Jean Smart

Hot after "Legally Blonde," Reese Witherspoon stars as New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael in this Deep South romantic comedy from Andy Tennant ("Ever After"). Though she has gotten herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor, played by...

Friday September 24, 1999      Both true and contrived, genuine and slick, "Guinevere" details one of the world's oldest stories: the relationship, at once mentoring and romantic, between an older man and a much younger, beautiful woman. We have a...

Southern California exports filmed images of sunshine to the eyeballs of kids around the nation, so it's only fair that snowy upstate New York gets its chance at being the locale of childhood fantasies.      However, "Snow Day," a harmless co-...

Friday March 17, 2000      Amos Gitai's somber, elegiac "Kadosh," which means "sacred" in Yiddish, takesus into the sequestered world of Mea Shearim, the Orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, where its devout citizens are committed to preserving an...

Friday March 10, 2000      Better than Harrison Ford, John Travolta or even Leonardo DiCaprio, getting the devil involved in your picture is a sure way of getting it made. Not necessarily as a producer or financial backer (though that probably wouldn't...

Friday February 18, 2000      "Pitch Black," a routine sci-fi/horror action-adventure, takes us where we've been countless times before--a forbidding distant planet--and offers nothing new along the way. Director David Twohy, who co-wrote the script with...

Tuesday February 22, 2000      When renowned British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked upon a bold attempt to cross the continent of Antarctica via the South Pole in 1914, among the crew of 27 aboard his sailing ship Endurance was the already...

Friday March 3, 2000      Bosnian-born filmmaker Jasmin Dizdar sets the tone for his bravura allegory "Beautiful People" right at the start, as two men, one a shaggy Croat (Faruk Pruti), the other a swarthy Serb (Dado Jehan), recognize each other on a...

Wednesday February 23, 2000      Distracted and dissipated dope-smoking man of letters Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) has known bad days. Yes, he admits as "Wonder Boys" opens, his wife has left him that very morning, "but wives had left me before." Yes,...

Friday February 25, 2000      Eric Mendelsohn's "Judy Berlin" is a comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection, rueful yet radiant, every moment calibrated with exquisite precision for just the right effect. And yet it never seems less than...

Friday March 17, 2000      John McNaughton's documentary "Condo Painting" sounds like a put-on, and in a way it is, even though that title refers not to an apartment house getting a face lift but to a witty study of artist George Condo at work. A boyish-...

Friday July 7, 2000      Even in an age of relentless branding, calling a new family fantasy "Disney's The Kid" is a bit unnerving. Was there a worry about confusing eager crowds who might be expecting a re-release of the classic 1921 Charlie Chaplin-...