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T.A.C.T.I.C.A.L.
Release Date: 02/03/2009
Those trusted to uphold the law discover that they must sometimes deceive in order to carry out their noble objectives in this low-budget action thriller. As Special Forces soldiers continue the hunt for a helpless murder witness, scheming drug lords seize the opportunity and start shooting to kill. Now, with each passing minute, the prospect for survival fades, leaving the resilient troops with no choice other than throwing out the rules, and attempting to think like the very killers they're trying ...
Actor(s): Eric Lane, Greg Niecestro, Simeon Henderson
Director(s): Sidney "Mansa" Winters
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Crime, Feature
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Table for Three
Release Date: 06/23/2009
A single guy suffering from a bad case of heartache invites an outwardly ideal couple to share his stylish apartment, only to second-guess his decision when the couple proves clueless about personal boundaries. Suddenly single after being dumped by his girlfriend during his marriage proposal and left in a lonely apartment when his roommate moves thousands of miles away, Scott (Brandon Routh) invites amiable strangers Ryan (Jessee Bradford) and Mary (Sophia Bush) to move in. When Ryan and Mary begin i ...
Actor(s): Brandon Routh, Jesse Bradford, Sophia Bush
Director(s): Michael Samonek
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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Taken
Release Date: 05/12/2009
An ex-soldier (Liam Neeson) traveling through Europe embarks on a frantic quest to rescue his daughter (Maggie Grace) after the young girl is abducted by slave traders in District B13 director Pierre Morel's contemporary thriller Taken. Robert Mark Kamen joins the screenwriting team, which also includes Morel and longtime collaborator Luc Besson, who also produces. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Director(s): Pierre Morel
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The Alphabet Killer
Release Date: 01/06/2009
Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this thriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester, NY-based police investigator Megan Paige (Dushku) discovers that ten year old Carla Castillo was brutally raped and murdered in nearby Churchville, she becomes convinced that the department is dealing with a serial killer. Paige is a driven detective whose dev ...
Actor(s): Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Timothy Hutton
Director(s): Rob Schmidt
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Art of War III: Retribution
Release Date: 08/11/2009
When international diplomacy fails, it's up to one covert agent to prevent North Korean terrorists from obtaining the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Caught in the crossfire after the deal turns deadly, Shaw (Treach) races to save a beautiful facilitator and winds of getting framed for murder. Pursued by the authorities with only his new partner and mysterious facilitator to aid him, Shaw uses his stealth and his martial arts skills to prevent the terrorists from detonating a nuclear bomb at a U ...
Actor(s): Anthony "Treach" Criss
Director(s): Gerry Lively
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Action, Feature
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The Brothers Bloom
Release Date: 09/29/2009
When the younger of two notorious sibling con artists announces a plan to go legit, his brother implores him to carry out one last swindle in the eagerly anticipated sophomore feature from Brick writer/director Rian Johnson. Tired of a life on the run, a confidence man who has dedicated his life to the art of the grift decides to call it quits. Despite his plans to leave his criminal past behind, however, the reluctant scammer finds that his brother has masterminded one last scheme to claim the wealt ...
Actor(s): Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo
Director(s): Rian Johnson
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Butcher
Release Date: 07/14/2009
A mob enforcer is set up to take the fall for a multi-million dollar heist involving a rival gang boss. Merle (Eric Roberts) is a gambler stuck on a twenty-year losing streak, but his luck is about to change. Surviving a trap that was intended to kill him, Merle makes away with a beautiful woman and a piece of the take. Most men in that position would have been content to simply walk away with their lives, but Merle has been loyal for twenty years. Realizing he's been betrayed, something inside snaps ...
Actor(s): Eric Roberts
Director(s): Jesse Johnson
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Action, Feature
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
Release Date: 03/31/2009
A man with the ability to leap back and forth though time attempts to help a childhood friend solve her sister's murder, in the process breaking his own golden rule and creating an evil that didn't exist previously. Sam uses his gift to help solve the crimes that leave detectives cold. Though it pains him to know that he can never intervene directly during his leaps, he knows that the consequences could be terrible if he does. Approached by his old friend Elizabeth to help track down her sister's mur ...
