Film capsules -- 1997-2001

I Am Sam (PG-13) 132 min. Garner's rating: 9 Review · Clips
A heartfelt drama about a mentally disabled father (Sean Penn) who fights to maintain custody of his precocious little girl. Michelle Pfeiffer co-stars as his lawyer. Jessie Nelson directs. New Line Cinema. Rated PG-13, with profanity.

The Ice Storm (R) 112 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review · Clips
Ang Lee's moody but often fascinating drama about wayward suburbanites adrift in the Connecticut of 1973. It coldly examines the lives of characters who have been numbed by sex and political upheaval of the previous decade, and are trying to make their lives meaningful in suburbia. Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver and Joan Allen head a strong cast. Fox Searchlight. Rated R, with profanity, sex and drug use.

An Ideal Husband (PG-13) 96 min. Garner's rating: 9 Review · Clips
A clever, polished adaptation of Oscar Wilde's century-old play about romantic entanglements and political scandal, with superb performances from Rupert Everett, Jeremy Northam and Julianne Moore. Oliver Parker directs. Miramax. Rated PG-13, with sexual innuendo.

Idle Hands (R) 92 min. Our rating: 3 Review · Clips
A dark, comic horror movie about an idle, dope-smoking high school student who has lost control of his right hand as it goes about killing people. Starring Devon Sawa and Seth Green. Directed by Rodman Flender. Columbia Pictures. Rated R, with shocking violence, profanity, drug use and sexual situations.

I Dreamed of Africa (PG-13) 114 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review · Clips
Kim Basinger stars as a European woman whose love of a new life in Africa comes at a high price. Hugh Hudson directs this beautifully filmed adaptation of a memoir by Kuki Gallmann. Columbia. Rated PG-13, with moderate violence, language and sex.

I Got the Hook-Up (R) 103 min. Unreviewed. Clips
Hip-hop maestro Master P runs a shopping center out of his van in this irreverent comedy. Dimension Films.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (R) 110 min. Our rating: 2 Review · Clips
From the screenwriter of Scream comes this tale of four teen-agers who kill a person in a hit-and-run accident and vow to keep the crime a secret. However, they find themselves stalked by an unknown avenger. Rated R.

I'll Be Home for Christmas (PG) 89 min. Garner's rating: 4 Review
Jonathan Taylor Thomas stars in this comedy about a prep-school student who, as a result of a prank, finds himself stranded in the desert dressed in a Santa suit -- which complicates things on his journey home.

Illuminata (R) 111 min. Unreviewed. Clips
A romantic comedy about a company of actors in a turn-or-the-century theater and their attempts to stage a controversial new play. The cast includes Susan Sarandon, Katherine Borowitz, Christopher Walken, Beverly D'Angelo, Ben Gazzara and Rufus Sewell. Rated R, with profanity, nudity and violence.

I Married a Strange Person (R) 74 min. Our rating: 5 Animated feature about a newlywed couple who must contend with an unusual problem: He has a pulsating boil that endows him with telekinetic powers that tend to manifest themselves in the most capricious ways. Lions Gate Films. Rated R, for graphic images, sex, violence and language.

Imax Nutcracker Not rated. 40 min. Not reviewed.
A modern version of E.T.A Hoffman's classic tale of a little girl's Christmas dream. Starring Harriet Thorpe, Heathcoate Williams, Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Pearson and Tamara Rojo. Not rated.

I'm Not Rappaport (PG-13) 136 min. Garner's rating: 7 Review · Clips Herb Gardner's humorous and affecting adaptation of his award-winning play about the uneasy friendship between two old men, sharing a Central Park bench and years of memories and experience. Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis star. Gramercy. Rated PG-13, with profanity, brief violence and light drug use.

The Imposters (R) 102 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review · Clips
Stanley Tucci's amusing farce about two out-of-work actors (Tucci and Oliver Platt) who use their talent to con their way through a manic sea cruise. The first-rate ensemble includes Lily Taylor, Alfred Molina, Isabella Rossellini, and the very funny Steve Buscemi and Campbell Scott. Fox Searchlight. Rated R, with profanity and sexual references.

Impostor (PG-13) 95 min. Our rating: 6 Review · Clips
A national hero wakes up to find everyone thinks he's actually an alien invader in this by-the-numbers thriller that wants to be much more. Starring Gary Sinise, Vincent D'Onofrion and Madeleine Stowe. Dimension Films. Rated PG-13, with profanity, partial nudity and violence.

I'm the One That I Want (U) 96 min. Not reviewed. Clips
Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho stars in this autobiographical documentary. The film traces the highs and lows of her career, as well as her battles with depression, as well as drug and alcohol addition. Unrated.

In & Out (PG-13) 90 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review · Clips
Frank Oz's funny, user-friendly comedy about a small-town teacher who is publicly "outed" as gay by a former student on national television. The timing couldn't be worse -- he's about to wed his longtime fiancee. Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack and Tom Selleck are all superb in the first big comedy hit of the fall season. Paramount. Rated PG-13, with profanity, mild violence, and discussion of sexual issues.

The In Crowd (PG-13) 118 min. Unreviewed. Clips
A young country club worker (Lori Heuing) is allowed to experience the good life by a charming socialite (Susan Ward) she befriends. When the social climber becomes the interest of a hot tennis pro, she's shown the dark side of her new friends. Rated PG-13, with violence, profanity, drug usage and sexuality.

In Dreams (R) 110 min. Our rating: 4 Review
Annette Bening stars in this thriller abour a woman whose dreams link her to the thoughts of a serial killer (Robert Downey Jr.). Co-starring Aidan Quinn and Stephen Rea. DreamWorks. Rated R, with profanity and graphic violence.

