ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

Also known as:  In Love We Trust

The Chinese film "Zuo You" featured Yu Nan, who was in "Speed Racer" with Susan Sarandon, who was in "Moonlight Mile" with Jake Gyllenhaal, who was in "Brokeback Mountain" with Heath.

Director Wang Xiaoshuai received the Silver Bear award
at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival on February 16, 2008.

[Fran]

In honor of Donald Sutherland's birthday -- he turned 73 today:

The "N" Degrees of Donald Sutherland Round

[memento]

Donald Sutherland plays the role of Carl Wilk in this film. Linda Cardellini also appears in the film.



IMDB: A series of interwoven story lines brings to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically influence and shape every day lives. A gun shop owner, an ace student, a single mother, and a school principal are among those profoundly affected.

[southendmd]

Donald Sutherland played Merrick Jamison-Smythe in this film about:  A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.

[Meryl]

Donald Sutherland played Reverend Monroe in Cold Mountain.

[Fran]

Donald Sutherland played Ben du Toit in "A Dry White Season."

From IMDb:  Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level.  When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.

[memento]

Donald Sutherland plays Liam Devlin in this film.



IMDB: German soldier Max Radl (Robert Duvall) comes up with an audacious plot to deliver a devastating blow to the Allied forces by kidnapping Winston Churchill from a Norfolk village. A team of deadly German spies, led by Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine), are smuggled into England to carry out this sinister scheme. Aided by an Irish mercenary (Donald Sutherland), the German forces rapidly and ruthlessly close in on their target. Only an inexperienced American garrison, posted in a quiet corner of Norfolk, can stand in the way of a devastating German victory.

[Lynne]

starring Donald Sutherland...

from IMDb:

Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz, who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guest house on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne. In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya, befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce, and even wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters Finn's ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price...


=aside=
Thanks, Paul, for mentioning my current obsession! 

[oilgun]

Donald Sutherland plays Nick the Noz...

Plot:  Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase.

Hey, Susan Anspach is in it, so you know it's gotta be good...

[Fran]

Donald Sutherland played Garrett Lawton in "Hollow Point."

From IMDb:  This film is one of the finest American B-movies of the 90s.  If you're looking for a serious film, look elsewhere.  However, if you're looking for some action, a lot of laughs, and a tongue-in- cheek variation on cops fighting gangsters, this is well worth watching.  Everyone chews the scenery a bit, but that's really what the film is all about, and everyone is quite funny.  Donald Sutherland and John Lithgow have great chemistry and need to do another film together.