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Everybody's Fine
Release Date: 03/24/2010
A widower (Robert De Niro) takes his grown kids on a road trip in order to reconnect with them after his wife's death in this Miramax production. Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell co-star in the drama, written and directed by Kirk Jones. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore
Director(s): Kirk Jones
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Brothers
Release Date: 03/23/2010
Jim Sheridan's film, adapted from Susanne Bier's 2004 movie, concerns Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire), a Marine who receives orders to ship out for yet another tour of duty in Afghanistan. But before he leaves his supportive wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and his two elementary-school-age daughters, Sam picks up his black sheep brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal), who has finished a prison stretch for robbing a bank. While overseas, Sam's aircraft gets shot down and he's thought dead. Back home, irre ...
Actor(s): Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman
Director(s): Jim Sheridan
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire
Release Date: 03/09/2010
Monster's Ball producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this adaptation of author Sapphire's best-selling novel about an overweight, illiterate African-American teen from Harlem who discovers an alternate path in life after she begins attending a new school. Clareece "Precious" Jones is only a teenager, yet she's about to give birth to her second child. Unable to read or write, Clareece shows little prospect for the future until discovering that she has been accep ...
Actor(s): Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton
Director(s): Lee Daniels
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Release Date: 02/09/2010
A Chicago librarian suffers from a rare genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time whenever he is under extreme duress; despite the fact that he vanishes at inordinately frequent and lengthy intervals, he attempts to build a stable future with the beautiful young heiress he loves. Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams star in this dramatic fantasy, which is directed by Robert Schwentke and based on the best-selling book by author Audrey Niffenegger. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard
Director(s): Robert Schwentke
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Cayman Went
Release Date: 02/09/2010
An underwater action star attempts to keep his career afloat by convincing three property owners on the tiny Caribbean Island of Cayman Brac to sell their land to a billionaire real estate mogul. The star of the once-popular television series "Diver Down," Josh Anders (Michael J. Lombardi) is "Nature's Hero." But lately the ratings for "Diver Down" have hit the skids, forcing Josh to pad his income with public appearances at shopping malls and pet store openings. Just when it begins to appear that "D ...
Actor(s): Michael J. Lombardi, Susan Misner, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director(s): Bobby Sheehan
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Love Happens
Release Date: 02/02/2010
The directorial debut of Brandon Camp concerns a widower (Aaron Eckhart) who makes a living as an expert on grieving. During the course of teaching a seminar, he meets and begins to fall for a floral designer (Jennifer Aniston), a discovery that leads him to face up to the fact he has not fully reconciled the loss of his wife. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler
Director(s): Brandon Camp
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Amelia
Release Date: 02/02/2010
Hilary Swank and Richard Gere star in director Mira Nair's biopic tracing the life of famed aviator Amelia Earhart -- who made history in 1932 by becoming the first woman ever to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Five years later, as Earhart attempted to fly around the world, the pilot and her plane simply vanished after crashing into the Pacific Ocean. Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor co-star in the Avalon Pictures production. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor
Director(s): Mira Nair
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Little Ashes
Release Date: 01/26/2010
For years, scholars have debated the nature of the relationship between surrealist painter Salvador Dali and poet Federico Garcia Lorca; director Paul Morrison's Little Ashes delves into their personal interaction and their acquaintanceship with Spanish surrealist filmmaker Luis Bu±uel, with whom Dali made L'Age d'Or and Un Chien Andalou. In 1922 Madrid, bohemian lifestyles are flourishing -- from the arrival of jazz music to the en vogue teachings of Sigmund Freud. As the tale opens, Salvador ...
