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2002 Stories by Jean Oppenheimer

• Rabbit Punch

  published December 26, 2002

  Based on the true story of three young Aboriginal girls who walked 1500 miles across the Australian Outback to be reunited with their mothers,... More >>

• Vote Here

  published September 5, 2002

  Iranian films that make it to American shores generally fall into two categories: sensitive dramas featuring young children, à la The... More >>

• Pilgrim's Progress

  published July 25, 2002

  Merchant Ivory productions -- Howard's End and A Room With a View being two of the most notable -- are famous for their almost... More >>

• Nemesisters

  published July 18, 2002

  Think of it as Todd Solondz light -- loads of dysfunction but, thankfully, none of the perversion. In fact despite deep-seated neuroses,... More >>

• Made Mouse-terful

  published July 18, 2002

  It took the creative giants behind MIIB (a.k.a. Men in Black II) five years to come up with a disappointingly flat and uninspired... More >>

• Tales From the Cryptologist

  published May 16, 2002

  Quick! Name a brilliant mathematician at one of the country's leading academic institutions who, despite obvious emotional problems that keep him... More >>

• From Girls to Men

  published April 18, 2002

  An eighteenth-century battle of the sexes, Triumph of Love contains a radiant performance by Mira Sorvino as a princess whose... More >>

• The Wedding Zinger

  published March 28, 2002

  Cell phones and silk saris, dot-coms and arranged marriages -- Monsoon Wedding, the latest film from Indian-born director Mira Nair... More >>

• Tasty Danish

  published February 21, 2002

  To call a movie the most accessible Dogme 95 film ever made is not merely damning with faint praise. It also threatens to alienate the two... More >>

• Tautou You

  published January 10, 2002

  The mere presence of wide-eyed French gamine Audrey Tautou, star of the art-house hit Amelie, may be enough to get people into theaters to... More >>