Actor(s): Chris Carmack, Rachel Miner, Melissa Jones
Director(s): Seth Grossman
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Casino Job
Release Date: 03/10/2009
A vengeful stripper schemes to take a slimy casino owner for all he's worth, but finds her foolproof plan foiled by a collaborator with a secret agenda. In Las Vegas, money equals power, and few men have more of both than wealthy casino owner Barry Kaylin. A thirty-something bachelor who owns four Las Vegas casinos, Barry lives life to the fullest and never apologizes to anyone. One night, while anticipating the arrival of two potential business associates at his sprawling desert mansion, Barry hires ...
Actor(s): Amylia Joiner, Jay Anthony Franke, Irina Voronina
Director(s): Christopher Robin Hood
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Feature
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The Christmas Clause
Release Date: 11/10/2009
A stressed-out mother makes a Christmas wish for a different life, only to realize that the sweet life doesn't come without its fair share of cavities in this uplifting holiday fantasy starring Lea Thompson. Between maintaining her career as a high-powered lawyer, tending to her three kids, and maintaining her relationship with her loving husband, Sophie Kelly (Thompson) never has a spare minute to herself. When Sophie takes her kids to the mall and Santa asks her what she wants for Christmas, she im ...
Actor(s): Lea Thompson, Andrew Airlie, Laura Mennell
Director(s): George Erschbamer
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Fantasy
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Release Date: 12/02/2008
The adventure continues as producer/director Andrew Adamson teams with screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to tell the tale of the dashing Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) -- who sets out to defeat a tyrannical king who has overtaken Narnia and secure his rightful place on the throne. One year has passed since the events of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and now the kings and queens of that land have returned to make a shocking discovery. Though by their ...
Actor(s): Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley
Director(s): David Strangmuller
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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The Code
Release Date: 06/23/2009
An experienced robber (Morgan Freeman) heavily in debt with the Russian mob engages a novice thief (Antonio Banderas) to pull off one last heist in this crime drama from director Mimi Leder (Deep Impact). Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) co-stars in the Millennium Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell
Director(s): Mimi Leder
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Release Date: 05/05/2009
David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of timel ...
Actor(s): Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson
Director(s): David Fincher
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Dark Knight
Release Date: 12/09/2008
Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins), and Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger dons the ghoulishly gleeful Joker makeup previously worn by Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero. Just as it begins to appear as if Bat ...
Actor(s): Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
Director(s): Christopher Nolan
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Crime, Feature
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Release Date: 04/07/2009
Keanu Reeves tops this adaptation of the seminal 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still with this 20th Century Fox production. Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) helms the story of an alien traveler, Klaatu (Reeves), who heads to Earth along with his bodyguard robot, Gort, to deliver a warning of planetary destruction if the people of the world fail to stop laying waste to the environment. Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and Kathy Bates co-star in the David Scarpa-penned film. ~ Jerem ...
Actor(s): Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm
Director(s): Scott Derrickson
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Science Fiction, Feature
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The Deal
Release Date: 01/20/2009
His career in an uncontrollable downward spiral, a hapless Hollywood producer cons a major studio into financing a $100 million action film following the adventures of 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, only to find his swindle taking a sudden turn for the worse when his star is kidnapped and the production is shut down. Now left with few other options for resuscitating his flat-lining career, the producer aligns himself with a well-connected Hollywood studio executive in a clande ...
Actor(s): William H. Macy, Meg Ryan
Director(s): Steven Schachter
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Duchess
Release Date: 12/27/2008
Director Saul Dibb takes the helm for this period drama adapted from Amanda Foreman's best-selling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, documenting the romantic entanglements of Georgiana Cavendish (Keira Knightley), a beautiful and clever woman who becomes a celebrity of British high society when she marries the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) and becomes consort to one of the most powerful men in England. Beloved for her trend-setting fashion designs as well as her political activism, Georgia ...
Actor(s): Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling
Director(s): Saul Dibb
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Education of Charlie Banks
Release Date: 06/30/2009
A young man is faced with a dilemma when a threatening figure from his past returns in this drama, the directorial debut from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst. Charlie Banks (Jesse Eisenberg) and his best friend, Danny (Chris Marquette), grew up in a rough section of New York, where they both knew Mick (Jason Ritter), a kid whose was much admired for his cool and equally feared for his talent for violence. When Mick got into a fight that left two teens nearly dead, Charlie was a witness, and when he w ...
