It’s resolution time, so here are some movies to help you define your failings. If you’re not as bad as these characters, take the year off from self-improvement.
Lust
“9 1/2 Weeks”: Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger play strangers who spend the title amount of time in a sexual haze.
Gluttony
“Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life”: Mr. Creasote (Terry Jones) has one mint too many, “wafer thin” though it might be.
Greed
“Wall Street”: As Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas delivers a warm treatise on the virtues of avarice that seems to have resonated far beyond this 1987 film.
Sloth
“Dude, Where’s My Car?”: Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott play potheads who’ve misplaced a car and picked up a load of trouble, though they can’t recall how.
Wrath
“The Untouchables”: At a lovely dinner, Al Capone (Robert De Niro) chastises an unfortunate employee with a baseball bat to the head.
Envy
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“Single White Female”: As Hedy, the roommate from hell, Jennifer Jason Leigh assumes or destroys all the facets of Allie’s (Bridget Fonda’s) life.
Pride
“The Hustler”: Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) is a young pool player whose hubris leads him to challenge champ Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason), with disastrous consequences.