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The Good Night
Studio: Yari Film Group
Director: Jake Paltrow
Screenwriter: Jake Paltrow
Starring: Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Simon Pegg, Penélope Cruz, Danny DeVito, Michael Gambon, Amber Sealey, Keith Allen, Finty Wi
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some sexual content)
Official Website: TheGoodNightfilm.com
Plot Summary: In "The Good Night," dreaming is believing, as Gary (Martin Freeman) a once successful musician, struggles with his career and an inert relationship with his girlfriend Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow). As his work as a commercial jingle writer spirals into ever more degrading depths, his best friend and former band mate Paul (Simon Pegg) seems to find success at every turn. Gary is depressed and dejected until he meets Anna (Penelope Cruz). She is everything Gary wants sexually, artistically and intellectually--she is the girl of his dreams…literally. But Gary can only be with Anna in sleep which consequently sends him on a quest for more frequent slumber. With the help of a new age guru named Mel, (Danny DeVito) Gary shuns reality for the comfort of his dreams even as the troubles of his waking life increase.
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The Heartbreak Kid
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
Screenwriter: Scot Armstrong, Leslie Dixon, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Kevin Barnett
Starring: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman, Jerry Stiller, Rob Corddry, Carlos Mencia, Scott Wilson, Danny McBride, Stepha
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, crude humor, language, and a scene of drug use involving a minor)
Official Website: HeartbreakKidmovie.com
Plot Summary: Single and indecisive, Eddie (Ben Stiller) begins ****** the incredibly sexy and seemingly fabulous Lila. Upon the urging of his father and best friend, Eddie proposes to her after only a week, fearing this may be his last chance at love, marriage, and happiness. However, while on their honeymoon in sunny Mexico, Lila reveals her true beyond-awful nature and Eddie meets Miranda, the woman he realizes to be his actual soul mate. Eddie must keep his new, increasingly horrid wife at bay as he attempts to woo the girl of his dreams.
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Michael Clayton
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Tony Gilroy
Screenwriter: Tony Gilroy
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Pamela Gray
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for language including some sexual dialogue)
Official Website: MichaelClayton.com
Plot Summary: Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
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My Kid Could Paint That
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Screenwriter: Amir Bar-Lev
Starring: Laura Olmstead
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language)
Official Website: MyKidCouldPaintThatmovie.com
Plot Summary: In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown - and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called "a budding Picasso." Inside Edition, The Jane Pauley Show, and NPR did pieces, and The Today Show and Good Morning America got in a bidding war over an appearance by the bashful toddler. There was talk of corporate sponsorship with the family fielding calls from The Gap and Crayola.
But not all of the attention was positive. From the beginning, many faulted her parents for exposing Marla to the glare of the media and accused the couple of exploiting their daughter for financial gain. Others felt her work was, in fact, comparable to the great abstract expressionists - but saw this as emblematic of the meaninglessness of Modern Art. "She is painting exactly as all the adult paintings have been in the past 50 years, but painting like a child, too. That is what everybody thinks but they don't dare to say it," said Oggi, the leading Italian weekly. Through no intention of her own, Marla revived the age-old question, 'what is art?'
And then, five months into Marla's new life as a celebrity and just short of her fifth birthday, a bombshell dropped. CBS' 60 Minutes aired an exposé suggesting strongly that the paintings were painted by her father, himself an amateur painter. As quickly as the public built Marla up, they tore her down. The New York Post asked whether "the juvenile Jackson Pollock may actually be a full-fledged Willem de Frauding," the Olmsteads were barraged with hate mail, ostracized around town, sales of the paintings dried up, and Marla's art dealer considered moving out of Binghampton. Embattled, the Olmsteads turned to the filmmaker to clear their name. Torn between his own responsibility as a journalist and the family's desire to see their integrity restored, the director finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a situation that can't possibly end well for him and them, and could easily end badly for both.
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: David L. Cunningham
Screenwriter: John Hodge
Starring: Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eccleston, Alexander Ludwig, Amelia Warner, Gregory Smith, Emma Lockhart, Gary Entin
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for fantasy action and some scary images)
Official Website: SeektheSigns.com
Plot Summary: Based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Cooper, "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising" is the first film adaptation of the author's acclaimed "The Dark Is Rising" Sequence. The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns he is the last of a group of warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time, Will hunts for a series of mysterious clues and encounters forces of unimaginable evil. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in Will's hands.