Actor(s): Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Eva Amurri
Director(s): Fred Durst
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Good Student
Release Date: 02/03/2009
An unpopular high school teacher finds himself the primary suspect in the case of a missing student when news gets out that he was the last person to see her in this dark comedy starring Tim Daly and Hayden Panettiere. Mr. Gibb (Daly) is reviled among the student body as quite possibly the worst teacher ever to stand at the head of the class. He's infatuated with Ally (Panittiere), a popular teen and local celebrity. When Ally suddenly goes missing, the entire suburban town descends into panic. Could ...
Actor(s): Tim Daly, Hayden Panettiere, William Sadler
Director(s): David Ostry
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Grudge 3
Release Date: 05/12/2009
The ghosts of Kayako and Toshio return to spread terror as the Grudge saga continues in this sequel featuring Saw star Shawnee Smith. Jake (Matthew Knight) may have survived the previous supernatural onslaught, though the sheer terror of his harrowing ordeal has rendered him nearly insane. Hospitalized, Jake is haunted by visions of his ghostly attackers as his caretaker Dr. Sullivan (Smith) sets out to investigate his incredible tales. In the midst of exploring Jake's Chicago home, Dr. Sullivan disc ...
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Director(s): Toby Wilkins
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Guitar
Release Date: 02/10/2009
A doomed woman discovers her creative spirit during a final fling with life in this independent drama. Melody Wilder (Saffron Burrows) is already having a bad day when she visits her doctor about a troubling lump in her throat -- her boyfriend has left her, and she's lost her job. However, this news pales in comparison to what her doctor (Janeane Garofalo) has to say: the lump is an inoperable cancer, and Melody has only a short time to live. Throwing caution to the wind, Melody rents a huge, luxurio ...
Actor(s): Saffron Burrows, Isaach de BankolT, Paz de la Huerta
Director(s): Amy Redford
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Haunted Airman
Release Date: 10/13/2009
A wounded military aviator (Robert Pattinson) convalescing in a remote Wales mansion attempts to discern whether he's actually losing his mind or his psychiatrist is attempting to crack his fragile psyche. Shadowed by his darkened past and plagued with horrific visions, the airman clings to sanity as his reality becomes warped beyond recognition. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Robert Pattinson, Julian Sands, Rachael Stirling
Director(s):
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The Haunting in Connecticut
Release Date: 07/14/2009
Inspired by the frightening true-life tale of a family that moved into a converted funeral home and subsequently fell under supernatural attack, director Peter Cornwell's The Haunting in Connecticut follows the quest of a desperate mother to free her family from the grip of an evil beyond human comprehension. Sara (Virginia Madsen) and Peter Campbell (Martin Donovan) have just moved to Connecticut with their young son, Matt, when the young boy experiences a series of disturbing events that lead him t ...
Actor(s): Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Kyle Gallner
Director(s): Peter Cornwell
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The Haunting of Molly Hartley
Release Date: 02/24/2009
Go and Broken Hearts Club producer Mickey Liddell makes his feature directorial debut with this suspense thriller about a high-school student who arrives in a new town only to find that her frightful past won't be forgotten so easily. Molly Hartley (Haley Bennett) was all ready for a fresh start in life, and kindly classmate Joseph (Chace Crawford) was more than willing to help out by showing her the ropes around school. But Molly Hartley is a girl with a sinister secret. Only when she discovers the ...
Actor(s): Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, Shannon Marie Woodward
Director(s): Mickey Liddell
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The Horsemen
Release Date: 07/14/2009
Emotionally distanced form his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife, a troubled detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in a dark psychological thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi. Patrick Fugit, Clifton Collins Jr., Neil McDonough, and Peter Stormare co-star in a film by Spun director Jonas +ckerlund and Doom screenwriter Dave Callaham. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie G ...
Actor(s): Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Clifton Collins, Jr.