Actor(s): Javier Beltrßn, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty
Director(s): Paul Morrison
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Greta
Release Date: 01/19/2010
Hilary Duff and Evan Ross star in this interracial teen romance about a waitress whose summer romance with an ambitious cook is threatened when her grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy) voice concern about her new boyfriend's criminal history. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Hilary Duff, Evan Ross, Ellen Burstyn
Director(s): Nancy Bardawil
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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No Greater Love
Release Date: 01/19/2010
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MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Drama
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Fame
Release Date: 01/12/2010
This remake of the '80s classic focuses on a group of young students attending a high school for the performing arts. Classmates study various aspects of performance, from dance to songwriting to acting, all of them hoping for the chance to one day become stars. Debbie Allen, Charles S. Dutton, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally, and Bebe Neuwirth portray the instructors, with a host of newcomers toplining the production as the students. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Kristy Flores, Asher Book, Paul Iacono
Director(s): Kevin Tancharoen
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Burning Plain
Release Date: 01/12/2010
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Joaquim de Almeida
Director(s): Guillermo Arriaga
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Trucker
Release Date: 01/05/2010
Michelle Monaghan stars as a self-reliant trucker forced to take on the responsibility of caring for her 11-year-old son when his father (Benjamin Bratt) ends up in the hospital in this independent drama from Plum Pictures. James Mottern directs from his own script, with Nathan Fillion, Joey Lauren Adams, and Jimmy Bennett set to co-star. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt
Director(s): James Mottern
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Release Date: 12/22/2009
A high-profile criminal lawyer finds his bid for the governorship in jeopardy when an ambitious rookie journalist begins suspecting him of tampering with evidence in order to secure his many convictions in director Peter Hyams' remake of the 1956 Fritz Lang classic. Mark Hunter (Michael Douglas) has a reputation for putting criminals behind bars, and with elections approaching he seems a shoo-in for governor. But just how clean is the district attorney's record when held up to scrutiny? When hungry r ...
Actor(s): Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn, Jesse Metcalfe
Director(s): Peter Hyams
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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The Other Man
Release Date: 12/15/2009
Rainmark and Gotham Films present this tale of a scorned husband who seeks out the man he thinks is involved with his wife in Richard Eyre's adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Other Man. Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas, and Romola Garai star in the joint U.K./U.S.A. production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney
Director(s): Richard Eyre
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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My Sister's Keeper
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Director Nick Cassavetes collaborates with screenwriter Jeremy Leven (The Notebook) for this drama about a pair of parents who resort to unorthodox methods in order to save their young daughter's life, only to find their decision coming back to haunt them in a manner neither could have ever foreseen. Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian (Jason Patric) are coasting through life with their young son and daughter when tragedy threatens to tear the family apart. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only ...
Actor(s): Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin
Director(s): Nick Cassavetes
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Nothing Like the Holidays
Release Date: 10/27/2009
Freddy Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, and Elizabeth Pe±a star in Washington Heights director Alfredo de Villa's earnest family drama about the importance of familial relationships in times of personal crisis. The snow is falling and Christmas has come to Chicago. For the Rodriguez family, there is particular cause to celebrate this year; youngest sibling Jesse (Rodriguez) has recently returned home safe and sound after fighting in the war overseas. But as the members of the ...
Actor(s): Freddy Rodriguez, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing
Director(s): Alfredo de Villa
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Into Temptation
Release Date: 10/27/2009
A jaded priest finds hope and redemption in the unlikeliest places in this indie drama from writer-director Patrick Coyle. Jeremy Sisto stars as Catholic priest Father John, who has become complacent in his vocation until the day that a depressed prostitute, Linda (Kristin Chenowith), wanders into his confessional and reveals that she intends to commit suicide on her birthday -- and then disappears. Father John's quest to find and save the woman leads him on a journey into the city's sexual underworl ...
Actor(s): Jeremy Sisto, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Baumgartner
Director(s): Patrick Coyle
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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American Violet
Release Date: 10/13/2009
Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, and Xzibit headline this fact-based drama about an innocent Texas mother caught up in a high-profile drug raid, and unjustly accused due to the uncorroborated testimony of a single informant. Dee Roberts (Beharie) is a young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma (Alfre Woodard), and rejects the plea-bargain that would free h ...
Actor(s): Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton
Director(s): Tim Disney
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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State of Play
Release Date: 09/01/2009
The Last King of Scotland director Kevin McDonald teams with screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan for this American adaptation of the hit British miniseries concerning the suspicious circumstances that set a rising congressman and a dogged reporter on a dangerous collision course. U.S. congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is handsome, unflappable, and ascending the ladder of power with unprecedented speed. He's the future of his political party, and as the chairman of a committee assigned to ov ...
Actor(s): Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams
Director(s): Kevin Macdonald
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Life Is Hot in Cracktown
Release Date: 08/25/2009
Based on writer/director Buddy Giovinazzo's novel of the same name, Life Is Hot in Cracktown explores how crack cocaine infiltrated the streets of urban America by following the journeys of four people whose lives are on a tragic collision course. Pre-op transsexual Marybeth (Kerry Washington) is working as a prostitute in order to save enough money to make her transformation complete. She lives with her lover, Benny, a small-time burglar, whom she hopes to marry after her final operation. Meanwhile, ...