Feel the Noise
Studio: Sony BMG
Director: Alejandro Chomski
Screenwriter: Albert Leon
Starring: Omarion Grandberry, Zulay Henao, James McCaffrey, Kellita Smith, Malik Yoba, Melonie Diaz, Victor Rasuk, Giancarlo Esposito
Genre: Drama, Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sensuality and innuendos, violence, some drug use and language)
Official Website: Sony.com/FeeltheNoise
Plot Summary: After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob (Omarion Grandberry) flees to a place and father (Giancarlo Esposito) he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his half-brother Javi (Victor Rasuk) to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true to themselves and each other, while overcoming obstacles in love, greed and pride, all culminating in an explosive performance at New York's Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Finishing the Game
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Justin Lin
Screenwriter: Justin Lin, Josh Diamond
Starring: James Franco, Dustin Nguyen, Roger Fan, Sung Kang, McCaleb Burnett
Genre: Comedy, Mockumentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: YouOffendMeYouOffendMyFamily.com | MySpace.com/FinishingtheGame
Plot Summary: The unexpected death of Bruce Lee, a world-wide phenomenon and established movie star, came at the zenith of his popularity. Having already shot scenes for his upcoming movie "Game of Death," studio heads decided to complete the film by launching a search for his replacement attracting hopefuls from all around the world. "Finishing the Game" is an uproarious, poignant, unpredictable and action-packed re-imagining of that casting process for Lee's replacement and examines the leaps and bounds Asians have taken in media representation - or have they?
For the Bible Tells Me So
Studio: First Run Features
Director: Daniel G. Karslake
Screenwriter: Daniel G. Karslake, Helen R. Mendoza
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating homosexuals and Christianity too wide to cross? How can the Bible be used to justify hate? These are the questions at the heart of Daniel Karslake's acclaimed new documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So," a world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival that was most recently honored with Audience Awards at the Seattle and Provincetown International Film Festivals. Through the experiences of five Christian American families – including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson – we discover how people of faith handle, or sometimes tragically fail to handle, having a gay child. "For the Bible Tells Me So" offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
Strange Culture
Studio: L5 Productions
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Screenwriter: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Starring: Peter Coyote, Thomas Jay Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Cassie Powell, Steve Kurtz
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: StrangeCulture.net
Plot Summary: The surreal legal nightmare of internationally acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife, Hope, died in her sleep of heart failure. Medics arrived, became suspicious of Kurtz's art, and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected bioterrorist, as dozens of agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, cat, and even his wife's body.
Today Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, former Chair of the Genetics Department at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.
Weirdsville
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Allan Moyle
Screenwriter: Willem Wennekers
Starring: Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Plot Summary: When stoners Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) mistakenly assume their friend Matilda (Taryn Manning) has overdosed, they can't call the cops because she's OD'd on stolen drugs. So, they decide to bury her body themselves. Good news is she's not dead. Bad news is she wakes up just in time to interrupt a Satanic cult performing a ritual sacrifice in the same place the guys were going to bury her. Our heroes end up on the run from the Satanists, the drug dealer they stole the stash from, and a gang of angry little people all while trying to pull off a heist of their own. Its one crazy night in one crazy town!
The Good Night
Studio: Yari Film Group
Director: Jake Paltrow
Screenwriter: Jake Paltrow
Starring: Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Simon Pegg, Penélope Cruz, Danny DeVito, Michael Gambon, Amber Sealey, Keith Allen, Finty Wi
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for language and some sexual content)
Official Website: TheGoodNightfilm.com
Plot Summary: In "The Good Night," dreaming is believing, as Gary (Martin Freeman) a once successful musician, struggles with his career and an inert relationship with his girlfriend Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow). As his work as a commercial jingle writer spirals into ever more degrading depths, his best friend and former band mate Paul (Simon Pegg) seems to find success at every turn. Gary is depressed and dejected until he meets Anna (Penelope Cruz). She is everything Gary wants sexually, artistically and intellectually--she is the girl of his dreams…literally. But Gary can only be with Anna in sleep which consequently sends him on a quest for more frequent slumber. With the help of a new age guru named Mel, (Danny DeVito) Gary shuns reality for the comfort of his dreams even as the troubles of his waking life increase.
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The Heartbreak Kid
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
Screenwriter: Scot Armstrong, Leslie Dixon, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Kevin Barnett
Starring: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman, Jerry Stiller, Rob Corddry, Carlos Mencia, Scott Wilson, Danny McBride, Stepha
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, crude humor, language, and a scene of drug use involving a minor)
Official Website: HeartbreakKidmovie.com
Plot Summary: Single and indecisive, Eddie (Ben Stiller) begins ****** the incredibly sexy and seemingly fabulous Lila. Upon the urging of his father and best friend, Eddie proposes to her after only a week, fearing this may be his last chance at love, marriage, and happiness. However, while on their honeymoon in sunny Mexico, Lila reveals her true beyond-awful nature and Eddie meets Miranda, the woman he realizes to be his actual soul mate. Eddie must keep his new, increasingly horrid wife at bay as he attempts to woo the girl of his dreams.
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Michael Clayton
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Tony Gilroy
Screenwriter: Tony Gilroy
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Pamela Gray
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for language including some sexual dialogue)
Official Website: MichaelClayton.com
Plot Summary: Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
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My Kid Could Paint That
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Screenwriter: Amir Bar-Lev
Starring: Laura Olmstead
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language)
Official Website: MyKidCouldPaintThatmovie.com
Plot Summary: In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown - and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called "a budding Picasso." Inside Edition, The Jane Pauley Show, and NPR did pieces, and The Today Show and Good Morning America got in a bidding war over an appearance by the bashful toddler. There was talk of corporate sponsorship with the family fielding calls from The Gap and Crayola.
