Amistad(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.



Starship Troopers(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.



Con Air(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.



Kundun(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 65

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.



In & Out(1997)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.



The Boxer(1997)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison after 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.



My Best Friend's Wedding(1997)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 53

When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding.



Selena(1997)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 58

The true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.



Seven Years in Tibet(1997)

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Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 48

True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet.



Deconstructing Harry(1997)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.



Ulee's Gold(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.



The Wings of the Dove(1997)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 56

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.



Anastasia(1997)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.



Oscar and Lucinda(1997)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 53

In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him ...



The Apostle(1997)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 42

After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.



Afterglow(1997)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.



A Thousand Acres(1997)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 26

"King Lear" set on a farm in Iowa.




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