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American Gangster
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriter: Steve Zaillian
Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Armand Assante, RZA, John Ortiz, John Haw
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for violence, pervasive drug content and language, nudity and sexuality)
Official Website: AmericanGangster.net
Plot Summary: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in "American Gangster."
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Oscar® winner Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.
Richie Roberts (Oscar® winner Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.
Washington ("Training Day") and Crowe ("Gladiator") lead a spectacular cast of accomplished and rising stars--including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Armand Assante, RZA, John Ortiz, John Hawkes and Ted Levine in this blistering tale of a true American entrepreneur directed by Oscar® nominee Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") and produced by Academy Award® winner Brian Grazer ("A Beautiful Mind") and Scott from a screenplay by Academy Award® winner Steve Zaillian ("Schindler's List").
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Bee Movie
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Director: Simon J. Smith, Steve Hickner
Screenwriter: Jerry Seinfeld
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Alan Arkin, Patrick Warburton
Genre: Animation, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild suggestive humor)
Official Website: BeeMovie.com
Plot Summary: "Bee Movie" is a comedy that will change everything you think you know about bees. Having just graduated from college, a bee by the name of Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice – honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New York City florist named Vanessa (Renée Zellweger). He is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bees' honey for centuries, and ultimately realizes that his true calling in life is to set the world right by suing the human race for stealing their precious honey.
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Fat Girls
Studio: Regent Releasing, here! Films
Director: Ash Christian
Screenwriter: Ash Christian
Starring: Ash Christian, Jonathan Caouette, Robin De Jesus, Ashley Fink, Deborah Theaker
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, language and some drug/alcohol use - all involving teens)
Official Website: FatGirls-themovie.com
Plot Summary: Armed with biting humor and quirky sensibility, Rodney and his Rubenesque friend Sabrina are valiantly suffering through the indignity known as high school. Both are outcasts; he's gay and she's overweight. Trapped in a small Texas town and having come to accept his "fat girl" within, Rodney is an aspiring Broadway star who musters up the energy to confront his fears and take life – and the hot new student from England – by the horns. With Rodney's awkward experiences, off-beat attitude and strange evangelical family, "Fat Girls" is a hilarious rollercoaster ride that careens to an outrageous climax. This auspicious debut announces the arrival of filmmaker and star Ash Christian as a major new talent.
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Martian Child
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Menno Meyjes
Screenwriter: Seth Bass, David Gerrold
Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sophie Okonedo, Bobby Coleman, Joan Cusack
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic elements and mild language)
Official Website: MartianChild.com
Plot Summary: The romantic drama "Martian Child" stars John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister (Joan Cusack) and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be true. Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold, "Martian Child' is directed by Menno Meyjes and produced by David Kirschner, Corey Sienega and Ed Elbert.
A Broken Sole
Studio: Shoemaker/Broken Sole Productions
Director: Antony Marsellis
Screenwriter: Susan Charlotte
Starring: Danny Aiello, Margaret Colin, Bob Dishy, Judith Light, Laila Robins, John Shea
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: A shoemaker is frantic to close his shop early. A woman with a broken sole is desperate for him to keep the shop open. A pair of shoes on a shelf awaits the return of its owner. The day is September 11th, 2001.
The film is "A Broken Sole," a compelling drama. The film follows the lives of six characters: a shoemaker and his customer, a cabbie and his passenger, and a dyslexic director and his date. Responding to 9/11 and its aftermath, these fragile characters, this film is dedicated to: those who lost someone close, those who lost a sense of security, and those who lost a part of themselves and wound up with a broken soul.
Darfur Now
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures
Director: Ted Braun
Screenwriter: Ted Braun
Starring: Don Cheadle, Hejewa Adam, Pablo Recalde, Ahmed Mahmoud Abakar, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Adam Sterling
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic material involving crimes against humanity)
Official Website: MySpace.com/DarfurNow
Plot Summary: Six lives transformed by human tragedy. Six people united by a belief that anything is possible. Six people committed to stop the worst crisis of the 21st century. Six ways to save Darfur.
