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# Dan Dunn: Hitch, Bride & Prejudice and Inside Deep Throat lead this week's movies
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/whats-playing-20050218/
- Published: 2005-02-18T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:08:22.000Z
- Author: Dan Dunn
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

HITCH Smith and James make a good team and hit all the right comedic notes working with very funny material.

Starring: Will Smith, Kevin James, Eva Mendez BRIDE & PREJUDICE American audiences will be captivated by Aishwarya Rai, Bollywood's most popular female star.

Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson INSIDE DEEP THROAT A provocative, highly entertaining look inside the “Deep Throat” phenomenon and the indelible impression it made on the cultural landscape.

THE WEDDING DATE Why do fools fall in love? Maybe for the same reason they make half-baked chick flicks … cuz some people never learn.

Starring: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney RORY O’SHEA WAS HERE Dramatically charged, funny, and most of all uplifting, This is the first best movie of 2005.

Starring: Steven Robertson, James McAvoy HIDE AND SEEK What is, for a solid 80 minutes or so, a pretty hair-raising and suspenseful thriller, falls apart more quickly and embarrassingly than a drunken “Real World” cast member.

Starring: Robert DeNiro, Dakota Fanning ALONE IN THE DARK A deliriously edited special-effects cannonade featuring a once-semirespectable movie star slogging through a morass of detritus left over from seemingly every bad sci-fi flick ever committed to celluloid.

Starring: Christian Slater ARE WE THERE YET?

Ten minutes into this hapless family comedy, you’ll be wishing you were anywhere but there.

Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long COACH CARTER Succeeds thanks to an inspirational story, some highly realistic and exciting basketball action, and a winning performance from Samuel L. Jackson.

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown, Ashanti THE AVIATOR The second-best biopic Scorsese has helmed, behind the exalted “Raging Bull.” DiCaprio’s portrayal of Hughes stands out as the finest work of his career.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 18, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021805.pdf?ref=smdp.com)