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Jude Law
November's Artist of the Month
Being the actor that your going to see multiple times at theaters this year makes Jude Law the celebrity
everyone has on their minds. Here is a list of the most anticipated Jude Law movies making their way to theaters this
fall. Click the movie posters to visit official movie sites.
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Alfie
A womanizing British
playboy in New York City finds that there are serious consequences to his carefree lifestyle
Release Date: November 5th, 2004 (wide).
MPAA Rating: R for sexual content, and some language and drug use.
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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| I Heart Huckabees |
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I Heart Huckabee’s
This ensemble comedy is about
a married couple, the Jaffes (Hoffman, Tomlin), who work as detectives, helping people solve existential crises in their lives.
For those not familiar with the philosophy-based term of "existential crisis", some examples of such a crises would be a "mid-life
crisis", a "what am I doing with my life?" sort of hang up, "my life has been a mistake", "my whole life is a joke", etc.
Their first client in this movie is Albert Markovski (Schwartzman), who is experiencing angst because of his position at Huckabee's,
a popular chain of retail stores. Investigating his workplace, the Jaffes take on one of Albert's coworkers, Brad Stand (Law)
as a client as well, which leads them to investigate his girlfriend, Dawn Campbell (Watts), who is the spokesmodel in the Huckabees TV commercials. Meanwhile, Albert teams
up with an existential firefighter (Wahlberg) and a French radical (Huppert) out of frustration with the idea that the Jaffes
are helping the very man who seems to be part of Albert's existential crisis.
Release Date: October 1st, 2004 (select cities).
MPAA Rating: R for language and a sex scene.
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Aviator
"The Aviator,"
directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio),
the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful
women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing
and producing Hollywood
movies and test flying innovative aircrafts he designed and created.
Release Date: December 17th, 2004 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language and
crash sequence.
Distributor: Miramax Films
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Closer
An story of passion, drama,
love, and abandonment involving two couples, which only gets more complicated when the man from the first couple gets acquainted
with the woman from the second coupling.
Release Date: December 12th, 2004 (wide).
MPAA Rating: R for sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality and
language.
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared and Chronicle reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow)
along with ace aviator Sky Captain (Jude Law) are on the investigation. Risking their lives as they travel to exotic places
around world, can the fearless duo stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth? Aided by Franky
Cook (Angelina Jolie), commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, and technical genius Dex (Giovanni Ribisi), Polly and
Sky Captain may be our planet’s only hope.
Release Date: September 17th, 2004 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of stylized sci-fi
violence and brief mild language.
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Actor Biography
Although he first appeared as just one of the latest crop of golden-skinned English imports to caress
the hormones of American filmgoers, Jude Law is steadily proving that his talents lie beyond his ability to smolder seductively
in front of the camera. Since 1995, when Law made the transition from British soap opera to Broadway via Sean Mathias' Indiscretions (in which he co-starred with Kathleen Turner), his work has increasingly garnered favorable notice from critics and moviegoers alike
Born in London on December 29, 1972, Law started acting as a teenager. Before Indiscretions, his most notable role was
in Shopping (1994), a British production that gave him both initial recognition and an introduction to his future wife, actress Sadie Frost (the couple has two children). After the critical and commercial success of Indiscretions, Law began finding more work in
film, starring as Claire Danes' boyfriend in I Love You, I Love You Not (1997) and as the genetically privileged man who sells his identity to Ethan Hawke in Gattaca (1997). Also in 1997, Law took on the plum role of Alfred Lord Douglas (or Bosie), Oscar Wilde's volatile lover in Wilde. Although none of these films received unanimously positive critical (or box-office) attention, they did help to further
establish Law as an actor to be taken seriously. Law followed them with a small part in Bent (1997) and the more pivotal role of Billy, Jim Williams' hotheaded and ill-fated lover in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). Following that film, Law went on to make a few smaller films, including Music From Another Room (also starring a
still unknown Gretchen Mol) and The Final Cut, in which he played a sinister, deceased version of himself.
In 1999, Law appeared in David Cronenberg's cyberific eXistenZ and completed filming Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, and Cate Blanchett. The film earned widespread acclaim upon its release, much of which was lavished on Law's portrayal of the serially charming
and devastatingly superficial Dickie Greenleaf. Law garnered both a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting
Actor for his performance, further cementing his reputation as one of the more promising up-and-coming actors on either side
of the ocean.
After a turn as a Russian marksman facing off against a Nazi sniper in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Law returned to sci-fi with his role as love machine Gigolo Joe in Steven Spielberg's eagerly anticipated A.I.
In addition to his acting commitments, Law kept busy with Natural Nylon, the production company he founded with Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller. In 2002, Law starred alongside film veterans Tom Hanks and Paul Newman in the multiple Oscar-winning Road to Perdition and was on the path to an Oscar once again for his performance in Cold Mountain (2003) with Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger, who took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
After appearing in only two films in as many years, Law was virtually unavoidable in the last third of 2004, with substantial
roles in a grand total of six films. First up, he played the title role in the blue-screened sci-fi action flick Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, starring alongside the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, and a "resurrected" Laurence Olivier. A month later, he could be found starring in the remake of Alfie as well as in the ensemble cast of David O. Russell's comedy I Heart Huckabees. And before the close of the year, audiences could catch him in Mike Nichols' romantic drama Closer, as Errol Flynn in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, and providing the voice of the title character in the big-screen adaptation of Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide
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Personal Biography
If you automatically think of the famous Beatles' song "Hey, Jude" and
the 19th century novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, when you hear of new "it" boy Jude Law, you aren't far off.
Law's parents chose his original name from the inspiration they found from the song and the novel. One would think that with
debonair good looks and charm reminiscent of Cary Grant, Jude Law would have been playing leading roles in Hollywood,
rather than the more obscure roles he has chosen.
Jude was born December 29, 1972, and grew up in Southeast
London with his parents and older sister. Jude started acting at the age of 12 with the National Youth Music
Theatre. At 17, he landed a recurring role on the popular British daytime soap Families, after having dropped out
of school to pursue a fulltime acting career. Several years later, Law was touring Europe
doing stage performances.
He toured Italy
in a stage production of Shaw's Pygmalion, was praised for his performance in Euripides' Ions, and played Michael
in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles. When the play was exported to Broadway and renamed Indiscretions in 1995,
Law was the only member from the original cast to be exported as well. His role as Michael earned him a Tony nomination.
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