Director(s): Jonas +kerlund
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The House Bunny
Release Date: 12/19/2008
When Playboy playmate Shelley (Anna Faris) is unceremoniously evicted from Hugh Hefner's lavish mansion in order to make room for some younger beauties, her quest for employment finds her serving as den mother to an unpopular L.A. sorority in this Happy Madison production directed by Fred Wolf. Colin Hanks, Rumer Willis, Katharine McPhee, Monet Mazur, and Beverly D'Angelo co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone
Director(s): Fred Wolf
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Human Contract
Release Date: 06/30/2009
Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith makes her feature directorial debut with this drama about a tormented businessman (Jason Clarke) whose life crumbles to ruins when he meets a free spirited temptress (Paz Vega) who lures him towards a dangerous existence of reckless abandon. Ted Danson and Idris Elba co-star in a film penned by director Pinkett-Smith, and executive produced by her husband Will Smith. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Jason Clarke, Paz Vega, Ted Danson
Director(s): Jada Pinkett Smith
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The International
Release Date: 06/09/2009
Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's action thriller concerning an ambitious Interpol agent who targets corruption at the top levels of the world's largest banking institutions. The world's most powerful banks have become hopelessly corrupt, prompting Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Manhattan assistant district attorney Eleanor Whitman (Watts) to follow a dangerous money trail from Berlin to Milan to New York and Istanbul. But as determined as Agent Salinger ...
Actor(s): Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Director(s): Tom Tykwer
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The Last Resort
Release Date: 08/11/2009
It all begins so promisingly when a close-knit group of girls heads out on a vacation in the tropics to blow off some steam. But, after a day of sun and a night of drinks and dancing, a terrible accident sets off a series of events that leaves the girls robbed and abandoned in an old, seemingly empty resort. But a supernatural surprise lays in wait that's about to make the atrocities of the real world seem like Disneyland. ~ All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): America Olivo, Paulie Rojas, Marissa Tait
Director(s): Brandon Nutt
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Lawless
Release Date: 12/16/2008
When two undercover cops have their identities compromised, they are forced to choose between becoming hired killers, or seeing their families murdered right before their very eyes. Now, as the once-upstanding policemen become cold-blooded killers, their harrowing journey provides irrefutable proof that evil dwells in the heart of even the most decent men. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Denton Blane Everett, Jason Riley Hoss, Natalie Bell
Director(s): Phillip Guzman
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Action, Feature
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The Lodger
Release Date: 02/10/2009
Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin director David Ondaatje takes his love for the "Master of Suspense" to the next logical step with this updating of the 1926 Alfred Hitchcock classic which shifts the action from turn-of-the-century London to contemporary Los Angeles. Adapted from the same Marie Belloc Lowndes novel that inspired the early Hitchcock effort, Ondaatje's thriller follows a mysterious lodger suspected of being a vicious copycat killer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West
Director(s): David Ondaatje
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Release Date: 12/16/2008
The Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen continues the tale set into motion by director Stephen Sommers with this globe-trotting adventure that finds explorer Rick O'Connell and son attempting to thwart a resurrected emperor's (Jet Li) plan to enslave the entire human race. It's been 2,000 years since China's merciless Emperor Han and his formidable army were entombed in terra cotta clay by a double-dealing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh), but now, after centuries in suspended animation, an ancient curs ...
Actor(s): Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello
Director(s): Rob Cohen
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Adventure, Feature
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The Open Road
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Steenburgen star in writer/director Michael Meredith's tale of a young man looking to reconnect with his long-lost father -- a famous athlete -- and bring him back to the bedside of his ailing mother. Lyle Lovett, Harry Dean Stanton, and Kate Mara fill out the supporting cast in the Perfect Weekend production. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Mary Steenburgen
Director(s): Michael Meredith
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Pink Panther 2
Release Date: 06/23/2009
Hollywood funnyman Steve Martin returns to the role made famous by Peter Sellers in this high-concept sequel to the 2006 comedy hit The Pink Panther. The world's most valuable treasures are being stolen. The legendary Pink Panther Diamond is the latest to disappear, and Chief Inspector Dreyfus (John Cleese taking over acting duties from Kevin Kline) is assembling a team of international experts and detectives to track down the thief and recover the missing artifacts. The latest addition to the crack ...
Actor(s): Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer
Director(s): Harald Zwart
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Poker Club
Release Date: 04/21/2009
Four friends are swept up in a treacherous game of intrigue and betrayal during a Monday night poker game gone terribly awry. Every Monday night, Aaron Tyler (Johnathon Schaech) and his friends get together for a friendly game of poker. They've had the same routine for years, and it's always been a low-key affair. But tonight's game of poker will be anything but routine, because after accidentally killing a burglar who was sneaking into Aaron's house, the boys attempt to cover up the crime by quietly ...
