Director: Matt Williams

Main Cast: Natalie Portman, James Frain, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, Dylan Bruno, and Sue McCormick

Release Date: April 28, 2000 

Main Plot: Novalee Nation is a pregnant seventeen-year-old from Tennessee. She is on her way to California with her hubby Willy Jack Pickens. Still, She is dumped at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. Novalee only has $5.55 in her hand, no credentials, and no occupation. So she lives in the Walmart until her daughter Americus is born after six weeks. Novalee decides to raise her daughter and reconstruct her life in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with the assistance of eccentric but kind strangers. Based on Billie Letts’ best-selling novel. Novalee sneakily resides in the town’s Walmart because she has little food and money. Novalee is befriended and eventually helped by various townsfolk, including a functioning alcoholic named Sister Husband, a single mother, and nursing assistant Lexi Coop. They designate her children after convenience foods, Walmart’s agreement photographer Moses Whitecotton, and Forney Hull, a scholastically brilliant man from New York, England.

Director: Terrence Malick

Main Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan, and Fiona Shaw

Release Date: May 17, 2011

Main Plot: The imagistic story of a 1950s Texas family. The film follows the eldest son, Jack, from his childhood innocence to his disillusioned adult years as he attempts to reconcile a complicated relationship with his dad. Jack is a lost soul in the world today, looking for answers to the origins and life’s purpose while doubting the existence of faith. His mother had been overly caring and cultivating. She tried to instill in her children a sense of wonder about the world. His father was unyielding and did not tolerate disobedience because he wanted to prepare his children for a complex world practically. Mr. O’Brien’s actions were also influenced by internal conflicts about what he did and wanted to do with his life. Middle-aged Jack’s current thoughts return to the death of his brother R.L. The latter was brutally murdered in military service at nineteen.

Director: Nathan Frankowski

Main Cast: Ben Stein, Lili Asvar, Peter Atkins, Hector Avalos, Hector Avalos

Release Date: April 18, 2008 

Main Plot: According to Ben Stein, academic freedom is under attack. He claims that professors across the United States are being fired for advocating for, or even considering, creation science as a substitute for Darwinism. Stein speaks with expelled scholars and other intelligent design supporters. He also conversations the scientists in the mainstream who endorse Darwinism. Stein associates Darwinism with Hitlerism, Communism, eugenics, and abortion. This is an in-depth examination of Higher Reasoning. Prevalent in academia at all colleges and governments worldwide. From the writers of “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” to “Creations Tiny Mystery” to those even suggesting that Darwin may have been incorrect in “his” ideas of evolution. People are paying a high price for thinking outside the academic box. It has been demonstrated that evolution and natural processes can only affect what is already present.

Director: Wes Anderson

Main Cast: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd, Shea Fowler, Haley Miller, and Andrew Wilson

Release Date: February 21, 1996 

Main Plot: Three friends decide to commit a simple theft and flee. When Anthony is released from a psych institution following a depressive episode, he joins his roommate Dignan, who appears far less sane than the former. Dignan had also invented a baffling plan for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree involving his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry. Anthony and Dignan get a job and hit the road with the help of their pitiful neighbor and friend Bob, where Anthony falls in love with hospitality maid Inez. When our boys eventually meet Mr. Henry, the ongoing adventure is far from what anybody expects. 

Director:  A. Troy Thomas

Main Cast: Jay Ali, David Azerrad, H. Robert Baker, Richard Beeman, Sara Bon-Harper, Douglas Bradburn, and Catherine Braxton

Release Date: April 4, 2016

Main Plot: America during the Revolutionary War was a place of exceptional paradox. The Founding Fathers of America desired a nation of personal freedom and unprecedented independence. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Founding document in 1776, “We hold these truths that all men are created equal. That their Unalienable rights bestow them, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the American dream.” However, the beginnings of America were already rife with a deep-seated and cruel paradox. On the other hand, the Founding Fathers rallied the colonists to freedom while actively participating in the vicious establishment of chattel slavery. Undoubtedly, the Founding Fathers advocated for both liberty and slavery at the same time. This paradox of American history raises numerous important questions.