, Alvarado retaliates by having Ramirez' brother Julian (Rafael Rojas) kidnapped and killed. Meanwhile, mime Jorge Zepeda (Jose Alonso) is conned into believing that he has leukemia, with only a few months left to live, and will receive money in advance if he kills Ramirez. Shown at the 1998 Guadalajara Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- José Alonso, Hector Bonilla, (more)
This Mexican drama comprised of three separate intermeshed storylines is centered around a fictionalized modern filmmaker, Juan (Arturo Rios). In the first one, Juan is depressed after his girlfriend left him for another man. He begins having violent fits of anger in his efforts to get her back. In the second one, Juan also tries to deal with his father's death. The viewer is given few details about it, except that it happened on the day 10-year old Juan first saw the ocean. The story's third level focuses upon the screenplay Juan is writing. It is about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and an angel. The angel symbolizes his father. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Arturo Rios, Dolores Heredia, (more)
- 1993
In this comedy, the question is not whether the hero of the film will come to grief over his ill-considered gallantry, but when. Sofia (Cecelia Toussaint) is the unfaithful girlfriend of Bruno (Rafael Sanchez Navarro), a thoroughly besotted novelist. She has been on a jaunt to Veracruz with an elderly lover. When the old businessman dies while they are making love, Sofia calls Bruno to help her make the whole situation disappear. His somewhat improbable solution is to have the dead man's body embalmed and placed in the trunk of his car. After that, every one of his increasingly outrageous adventures carries the risk of the body being discovered. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rafael Sanchez Navarro, Cecilia Toussaint, (more)
- 1990
Julio (Emilío Echevarría) teaches literature, and is generally ignored by eveyone around him: his wife, his grown son, and his students. In the evenings, he putters around with his unfinished novel with no intention of ever finishing it. His chance meeting with a lovely neighbor sparks his imagination, and he lives a lifetime of relationships with her in his mind, until he is brought back down to earth with a thump by his real-life obligations. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Emilio Echeverria, Lisa Owen, (more)
- 1989
Romelia's granddaughters have always believed that granny (Dolores Beritain) was a widow. When they accompany her to her hometown to look over a property she has recently inherited, they are surprised to discover that for all those years she was only separated from from her husband, Dr. Roman (Pedro Armendariz, Jr.), and that it is he who has only recently died and left her the inheritance. There is a mystery here that goes back to the 1930s, and through a series of flashbacks, the story is told. This multi-generational drama of revenge and honor is based on Roman, The Widower, by Rosario Castellanos. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Diana Bracho, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., (more)
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