Cadillac Records
Release Date: 03/10/2009
Directed by TV veteran Darnell Martin, the musical drama Cadillac Records documents the compelling true-life story of the Chicago record label that helped the world discover such legendary artists as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Chuck Berry. Founded in 1950 by Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody), Chess Records quickly gained a reputation as home to some of the most talented and influential blues artists ever to step into a recording studio. But giving these musicians an opportunity to brin ...
Actor(s): Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union
Director(s): Darnell Martin
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Casper's Scare School
Release Date: 08/21/2007
The direct to video animated movie Casper's Scare School features the beloved friendly ghost attending a school in the hopes of learning how to frighten people. Although he goes through the classes, he reverts to his benevolent ways when he uncovers an evil plan. The voice cast includes Simpsons regular Dan Castellaneta, Jim Belushi, and Phyllis Diller. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Jim Belushi, Bob Saget, Devon Werkheiser
Director(s):
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Celine
Release Date: 07/22/2008
The life story of French-Canadian pop diva CTline Dion is familiar enough to render itself almost iconic. The child of an economically strained family in QuTbec (with 13 brothers and sisters), Dion began to evince vocal artistry at age five, singing in the piano bar owned by her parents. At the age of 12, Dion both authored and sang her own original tune, {&"Ce N'Ttait qu'un ROve", which she recorded in a studio with assist from her parents; they promptly shipped the demo tape off to Euro music p ...
Actor(s): Christine Ghawi, Jodelle Ferland, Enrico Colantoni
Director(s): Jeff Woolnough
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Changeling
Release Date: 02/17/2009
Inspired by actual events that occurred in 1920s-era Los Angeles, Clint Eastwood's The Changeling tells the story of a woman driven to confront a corrupted LAPD after her abducted son is retrieved and she begins to suspect that the boy returned to her is not the same boy she gave birth to. The year was 1928, and the setting a working-class suburb of Los Angeles. As Christine (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son, Walter, and departed for work, she never anticipated that this was the day her life w ...
Actor(s): Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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Children of the Corn
Release Date: 10/06/2009
A Vietnam veteran and his young wife fall prey to a malevolent rural cult comprised of murderous children in this adaptation of the terrifying short story by literary horror icon Stephen King. The year is 1975: Burt (David Anders) and his wife Vicki (Kandyse McClure) are on a cross-country trip when they stumble into Gatlin, Nebraska. Unbeknownst to them, this idyllic farming community has been overtaken by an unspeakable evil. Under the wicked influence of adolescent evangelist Isaac and his sickle- ...
Actor(s): David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey
Director(s): Donald P. Borchers
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Columbus Day
Release Date: 03/24/2009
A thief seeks to get back together with his ex-wife while working to keep a young boy out of harm's way in this action thriller starring Val Kilmer. John Cologne (Kilmer) has just pulled off the heist of a lifetime, and now he's got exactly one hour to make the ultimate deal. He's convinced that he can win back his ex-wife now that he's soon-to-be rich, but after meeting a young boy in the park the deal starts to unravel. With time running out, John must protect his young friend, outsmart the police, ...
Actor(s): Val Kilmer, Marg Helgenberger, Wilmer Valderrama
Director(s): Charles Burmeister
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Release Date: 06/23/2009
A Manhattan shopaholic (Isla Fisher) whose buying sprees have buried her in immense debt lands a columnist gig dishing out financial advice in this Touchstone comedy based on Sophie Kinsella's series of books. P.J. Hogan (My Best Friend's Wedding) directs, with producing duties being handled by Jerry Bruckheimer. Rebecca Bloomwood (Fisher) can't seem to break her habit for making impulsive purchases, and while she's always decked out in the latest styles, her credit card bills are as thick as a telep ...
Actor(s): Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack
Director(s): P.J. Hogan
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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Coraline
Release Date: 07/28/2009
A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is fearlessly courageous, and perhaps far too adventurous for her own good. Coraline and her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have recently relocated to Oregon from Michigan. Bore ...
Actor(s): Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane
Director(s): Henry Selick
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Animated
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Crank High Voltage
Release Date: 09/08/2009
The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off -- except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping. Back for the fun is Chev's girlfriend Eve ({Amy Smart) and his physician Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), who, as luck has it, turns out to be an ex-hear ...
Actor(s): Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins, Jr.
Director(s): Brian Taylor
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Action, Feature
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