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1408
Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM
Director: Mikael Håfström
Screenwriter: Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material including disturbing sequences of violence and terror, frightening images and language)
Plot Summary: The only demons in room 1408 are those within you.
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms." Defying the warnings of the hotel manager (Jackson), the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another bestseller may be iminent, but like all Stephen King heroes, Enslin must go from skeptic to true believer – and ultimately survive the night.
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Evan Almighty
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Tom Shadyac
Screenwriter: Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, John Michael Higgins, Jimmy Bennett, Wanda Sykes, Jonah Hill
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild rude humor and some peril)
Plot Summary: Steve Carell reprises his role as Evan Baxter -- the polished, preening newscaster of the first film -- who finds himself the next one anointed by God (Morgan Freeman) to accomplish a holy mission.
Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled wife (Lauren Graham) and kids just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...
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A Mighty Heart
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Screenwriter: John Orloff
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Irfan Khan, Sajid Hasan, Aly Khan, Denis O'Hare
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for horror violence, some sexual content and language)
Plot Summary: On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.
In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl." Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
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Sicko
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Michael Moore
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Starring: Michael Moore
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language)
Plot Summary: If you want to stay healthy in America, don't get sick. Following on the heels of his award winning hit "Fahrenheit 9/11" and his Oscar® winning film "Bowling for Columbine," acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.
"Sicko" promises to be every bit as indicting as Moore's previous films.
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You Kill Me
Studio: IFC Films
Director: John Dahl
Screenwriter: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson, Bill Pullman, Philip Baker Hall, Dennis Farina, Jayne Eastwood, Katie Messina, Tracy McMahon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some violence)
Plot Summary: Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank’s got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle (Philip Baker Hall) sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Played with gruff charm by Kingsley, Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of guy. But he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor (played by Luke Wilson) and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel (Téa Leoni), a woman who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren’t going well in Buffalo where an upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
Stylishly directed by John Dahl ("Rounders," "The Last Seduction"), "You Kill Me" is the story of what happens when two mismatched people find a common calling. With dead-on performances by Kingsley and Leoni, "You Kill Me" is a street-smart mob comedy that scores a direct hit.
Black Sheep
Studio: IFC First Take
Director: Jonathan King
Screenwriter: Jonathan King
Starring: Matthew Chamberlain, Tammy Davis, Oliver Driver, Peter Feeney, Glenis Levestam, Danielle Mason, Kevin McTurk, Nathan Meister, Mick Rose, Tandi Wright
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Plot Summary: Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister) returns to his family's farm to sell out to his older brother Angus (Peter Feeney), unaware that something baaaad is going on: Angus' reckless genetic engineering program.
When a pair of inept environmental activists release a mutant lamb from Angus' laboratory onto the farm, thousands of sheep are turned into bloodthirsty predators. Along with farmhand Tucker (Tammy Davis) and greenie girl Experience (Danielle Mason), Henry finds himself stranded deep on the farm as his worst nightmare comes to life.
Battling their way to safety the intrepid trio discover there's worse to come: one bite from an infected sheep seems to have alarming effect on those bitten...
With Angus acting suspiciously sheepish, a delegation of international investors gathering at the homestead and a ravenous flock descending from the hills, Henry must find the farmer within to wrest control of the farm from his monstrous brother, defeat an ovine invasion and save New Zealand's pastures green.
Broken English
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
Screenwriter: Zoe Cassavetes
Starring: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Justin Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich, Gena Rowlands
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual content, brief drug use and language)
Plot Summary: In a startling mature and nuanced performance, Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes. Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey's (Drea De Matteo) "perfect marriage." It doesn’t help that her overbearing mother (Gena Rowlands) takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she's still unattached. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living. Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes. She finds herself in Paris looking to break old patterns. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.
Lady Chatterley
Studio: Kino International
Director: Pascale Ferran
Screenwriter: Pascale Ferran, Roger Bohbot
Starring: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot, Hélène Alexandridis, Hélène Fillières
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Constance Reid was 23 years old when she married Cambridge graduate, lieutenant, and mine owner Clifford Chatterley in 1917. After a short lived honeymoon, Clifford was drafted to fight on the Flanders battlefront, from which he returned injured and condemned to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
The film begins in the year 1921, after the young couple moves to Wragby, one of the Chatterley family properties. Constance looks back longingly to the years before her marriage, when she spent her time with artists and students of her own age, also enjoying long trips abroad. Now she feels lonely and isolated in a rural environment that bores her. And yet, it is her taciturn gamekeeper, a man whose life and background is so diametrically opposed to her own, who awakens in Lady Chatterley a desire she has never felt before.
At first, Parkin is mistrustful of his mistress. He cannot understand what a Lady would want from a simple man such as himself. But as Parkin's body re-awakens Constance's flesh and desire, her child-like ability to take pleasure in their relationship infuses hope and energy into his numbing solitude.
"Lady Chatterley" tells the story of a passion that is both innocent and subversive - one that transcends, without ever ignoring, class and social conventions. As Constance and Parkin nourish their mutual love, both enter into a radical realm where nature, sex and romance merge into one powerful experience.
Klimt
Studio: Outsider Pictures
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Screenwriter: Raoul Ruiz
Starring: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Paul Hilton, Sandra Ceccarelli, Karl Fischer, Irina Wanka, Antje Charlotte Sieglin, Nikolai Kinski, Joachim Bissmeier, Peter Appiano, Mark Zak, Gunther Gillian, Alexander Strobele
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: John Malkovich plays Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose opulent, erotically charged paintings came to epitomize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
1408
Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM
Director: Mikael Håfström
Screenwriter: Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material including disturbing sequences of violence and terror, frightening images and language)
Plot Summary: The only demons in room 1408 are those within you.