Actor(s): Johnathon Schaech, Judy Reyes, Johnny Messner
Director(s): Tim McCann
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The Proposal
Release Date: 10/13/2009
Sandra Bullock stars in the romantic comedy The Proposal, as a Canadian immigrant who creates a demanding and difficult work environment for her subordinates at the office. When the news arrives that she's about to be deported to the Great White North, she rushes into a marriage of convenience with her young assistant (played by Ryan Reynolds) to prevent such a catastrophe from occurring. 27 Dresses' Anne Fletcher directs from a script by Peter Chiarelli for Touchstone Pictures. ~ Nathan Southern, Al ...
Actor(s): Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen
Director(s): Anne Fletcher
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Ramen Girl
Release Date: 05/26/2009
Abandoned by her boyfriend after following him to Tokyo, an American slacker adrift in a foreign culture witnesses the healing power of food and determines to become a ramen chef. When Abby (Brittany Murphy) arrived in Tokyo, she assumed she was starting a new life with her boyfriend. But that future fades when Abby's boyfriend disappears, leaving her to fend for herself in a city she doesn't understand. In desperate need of a little consolation, the floundering American begins frequenting her neighb ...
Actor(s): Brittany Murphy, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tammy Blanchard
Director(s): Robert Allan Ackerman
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Reader
Release Date: 04/14/2009
Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in The Hours director Stephen Daldry's haunting period drama concerning the relationship between a 15-year-old German boy and a mysterious woman twice his age, and the way that it grows doubly complex when the man reencounters the woman years later and discovers a shocking truth about her past. Based on author Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel of the same name, the film opens on the character of Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) in middle age -- cold, remote, and em ...
Actor(s): Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross
Director(s): Stephen Daldry
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Scratch
Release Date: 02/10/2009
An apprentice investigator finds his plan to rescue a kidnapped hacker turning deadly when a hidden agenda is revealed in this violent tale of betrayal and revenge. A hacker has downloaded something he shouldn't have, and now he's being held captive as his abductors attempt to track down the missing information. Recognizing the opportunity to profit by the downloaded booty if he can just reach it before the kidnappers, the novice detective recruits a crack team to get the job done. But the simple hei ...
Actor(s): Jason Adkins, Brian Forrest, Phil Idrissi
Director(s): Jorge Suarez
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Action, Feature
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The Secret Life of Bees
Release Date: 02/03/2009
Gina Prince-Bythewood's adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees stars Dakota Fanning as Lily, a 14-year-old growing up in a small Southern town in 1964. She is haunted by memories of shooting her mother when she was a young girl. Lily lives with her emotionally distant father, and her best friend is their African-American housekeeper Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson). After locals beat Rosaleen for attempting to register as a voter, and Lily's dad goes one step too far during an argument ...
Actor(s): Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah
Director(s): Gina Prince-Bythewood
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Soloist
Release Date: 08/04/2009
Academy Award-nominated Atonement director Joe Wright teams with screenwriter Susannah Grant to tell the true-life story of Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of schooling at Juilliard. Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is a disenchanted journalist stuck in a dead-end job. His marriage to a fellow journalist having recently come to an end, Steve is wandering through Los Angeles' Skid Row when he notices a bedraggled figure pl ...
Actor(s): Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey, Jr., Catherine Keener
Director(s): Joe Wright
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Spirit
Release Date: 04/14/2009
A resurrected cop does battle with a villain whose quest for immortality threatens an entire metropolis in Sin City creator Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's acclaimed graphic novel. When a rookie cop is brutally killed and mysteriously brought back to life, he assumes the guise of The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) -- a masked crime fighter who prowls the shadows of Central City on a supernatural mission to keep the urban landscape safe. Upon discovering that his arch nemesis, The Octopus (Samuel L ...
Actor(s): Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson
Director(s): Frank Miller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Crime, Feature
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Release Date: 11/03/2009
A New York City subway dispatcher draws on his extensive knowledge of the subway system in order to outsmart a dangerous criminal mastermind who's hijacked a subway train in this remake of the 1974 thriller inspired by John Godey's best-selling book. Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is drifting through his daily routine when he receives word that a heavily armed gang of four has hijacked a subway train and is holding all of the passengers hostage. Led by cunning master thief Ryder (John Travolta), t ...
Actor(s): Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini
Director(s): Tony Scott
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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The Tale of Despereaux
Release Date: 04/07/2009
A diminutive mouse strives to make a mammoth change in his troubled kingdom in this adaptation of author Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal-winning children's book. A long time ago, in the distant kingdom of Dor, a horrible accident broke the heart of the king, left a beautiful princess crestfallen, and filled the townspeople with despair. As the sun disappeared from the sky and the flowers were drained of color, the laughter slowly ceased in this once-magical land. It was into this darkened world that a ...
