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Next Best Thing, The (2000)
IMDB rating: 4.50
Plot: A comedy-drama about best friends – one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) – who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s [...]

Thirteen Days (2000)
IMDB rating: 7.30
Plot: In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisors [...]

Waking the Dead (2000)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician – in 1972 he’s serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school. Along the way he falls in love with Sarah, a fiercely idealistic woman who [...]

Pay It Forward (2000)
IMDB rating: 6.70
Plot: A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can “pay it forward” [...]

Road to El Dorado, The (2000)
IMDB rating: 6.40
Plot: In 1517, Spanish-wanted street swindlers Miguel and Tulio’s uncanny luck gets them a map to El Dorado and a stowaway passage, albeit in Cortez’s stocks destined for floggings and slavery on Cuba. They escape, thanks to the war horse Altivo; a storm brings them on a Mexican [...]

Art of War, The (2000)
IMDB rating: 5.50
Plot: Shaw is an operative for the United Nations’ covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China’s ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade [...]