Even the smallest act makes a difference.
"Darfur Now" is a call to action for people everywhere to help stop the catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. For the first time in history, the US government has declared a genocide while it is still ongoing. In this documentary the struggles and achievements of six very different individuals bring to light the situation in Darfur and illustrate the absolute need to get involved. From a UCLA graduate in Manhattan Beach, California, to a Darfurian woman who joins rebel forces, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to a United Nations humanitarian on the ground in Sudan, to an internationally known actor and activist, and finally to a community leader in a West Darfur refugee camp, the film portrays the heroic efforts of six people trying to resolve a humanitarian tragedy unfolding before our very eyes.
Written and directed by Ted Braun, the film explores the Darfur conflict through the first-hand experiences of Don Cheadle, Hejewa Adam, Pablo Recalde, Ahmed Mahmoud Abakar, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and Adam Sterling.
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Julien Temple
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Bono, Steve Buscemi, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Matt Dillon, Peter Cushing
Genre: Documentary
Official Website: JoeStrummerthemovie.com | MySpace.com
Plot Summary: "The Future is Unwritten," Julien Temple's new film on the life and career of late Clash frontman Joe Strummer.
Taking its name from one of Strummer's favorite phrases, the film includes interviews with such Strummer disciples as Bono, actors Johnny Depp and John Cusack, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Clash, old friends and those who squatted with him in condemned buildings in London before the Clash took off.
Also featured is unseen footage of Strummer's early life, as well as unearthed clips of the Clash and the Mescaleros, the band he fronted in the years prior to his 2002 death.
Using a combination of old interviews collected from journalists, as well as tapes of Strummer's BBC radio show, "The Future is Unwritten" finds Strummer "very much narrating and DJ'ing his life story," says Temple, renown for his Sex Pistols movie "The Filth and the Fury."
American Gangster
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriter: Steve Zaillian
Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Armand Assante, RZA, John Ortiz, John Haw
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for violence, pervasive drug content and language, nudity and sexuality)
Official Website: AmericanGangster.net
Plot Summary: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in "American Gangster."
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Oscar® winner Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.
Richie Roberts (Oscar® winner Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.
Washington ("Training Day") and Crowe ("Gladiator") lead a spectacular cast of accomplished and rising stars--including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Armand Assante, RZA, John Ortiz, John Hawkes and Ted Levine in this blistering tale of a true American entrepreneur directed by Oscar® nominee Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") and produced by Academy Award® winner Brian Grazer ("A Beautiful Mind") and Scott from a screenplay by Academy Award® winner Steve Zaillian ("Schindler's List").
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Bee Movie
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Director: Simon J. Smith, Steve Hickner
Screenwriter: Jerry Seinfeld
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Alan Arkin, Patrick Warburton
Genre: Animation, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild suggestive humor)
Official Website: BeeMovie.com
Plot Summary: "Bee Movie" is a comedy that will change everything you think you know about bees. Having just graduated from college, a bee by the name of Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice – honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New York City florist named Vanessa (Renée Zellweger). He is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bees' honey for centuries, and ultimately realizes that his true calling in life is to set the world right by suing the human race for stealing their precious honey.
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Fat Girls
Studio: Regent Releasing, here! Films
Director: Ash Christian
Screenwriter: Ash Christian
Starring: Ash Christian, Jonathan Caouette, Robin De Jesus, Ashley Fink, Deborah Theaker
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, language and some drug/alcohol use - all involving teens)
Official Website: FatGirls-themovie.com
Plot Summary: Armed with biting humor and quirky sensibility, Rodney and his Rubenesque friend Sabrina are valiantly suffering through the indignity known as high school. Both are outcasts; he's gay and she's overweight. Trapped in a small Texas town and having come to accept his "fat girl" within, Rodney is an aspiring Broadway star who musters up the energy to confront his fears and take life – and the hot new student from England – by the horns. With Rodney's awkward experiences, off-beat attitude and strange evangelical family, "Fat Girls" is a hilarious rollercoaster ride that careens to an outrageous climax. This auspicious debut announces the arrival of filmmaker and star Ash Christian as a major new talent.
