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Because I Said So
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Michael Lehmann
Screenwriter: Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson
Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, Steven Collins
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Plot Summary: Powerhouse actresses Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo serve up the laughs when they join wickedly funny director Michael Lehmann ("The Truth about Cats & Dogs," "40 Days and 40 Nights," "Heathers") in his new film about cutting the apron strings, "Because I Said So."
Keaton stars as Daphne Wilder, a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie (Graham), sexy and irreverent Mae (Perabo) and insecure, adorable Milly (Moore)-who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper.
In order to prevent her youngest from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Little does Milly know, however, that her mom placed an ad in the online personals to find him. Comic mayhem unfolds as Daphne continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons...all in the name of love.
In a hilarious battle of strong wills, the mother-daughter dynamic is tested in all its fierce, wacky complexity. The girls help Daphne finally discover the truths and impossibilities of motherly love, all while trying to answer the questions: where does it begin and where should it end?
Joining Lehmann behind the scenes on "Because I Said So" are scribes Karen Leigh Hopkins ("Stepmom") and Jessie Nelson ("I Am Sam"). Paul Brooks ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") produces the film with Nelson.
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Factory Girl
Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company
Director: George Hickenlooper
Screenwriter: Captain Mauzner
Starring: Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Mena Suvari, Jimmy Fallon
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: "Factory Girl" imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. Sedgwick appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard education, not to mention her ethereal beauty and vivacious charisma. But she was also a lost and fragile little girl; and when she met up with counter-culture anti-hero Andy Warhol, everything changed. Suddenly, Edie found herself at the center of a Pop Art universe bursting with sex, drugs, style and rock 'n' roll -- and a mad rush for fame and fabulousness that was destined to spin out of control.
Arriving into the chaos of mid-60s New York, Edie (Sienna Miller) is taken under the wing of the famously deadpan artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who sees in her untamed vulnerability the makings of an irresistible muse. Warhol invites Edie into the wild world of The Factory, a former downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian paradise. Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists, actors and misfits gather to create avant-garde movies during the day and throw glam parties all night long. Edie quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol's movies, an idol at The Factory and a media darling. She is on top of the world when she falls in love with a larger-than-life rock star (Hayden Christensen), the man known as "the voice of a generation." But when Edie becomes caught between Warhol's world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds up rejected by both – and once again, set adrift in the modern world.
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Fired!
Studio: Shout! Factory
Director: Chris Bradley, Kyle LaBrache
Screenwriter: Annabelle Gurwitch
Starring: Annabelle Gurwitch, Tim Allen, David Cross, Andy Dick, Tate Donovan, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Garlin, Richard Kind, Anne Meara, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Reich, Jeffrey Ross, Harry Shearer, Ben Stein, Sarah Silverman
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Plot Summary: If you spend any time at all in the workplace you're going to get laid off, down-sized, let go, out-sourced, axed, terminated, canned, cancelled, dismissed... FIRED!
When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen she wondered how she would cope with being fired by a cultural icon. Turning to friends in show business she was assured she was not alone. Once the subject had been broached, everyone she knew from her rabbi and gynecologists to her colleagues had advice and their own accounts of getting the boot to offer. This set her off on a journey to answer the question: was being fired going to be the best thing or worst thing that had happened in her working life.
Gurwitch began researching and traveling the country, interviewing people as diverse as Tim Allen, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Garlin, Anne Meara, David Cross and GM workers in Lansing, Michigan whose perspectives ranged from the tragically comedic to proving that old adage when one door closes another door opens, to the just plain tragic. Annabelle attended job fairs, received "outplacement services", interviewed human resource directors, downsizers, and the downsized who were seeking new jobs.
"Fired!" reminds us that all great success come out of failure and being fired can be a part of the growth process, that humor helps, and that if you're employed in America today your firing may be the best and the worst thing that can happen in your working life.
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The Messengers
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Screenwriter: Mark Wheaton
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Plot Summary: There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomenon. They can see what adults cannot, they believe what adults deny. And they are trying to warn us. In "The Messengers," a suspense thriller starring Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and John Corbett, the Solomon family has left big city life for a secluded farm in North Dakota. Soon after they arrive at their new home, 16 year-old Jess and her 3 year old brother begin seeing ominous apparitions that no one else can see, and are repeatedly attacked by something from the other side. Now they must try desperately to warn the rest of the family before it's too late.