Actor(s): Kerry Washington, Victor Rasuk, Evan Ross
Director(s): Buddy Giovinazzo
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Bridge to Nowhere
Release Date: 08/18/2009
Four blue-collar workers join forces with a destitute streetwalker in order to establish a top-dollar escort service in actor-turned-director Blair Underwood's working class drama. They live in a rundown Pittsburgh neighborhood where every day is a struggle. Stuck in low-paying, dead end jobs that will never propel them above the poverty line. But the prostitution racket may just be the ticket to a better life. Before long, everyone is rolling in cash, and living the lifestyle that always seemed just ...
Actor(s): Ving Rhames
Director(s): Blair Underwood
MPAA Rating: R
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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Flying By
Release Date: 07/07/2009
A successful real estate developer rediscovers his adolescent dreams of becoming a rock star after spontaneously performing with his old band at their 25th high school reunion in this musical drama starring Billy Ray Cyrus and Heather Locklear. George Barron (Cyrus) always dreamt of performing before thousands of adoring fans, but when life got in the way, he embraced the responsibilities of adulthood. Twenty five years later, George is attending his high school reunion when his old band-mates summon ...
Actor(s): Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, Olesya Rulin
Director(s): Jim Amatulli
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 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 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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Gran Torino
Release Date: 06/09/2009
A racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden Detroit neighborhood is forced to confront his own lingering prejudice when a troubled Hmong teen from his neighborhood attempts to steal his prized Gran Torino. Decades after the Korean War has ended, ageing veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is still haunted by the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. The two objects that matter most to Kowalski in life are the classic Gran Torino that represents his happier days working in a Ford assembl ...
Actor(s): Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Spinning Into Butter
Release Date: 06/09/2009
Sarah Jessica Parker produces and stars in stage director Mark Brokaw's adaptation the Rebecca Gilman play concerning a newly hired dean of students at an elite New England college who finds her life consumed by chaos following a vicious series of hate crimes. Sarah Daniels (Parker) was just settling into her new position when she was placed in charge of the investigation into a series of racially motivated campus crimes. Having previously worked at an inner-city school, Sarah makes the decision to g ...
Actor(s): Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti Williamson, Beau Bridges
Director(s): Mark Brokaw
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Revolutionary Road
Release Date: 06/02/2009
Titanic shipmates Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet step onboard for director Sam Mendes' tale of suburban malaise in 1950s-era Connecticut. Adapted from the classic 1961 novel by author Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road tells the tale of a young Connecticut couple whose once-idealistic relationship steadily deteriorates into a ceaseless cycle of petty jealousy and bickering as they strive to retain their independence in the conformity-obsessed world of picket fences and perfectly mani ...
Actor(s): Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates
Director(s): Sam Mendes
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Know Thy Enemy
Release Date: 05/26/2009
Pressured into becoming a stereotypical thug rapper in order to get a record deal and mainstream air play, an ambitious young artist from "The 305" (aka Miami) begins to question whether fame is worth the price of admission when drugs, guns, sex, and money start to take priority over music. Nate Harris has the drive to be a superstar, but in order for that to happen he will have to compromise his integrity. When Nate embraces the gangsta rapper lifestyle as Nemesis, success comes swiftly. But when th ...
Actor(s): Stuart McKinney, Marlon Taylor
Director(s): Lee Cipolla
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Powder Blue
Release Date: 05/26/2009
Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, and Jessica Biel topline this ensemble drama regarding intersecting lives on Christmas Eve from writer/director Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon). Liotta plays an ex-convict who tracks down his estranged daughter (Biel) after serving a 25-year jail sentence. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel
Director(s): Timothy Linh Bui
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Personal Effects
Release Date: 05/12/2009
Ashton Kutcher stars as a broken man who sets off on a vengeance-filled search for his sister's murderer, only to fall into the arms of a gorgeous older woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) who may share the same torment in this romantic drama from Insight Studios. TV veteran David Hollander directs from his own script. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Kathy Bates
Director(s): David Hollander
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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Incendiary
Release Date: 05/05/2009
A woman wrestles with grief, betrayal and redemption in this psychological drama from director Sharon Maguire. One afternoon, a young woman (Michelle Williams) sends her husband and young son off to see a football game, and while they're gone for the afternoon she enjoys a tryst with her lover (Ewan McGregor), an opportunistic reporter. While the woman is making love to another man, she hears a news report that a suicide bomber made their way into the stadium, and that hundreds of people are dead. Th ...