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms." Defying the warnings of the hotel manager (Jackson), the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another bestseller may be iminent, but like all Stephen King heroes, Enslin must go from skeptic to true believer – and ultimately survive the night.
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Evan Almighty
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Tom Shadyac
Screenwriter: Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, John Michael Higgins, Jimmy Bennett, Wanda Sykes, Jonah Hill
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild rude humor and some peril)
Plot Summary: Steve Carell reprises his role as Evan Baxter -- the polished, preening newscaster of the first film -- who finds himself the next one anointed by God (Morgan Freeman) to accomplish a holy mission.
Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled wife (Lauren Graham) and kids just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...
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A Mighty Heart
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Screenwriter: John Orloff
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Irfan Khan, Sajid Hasan, Aly Khan, Denis O'Hare
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for horror violence, some sexual content and language)
Plot Summary: On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.
In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl." Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
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Sicko
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Michael Moore
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Starring: Michael Moore
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language)
Plot Summary: If you want to stay healthy in America, don't get sick. Following on the heels of his award winning hit "Fahrenheit 9/11" and his Oscar® winning film "Bowling for Columbine," acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.
"Sicko" promises to be every bit as indicting as Moore's previous films.
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You Kill Me
Studio: IFC Films
Director: John Dahl
Screenwriter: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson, Bill Pullman, Philip Baker Hall, Dennis Farina, Jayne Eastwood, Katie Messina, Tracy McMahon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some violence)
Plot Summary: Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank’s got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle (Philip Baker Hall) sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Played with gruff charm by Kingsley, Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of guy. But he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor (played by Luke Wilson) and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel (Téa Leoni), a woman who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren’t going well in Buffalo where an upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
Stylishly directed by John Dahl ("Rounders," "The Last Seduction"), "You Kill Me" is the story of what happens when two mismatched people find a common calling. With dead-on performances by Kingsley and Leoni, "You Kill Me" is a street-smart mob comedy that scores a direct hit.
Black Sheep
Studio: IFC First Take
Director: Jonathan King
Screenwriter: Jonathan King
Starring: Matthew Chamberlain, Tammy Davis, Oliver Driver, Peter Feeney, Glenis Levestam, Danielle Mason, Kevin McTurk, Nathan Meister, Mick Rose, Tandi Wright
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Plot Summary: Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister) returns to his family's farm to sell out to his older brother Angus (Peter Feeney), unaware that something baaaad is going on: Angus' reckless genetic engineering program.
When a pair of inept environmental activists release a mutant lamb from Angus' laboratory onto the farm, thousands of sheep are turned into bloodthirsty predators. Along with farmhand Tucker (Tammy Davis) and greenie girl Experience (Danielle Mason), Henry finds himself stranded deep on the farm as his worst nightmare comes to life.
Battling their way to safety the intrepid trio discover there's worse to come: one bite from an infected sheep seems to have alarming effect on those bitten...
With Angus acting suspiciously sheepish, a delegation of international investors gathering at the homestead and a ravenous flock descending from the hills, Henry must find the farmer within to wrest control of the farm from his monstrous brother, defeat an ovine invasion and save New Zealand's pastures green.
Broken English
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
Screenwriter: Zoe Cassavetes
Starring: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Justin Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich, Gena Rowlands
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual content, brief drug use and language)
Plot Summary: In a startling mature and nuanced performance, Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes. Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey's (Drea De Matteo) "perfect marriage." It doesn’t help that her overbearing mother (Gena Rowlands) takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she's still unattached. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living. Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes. She finds herself in Paris looking to break old patterns. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.
Lady Chatterley
Studio: Kino International
Director: Pascale Ferran
Screenwriter: Pascale Ferran, Roger Bohbot
Starring: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot, Hélène Alexandridis, Hélène Fillières
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Constance Reid was 23 years old when she married Cambridge graduate, lieutenant, and mine owner Clifford Chatterley in 1917. After a short lived honeymoon, Clifford was drafted to fight on the Flanders battlefront, from which he returned injured and condemned to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
The film begins in the year 1921, after the young couple moves to Wragby, one of the Chatterley family properties. Constance looks back longingly to the years before her marriage, when she spent her time with artists and students of her own age, also enjoying long trips abroad. Now she feels lonely and isolated in a rural environment that bores her. And yet, it is her taciturn gamekeeper, a man whose life and background is so diametrically opposed to her own, who awakens in Lady Chatterley a desire she has never felt before.
At first, Parkin is mistrustful of his mistress. He cannot understand what a Lady would want from a simple man such as himself. But as Parkin's body re-awakens Constance's flesh and desire, her child-like ability to take pleasure in their relationship infuses hope and energy into his numbing solitude.
"Lady Chatterley" tells the story of a passion that is both innocent and subversive - one that transcends, without ever ignoring, class and social conventions. As Constance and Parkin nourish their mutual love, both enter into a radical realm where nature, sex and romance merge into one powerful experience.
Klimt
Studio: Outsider Pictures
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Screenwriter: Raoul Ruiz
Starring: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Paul Hilton, Sandra Ceccarelli, Karl Fischer, Irina Wanka, Antje Charlotte Sieglin, Nikolai Kinski, Joachim Bissmeier, Peter Appiano, Mark Zak, Gunther Gillian, Alexander Strobele
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: John Malkovich plays Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose opulent, erotically charged paintings came to epitomize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.