Special Features.. Adults Only Box Office Champ Camp Classic ~ ~ ~ Caper Chick Flick. ~, ~ ~ ~City SettingComic Book AdaptationCross-DressingCult FilmDate MovieFood-ThemedForeign Film Guy Movie Independent Film Literary Adaptation . ~ Movies About Movies Occupation Oscar Winner Other Great FilmsReligion. ~.Remake. ~.Rock 'n' RotSoundtrackSportsStage Adaptation264264264265265266266 267.268.268.268.269~ 269.271.271 271 273.. 273.. 275.. 279.. 280.. 280.. 280.. 280.. 283 .. 283About This SurveyFor 24 years, Zagat Survey has reported on the sharedexperiences of diners and travelers like you. In recentyears,we've expanded our scope to cover entertaining, nightlife,shopping and golf. Now we are proud to bring you theultimate moviegoers' guide, a compilation of the 1,000 bestfilms to watch. And we've gone one step further to make thisa valuable and entertaining resource- for the first time, we'vepartnered with E!, a leader in entertainment programming,who will bring this guide to life on TV. We also want to thankour sponsor, SONY Electronics, for its invaluable support.With over 5,300 participants in this Survey, seeing an aver-age of 2.2 movies per week (or 613,000 films annually), andwith each surveyor separately rating the films they've seenfor Overall Quality, Acting, Story and Production Values, wehope to have achieved a uniquely reliable guide.Of our surveyors, 50% are women, 50% men; the break-down by age is 24% in their 20s, 30% in their 30s, 18% intheir 40s, 18% in their 50s and 10% in their 60s or above~Though living in all parts of the country and coming fromhighly diverse backgrounds, these surveyors share onecommon trait-they are all movie lovers. In producing thereviews contained in this guide, our editors have synop-sized surveyors' opinions, with their exact commentsshown in quotation marks. We thank each of these par-ticipants for their thoughtful comments and ratings~ Thisguide is really "theirs."To help our readers find the best movie for each occasion, wehave prepared a number of lists - see Most Popular (page 9)and Top Ratings (pages 10-26)- and 57 handy indexes.Though 84% of the films in this book are now available onDMD, to assist potential viewers, we have flagged those notavailable with an icon - 0.If you'd like to join our next Movie Survey or any of ourupcoming Surveys, all you need to do is register at zagat.comand selectthe survey in which you'd like to participate. Eachvoter will receive a free copy of the resulting guide whenit is published.Since this is a first-time effort, there is sure to be room forimprovement. We would appreciate your comments, sugges-lions and even criticisms so that we can revise our futureeditions. Please contact us at movies@zagat.com or by mail atMovies-Zagat Survey, 4 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019~We Iookforward to hearing from you and appreciate your help.New York, NYSeptember 18, 2002www.zagat.com Nina and Tim Zagat5