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Constellation
Studio: Codeblack Entertainment, Shoreline Entertainment
Director: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Screenwriter: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Starring: Zoë Saldana, Lesley Ann Warren, Billy Dee Williams, Hill Harper, David Clennon, Rae Dawn Chong, Melissa De Sousa, Alex Newman, Gabrielle Union, Shin Koyamada, Daniel Bess, Clarence Williams III, Ever Carradine
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: The story chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch, Helms Boxer (Williams), must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
When the beloved Carmel Boxer passes away, her entire fmaily returns to Hunstville, Alabama to celebrate her life and legacy. As the Boxer family comes together for the first time in many years, revelations of Carmel's painful past begin to force each person to address their pent up emotions and true feelings for one another. "Constellation" explores the redemptive power of love and spotlights the importance of honesty and the bonds of family loyalty.
East of Havana
Studio: Sony BMG
Director: Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Emilia Menocal
Screenwriter: Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Emilia Menocal
Starring: Not available
Genre: Documentary, Music
Plot Summary: "East of Havana" is an unflinching look at the Cuban Hip-Hop Scene and a youth movement. The film focuses on the lives and friendship of three young rappers compelled to address their generation's future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto.
Soandry, Magyori, and Mikki possess the undeniable talent and charisma of pop icons; creating music whose cross-pollination of early American rap and Latin influences brings self-expression to its sharpest, riskiest, and most triumphant point; but within Cuba's fearless and rebellious underground movement, they are also the defacto leaders, looking for their place in a world filled with limitations.
In the Pit
Studio: Kino International
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Sofia García López, José Guadalupe Calzada, Isabel Dolores Hernández, Pedro Sánchez Bernal
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: According to Mexican legend, the devil demands one soul be offered up for every bridge built, as a guarantee for the structure's durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo's internationally-praised documentary, this age-old adage takes on mammoth proportions. Mexico City's "Second Deck" is a major architectural undertaking, an eleven-mile elevated freeway coursing through the center of the metropolis and impacting millions of lives. Among those affected by the project are the construction workers, who have helped transform the city. Director Rulfo crafts a deeply felt film about these men, the hands, hearts and minds behind a small universe of concrete and steel.
Puccini for Beginners
Studio: Strand Releasing
Director: Maria Maggenti
Screenwriter: Maria Maggenti
Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Gretchen Mol, Justin Kirk, Jennifer Dundas, Julianne Nicholson
Genre: Comedy
Plot Summary: New York writer and opera addict Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser, "The Family Stone") loves her girlfriend Samantha (Julianne Nicholson, "Kinsey"), but can't commit. When Samantha leaves her, Allegra rebounds with handsome philosophy professor Phillip (Justin Kirk, "Angels in America") as well as the irresistibly beautiful, recently single Grace (Gretchen Mol, "The Notorious Bettie Page"). Allegra juggles secret relationships with both of them, never suspecting that Philip and Grace have a connection of their own. With a sophisticated blend of humor and irony, this screwball sex comedy twists and turns with all the drama of classic Puccini.
Raising Flagg
Studio: Cinema Libre Studio
Director: Neal Miller
Screenwriter: Nancy Miller, Neal Miller, Dorothy Velasco
Starring: Alan Arkin, Lauren Holly, Glenne Headly, Stephanie Lemelin, Daniel Quinn, Matthew Arkin, Austin Pendleton, Barbara Dana, Robert Robertson, Richard Kind, Clifton James, Jan Hoag
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Plot Summary: "Raising Flagg" is a zany comedy-drama about a rural handyman, Flagg Purdy (Alan Arkin), who prides himself on being a man of principle – though he often can't remember which principle.
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The Situation
Studio: Shadow Distribution
Director: Philip Haas
Screenwriter: Wendell Steavenson
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Damian Lewis, Mido Hamada, John Slattery, Tom McCarthy, Peter Eyre, Shaun Evans, Saïd Amadis, Omar Berdouni, Nasser Memarzia, Mahmoud El Lozy, Driss Roukh
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Combining elements of thriller, romance, and war movie, "The Situation," set exclusively in Iraq and the first U.S. feature film to deal with the occupation, dramatizes one of the countless human stories that lie behind the headlines of the current war. When a group of American soldiers throw an Iraqi boy off a bridge in Samarra, the incident sets off a chain of events that exposes the deep rifts among the Iraqis in Samarra and results in yet another cycle of violence between the insurgents and the corrupt Iraqi police.
Anna (Connie Nielsen) is an American journalist who decides to write a story about the assassination of an Iraqi leader whom she admires. At the same time, she is pulling away from a relationship with Dan (Damian Lewis), an American intelligence official who thinks the war can be won with hearts and minds, and towards Zaid (Mido Hamada), a young Iraqi photographer who shows her there are people, rather than sides, in the conflict. As she tries to make sense of the half-truths of Iraq, she gets caught up in the violence and finds her life in danger.
