“Invictus” directed by Clint Eastwood

  Invictus is based on events before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in South Africa.  In his Oscar nominated performance, Morgan Freeman as Mandela,  asks the national rugby team captain (Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Matt Damon) and his squad to do the impossible and win the World Cup.

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“The Blind side” directed by John Lee Hancock

Based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The storyline features Michael Oher,  who plays for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. The film follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing, through , his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, and on to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football. For her performance, Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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“The Producers” written and directed by Mel  Brooks

Mel Brooks’s directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut.

Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling checks from his “investors,” elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company. When wide-eyed auditor Leo Bloom (Wilder) comes to check the books, he unwittingly inspires the wild-eyed Max to hatch a sure-fire plan: sell 25,000 percent of his next show, produce a deliberate flop, then abscond with the proceeds. Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley.

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