GARDEN STATE

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard
DIRECTOR:  Zach Braff
WRITER:  Zach Braff

PLOT:  The estranged Andrew comes home for his mother's funeral and must deal with feelings he is unable to put off any longer, by his side his good friend Mark and his new friend Sam help him through this time.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Last Kiss, Away We Go, Hesher

SCORE:

AN EDUCATION

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike
DIRECTOR:  Lone Scherfig
WRITER:  Nick Hornby, Lynn Barber

PLOT:  Set in London in the 1960s, a young girl in high school with dreams and aspirations meets a charming much older playboy that takes advantage of her naivete. 

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Mona Lisa Smile, About A Boy, Pretty In Pink

SCORE:

FLIGHTPLAN

GENRE:  Drama/ Mystery/ Thriller
MADE:  2005
CAST:  Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean
DIRECTOR:  Robert Schwentke
WRITER:  Peter A. Dowling, Billy Ray

PLOT:  A plot is against her or is she just going crazy?  A woman and her young daughter get on a plane to American from Berlin when the  child disappears mid-flight.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Silence Of The Lambs,  Panic Room, Contact

SCORE:

KNIGHT AND DAY

GENRE:  Action/ Comedy
MADE:  2010
CAST:  Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard
DIRECTOR:  James Mangold
WRITER:  Patrick O'Neill

PLOT:  007 and "Bridget Jones's Diary" give birth to an unlikely romance during the most unlikeliest of times, as they are targets for assassination in the midst of a war for a claim over a battery with the Feds and illegal arms dealers.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The A-Team, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Charlie's Angels

SCORE:

NOTE:  I wasn't expecting much to begin with but was, I have to admit, slightly curious about the Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz team in this film, thought they were an unlikely pair and it just so happens that it showed in the film.  The characters were odd, there was no chemistry between the two actors, the comedic acting was.... eh...  Pure entertainment and not much else to it.