Actor(s): Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy
Director(s): Sam Fell
MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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The Thaw
Release Date: 10/06/2009
A team of ecology students led by a famous environmental advocate discovers that some secrets are better left buried when they unearth the perfectly preserved remains of a frozen wooly mammoth and discover that an ancient parasite has been incubating inside the beast for centuries. Dr. David Krupien (Val Kilmer) is examining a melting ice cap in the Arctic when he unearths a prehistoric specimen the likes of which researchers have never seen. Elated by the possibilities of such a remarkable find, Dr. ...
Actor(s): Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore
Director(s): Mark A. Lewis
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Ugly Truth
Release Date: 11/10/2009
Katherine Heigl stars as a lovelorn television producer who's made to run a gauntlet of romantic exploits by a pig-headed morning-show host (played by Gerard Butler) as a way to prove whose romantic methods are more accurate. Legally Blonde's Robert Luketic directs from a script by Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, and Nicole Eastman. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner
Director(s): Robert Luketic
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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The Uninvited
Release Date: 04/28/2009
Filmmaking duo Thomas and Charles Guard make their feature directorial debuts as the co-directors of this remake of Kim Jee-woon's 2003 Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters. Produced by Asian horror remake king Roy Lee, The Uninvited tells the story of a young girl named Anna (Emily Browning), who was admitted into a mental hospital following the death of her biological mother. Returning home some time later, Anna is shocked to discover that her father (David Strathairn) has recently gotten engaged to R ...
Actor(s): Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel
Director(s): Thomas Guard
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Horror, Feature
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The Village Barbershop
Release Date: 03/03/2009
Hair is the only thing two people have in common before they come into each other's lives in this independent comedy-drama. For thirty years, Arthur Leroldi (John Ratzenberger) has operated a barbershop with his business partner Enzo. Arthur is a fine barber, but Enzo is the member of the team with the business sense and a talent for charming people, so when Enzo suddenly dies, Arthur soon finds himself flirting with bankruptcy. As Arthur scrambles to pay his bills, his landlord Jacobi (Amos Glick) w ...
Actor(s): John Ratzenberger, Shelly Cole, Cindy Pickett
Director(s): Chris Ford
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Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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The Wild Stallion
Release Date: 10/06/2009
Nickelodeon network favorite Miranda Cosgrove stars in this horse-driven drama. When Hannah Mills takes on a school project photographing horses in the wild, she has no idea they are about to become her passion. Their graceful movements and flowing manes captivate her and soon the mustangs are her reason for living as she falls in with the ranch lifestyle. But what she's about to discover is going to put her and the ranchers in danger, because somebody else has their eyes on the horses. This is a sto ...
Actor(s): Miranda Cosgrove, Danielle Chuchran, Fred Ward
Director(s): Craig Clyde
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Children's/Family, Feature
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The Women
Release Date: 12/19/2008
Veteran producer/director Diane English (The Lathe of Heaven, Murphy Brown) helms this contemporized remake of George Cukor's beloved proto-feminist comedy drama The Women (1939), an adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play. The English version follows the gossip, bitchy wisecracking, and overall disillusionment that erupt among a group of socialite friends when their dearest and most envied learns of her husband's marital infidelity at the hands of a backstabbing shopgirl. The all-female cast is front ...
Actor(s): Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes
Director(s): Diane English
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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The Wrestler
Release Date: 04/21/2009
His sense of identity fading into nothingness after the spotlights dim and he experiences a close brush with mortality, a retired wrestler begins to evaluate his life while considering the comeback that could very well kill him in director Darren Aronofsky's poignant portrait of an introspective former superstar in the twilight of his career. Back in his heyday, wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was an icon in the ring. His image immortalized in action figures and video games, he woul ...
Actor(s): Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
Director(s): Darren Aronofsky
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Release Date: 12/02/2008
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with this long-delayed big-screen continuation that revives the series six years after it headed off the air in 2002. Creator Chris Carter returns to direct, co-writing the script with series veteran Frank Spotnitz for 20th Century Fox. Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet and rapper Xzibit co-star in the stand-alone sequel. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet
Director(s): Chris Carter
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Science Fiction, Feature
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Release Date: 10/27/2009
This animated adventure follows the tiny pixie from Peter Pan Tinker Bell as she bands together with her fairy friends to create the famous Fall Scepter - a magical and important task, that will restore the world's supply of fairy dust, and set things right in Pixie Hollow for another year. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide ...
