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Movies Opening in Theatres This Week
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Ciao opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)

11 hours 10 min ago
The death of a man marks the beginning of a friendship in this drama. When Mark dies, his best friend, Jeff (Adam Neal Smith), writes to break the news to Mark's Italian friend, Andrea (co-screenwriter Alessandro Calza). Soon their connection causes the men to become friends, first over email and then in person. Though they come from vastly different backgrounds, their common bond brings them closer and closer. Director/co-writer Yen Tan (HAPPY BIRTHDAY) loosely based the film on his friendship with Calza.
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Local Color opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)

11 hours 10 min ago
Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as an aging artist in this independent drama based on the experiences of writer/director George Gallo. Trevor Morgan stars as a young man who dreams of becoming a painter, so he asks a famously reclusive artist to help him reach his goal. LOCAL COLOR features a strong cast, including Samantha Mathis, Ray Liotta, Ron Perlman, and Charles Durning.
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Cadillac Records opens December 5th, 2008 (wide)

11 hours 10 min ago
It's hard to imagine a musical landscape without the talents of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Etta James, whose success in the 1950s and '60s still influences artists today. These music legends were all nurtured by Leonard Chess, one of the brothers behind Chess Records. In this historical, music-driven film about the label, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, and Mos Def play the famous faces.
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Frost/Nixon opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)

11 hours 10 min ago
The acclaimed play makes the transition from stage to screen with Ron Howard in the director's chair. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen revisit their roles as the title characters in this drama that pits the impeached president against British TV host David Frost.
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Nobel Son opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)

11 hours 10 min ago
Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge.
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Punisher: War Zone opens December 5th, 2008 (wide)

11 hours 10 min ago
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss, Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
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Extreme Movie opens December 5th, 2008 (wide)

11 hours 10 min ago
This feature-length vignette-style comedy boasts a smorgasbord of young comedic talent, including Michael Cera (SUPERBAD, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT), Ryan Pinkston (PUNK'D, SOUL PLANE), Frankie Muniz (MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE), and Jamie Kennedy (KICKIN' IT OLD SKOOL). In the tradition of KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, the film is comprised of a series of sketches, most of which revolve around teenagers and sex. Matthew Lillard and Andy Milonakis also make appearances in this ribald offering from the team behind THE COMEBACKS and numerous MTV Movie Award parody sketches. Andy Samberg and Will Forte are among the numerous SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE writers to have contributed EXTREME MOVIE's uproarious script.
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Black Balloon opens December 5th, 2008 Ilimited)

11 hours 10 min ago
In this Australian film from the producer of STRICTLY BALLROOM, Thomas (Rhys Wakefield, HOME AND AWAY) has a lot to contend with. Not only has the teenager just moved to a new school, but he also has to take care of his older brother Charlie (Luke Ford, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR), who is autistic. As Thomas struggles in his relationship with Charlie, he also tries to win the heart of his new girlfriend (Gemma Ward, THE STRANGERS). THE BLACK BALLOON also stars Toni Collette (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) as Thomas and Charlie's pregnant mother.
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Let Them Chirp Awhile opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)

11 hours 10 min ago
This ensemble indie comedy stars MUTUAL APPRECIATION's Justin Rice and BOYS DON'T CRY's Brendan Sexton III as two competitive friends, living in the East Village and trying to find artistic success; more time is spent, however, arguing and contending with an array of former lovers and lovers-to-be in this quirky diamond-in-the-rough. Laura Breckenridge (SOUTHERN BELLES) also stars.
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Timecrimes opens December 12th, 2008 (limited)

11 hours 10 min ago
In TIMECRIMES, a lazy afternoon spent in a lawn chair turns exciting when a man glimpses a naked woman through his binoculars. But when he goes in search of the beauty, he instead runs into a strange man whose face is wrapped in a bandage, and this encounter brings him into contact with a machine that can transport him through time. This Spanish sci-fi thriller drew raves in its festival run, and the inevitable English-language remake is in the works.
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Dhoondte Reh Jaoge opens

Thu, 11/27/2008 - 08:12
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Four Christmases opens November 26th, 2008 (wide)

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 08:12
Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn pair up for this Christmas comedy about a couple who has to visit four different sets of parents as a result of divorce. Seth Gordon, director of the highly praised documentary THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS, makes a move into narrative territory with this holiday film.
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Australia opens November 26th, 2008 (wide)

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 08:12
In the seven years since the release of MOULIN ROUGE, director Baz Luhrmann has had time to craft this epic action-romance set in the first half of the 20th century. He reunites with Nicole Kidman, who stars as an English beauty trying to save her Australian ranch by teaming up with a cattle driver, played by Hugh Jackman.
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Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! opens November 26th, 2008

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 08:12
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Secrets opens

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 08:12
Naomi and Michelle meet at a Jewish seminary in Israel and become fast friends. While Naomi chose to study at the seminary after the death of her mother, Michelle was pushed into it by her conservative parents. But despite their different reasons for attending the school, an encounter with a mysterious French women, and her tortured past, will cause them both to delve into the secrets of kabala mysticism to help her.
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Transporter 3 opens November 26th, 2008 (wide)

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 08:12
This fast-paced action film marks the third outing with Jason Statham playing the role of Frank Martin. For THE TRANSPORTER 3, Olivier Megaton (THE RED SIREN) takes over the directorial reins from Corey Yuen and Louis Leterrier.
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Twilight opens November 21st, 2008 (wide)

Fri, 11/21/2008 - 08:12
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen, a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for -- a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires -- James, Laurent and Victoria -- come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?
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I Can't Think Straight opens November 21st, 2008 (limited)

Fri, 11/21/2008 - 08:12
Tala is all set to marry her boyfriend when she meet Leyla--a woman to whom she feels an irresistible attraction. On the surface, the two couldn't be more different--Tala is a Jordanian Christian and Leyla is a reserved Muslim--but their magnetic draw cannot be denied. As Tala's wedding looms, she must ask herself if she will risk everything for love.
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