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Gramercy Pictures was an American film production label. It was founded on May 20, 1992 as a joint venture between PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures . Gramercy was the distributor of PolyGram films in the United States and Canada and also served as Universal's art-house division.
Release DateTitleNotesBudgetMay 14, 1993distribution only; produced by PolyGram ...$10 millionAugust 20, 1993co-production with Wildwood Enterprises ...$8 millionSeptember 3, 1993distribution only; produced by PolyGram ...$8.5 millionSeptember 24, 1993co-production with Alphaville and Detour ...$6.9 millionApr 6, 2024 · I look at how Gramercy Pictures hopped from company and company and released its share of offbeat films, including Coen Brothers classics and early movies fr...
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Mar 2, 2022 · Gramercy Pictures Rewatching "Barb Wire" in 2022 is legitimately wild, knowing that it's set in a 2017 world where the second civil war has broken out and the United States is now being run by ...
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- 20 Nikita — La Femme Nikita
- 19 Lelaina Pierce — Reality Bites
- 18 Officer Megan Turner — Blue Steel
- 17 Kat Strafford — 10 Things I Hate About You
- 16 Vivian Ward — Pretty Woman
- J. Monoghan — Copycat
- 14 Ruth Stoops — Citizen Ruth
- 13 Lola — Run Lola Run
- 12 Tracy Flick — Election
- 11 Cher Horowitz — Clueless
Anne Parillaud portrays the titular Nikita in this action thriller written and directed by Luc Besson. And some fans of Le Femme Nikita(1990) may be a bit surprised to see the film kicking off the list. But a spot anywhere among the twenty best female protagonists of the 1990s is nothing to hang one’s head about. It follows the titular protagonist ...
Valedictorian, humanitarian, aspiring videographer — Lelaina Pierce does it all. Portrayed by Winona Ryder, she appears as the protagonist of Reality Bites(1994) as she makes the titular documentary about the mundane lives of her friends. And she really steals the show, with the film as a whole going down as a cult classic after receiving lukewarm ...
Played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the protagonist of Blue Steel (1990) in Officer Megan Turner leads the charge in what is perhaps the most intriguing inciting incidenton the entire list. The film begins with Officer Turner shooting a robber in a convenience store, where a bystander subsequently retrieves the dead robber’s gun, exits the crime scene, and...
As one of the more famous characters on the list, Kat Strafford resonated with millions of high school girls across the globe. She is of course the protagonist of 10 Things I Hate About You(1999), and she’s portrayed to a career-defining extent by Julia Stiles. Of course, she shared the screen with the late, great Heath Ledger, who performs to an e...
In one of the defining romantic comedies of the decade, Julia Roberts plays the titular character in Pretty Woman(1990). A free-spirit prostitute from Hollywood, Vivian Ward boasts a strong sense of independence, courage, and honesty that is rarely seen in protagonists of her archetype. She’s not wealthy like her love interest counterpart Edward Le...
Although Sigourney Weaver appears first on the cast list in Copycat (1995) as Dr. Helen Hudson, a psychologist who specializes in the tendencies of serial killers, the true protagonist is Inspector M.J. Monaghan. Portrayed to a critically acclaimed degree by American actress Holly Hunter, she takes the center role as the lead detective hot on the h...
The titular character Ruth Stoops is played by Laura Dern, who performs with pure poignance all throughout Citizen Ruth (1996). Made by Alexander Payne in his directorial debut, it follows Ruth as a poor and drug-addicted woman whose pregnancy sparks further debate across the country regarding the hot topic of abortion. It's arguably the most promi...
A German language film, Run Lola Run(1998) saw direction under Tom Twyker, while the character Lola was portrayed by Franka Potente. And it’s hard to determine what has a greater, more show-stealing effect: the development of Lola as a character and the scriptwriting basis in general, or the on-point performance from Potente that ultimately defined...
This is the second entry on the list that features a film from American director Alexander Payne, and there’s an argument that Election(1999) remains his magnum opus to this day. It’s a witty, award-winning script about an overachieving high school student whose campaign for the student council president is complicated by the antics of one of her t...
Written and directed by Amy Heckerling, her magnum opus features Alicia Silverstone in her breakthrough role as Cher Horowitz. And sure, the rest of the cast members of Clueless(1995) each hold more name value today than the actress who played the protagonist, with names such as Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Donald Faison, and Breckin Meyer. But with...
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Gramercy Pictures was one of the 90s "indie" studios born from a larger, established studio, in this case Universal, which started the label in 1992 alongside PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, hence the name ("Gram" for PolyGram and "Ercy" for …
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Gramercy Pictures (part of Focus Features) makes, acquires, and releases bold action, horror, and sci-fi genre fare. The movies will be released nationwide and appeal to a broad audience. Upcoming ...
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