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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Departures

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Regent Releasing
Director: Yojiro Takita
Screenwriter: Kundo Koyama
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material)
Official Website: Departures-themovie.com

Plot Summary: Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film, "Departures" is a delightful journey into the heartland of Japan as well an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japan's cultural heritage.

"Departures" follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.


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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Drag Me to Hell

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Sam Raimi
Screenwriter: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
Starring: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Jessica Lucas, David Paymer, Dileep Rao
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language)
Official Website: DragMetoHell.net

Plot Summary: Director Sam Raimi ("Spider-Man" trilogy, "Evil Dead" series) returns to the horror genre with "Drag Me to Hell," an original tale of a young woman's desperate quest to break an evil curse.

Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Should Christine follow her instincts and give the old woman a break? Or should she deny the extension to impress her boss, Mr. Jacks (David Paymer), and get a leg-up on a promotion? Christine fatefully chooses the latter, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her home.

In retaliation, the old woman places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell. Haunted by an evil spirit and misunderstood by a skeptical boyfriend, she seeks the aid of seer Rham Jas (Dileep Rao) to save her soul from eternal damnation. To help the shattered Christine return her life to normal, the psychic sets her on a frantic course to reverse the spell. As evil forces close in, Christine must face the unthinkable: how far will she go to break free of the curse?


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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Offshore

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: TMS Universal
Director: Diane Cheklich
Screenwriter: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/talentnews.php?id=55157Diane Cheklich
Starring: Deb Tunis, Satish Shah, Marty Bufalini, Neil Bhoopalam, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Malaika Shenoy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Offshorethemovie.com

Plot Summary: Remember downsizing? That was nothing compared to the insidious new threat facing America’s workforce: outsourcing. Fairfax Furniture's call center is about to come under attack. CEO Derek Abernathy must cut costs or lose his job, so he does what any modern businessman would do: he sacrifices others. He declares Voxx of India their new call center, putting the jobs of lifers like Carol Silvers and Gen-Xers like Bridgette Mars on the block. But first they must train their replacements.

In India, businessman Devendra Tiwari and his earnest halfwit son Ajay have their work cut out for them: Voxx doesn't actually exist. Yet. From the masses desperate for work, they pick three candidates to go to America to be turned into trainers. Nikhil, Anjali and Reva are thrilled to land these prestigious jobs, but when they arrive in Detroit they find they are not at all welcome. In fact, Carol and her furious co-workers have declared war. The job thieves are tormented at every turn. Carol gives them the wrong training information, makes sure they are socially ostracized, and even rallies the local television muckraker to her cause.

Meanwhile, in India, Voxx's call center is cobbled together with mismatched phones, malfunctioning computers, employees straining to adjust to the night shift and the prayers of a swami. All Voxx needs now are its trainers. But back in America, the trainers are broken, one by one. Carol has nearly won her war against the Indians. But Abernathy is determined to make good on this faltering deal. He tells Voxx they've got 24 hours to go live – or they will all lose everything. The trainers return home to utter chaos – and the unbreakable belief that this ragtag start-up can accomplish their impossible mission.


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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Up

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Screenwriter: Bob Peterson
Starring: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo, Jordan Nagai
Genre: Adventure, Animation
MPAA Rating: PG (for some peril and action)
Official Website: Disney.com/Up

Plot Summary: From Disney•Pixar comes "Up," a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 9-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. From the Academy Award®-nominated director Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc."), Disney•Pixar's "Up" invites you on a hilarious journey into a lost world, with the least likely duo on Earth. "Up" will be presented in Disney Digital 3-D™ in select theaters.

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] What Goes Up

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: 3 Kings Productions
Director: Jonathan Glatzer
Screenwriter: Jonathan Glatzer, Robert Lawson
Starring: Steve Coogan, Hillary Duff, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby, Molly Shannon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: WhatGoesUp-themovie.com

Plot Summary: "What Goes Up" is a film about a morally challenged New York reporter, Campbell Babbitt (Steve Coogan), who learns life lessons from a group of dysfunctional students (Hilary Duff, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby) while covering the hometown hoopla surrounding the first teacher in space. Set in the 1980s, this is a poignant look at how heroes are made in a world devoid of heroes.

Upon arriving in the small New Hampshire town, Babbitt decides to call an old college friend, only to discover an apparent suicide. Babbitt gravitates toward his friend’s high-school students in hopes of finding an unsung hero story about a teacher who made a permanent impact on the social misfits of the school. Instead, he discovers the least likely teachers — a group of dysfunctional students – outcasts led by a narcissistic seductress (Hilary Duff), a repressed voyeur (Josh Peck), and a scheming pregnant teen (Olivia Thirlby). In a gradual reversal of roles, Babbitt soon finds himself learning from this unusual group of kids.



Pontypool

Studio: IFC Films
Director: Bruce McDonald
Screenwriter: Tony Burgess
Starring: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: Not Available

Plot Summary: The film is set in a radio station in Pontypool where one day the morning team starts taking reports of extreme, bloody incidents of violence occurring in town. As the story unfolds, the radio staff soon realizes the violence that is ripping society apart is due to a virus being spread through the English language. That in turn poses a problem for a yappy radio jock and his staff holed up in the broadcast booth housed in the basement of the town's abandoned church as a slaughter rages beyond its walls.
 
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