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Director(s): Klay Hall
MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Traitor
Release Date: 12/19/2008
An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's investigation. Based on an idea by Steve Martin, the film is written and directed by Day After Tomorrow screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Sand Taghmaoui
Director(s): Jeffrey Nachmanoff
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
Release Date: 09/01/2009
Contains the following episodes - The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1, The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2, The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3, The Transformers: Transport to Oblivion, The Transformers: Roll for It ...
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MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Science Fiction, Animated
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Release Date: 10/20/2009
Michael Bay returns to helm the sequel to the highly successful big-screen adaptation of the Transformers toy line for DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. Much of the original cast returns for the second installment, including Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and John Turturro, with Rainn Wilson joining in the fun as a college professor. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel
Director(s): Michael Bay
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Science Fiction, Feature
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Transporter 3
Release Date: 03/10/2009
Strong-armed into transporting the kidnapped daughter of the head of the Environmental Agency for the Ukraine from Marseilles to Odessa, skilled wheelman Frank Martin (Jason Statham) enlists the aid of Inspector Tarconi (Frantois BerlTand) in accomplishing the treacherous assignment in this action-packed installment of the popular action series produced by Luc Besson (who also co-scripts). Frank isn't exactly thrilled with his latest assignment, but when his employer turns up the pressure, he has lit ...
Actor(s): Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, Frantois BerlTand
Director(s): Olivier Megaton
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Action, Feature
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Tropical Rainforest
Release Date: 03/16/1999
Though there is a great deal of research that is being conducted in the rainforests, these wild and ancient lands are not accommodating to your average tourist. Most of us have had to rely on the tenacity and bravery of others in order to learn about and see what happens in the rainforests. Tropical Rainforest is a film that will definitely make you feel as if you were in the middle of the action. Originally filmed in the IMAX format, this bold look into the daily happenings of the rainforest will th ...
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Director(s): Ben Shedd
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Genres: Nature , Documentary
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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
Release Date: 03/03/2009
A teen movie star attempts to overcome her addition to alcohol and salvage what's left of her career after passing out on the red carpet at her big Hollywood premiere and being sent to recover with her upbeat aunt in Indiana. Morgan Carter (Jo Jo) is only seventeen years old, but she's already on top of the world. But so much fame so early in life can yield unpredictable consequences, and when Morgan is sent to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, it's clear that she isn't ready to deal with the pres ...
Actor(s): Joanna 'Jojo' Levesque, Valerie Bertinelli, Ian Nelson
Director(s): Barbara Lieberman
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Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Twilight
Release Date: 03/21/2009
When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a passio ...
Actor(s): Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
Release Date: 06/16/2009
Tyler Perry transitions another one of his hit plays to the big screen with this adaptation of Madea Goes to Jail. The successful filmmaker stars once again as the mischief-prone older woman whose exploits this time lead her to jail, where she befriends and reforms a prostitute named Candy (The Cosby Show's Keshia Knight Pulliam). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Tyler Perry, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke
Director(s): Tyler Perry
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Release Date: 01/13/2009
Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates star in writer/director Tyler Perry's family drama about an upper-crust family and their working-class counterparts, who discover that scandal knows no social boundaries. Charlotte Cartwright (Bates) and Alice Pratt (Woodard) may be from different sides of the tracks, yet over the years they've managed to nurture a strong and healthy friendship. That friendship is put to the ultimate test, however, when their adult children begin to act out in ways that neither parent ev ...
Actor(s): Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan
Director(s): Tyler Perry
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Tyson
Release Date: 08/18/2009
Assembled from over 30 hours of interviews with the controversial heavyweight champion, director James Toback takes the helm for a feature-length documentary exploring the life and career of self-destructive pugilist Mike Tyson. From his early years under the wing of famed boxing promoter Don King to his notorious match against Evander Holyfield and his conviction on sexual assault charges, Tyson's turbulent life is explored in the kind of comprehensive manner that could only have been made possible ...
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Director(s): James Toback
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Sports & Recreati, Documentary
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