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7th Annual Hollywood
Film Festival® &
Hollywood Awards®
October 15-20, 2003
2003 Hollywood Awards® Finalists
FEATURE FILMS
Feature Films Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5
Feature Films - Documentaries - Short Subjects
THE SINGING DETECTIVE
United States - Gala Premiere
By Invitation Only
109 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 7:00 pm, Oct. 16, Thursday.
The Singing Detective tells the story of crime novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) who, languishing in his hospital bed, occupies his time by mapping out a screenplay in his head about a cynical private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. His lead character is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of a prostitute in 1950s Los Angeles. Heavily medicated, the border between reality and fiction starts to blur in Dark's mind. The plot is woven together with his own painful childhood memories, and soon he is living in a fevered film-noir hell constructed by his own twisted psyche, where everyone is his enemy and no one can be trusted. Mel Gibson co-stars as the enigmatic Dr. Gibbon, the hospital psychiatrist who dares to take on Dark's tortured mind.
 Director: Keith Gordon
Writer: Dennis Potter, based on a television series by Dennis Potter
Producers: Mel Gibson, Steve Haft, Bruce Davey
Executive Producer: Stan Wlodkowski
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes, Adrien Brody, Jon Polito, Carla Gugino, Saul Rubinek, Alfre Woodard
TOUCH A DREAM
Japan - U.S. Premiere
 109 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 5:00 pm, Oct. 17, Friday. Maisaka City, a quiet town near the Pacific Ocean, lives Junichi Kawai, a young, ordinary boy who dreams of being a great swimmer. However, he knows he was born with a hereditary eye disease. Though he loses his eyesight completely at the age of 15, he never loses his passion for swimming. Troubles begin when he leaves the ordinary high school to enroll in a special school for the blind. His days become a living hell. His only way to overcome the situation is to keep swimming and fighting for his dream of becoming a Paralmpian.
Director: Jyunji Hanadoh
Writer: Hiroichi Fuse
Producers: Takumi Ogawa, Tadahiko Nobe, Setsuko Matsuba, Hiroyuki Sunaga
Cast: Tomokazu Miura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Ryo Katsuji, Junichi Kawai
TWO MEN WENT TO WAR
England - U.S. Premiere
94 mins. Arclight Cinemas, 7:00 pm, Oct. 17, Friday. A comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
Director: John Henderson
Writers: Richard Everett, Christopher Villiers, Raymond Foxall (book Amateur Commandos)
Producers: Ira Trattner, Pat Harding
Cast: enneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek Jacobi, Phyllida Law, James Fleet, Julian Glover, Anthony Valentine
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Feature Films - Documentaries - Short Subjects
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