Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) were the three astronauts almost lost in space in Apollo 13. The true story was brilliantly adapted to film by Ron Howard.
James Cameron directs his cast on a marine drop-ship in Avatar, his latest science-fiction film. The marines are headed to Pandora, a distant planet inhabited by vicious natives.
Tommy Lee Jones stars as Thaddeus Stevens in this still from Lincoln. The biopic, directed by Steven Spielberg, focuses on the last few months of the president's life.
Matt Damon plays Rugby Captain Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. In the film, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) tasks Pienaar with winning the World Cup to unite the people of South Africa in the wake of apartheid.
Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) plays a hooker living a fairy tale fantasy in "Pretty Woman." Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) gets her as an escort but then falls in love with her.
Malfoy: Why so tense, Potter? My father and I have a bet, you see. See, I don't think you're going to last ten minutes in this tournament. He disagrees. He thinks you won't last five! Harry: I don't give a damn what your father thinks, Malfoy! He's vile and cruel, and you're just pathetic!
[narrating] I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world. He never said who did it, but we all knew.
