Josef Sommer Movies

Genres: Drama    War   

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum, Victor Rasuk, ...

I'm a sergeant in the army and have served 2 tours in Iraq and am
preparing to go a third time in December. This film was irresponsible
and not balanced in it's portrayal. First off every single soldier has
an 8 year commitment. However long your initial enlistment is (3,4
years etc) you then serve the remainder of your time as part of the IRR
(indivdual ready reserve)....

Genres: Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, ...

"The Invasion" had a lot going for it. It had two big stars, an
acclaimed director, a big time producer, and a time tested premise. The
only thing missing was a script."The Invasion" does not follow the same story as the earlier movies.
They took the premise and made a new story. The new story has only a
threadbare plot, no character development, and some of the most banal
dial...

Genres: Action    Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes, ...

I went to see this movie expecting to see a big-budget remake of the
original Shaft, and I got it.This version is a lot more violent than the original, it didn't seem to be
in Shaft's style. The pacing and editing in the first half of the movie
were
fast and smooth. John Singleton did a great job in establishing Shaft's
character and the plot. During the second half of the mov...

Genres: Comedy    Romance   

Starring: Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Illeana Douglas, Michael Vartan, ...

I had high hopes for this -- really, I did. I thought it would be a sweet,
charming and tugging-at-the-heartstrings comedy. But I was TOO
hopeful.Story in one sentence: two best friends (one gay, one straight) end up in
bed together, have a son, raise him together, everything hunky-dory until
she wants to marry someone else and the little family gets screwed
up.Let's talk ab...

Genres: Comedy    Fantasy    Drama    Romance   

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek, ...

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Plato put these words in the
mouth of Socrates. Brett Ratner puts this theme into `The Family Man.'
This is not "It's a Wonderful Life." While it is a "feel good movie," it is
an intelligent, reflective one. Neither of the parallel lives led by the
main character is shown to be flawless. Both have their attractions. Jack,
the le...

Genres: Thriller    Drama   

Starring: Kevin Anderson, Tom Skerritt, Naomi Watts, Kellie Overbey, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, ...

If you're looking to dissuade your daughters from the fella she
adores but you think little of, have her sit through this. Ira Einhorn
was a celebrity of the peace / earth movements of the 60s and
70s. Extremely well respected, his peacenik persona cloaked a
darker side that hated women and thought very little of anything
other than himself and his personal causes. When his ...

Genres: Action    Crime    Drama    Fantasy    Music    Mystery    Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, ...

When I first saw "Point break" I thought that Kathryn Bigelow made the only
action masterpiece of her career but there she was only four years later
with a magnificent story written by James Cameron and an unforgettable
classic called "Strange days". Ralph Fiennes has never been as cool as he
was when the guy played Lenny Nero and Juliette Lewis was almost too sexy to
be true. ...

Genres: Drama    Thriller   

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Jason Robards, Sam Waterston, Rory J. Aylward, Greg Brickman, ...

This was a very inferior remake of "Seven Days in May".What dooms it from the outset was Jason Robards' characterization of
General Lloyd (Scott). It is central to the credibility of the plot
that this is a knife fight between an unpopular dovish president whom
most of the country fears has endangered America by his disarmament
treaty and his charismatic hawkish Chairman of the...

Genres: Drama   

Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, ...

Newman uses a lifetime of acting experience to give a burnished, affecting
portrayal of Sully, a dysfunctional father and husband who is basically
well-intentioned but has never been able to connect with anyone or live up
to his responsibilities. His family arrives back in town and he begins the
long-delayed process of reconnecting with his son and grandsons.Like "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge...

Genres: Crime    Mystery    Thriller   

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott, ...

MALICE is one of those movies that you simply MUST see more than once to
believe. The first time through, MALICE is a great psychological thriller,
with twists and turns through a plot that contains rape, murder,
life-and-death trauma, and a fight to the death...all within the first 45
minutes. The second time through, though, provides a look at all the
things
you might h...

Genres: Action    Comedy    Drama    Family    Sport   

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Josef Sommer, ...

I remember my cousins and I used to always watch these movies when I was a
kid. I loved how these bad-playing, poor attitude-having kids could always
be inspired to become champions, no matter how tough the odds and no matter
how many times movies like this were remade with soccer, football, baseball,
and dogs. Even though I've seen it a million times, I still get chills when
t...

Genres: Comedy    Fantasy    Romance   

Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher McDonald, ...

I was always a big fan of this movie, first of all have you seen the cast,
the acting is superb and help make this movie move along very well. Cybill
Shepherd was given great reviews for her role, and they were well deserved.
The beginning of this movie starts in the past when Corinne Jeffries (Cybill)
whose picture-perfect marriage comes to a shattering halt when her husband
L...

Genres: Drama    Romance    Thriller   

Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes, ...

This is one of those movies whose virtues and subtleties become more and
more apparent with subsequent viewings. The crime story is nothing more than
a pretense - a "MacGuffin", in Hitchcock's phrase - on which to hang this
sensitive and insightful story of the conflict between modernity and the
culture of the Amish, which is portrayed here with admiring respect and not
a hint ...

Genres: Family    Sci-Fi   

Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer, ...

DARYL is an enjoyable and thought-provoking kids' film. The central
premise
is fantastic and high-concept - a rare thing for children's films. Daryl,
a
military experiment that combines the body and senses of a child with a
microchip for a brain, is set free from his creators and settles in
mid-America suburbia with a loving adoptive family. The high-jinks that
resul...

Genres: Biography    Drama    Thriller   

Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, ...

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Genres: Action    Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, ...

How radically different cinema history, and our collective
consciousness, would have been if Frank Sinatra hadn't injured his hand
before shooting started on "Dirty Harry". Sinatra was due to play Harry,
but had to withdraw, clearing the way for Clint. Given Sinatra's unique
brand of self-loathing, Harry would have been an uglier personality than
Clint made him. As it is, Li...