Bateman Family DVD List

Last update: 19 December 2005

Total number of titles: 183
Total number of “foreign” films: 16

Language keys do not indicate whether dubbed or merely subtitled.
Available language keys: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek and Thai.

Multiple films in single collections (such as the Star Wars Trilogy) are counted only as 1.   Special bonus disks and other thematic material included on additional disks are not counted.

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Title Year Rating Length
2010: The Year We Make Contact 1984 PG 114

Genre: Science fiction, Drama

Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren

Languages: F

Comment: This was a fun film.

Amistad 1997 R 155

Genre: History, Drama

Stars: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Pete Postlewaite

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Comment: This film discusses the intrinsic right humans have to freedom.

Animal Farm (George Orwell) 1999 (NR) 91

Genre: Allegory, Political

Stars: Julia Ormand, Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer

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Comment: This is an allegory about political and economic control.

Anna and the King 1999 PG-13 147

Genre: History, Drama, Foreign

Stars: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun Fat

Languages: FS

Comment: I don't ordinarily like Jodie Foster, but this movie was well done.

Avalon 1990 PG 128

Genre: History, Drama

Stars: Armin Müller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright, Elijah Wood

Languages: FSPCKT

Comment: Fascinating survey of an immigrant family from the arrival of its first members on American shores to its third and fourth generations.

Baptists at Our Barbecue 2004 PG 93

Genre: Comedy, Religious

Stars: Dan Kerkey, Heather Beers

Languages: S

Comment: Total fun.

Bean 1997 PG-13 91

Genre: Comedy

Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNichol

Languages: F

Comment: Rowan Atkinson—what can I say?

The Best Two Years 2004 PG 109

Genre: Comedy, Religious

Stars: KC Clyde, Kirby Heyborne, David Nibley, Cameron Hopkin, Michael Flynn

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Comment: This was more reminiscent of my mission than God's Army.

Bicentennial Man 1999 PG 131

Genre: Drama, Fiction

Stars: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz

Languages: F

Comment:

Big 1988 PG 104

Genre: Comedy

Stars: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia

Languages: FS

Comment: A great film that launched Tom Hanks' career.