Barney: We Love Our Family
Release Date: 11/17/2009
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MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Children's/Family, Television
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Bruno
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Borat trickster Sacha Baron Cohen returns to the big screen to offer yet another stinging dose of sociopolitical satire in this comedy that finds him assuming the persona of gay fashionmonger Bruno, the self-proclaimed "voice of Austrian youth TV." Originally conceived as part of Baron Cohen's cult television series Da Ali G Show, the character of Bruno offered a cleverly costumed Baron Cohen the opportunity to highlight the absurdities of the fashion industry by interviewing unsuspecting fashion ico ...
Actor(s): Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten
Director(s): Larry Charles
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy, 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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Star Trek
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Mission: Impossible III director and Alias creator J.J. Abrams resurrects the classic science fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry with this feature film that embraces the rich history of the influential television and film series while also exploring some uncharted territory. Heroes star Zachary Quinto assumes the role of the Federation Starfleet lieutenant and Vulcan made famous in the original series by Leonard Nimoy (who also appears in an older incarnation of his original role), Spock, ...
Actor(s): Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy
Director(s): J.J. Abrams
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Science Fiction, 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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Spread
Release Date: 11/10/2009
A modern tale of morality, director David Mackenzie's stylish sex comedy centers on the exploits of a Los Angeles gigolo working his way to infamy one mattress at a time. Nicki (Ashton Kutcher) is the epitome of big-city sexuality. Terminally hip and always fashionable, he's a sexual grifter who operates by his own set of rules. But in Nicki's world of money, power, and fame, true stardom is fleeting. As Nicki climbs the ladder of conquest and begins focusing his attentions on an older, well-to-do cl ...
Actor(s): Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva
Director(s): David Mackenzie
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy, 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 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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Up
Release Date: 11/10/2009
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and final ...
Actor(s): Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger
Director(s): Pete Docter
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Aliens in the Attic
Release Date: 11/03/2009
A group of kids defend their Maine vacation home from knee-high alien invaders in this adventure comedy for the entire family. When Michigan native Bethany Pearson (Ashley Tisdale) arrives home after a secret outing with her boyfriend (Robert Hoffman), her father, Stuart (Kevin Nealon), decides that it's high time for a family vacation. Packing up the car with wife Hannah (Ashley Boettcher), teenage son Tom (Carter Jenkins), and big sister Bethany in tow, Stuart invites the extended family to join th ...
Actor(s): Carter Jenkins, Ashley Tisdale, Austin Butler
Director(s): John Schultz
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Children's/Family, Feature
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Release Date: 11/03/2009
Director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) adapts the beloved Hasbro G.I. Joe toy line with this Paramount Pictures production that pits the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity against the evil forces of the organization known as Cobra. Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum star as General Hawk and Duke Hauser, respectively, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marlon Wayans leading the rest of the cast, including Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Rachel Nichols, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ...
Actor(s): Dennis Quaid, Lee Byung-hun, Channing Tatum
Director(s): Stephen Sommers
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Action, Feature
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I Love You, Beth Cooper
Release Date: 11/03/2009
When a geeky high-school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming-of-age comedy adapted from the book by journalist/author/screenwriter Larry Doyle. Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) may have brains to spare; it's guts that he lacks -- or at least, he did until today. Stepping up to the podium to deliver an inspirational speech to his graduating class, Denis decides that the ...
Actor(s): Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack Carpenter
Director(s): Chris Columbus
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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Night Watcher
Release Date: 11/03/2009
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Director(s): Will Gordh
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller
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Not Forgotten
Release Date: 11/03/2009
Soon after exchanging wedding vows with his second wife, a haunted man becomes obsessed with discovering the true fate of the missing daughter from his first marriage. Later, when the man and his new wife consult with a mystic, it quickly becomes apparent that some things are better left forgotten. Paz Vega and Simon Baker star in a supernatural thriller directed by Basic co-producer Dror Soref. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Michael de Lorenzo
Director(s): Dror Soref
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, 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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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Release Date: 10/27/2009
The fun continues as Diego, Manny, and Sid all return for another round of prehistoric fun in this installment of the popular computer-animated children's series. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
Director(s): Carlos Saldanha
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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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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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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Orphan
Release Date: 10/27/2009
An outwardly angelic little girl displays an unforeseen devilish streak upon moving into the home of her new adoptive parents in this shocker starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga. In the aftermath of a miscarriage, prospective parents Kate (Farmiga) and John (Sarsgaard) find their lives turned upside down; their marriage is falling apart, and the demons of Kate's past begin manifesting themselves in a series of horrifying nightmares. Deciding that the best means of achieving some semblance of no ...
Actor(s): Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman
Director(s): Jaume Collet-Serra
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, 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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MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Children's/Family, Animated
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Pandemic
Release Date: 10/20/2009
Humans and animals alike become victims of the same illness in this action film directed by Jason Connery. The fate of the world lies in the hands of a veterinarian and a paranoiac who must work around a military quarantine. ~ All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Ray Wise, Graham McTavish, Alesha Clarke
Director(s): Jason Connery
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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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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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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