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Martian Child
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Menno Meyjes
Screenwriter: Seth Bass, David Gerrold
Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sophie Okonedo, Bobby Coleman, Joan Cusack
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic elements and mild language)
Official Website: MartianChild.com
Plot Summary: The romantic drama "Martian Child" stars John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister (Joan Cusack) and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be true. Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold, "Martian Child' is directed by Menno Meyjes and produced by David Kirschner, Corey Sienega and Ed Elbert.
A Broken Sole
Studio: Shoemaker/Broken Sole Productions
Director: Antony Marsellis
Screenwriter: Susan Charlotte
Starring: Danny Aiello, Margaret Colin, Bob Dishy, Judith Light, Laila Robins, John Shea
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: A shoemaker is frantic to close his shop early. A woman with a broken sole is desperate for him to keep the shop open. A pair of shoes on a shelf awaits the return of its owner. The day is September 11th, 2001.
The film is "A Broken Sole," a compelling drama. The film follows the lives of six characters: a shoemaker and his customer, a cabbie and his passenger, and a dyslexic director and his date. Responding to 9/11 and its aftermath, these fragile characters, this film is dedicated to: those who lost someone close, those who lost a sense of security, and those who lost a part of themselves and wound up with a broken soul.
Darfur Now
Studio: Warner Independent Pictures
Director: Ted Braun
Screenwriter: Ted Braun
Starring: Don Cheadle, Hejewa Adam, Pablo Recalde, Ahmed Mahmoud Abakar, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Adam Sterling
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic material involving crimes against humanity)
Official Website: MySpace.com/DarfurNow
Plot Summary: Six lives transformed by human tragedy. Six people united by a belief that anything is possible. Six people committed to stop the worst crisis of the 21st century. Six ways to save Darfur.
Even the smallest act makes a difference.
"Darfur Now" is a call to action for people everywhere to help stop the catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. For the first time in history, the US government has declared a genocide while it is still ongoing. In this documentary the struggles and achievements of six very different individuals bring to light the situation in Darfur and illustrate the absolute need to get involved. From a UCLA graduate in Manhattan Beach, California, to a Darfurian woman who joins rebel forces, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to a United Nations humanitarian on the ground in Sudan, to an internationally known actor and activist, and finally to a community leader in a West Darfur refugee camp, the film portrays the heroic efforts of six people trying to resolve a humanitarian tragedy unfolding before our very eyes.
Written and directed by Ted Braun, the film explores the Darfur conflict through the first-hand experiences of Don Cheadle, Hejewa Adam, Pablo Recalde, Ahmed Mahmoud Abakar, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and Adam Sterling.
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Julien Temple
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Bono, Steve Buscemi, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Matt Dillon, Peter Cushing
Genre: Documentary
Official Website: JoeStrummerthemovie.com | MySpace.com
Plot Summary: "The Future is Unwritten," Julien Temple's new film on the life and career of late Clash frontman Joe Strummer.
Taking its name from one of Strummer's favorite phrases, the film includes interviews with such Strummer disciples as Bono, actors Johnny Depp and John Cusack, members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Clash, old friends and those who squatted with him in condemned buildings in London before the Clash took off.
Also featured is unseen footage of Strummer's early life, as well as unearthed clips of the Clash and the Mescaleros, the band he fronted in the years prior to his 2002 death.
Using a combination of old interviews collected from journalists, as well as tapes of Strummer's BBC radio show, "The Future is Unwritten" finds Strummer "very much narrating and DJ'ing his life story," says Temple, renown for his Sex Pistols movie "The Filth and the Fury."