The super-smart but tragically nerdy kids go to Harvard; the wise-ass geniuses go to Yale. Natalie Portman went to Yale. Therefore, no one should feel at all surprised that Portman can follow a brilliant and breathtaking performance in Black Swan with a charming and lighthearted romp through No Strings Attached. The bitter and brutal ballet movie showed critics and audiences just how smart, sensitive, and psychotic Portman can become when a role demands manic intensity. One critic commented, "She always has been good, but now we know the woman actually can act—except she is so good we forget she is acting." No Strings Attached proves Portman's range, and it satisfies her concern that Hollywood produces far too few "vulgar" comedies for women by women and starring women."No Strings Attached gained director Ivan Reitman's attention when it qualified for the 2009 "Hollywood Blacklist," a studio executive's annual collection of the best scripts that have failed to make the cut at every major studio. The writers pitched No Strings Attached in a single sentence: "A guy and a girl struggle to have an exclusively sexual relationship as they both come to realize they want much more." Although the plot seems painfully thin, irony, sentiment, and humor alloy the script. Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher punctuate and pixelate the post-modern era's answer to Doris Day and Rock Hudson, delivering a sweetly satisfying Valentine's Day confection. Apparently, at Yale, students learn never to take themselves or their obvious brilliance too seriously.

Dr. Alfred Jones is a self described suburban skeptic who just happens to have a vast knowledge about fish, especially salmon. So when a Middle East Sheik who is passionate about fly fishing for salmon brings up his dream of making that dream come true in the dry deserts of the Middle East, he goes to Jones for help. What sounds like an outlandish request is actually doable with dams and lots of financial backing (which the Sheik definitely has in abundance). Director Lasse Hallström (Water for Chocolat, The Cider House Rules) goes a bit overboard with the clichéd "swimming against the time" but the film is well worth watching.tarring Ewan McGregor (The Men Who Stare at Goats, Angels & Demons) as Dr. Alfred Jones, Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau, Gulliver's Travels) is Harriet Chetwode-Talbot a management consultant for the salmon fishing enthusiastic Sheik, and Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Confessions of a Shopaholic) plays Bridgett Maxwell. There wasn't any bridging of diplomatic relations during the filming of this movie, just an entertaining story well acted out.

The Perfect Score is a 2004 American teen heist comedy-drama film directed by Brian Robbins. The film follows a group of high school students who conspire to steal the answers to the SAT exam in order to achieve the perfect score. The group includes a diverse range of characters, each with their own motivations for wanting to succeed on the test.

Jim and Cindy Green discover they cannot have a child of their own and like many other couples, go about finding alternative methods to conceive or at least get their own child. This couple however, decides to go about it a bit unconventionally. They gather up all their wishes including a description of just what they'd love their own child to be like and then put those wishes hopes and dreams in a box and bury it in their backyard. The small box contains details and characteristics, including that the child someday successfully becoming a winner and scores a winning goal. dark and stormy night follows the impromptu burial and the next morning a visitor appears at the Green's front door in the form of a 10 year old boy. Timothy claims the Greens to be his very own family and they soon realize this boy is far more special, downright tailor made for them, than they could have ever imagined. Mom Cindy Green is played by Jennifer Garner (Juno, Elektra), the father Jim Green is played by Joel Edgerton (2011's The Thing, Animal Kingdom), and Timothy Green is played by young CJ Adams (Dan in Real Life). Also appearing are Dianne Wiest, Ron Livingston, M. Emmet Walsh, and David Morse. This is a heartwarming tale in the true Disney tradition!

Mermaids is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin. The film stars Cher as Rachel Flax, a single mother who moves with her two daughters, played by Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci, to a new town in Massachusetts in the early 1960s. The film follows the family as they navigate the challenges of growing up and coming of age.

Blinded by the Light is a 2019 British comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The film tells the story of Javed, a Pakistani British teenager growing up in 1980s Luton who discovers the music of Bruce Springsteen and finds inspiration in the lyrics to pursue his dreams of becoming a writer. The film is based on the memoir Greetings from Bury Park by journalist Sarfraz Manzoor.