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Waiting in Beijing opensCategories: Movies
Last Stop 174 opensCategories: Movies
Nothing But the Truth opens December 19th, 2008 (limited)Inspired by national headlines, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH follows the plight of Rachel Armstrong, a Washington, D.C., reporter (Kate Beckinsale) who reveals the name of an undercover agent (THE DEPARTED's Vera Farmiga). Though the prosecutor (Matt Dillon) and the judge (Floyd Abrams) both pressure her to reveal her source, Rachel stands strong. This drama also stars Angela Bassett, Noah Wyle, David Schwimmer, and Alan Alda.
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Tale of Despereaux opens December 19th, 2008 (wide)Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a Princess named Pea and learns to read (rather than eat) books -- reveling in stories of knights, dragons and fair maidens. Banished from Mouseworld for being more man than mouse, Despereaux is rescued by another outcast, Roscuro, who also wants to hear the tales. But when the Princess dismisses Roscuro's friendship, he becomes the ultimate rat and plots revenge with fellow outsider Mig. After Pea is kidnapped, Despereaux discovers he is the only one who can rescue her...and that even the tiniest mouse can find the courage of a knight in shining armor.
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Brothers Bloom opens December 19th, 2008 (NY/LA); January 16th, 2009 (expands)The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust, intrigue and the most complex literary-inspired setups imaginable. Now they've decided to take on one last job -- showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress named Penelope the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world -- from New Jersey to Greece to Russia and Prague -- in pursuit of priceless artifacts wanted by some of their most unsavory competitors.
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Yes Man opens December 19th, 2008 (wide)Imagine saying yes to everything that comes your way, regardless of your wishes or the implications. That's exactly what Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) has to do in this comedy based on the memoir by Danny Wallace. YES MAN also stars Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, and John Michael Higgins.
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Seven Pounds opens December 19th, 2008 (wide)Throughout his career, the multi-talented Will Smith has proven equally adept with action, drama, and comedy. After tackling the big budget films I AM LEGEND and HANCOCK, the actor returns to more serious fare with his THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS director, Gabriele Muccino. In SEVEN POUNDS, a man's efforts drastically reshape the worlds of seven people.
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Theater of War opensWith this documentary, Meryl Streep for the first time allowed cameras to record her preparation for a role. The occasion was her lead stage performance in Bertolt Brecht's MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN. And while the film offers a plenitude of insights into the actress's craft, its focus narrows to the play itself--whose themes of warfare and violence have both parallels to life in 2006 and Brecht's tortured history in America.
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Bedtime Stories opens December 25th, 2008 (wide)Adam Sandler stars as a man whose nighttime tales do more than just put his nephew to sleep; instead, his imaginative stories become reality. This fantasy comedy for the whole family is directed by HAIRSPRAY helmer Adam Shankman.
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Last Chance Harvey opens December 25th, 2008 (limited); January 23rd, 2009 (wide)Though Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman didn't share much screen time in their first film together, STRANGER THAN FICTION, it's their interaction that drives this romantic drama. Hoffman stars as Harvey Shine, an American man in London for his daughter's wedding. After getting fired on the phone, he meets a British singleton (Thompson) in the airport bar, and things begin to look up for the formerly unlucky man.
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Waltz with Bashir opens December 25th, 2008 (limited)In reflecting upon his time spent in the Israeli army, filmmaker Ari Folman has produced WALTZ WITH BASHIR, a profoundly moving antiwar meditation that is equal parts personal memoir, history lesson, and animated fever dream. In 1982, Folman was a soldier during Israel's first invasion of Lebanon. This was a painful moment in history, when the newly elected president of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, was killed in an explosion. Furious, his party, the Christian Phalangists, retaliated by storming into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps and massacring thousands of innocent victims. Over 20 years later, Folman is disturbed to realize that he has no memory of this incident even though he was there at the time. In order to remember, he tracks down several of his friends and soldiers who were there with him to find out what really happened.<br><br>WALTZ WITH BASHIR is as difficult to categorize as it is to forget. It is a truly startling achievement, a film that can be classified as animation and documentary and history and fiction. It is all of those things at once, and it is also much more than that. Folman uses a combination of Flash animation, 3D, and classic animation to bring his film to visual life, but it is the beautifully haunting score by acclaimed German composer Max Richter that provides the film with its heart and soul. As WALTZ WITH BASHIR unfolds in dreamlike waves, Folman understands that guilt is a dangerous thing, and war is even worse.
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man opensCategories: Movies
Moscow, Belgium opens December 19th, 2008 (limited)A fender bender sends a single mother and a much younger man on a collision course toward love in this comic drama. Set in Belgium's blue collar neighborhood of Moscow, the film's heroine, Matty, has nothing but harsh words for Johnny when the trucker inflicts a dent in her car. But soon she sees a whole different side of him. Can their relationship survive a secret about his past?
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Where God Left His Shoes opensCategories: Movies
While She Was Out opensCategories: Movies
Doubt opens December 12th, 2008 (limited)Celebrated playwright John Patrick Shanley adapts his own original work and directs this drama starring Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Suspicions of molestation arise at a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, with a priest (Hoffman) as the suspect, and a pair of nuns (Streep and ENCHANTED's Amy Adams) on opposite sides of the debate.
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Gran Torino opens December 17th, 2008 (limited), January 16th, 2009 (wide)Hardworking Oscar winner Clint Eastwood releases his second film in 2008 (after THE CHANGELING) with this drama. Eastwood also stars as Walt Kowalski, an older man who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his neighborhood and the world around him.
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Wrestler opens December 17th, 2008 (limited)THE FOUNTAIN's Darren Aronofsky directs this drama about a past-his-prime wrestler who tries to regain his earlier fame. Mickey Rourke (SIN CITY) continues a career revival of his own as the fighter, while Oscar winner Marisa Tomei costars.
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$9.99 opensIsraeli writer Etget Keret, one of the minds behind WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY and JELLYFISH, brings more of his brand of magical realism to the screen with this stop-motion film based on his writing. Twentysomething Dave is without a job and lives with his family, but he is in search of the meaning of life. His interactions with his quirky neighbors fuel both the film and his hunt for knowledge.
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