Zodiac (2006) Rated R
Based on events in the 1960s and ’70s, this chilling drama recounts the actions
of a killer who stalked the streets of San Francisco and left clues in the
newspaper, relating the mystery through a cartoonist who became obsessed with
the case.
Love and Other Drugs (2010) Rated R
Pharmaceutical representative Jamie Randall becomes a player
in the big game of male-performance-enhancement-drug sales and, along the way,
finds unexpected romance with a woman suffering from Parkinson’s
disease. Based on the real-life Jamie Reidy’s memoir, Hard Sell: The
Evolution of a Viagra Salesman, this satirical look inside the culture of
Big Pharm is directed by Edward Zwick.
Source Code (2011) Rated PG-13
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a soldier recruited for a time-bending government
investigation that places him in another man’s mind and body to relive the same
traumatic event repeatedly to name the perpetrators of a
terrorist bombing.
As a devoted daughter comes to terms with the death of her father — a brilliant
mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental instability — she’s forced to
face her own dark fears. But she has help from one of her father’s former
students.
Feeling trapped in her marriage, “good girl” Justine begins an affair with
Holden, a younger co-worker who’s obsessed with The Catcher in the Rye. But it
doesn’t take long for Holden’s passion to bloom into a poisonous obsession.
Synopsis by Netflix.
