Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. Bill Porter is one of those heroes. Born with cerebral palsy, he was told for many years that he was unemployable. But with the unwavering support of a dedicated mother and an indomitable spirit that has become his trademark, Porter did support himself as a door-to-door salesman in Portland, Ore.
Starring:
William H. Macy, Kyra Sedgwick, Kathy Baker, Helen Mirren, Joel Brooks
Directed by:
Steven Schachter
Release date:
2002-07-14
2.
Cadet Kelly
3.9
Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make discoveries of her own. Their investigation leads to a remote Island off the Scottish coast, where a set of sacred scrolls, vital to the Centre, have been hidden – and protected – for centuries.
Starring:
Michael T. Weiss, Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries, Harve Presnell
Directed by:
Frederick King Keller
Release date:
2002-12-28
4.
Carrie
3.4
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his heir, Sir Henry, begs Holmes to save him from the terrifying supernatural hound that has brought fear and death to his household.
Starring:
Richard Roxburgh, Ian Hart, Richard E. Grant, Matt Day, John Nettles
Directed by:
David Attwood
Release date:
2002-12-26
6.
The Outsider
3.3
A western love story revolving around the forbidden love between a young widow from a Quaker-like religious group and a cold-blooded gunslinger whom she takes into her home after he is wounded.
Starring:
Tim Daly, Naomi Watts, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Brett Tucker
Directed by:
Randa Haines
Release date:
2002-01-01
7.
The Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas
3.3
When Princess Morebucks finds out that she's been put on Santa's naughty list (in fact, she's the only one on it!), she does a quick re-write, resulting with Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup with nothing but coal for Christmas! On top of all that, Princess gets the one thing she wants for the holidays: super powers! Now, the girls have to stop Princess and make sure that Christmas is saved for children everywhere.
Starring:
Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, E.G. Daily, Tom Kenny, Tom Kane
Directed by:
Lauren Faust, Craig McCracken
Release date:
2002-10-07
8.
Double Teamed
3.2
Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball coach. Inspired by the true story of Heather and Heidi Burge.
Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this is a serial killer choosing victims at random, but Sam and Buckley discover a pattern involving health personnel who work in neonatal intensive care. Doctors aren't supposed to play god, but someone's decision years before has driven a killer over the brink. Can they find him?
Starring:
Robert Patrick, Lauren Holly, Barry Shabaka Henley, Terry Norton, Danny Keogh
Directed by:
Darrell James Roodt
Release date:
2002-12-13
10.
Joe and Max
3.2
True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.
Starring:
Leonard Roberts, Til Schweiger, Peta Wilson, Richard Roundtree, John Toles-Bey
Directed by:
Steve James
Release date:
2002-03-03
11.
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe
3.2
The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the household away individually to be questioned, and the remaining children - fourteen year old Michael Crowe and adolescent Shannon Crowe - are taken into protective custody until Cheryl and Stephen can be cleared. The police end up placing much of their focus on the sullen Michael, who they question without counsel and without discussion with his parents. The tone of the police questioning is that they believe Michael did kill his sister, the police lying, harassing and coercing in the process. Under the barrage of questioning, Michael eventually confesses, as do two of his friends, both questioned under the same threatening tone. Cheryl and Stephen, who are finally made aware of the questioning and the confessions...
Starring:
Ally Sheedy, Mark Rendall, John Bourgeois, Hannah Lochner, Andre Noble
Directed by:
Don McBrearty
Release date:
2002-12-02
12.
Get a Clue
3.2
A rich kid and her friends investigate the disappearance of one of her teachers.
Starring:
Lindsay Lohan, Bug Hall, Ian Gomez, Brenda Song, Charles Shaughnessy
Directed by:
Maggie Greenwald
Release date:
2002-01-01
13.
Stranded
3.1
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Starring:
Liam Cunningham, Brana Bajic, Roger Allam, Jesse Spencer, Neil Newbon
Directed by:
Charles Beeson
Release date:
2002-01-12
14.
London After Midnight
2.9
The abandoned Balfour House, which former owner was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants: a devilish-looking man with pointed teeth, bulging eyes and a tall beaver hat; and a pale young woman in a long dress. (A reconstruction, made using still photos, intertitles and music, of the 1927 original movie which was lost in 1965 during a fire.)
Starring:
Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams, Conrad Nagel
Directed by:
Rick Schmidlin
Release date:
2002-11-01
15.
A Charlie Brown Valentine
2.9
Lovesick Charlie Brown hopes – still – to get a valentine from the Little Red-Haired Girl, as does Sally from Linus, Lucy from Schroeder and Peppermint Patty from Charlie Brown.
Directed by:
Bill Melendez
Release date:
2002-02-14
16.
A Ring of Endless Light
2.8
When 15-year-old Vicky Austin, her sister Suzy and little brother Rob visit their grandfather on Seven Bay Island, Vicky faces several unexpected challenges. Her beloved grandfather, retired Reverend Eaton, seems to be seriously ill, but tries to pretend that nothing is wrong. Vicky met the rich but emotionally troubled Zachary Gray the previous summer, and he reappears to renew the acquaintance. Another boy, 17-year-old Adam Eddington, recruits Vicky to help him with a research project, working with a dolphin called Basil. Vicky discovers she can communicate telepathically with the dolphin and his mate - and possibly with Adam as well
Starring:
Mischa Barton, Ryan Merriman, Jared Padalecki, Scarlett Pomers, Soren Fulton
Directed by:
Greg Beeman
Release date:
2002-07-04
17.
The Scream Team
2.8
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
Starring:
Kat Dennings, Mark Rendall, Robert Bockstael, Eric Idle, Tommy Davidson
Directed by:
Stuart Gillard
Release date:
2002-10-11
18.
Firestarter 2: Rekindled
2.7
Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of psychokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. Charlie has been in hiding for nearly all her life from a top-secret government fringe group headed by the maniacal John Rainbird, who wants to find and use Charlie as the ultimate weapon of war.
Release date:
2002-03-10
19.
Skinwalkers
2.7
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
Starring:
Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Harrison Lowe, James Dalgam, Saginaw Grant
Directed by:
Chris Eyre
Release date:
2002-11-02
20.
Santa, Jr.
2.5
While delivering toys, Santa's son (Nick Stabile) is arrested for trespassing. Dispirited, he turns for help to a public defender (Lauren Holly).
Starring:
Lauren Holly, Judd Nelson, George Wallace, Ed Gale, Nick Stabile