Because I Said So
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Michael Lehmann
Screenwriter: Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson
Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, Steven Collins
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Plot Summary: Powerhouse actresses Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo serve up the laughs when they join wickedly funny director Michael Lehmann ("The Truth about Cats & Dogs," "40 Days and 40 Nights," "Heathers") in his new film about cutting the apron strings, "Because I Said So."
Keaton stars as Daphne Wilder, a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie (Graham), sexy and irreverent Mae (Perabo) and insecure, adorable Milly (Moore)-who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper.
In order to prevent her youngest from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Little does Milly know, however, that her mom placed an ad in the online personals to find him. Comic mayhem unfolds as Daphne continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons...all in the name of love.
In a hilarious battle of strong wills, the mother-daughter dynamic is tested in all its fierce, wacky complexity. The girls help Daphne finally discover the truths and impossibilities of motherly love, all while trying to answer the questions: where does it begin and where should it end?
Joining Lehmann behind the scenes on "Because I Said So" are scribes Karen Leigh Hopkins ("Stepmom") and Jessie Nelson ("I Am Sam"). Paul Brooks ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") produces the film with Nelson.
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Factory Girl
Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company
Director: George Hickenlooper
Screenwriter: Captain Mauzner
Starring: Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Mena Suvari, Jimmy Fallon
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: "Factory Girl" imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. Sedgwick appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard education, not to mention her ethereal beauty and vivacious charisma. But she was also a lost and fragile little girl; and when she met up with counter-culture anti-hero Andy Warhol, everything changed. Suddenly, Edie found herself at the center of a Pop Art universe bursting with sex, drugs, style and rock 'n' roll -- and a mad rush for fame and fabulousness that was destined to spin out of control.
Arriving into the chaos of mid-60s New York, Edie (Sienna Miller) is taken under the wing of the famously deadpan artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who sees in her untamed vulnerability the makings of an irresistible muse. Warhol invites Edie into the wild world of The Factory, a former downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian paradise. Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists, actors and misfits gather to create avant-garde movies during the day and throw glam parties all night long. Edie quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol's movies, an idol at The Factory and a media darling. She is on top of the world when she falls in love with a larger-than-life rock star (Hayden Christensen), the man known as "the voice of a generation." But when Edie becomes caught between Warhol's world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds up rejected by both – and once again, set adrift in the modern world.
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Fired!
Studio: Shout! Factory
Director: Chris Bradley, Kyle LaBrache
Screenwriter: Annabelle Gurwitch
Starring: Annabelle Gurwitch, Tim Allen, David Cross, Andy Dick, Tate Donovan, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Garlin, Richard Kind, Anne Meara, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Reich, Jeffrey Ross, Harry Shearer, Ben Stein, Sarah Silverman
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Plot Summary: If you spend any time at all in the workplace you're going to get laid off, down-sized, let go, out-sourced, axed, terminated, canned, cancelled, dismissed... FIRED!
When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen she wondered how she would cope with being fired by a cultural icon. Turning to friends in show business she was assured she was not alone. Once the subject had been broached, everyone she knew from her rabbi and gynecologists to her colleagues had advice and their own accounts of getting the boot to offer. This set her off on a journey to answer the question: was being fired going to be the best thing or worst thing that had happened in her working life.
Gurwitch began researching and traveling the country, interviewing people as diverse as Tim Allen, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Garlin, Anne Meara, David Cross and GM workers in Lansing, Michigan whose perspectives ranged from the tragically comedic to proving that old adage when one door closes another door opens, to the just plain tragic. Annabelle attended job fairs, received "outplacement services", interviewed human resource directors, downsizers, and the downsized who were seeking new jobs.
"Fired!" reminds us that all great success come out of failure and being fired can be a part of the growth process, that humor helps, and that if you're employed in America today your firing may be the best and the worst thing that can happen in your working life.
View attachment 7618
The Messengers
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Screenwriter: Mark Wheaton
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Plot Summary: There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomenon. They can see what adults cannot, they believe what adults deny. And they are trying to warn us. In "The Messengers," a suspense thriller starring Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller and John Corbett, the Solomon family has left big city life for a secluded farm in North Dakota. Soon after they arrive at their new home, 16 year-old Jess and her 3 year old brother begin seeing ominous apparitions that no one else can see, and are repeatedly attacked by something from the other side. Now they must try desperately to warn the rest of the family before it's too late.
