Fantasy Romance
For you guys out there trying to find something romantic to watch without falling into the hell known as Kate Hudson’s career here’s a few romances from the Sci-fi/Fantasy genre you might be able to sneak into the DVD stack.
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Laurence Fishburne
What’s the Count?
- Title: 21
- IMDB: link
The movie centers around Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), a promising mathematican at MIT who has been accepted to Harvard Medical School but lacks the funds to enroll.
Ben is approached by one of his professors (Kevin Spacey) and offered a unique opportunity to join a team of talented students (Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts) who count cards in Vegas during the weekend. At first Ben refuses the offer, but the temptation is strong, especially when the girl he has lusted over for months, Jill (Bosworth), begs him to join the team. And after all Ben can always stop after he earns enough for school. Yeah, right.
When the film deals with temptation, it works amazingly well. Ben is thrust into a world, despite his intelligence and talent, he is ill-prepared for. He becomes disconnected from his best friends (Josh Gad, Sam Golzari), lies to his mother (Helen Carey), and becomes completely infatuated with winning and the new lifestyle which comes with it.
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G-O-O-D
- Title: Akeelah and the Bee
- IMDb: link
How cool are spelling bees? The film asks that question multiple times and the answer shifts from person to person over the course of the film including our title character. Akeelah and the Bee actually makes the National Spelling Bee look pretty darn cool. Now c’mon folks, that should pique your interest.
Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is an underachieving student in Crenshaw, California with an older sister (Erica Hubbard) who has a baby, a brother (Julito McCullum) who wants to become a gangbanger, and a mother (Angela Bassett) who works all the time and has little time or patience for her kids’ problems and screw-ups.
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