In Love and War (PG-13) 115 min. Garner's rating: 4 Review · Clips
Richard Attenborough's old-fashioned, overly contrived telling of the romance that supposedly occurred between 18-year-old Ernest Hemingway and the 26-year-old woman who nursed him back to health in an Italian hospital during World War I. The romance was said to have influenced Hemingway's later novel A Farewell to Arms. Sandra Bullock is appealing as the nurse; Chris O'Donnell has a more difficult challenge, recreating the larger-than-life Hemingway. New Line. Rated PG-13, with violence and brief nudity.

Innocence (Unrated) 94 min. Garner's rating: 10 Review · Clips
The timelessness of love is perfectly expressed in Paul Cox's humane story of rekindled romance among the elderly. Charles Tingwell and Julia Blake co-star as two 70-ish folks who meet 45 years after they first fell in love -- and fall in love all over again. Strand Releasing. Unrated.

The Insider (R) 158 min. Garner's rating: 10 Review · Clips
The powerful real-life story of a former tobacco industry insider and the efforts of a 60 Minutes news producer to get him to tell his story. Stars Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer and a fabulous Russell Crowe in the title role. Tautly directed by Michael Mann. Touchstone Pictures. Rated R, with strong profanity.

Inspector Gadget (PG) min. Garner's rating: 4 Review · Clips
A live-action version of the cartoon series about a robotic crime-fighter. Matthew Broderick stars as the title character -- and the evil android dispatched to fight him. Rupert Everett co-stars for director David Kellogg. Disney, 80 minutes. Rated PG, with cartoon-like violence.

Instinct (R) 124 min. Garner's rating: 6 Review · Clips
A psychological thriller about a animal behavioralist (Anthony Hopkins) who lived with African gorillas and murdered two park rangers, and a psychiatrist (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who tries to unlock his secrets. Jon Turteltaub directs. Touchstone Pictures. Rated R, with violence and profanity.

In the Bedroom (R) 136 min. Garner's rating: 10 Review · Clips
Todd Field's artful, volatile domestic drama about a New England family torn by tragedy. Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson and Marisa Tomei head a first-rate cast. Miramax, 136 mins. Rated R, with strong language, violence.

In the Company of Men (R) 93 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review · Clips
A nasty but fascinating portrait of a cruel cad and the elaborate mind games he plays with the woman he dates and the men he works with. Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards and Matt Malloy co-star for impressive first-time writer-director Neil LaBute. Sony Classics. Rated R, with strong language and adult situations.

In the Mood for Love (PG) 97 min. The Associated Press's rating: 10 Review · Clips
When married neighbors Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung discover that their mates are having an affair, they turn to each other. Set in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the film is in Cantonese and Shanghaiese with English subtitles. Rated PG.

In Too Deep (R) 104 min. Garner's rating: 6 Review · Clips
Omar Epps and LL Cool J co-star in an undercover cop story, set in the urban drug battlefield. Loosely adapted from a real-life Boston police case, it's an involving well-acted saga, though flecked with occasional implausibility. Co-stars Stanley Tucci and Pam Greer. Directed by Michael Rymer. Dimension Films. Rated R, with strong profanity and violence, brief nudity.

Into the Arms of Strangers (PG-13) 102 min. Not reviewed.
This documentary chronicicles the British mission to save Jewish children from Nazi rule before Worl War II. More than 10,000 youths were sent to English foster families; many never saw their families again. Rated PG with thematic elements.

Into the Deep (Not rated) 35 min. Not reviewed.
Made in 1994, this is the world's first giant-screen 3D underwater film.

Inventing the Abbotts (R) 107 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review
Pat O'Connor's engrossing '50s drama about two working-class adolescent boys and their volatile relationships with three girls from the wealthiest family in town. Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Baker co-star. 20th Century Fox. Rated R, with profanity, nudity, sex and brief violence.

The Iron Giant (G) 86 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review · Clips
An entertaining family cartoon about a giant robot that comes from outer space and befriends a lonely boy in a small Maine community. Think E.T. on steroids. Warner Bros. Rated G.

Iron Monkey (PG-13) 86 min. Garner's rating: 8 Review · Clips
A rousing martial arts fable in the tradition of "Crouching Tiger," about warriors who go undercover to combat a corrupt regime. Yu Rong-Guang and Donnie Yen co-star for director (and fabled stunt choreographer) Yuen Wo Ping. Miramax, 86 mins. Rated PG-13, for martial arts violence. In Cantonese, with English subtitles.

Isn't She Great (R) 89 min. Our rating: 6 Review · Clips
A broad-strokes film bio of late writer Jacqueline Susann that looks like it was made for HBO, despite a high-powered cast and creative team. Funny but incredibly slight. Starring Nathan Lane, Bette Midler. Directed by Andrew Bergman. Universal Pictures. Rated R, with profanity and adult themes.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (R) 96 min. Our rating: 1 Review · Clips
In this sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jennifer Love Hewitt and singing star Brandy endure a frightening Caribbean vacation. Co-starring Freddie Prinze Jr. Rated R, with violence and profanity.

I Went Down (R) 95 min. Garner's rating: 7 Review · Clips
An Irish gangster film from director Paddy Breathnach that plays like a Gaelic cousin of low-life crime comedy-dramas like Out of Sight and Jackie Brown, even if it lacks some of the compact plot twists and edgy danger that accompany the humor in Leonard's best works. Peter McDonald and the wonderful Brendan Gleeson co-star as mismatched partners on a misconceived crime mission. TSG Pictures. Rated R, with profanity, nudity, sex and violence.