But not all of the attention was positive. From the beginning, many faulted her parents for exposing Marla to the glare of the media and accused the couple of exploiting their daughter for financial gain. Others felt her work was, in fact, comparable to the great abstract expressionists - but saw this as emblematic of the meaninglessness of Modern Art. "She is painting exactly as all the adult paintings have been in the past 50 years, but painting like a child, too. That is what everybody thinks but they don't dare to say it," said Oggi, the leading Italian weekly. Through no intention of her own, Marla revived the age-old question, 'what is art?'
And then, five months into Marla's new life as a celebrity and just short of her fifth birthday, a bombshell dropped. CBS' 60 Minutes aired an exposé suggesting strongly that the paintings were painted by her father, himself an amateur painter. As quickly as the public built Marla up, they tore her down. The New York Post asked whether "the juvenile Jackson Pollock may actually be a full-fledged Willem de Frauding," the Olmsteads were barraged with hate mail, ostracized around town, sales of the paintings dried up, and Marla's art dealer considered moving out of Binghampton. Embattled, the Olmsteads turned to the filmmaker to clear their name. Torn between his own responsibility as a journalist and the family's desire to see their integrity restored, the director finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a situation that can't possibly end well for him and them, and could easily end badly for both.
View attachment 28913
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: David L. Cunningham
Screenwriter: John Hodge
Starring: Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eccleston, Alexander Ludwig, Amelia Warner, Gregory Smith, Emma Lockhart, Gary Entin
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for fantasy action and some scary images)
Official Website: SeektheSigns.com
Plot Summary: Based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Cooper, "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising" is the first film adaptation of the author's acclaimed "The Dark Is Rising" Sequence. The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns he is the last of a group of warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark. Traveling back and forth through time, Will hunts for a series of mysterious clues and encounters forces of unimaginable evil. With the Dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in Will's hands.
Feel the Noise
Studio: Sony BMG
Director: Alejandro Chomski
Screenwriter: Albert Leon
Starring: Omarion Grandberry, Zulay Henao, James McCaffrey, Kellita Smith, Malik Yoba, Melonie Diaz, Victor Rasuk, Giancarlo Esposito
Genre: Drama, Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sensuality and innuendos, violence, some drug use and language)
Official Website: Sony.com/FeeltheNoise
Plot Summary: After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob (Omarion Grandberry) flees to a place and father (Giancarlo Esposito) he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his half-brother Javi (Victor Rasuk) to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true to themselves and each other, while overcoming obstacles in love, greed and pride, all culminating in an explosive performance at New York's Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Finishing the Game
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Justin Lin
Screenwriter: Justin Lin, Josh Diamond
Starring: James Franco, Dustin Nguyen, Roger Fan, Sung Kang, McCaleb Burnett
Genre: Comedy, Mockumentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: YouOffendMeYouOffendMyFamily.com | MySpace.com/FinishingtheGame
Plot Summary: The unexpected death of Bruce Lee, a world-wide phenomenon and established movie star, came at the zenith of his popularity. Having already shot scenes for his upcoming movie "Game of Death," studio heads decided to complete the film by launching a search for his replacement attracting hopefuls from all around the world. "Finishing the Game" is an uproarious, poignant, unpredictable and action-packed re-imagining of that casting process for Lee's replacement and examines the leaps and bounds Asians have taken in media representation - or have they?
For the Bible Tells Me So
Studio: First Run Features
Director: Daniel G. Karslake
Screenwriter: Daniel G. Karslake, Helen R. Mendoza
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
Plot Summary: Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating homosexuals and Christianity too wide to cross? How can the Bible be used to justify hate? These are the questions at the heart of Daniel Karslake's acclaimed new documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So," a world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival that was most recently honored with Audience Awards at the Seattle and Provincetown International Film Festivals. Through the experiences of five Christian American families – including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson – we discover how people of faith handle, or sometimes tragically fail to handle, having a gay child. "For the Bible Tells Me So" offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
Strange Culture
Studio: L5 Productions
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Screenwriter: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Starring: Peter Coyote, Thomas Jay Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Cassie Powell, Steve Kurtz
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: StrangeCulture.net
Plot Summary: The surreal legal nightmare of internationally acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife, Hope, died in her sleep of heart failure. Medics arrived, became suspicious of Kurtz's art, and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected bioterrorist, as dozens of agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, cat, and even his wife's body.
Today Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, former Chair of the Genetics Department at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.
Weirdsville
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director: Allan Moyle
Screenwriter: Willem Wennekers
Starring: Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Plot Summary: When stoners Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) mistakenly assume their friend Matilda (Taryn Manning) has overdosed, they can't call the cops because she's OD'd on stolen drugs. So, they decide to bury her body themselves. Good news is she's not dead. Bad news is she wakes up just in time to interrupt a Satanic cult performing a ritual sacrifice in the same place the guys were going to bury her. Our heroes end up on the run from the Satanists, the drug dealer they stole the stash from, and a gang of angry little people all while trying to pull off a heist of their own. Its one crazy night in one crazy town!