Plot Summary: Katherine has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion for her students. Encouraging her students to strive for a more enlightened future, Watson challenges the administration and inspires these women to look beyond the image of what is, and consider the possibilities of what could be.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Katherine Ann Watson
Starring: Julia Roberts, Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden
Length: 1 hr. 59 min.
Release Date: December 19th, 2003
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Plot Summary: Competing journalists at rival papers fall in love while exposing a government-involved scandal. He offers tips and advice; she scoops him. Then, their snappy patter, repartee, and ripostes get romantic even as their competitive juices overflow. Will corrupt scientists at a chemical company whose goats give cancer-causing milk kill the cub and the columnist, or will they escape with their lives and their by-lines to hear wedding bells?
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Sabrina Peterson
Starring: Nick Nolte, Julia Roberts, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia
Length: 2 hrs. 3 min.
Release Date: 29 June 1994
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Plot Summary: Grace Bichon, who is managing her father’s riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie deceives her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae’s house for a while, to make up her mind. Her actions influence not only her marriage, but her parent’s marriage, too.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Grace King Bichon
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick
Length: 1 hr. 45 min.
Release Date: 4 August 1995
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Plot Summary: Woody Allen’s 26th film is a celebration of an eccentric and very extended exploring of a family of rich liberal Upper East who are involved in the lessons of life as though it were a musical from the 1930’s. A number of scenes are set in music to the traditions of the old musicals where lines would lead into songs and dances.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Von Sidell
Starring: Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Goldie Hawn, Drew Barrymore, Edward Norton
Length: 1 hr. 41 min.
Release Date: December 6, 1996
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Plot Summary: After the disastrous defeat of Irish rebels by superior British forces during the Easter Week rebellion of 1916, Michael Collins develops new strategies for the independence of Ireland. It would result in both the triumph of the free Irish Republic and the terror in Northern Ireland that continues to make bloody headlines today. And it would forever change the ways people wage wars of independence.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Kitty Kiernan
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ian Hart, Julia Roberts, Richard Ingram, Aidan Quinn
Length: 2 hrs. 12 min.
Release Date: October 11, 1996
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Plot Summary: We are somewhere in England in the 19th century. A Pretty housemaid works in a nice house, which is Dr. Jekyll’s house. Mary Reilly think she found her best job, because she is poor and the doctor is well-known and rich. ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ story is unreveiled as a woman sees the two men, one of them is good and the other is evil. And she loves them …
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Mary Reilly
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon, Kathy Staff
Length: 1 hr. 58 min.
Release Date: 23 February 1996
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Plot Summary: Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He makes complicated scenarios of conspiracies and publishes them in a newsletter sent out to five recipients. He keeps doing that, until something unbelievable happens: One of his “conspiracy theories” turns out to be real.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Alice Sutton
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Stephen Kahan
Length: 2 hrs. 14 min.
Release Date: 8 August 1997
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Plot Summary: A 28-year-old woman Julianne, who years earlier made a pact with her closest male friend Michael that if neither were married in ten years time they would marry one another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry someone else. He asks her to be his “best man”. She becomes jealous and tries to break off the wedding.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Julianne Potter
Starring: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco
Length: 1 hr. 45 min
Release Date: June 20, 1997
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Plot Summary: Jackie – a full-time mother – and Isabel – a successful photographer – have nothing in common – one is the ideal mother, the other is struggling to be any kind of mother. The conflict between them is deep until circumstances force them to share a family and put aside their mutual hostility for the sake of the children. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Isabel Kelly
Starring: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Liam Aiken
Length: 2 hrs. 4 min.
Release Date: December 25, 1998
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Plot Summary: Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes an offensive column without any research about a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. The next day, Ike gets fired by his publisher, because he went too far and faked the facts. Ike’s only way back into the business now is to do a fact-based report on Maggie and her upcoming wedding attempt, which Ike predicts to fail again.
Julia Roberts’s role: Julia Roberts played as Maggie Carpenter
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson
Length: 1 hr. 50 min.
Release Date: July 30, 1999
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Plot Summary: Katherine has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion for her students. Encouraging her students to strive for a more enlightened future, Watson challenges the administration and inspires these women to look beyond the image of what is, and consider the possibilities of what could be.