Film Database
Constellation
Studio: Codeblack Entertainment, Shoreline Entertainment
Director: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Screenwriter: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Starring: Zoë Saldana, Lesley Ann Warren, Billy Dee Williams, Hill Harper, David Clennon, Rae Dawn Chong, Melissa De Sousa, Alex Newman, Gabrielle Union, Shin Koyamada, Daniel Bess, Clarence Williams III, Ever Carradine
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: The story chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch, Helms Boxer (Williams), must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
When the beloved Carmel Boxer passes away, her entire fmaily returns to Hunstville, Alabama to celebrate her life and legacy. As the Boxer family comes together for the first time in many years, revelations of Carmel's painful past begin to force each person to address their pent up emotions and true feelings for one another. "Constellation" explores the redemptive power of love and spotlights the importance of honesty and the bonds of family loyalty.
East of Havana
Studio: Sony BMG
Director: Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Emilia Menocal
Screenwriter: Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Emilia Menocal
Starring: Not available
Genre: Documentary, Music
Plot Summary: "East of Havana" is an unflinching look at the Cuban Hip-Hop Scene and a youth movement. The film focuses on the lives and friendship of three young rappers compelled to address their generation's future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto.
Soandry, Magyori, and Mikki possess the undeniable talent and charisma of pop icons; creating music whose cross-pollination of early American rap and Latin influences brings self-expression to its sharpest, riskiest, and most triumphant point; but within Cuba's fearless and rebellious underground movement, they are also the defacto leaders, looking for their place in a world filled with limitations.
In the Pit
Studio: Kino International
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Sofia García López, José Guadalupe Calzada, Isabel Dolores Hernández, Pedro Sánchez Bernal
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: According to Mexican legend, the devil demands one soul be offered up for every bridge built, as a guarantee for the structure's durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo's internationally-praised documentary, this age-old adage takes on mammoth proportions. Mexico City's "Second Deck" is a major architectural undertaking, an eleven-mile elevated freeway coursing through the center of the metropolis and impacting millions of lives. Among those affected by the project are the construction workers, who have helped transform the city. Director Rulfo crafts a deeply felt film about these men, the hands, hearts and minds behind a small universe of concrete and steel.
Puccini for Beginners
Studio: Strand Releasing
Director: Maria Maggenti
Screenwriter: Maria Maggenti
Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Gretchen Mol, Justin Kirk, Jennifer Dundas, Julianne Nicholson
Genre: Comedy
Plot Summary: New York writer and opera addict Allegra (Elizabeth Reaser, "The Family Stone") loves her girlfriend Samantha (Julianne Nicholson, "Kinsey"), but can't commit. When Samantha leaves her, Allegra rebounds with handsome philosophy professor Phillip (Justin Kirk, "Angels in America") as well as the irresistibly beautiful, recently single Grace (Gretchen Mol, "The Notorious Bettie Page"). Allegra juggles secret relationships with both of them, never suspecting that Philip and Grace have a connection of their own. With a sophisticated blend of humor and irony, this screwball sex comedy twists and turns with all the drama of classic Puccini.
Raising Flagg
Studio: Cinema Libre Studio
Director: Neal Miller
Screenwriter: Nancy Miller, Neal Miller, Dorothy Velasco
Starring: Alan Arkin, Lauren Holly, Glenne Headly, Stephanie Lemelin, Daniel Quinn, Matthew Arkin, Austin Pendleton, Barbara Dana, Robert Robertson, Richard Kind, Clifton James, Jan Hoag
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Plot Summary: "Raising Flagg" is a zany comedy-drama about a rural handyman, Flagg Purdy (Alan Arkin), who prides himself on being a man of principle – though he often can't remember which principle.
Film Database
The Situation
Studio: Shadow Distribution
Director: Philip Haas
Screenwriter: Wendell Steavenson
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Damian Lewis, Mido Hamada, John Slattery, Tom McCarthy, Peter Eyre, Shaun Evans, Saïd Amadis, Omar Berdouni, Nasser Memarzia, Mahmoud El Lozy, Driss Roukh
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Combining elements of thriller, romance, and war movie, "The Situation," set exclusively in Iraq and the first U.S. feature film to deal with the occupation, dramatizes one of the countless human stories that lie behind the headlines of the current war. When a group of American soldiers throw an Iraqi boy off a bridge in Samarra, the incident sets off a chain of events that exposes the deep rifts among the Iraqis in Samarra and results in yet another cycle of violence between the insurgents and the corrupt Iraqi police.
Anna (Connie Nielsen) is an American journalist who decides to write a story about the assassination of an Iraqi leader whom she admires. At the same time, she is pulling away from a relationship with Dan (Damian Lewis), an American intelligence official who thinks the war can be won with hearts and minds, and towards Zaid (Mido Hamada), a young Iraqi photographer who shows her there are people, rather than sides, in the conflict. As she tries to make sense of the half-truths of Iraq, she gets caught up in the violence and finds her life in danger.