Actor(s): Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew MacFadyen
Director(s): Sharon Maguire
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Last Chance Harvey
Release Date: 05/05/2009
A disastrous trip to London proves to have a silver lining for a middle-aged American jingle writer in this romantic slice-of-life drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. Harvey (Hoffman) is about to lose his unfulfilling dead-end job writing jingles when he boards a plane to attend his daughter's wedding in London. He hasn't turned out a memorable tune in some time, and should Harvey fail to come up with something catchy during his trip overseas, he knows that his boss (Richard Schiff) is r ...
Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker
Director(s): Joel Hopkins
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Nothing But the Truth
Release Date: 04/28/2009
A tense political drama ripped straight from the headlines, Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth tells the tale of a Washington, D.C. reporter who is targeted by the government after refusing to reveal her source for a story that identified an undercover CIA operative. Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) is an ambitious young reporter working at the Capitol Sun-Times, one of Washington, D.C.'s biggest newspapers. When the paper published Rachel's incendiary story revealing the identity of covert CIA agen ...
Actor(s): Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett
Director(s): Rod Lurie
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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What Doesn't Kill You
Release Date: 04/28/2009
Inspired by his own tough childhood on the unforgiving streets of South Boston, director/co-screenwriter (along with Paul T. Murray and Donnie Wahlberg) Brian Goodman's tough-talking crime drama follows the journey of two childhood friends as they attempt to sever their powerful underworld ties. Ever since they were just young kids, Brian (Mark Ruffalo) and Paulie (Ethan Hawke) have always watched out for one another. From the petty crimes and misdemeanors of childhood to more serious criminal endeav ...
Actor(s): Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet
Director(s): Brian Goodman
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Frost/Nixon
Release Date: 04/21/2009
Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time Nixon sat down with Frost to discuss the sordid details that ultimately derailed his presidency, it had been three years since the former commander in chief had been forced out of office. The Watergate scandal was still fresh in ev ...
Actor(s): Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon
Director(s): Ron Howard
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Notorious
Release Date: 04/21/2009
Fox Searchlight presents the tragic life story of rap star Notorious B.I.G. from director George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food) and executive producer Sean "Diddy" Combs. The script is provided by Cheo Hodari Coker and Biker Boyz writer/director Reggie Rock Blythewood. Jamal Woolard portrays the slain rapper, with Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, and Anthony Mackie filling out the supporting cast. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Jamal Woolard
Director(s): George Tillman, Jr.
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: 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 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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Doubt
Release Date: 04/07/2009
When the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a young nun caught in between the feuding pair becomes hopelessly swept up in the ensuing controversy. 1964, St. Nicholas, the Bronx: The winds of change are sweeping through this tight-knit religious community, and charismatic priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is doing his best to adapt by revisiting the school's notoriously strict disciplinary practices. Unfo ...
Actor(s): Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Director(s): John Patrick Shanley
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Seven Pounds
Release Date: 03/31/2009
Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the director and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for this emotional drama concerning an IRS agent whose quest for redemption is unexpectedly complicated after he inadvertently falls in love. Ben Thomas is an IRS agent with a fateful secret. Assuming the identity of his younger brother, Ben sets out in search of redemption. Instead, Ben discovers true love while forever changing the lives of seven complete strangers. Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson, ...
Actor(s): Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson
Director(s): Gabriele Muccino
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Slumdog Millionaire
Release Date: 03/31/2009
Accused of cheating and desperate to prove his innocence, an eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai reflects back on his tumultuous life while competing to win 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Danny Boyle's inspirational drama. Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) may not have a penny to his name, but that could all change in a matter of hours. He's one question away from taking the top prize on India's most popular television game show, but as with everything else in Jamal ...
Actor(s): Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal
Director(s): Danny Boyle
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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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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Believe in Me
Release Date: 09/04/2007
Director/screenwriter Robert Collector adapts Newberry Award-winning author Harold Keith's fact-based tale about a 1960s-era girl's basketball coach who inspired his athletes to believe in themselves and always strive to reach their greatest potential. Clayton Driscoll was an assistant boy's basketball coach when he accepted his first official coaching assignment in the tiny, backwater Oklahoma town of Middleton. An urbanite whose devoted wife Jean is wholly supportive of the move, Clayton hopes that ...
Actor(s): Jeffrey Donovan, Bruce Dern
Director(s): Robert Collector
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Drama, Feature
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