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Movies For EthicsSuggestions for some films for analysis You may pick any movie listed here or any one you choose as long as the character(s) is depicted accurately in the perspective of a particular virtue or virtues or a struggle for virtue.
Directions for the 2-3 page paper: Analyze a character in a movie by explaining what virtue(s) or struggle for virtue seems to you to represent the character; use scenes from the movie to illustrate how the virtue or the struggle for virtue is depicted.
"Sophie's Choice" with Meryl Streep
"Norma Rae" with Sally Field
"Station Agent" with Peter Dinkage
"Three Weddings and a Funeral" with Hugh Grant
"Erin Brocovitch" with Julia Roberts
"Life as a House" with Kevin Kline
Gandhi with Ben Kingsley
"Forest Gump" with Tom Hanks
"Saving Private Ryan" with Tom Hanks
"Minority Report" with Tom Cruise
"Music of the Heart" with Meryl Streep
"Ali" with Will Smith
"Dances With Wolves" with Keven Costner
"A Beautiful Mind" with Russel Crowe
"Chocolat" with Juliet Binoche
"Braveheart" with Mel Gibson
"Marvin's Room" with Meryl Streep
"Secrets and Lies" with Brenda Blethen
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" with Tony Randall
"Signs" with Mel Gibson
"Cider House Rules" with Michael Caine
"Salaam Bombay" with anyone in it
"Monsoon Wedding" with Naseerruddin Shah
"Monster's Ball" with Billy Bob Thornton & Halle Berry
"Shawshank Redemption" with Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman
"An Unmarried Woman" with Jill Clayburgh
"The Good Girl" with Jennifer Aniston
"John Q" with Denzel Washington
"Eight Mile" with Eminem
"Finding Nemo" with Marvin and Dory
"The Color Purple" with Whoopi Goldberg
"The Natural" with Robert Redford
"The English Patient" with Juliet Binoche, Ralphy Fiennes or Kristin Scott Thomas
"As Good As It Gets" with Helen Hunt or Jack Nicholson
"How to Make an American Quilt" with Winona Ryder
"Seabiscuit" with Toby Maguire or Jeff Bridges
"Evelyn" with Pierce Brosnan
"The Hours" with Nicole Kidman
"The Green Mile" with Tom Hanks
"Finding Neverland" with Johnny Depp
"The Whale Rider" with Keisha Castle-Hughes
"The Joy Luck Club" with Rose, Lindo, Waverly, Lena, Ying Ying, June, An Mei
"Love Actually" with Hugh Grant and Others
"Crash"
"Ray" with Jamie Foxx
"Walk The Line" with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon
"The Family Stone" with Diane Keaton
"Dream Girls"
"The Queen" with Helen Mirren
"Volver"
"Blood Diamond" with Leonardo DiCaprio
"The Pursuit of Happiness" with Will Smith
"Babel" with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett
"The Holiday" with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, and Kate Winslet
"Freedom Writers" with Hilary Swank
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