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A Small Sample of Title Selection
12 Years a Slave
2013 • 133 min • Color
MPAA Rating: R
20 Century Fox
Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Brad Pitt, Michael
Fassbender, Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano,
Paul Giamatti,
Scoot McNairy
Based on an incredible
true story of one man’s
fight for survival and
freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel
Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into
slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed
by Michael Fassbender), as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon
struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year
of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian
abolitionist (Brad Pitt) will forever alter his life.
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Unstoppable
2010 • 98 min • Color • MPAA Rating: PG-13 • 20th Century Fox
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson
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A massive unmanned locomotive, nicknamed “The Beast” and loaded
with toxic cargo, roars through the countryside, vaporizing anything
put in front of it. A veteran engineer (Washington) and a young
conductor (Pine), aboard another train in the runaway’s path, devise
an incredible plan to try and stop it and prevent certain disaster in a
heavily populated area.
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The Book Thief
The Secret Life of Bees
2008• 110 min • Color • MPAA Rating: PG-13 • 20th Century Fox
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys,
Sophie Okonedo, Paul Bettany, Hilarie Burton, Tristan Wilds
Set in South Carolina in 1964, the film is the moving tale of Lily Owens a 14
year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape
her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds
the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent
Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping, honey and the Black Madonna.
Bee Movie
2007 • 90 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: PG
Paramount Pictures • Director: Steve Hickner,
Simon J. Smith • Cast: Jerry Seinfeld,
Renèe Zellweger, Alan Arkin, Kathy Bates,
Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Larry
King, William H. Macy
Barry B. Benson (Seinfeld), a bee who has just graduated from college,
is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip
outside the hive, Barry’s life is saved by Vanessa (Zellweger), a florist in New
York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat
honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.
2014 • 131 min • Color • MPAA Rating: PG-13 • 20th Century Fox
Director: Brian Percival • Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie
Nélisse, Ben Schnetzer
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds
solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs
in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
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Antz
1998 • 98 min. • Color
MPAA Rating: PG • Paramount Pictures
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Cast: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Anne
Bancroft, Jane Curtin, Danny Glover,
Gene Hackman, Jennifer Lopez, John
Mahoney, Paul Mazursky, Sylvester
Stallone, Sharon Stone, Christopher Walken
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Z-4195 (Woody Allen) is just a worker ant — one in a billion — and his
odds of landing the beautiful Princess Bala (Sharon Stone) are about
the same. Undaunted by the colony’s unyielding caste system, Z enlists the aid of his best friend, a soldier ant named Weaver (Sylvester
Stallone), to get to the Princess. When a remarkable twist of fate turns
Z from a common drone into an unlikely hero, he unwittingly puts a
bug in the plans of the ambitious General Mandible (Gene Hackman)
to literally liquidate the colony and remake it in his own image. Z
soon finds himself leading a revolution that becomes a celebration of
individuality in the face of overwhelming conformity. Once the most
insignificant of workers, Z may just prove to be the biggest hero of
them all. No picnic will ever be the same.
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Shrek
2001• 89 min.• Color • MPAA Rating: PG
DreamWorks SKG
Director: Andrew Adamson, Victoria Jenson
Cast: Eddie Murphy, John Lithgow, Linda Hunt,
Cameron Diaz, Mike Myers
A cynical, no-nonsense ogre named Shrek is
having his swamp overrun by annoying fairy tale
creatures; the usual mice, pigs and wolves that
plague storybooks everywhere. In an attempt to
save his home, Shrek sets out to confront Lord
Farquaad, ruler of Duloc, who has banished all the fairy tale misfits from
Duloc in order to create his own perfect world.
Braveheart
1995 • 178 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: R
Paramount Pictures • Director: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Catherine
McCormack, Sean Lawlor
In the late 13th century, William Wallace returns
to Scotland after living away from his homeland
for many years. The king of Scotland has died
without an heir and the king of England, a ruthless pagan known as Edward the Longshanks,
has seized the throne. Wallace becomes the
leader of a ramshackled yet courageous army determined to vanquish
the greater English forces. Wallace’s courage and passion unite the
people in “Braveheart”.
Charlotte’s Web
2006 • 113 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: G
Paramount Pictures • Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Bates, John Cleese,
Thomas Haden Church, Robert Redford, Cedric
the Entertainer, Jane Sibbett
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season,
because he knows that come that time, he will
end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan
with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to
ensure that this will never happen.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of
the Dawn Treader
20th Century Fox • Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley,
Will Poulter, Bill Nighy, Gary Sweet,
Arthur Angel, Tony Nixon, Shane Rangi,
Colin Moody, Terry Norris, David Vallon
Gulliver’s Travels
Jack Black is bigger than ever... as Gulliver, a
perpetual underachiever and wannabe travel
writer at a New York newspaper. When he finally
makes an effort to actually venture out the city
to write a travel piece, a storm-tossed voyage
lands him on an island inhabited by tiny folks
called Lilliputians. After a rocky beginning, the
gargantuan Gulliver becomes an inspiration to his new six-inch-tall
friends. He brings them modern-day wonders like a PDA and music
video game — while they help him kick it old-school during his travels
through this unforgettable world.
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with
their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince
Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal
ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves,
merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.
Andre
Paramount Pictures • Director: George Miller
Cast: Keith Carradine, Chelsea Field, Joshua
Jackson, Tina Majorino, Shane Meier, Aidan
Pendleton, Keith Szarabajka, Shirley Broderick
Set in Rockport, Maine in 1962, Andre is the
heart-warming epic story of a seal whose life
became legend when he adopted the Goodridge
family. For many summers he journeyed hundreds of miles to be with his adopted family. This
most extraordinary human/animal relationship
of all time touched the hearts of people around the world. Based on the
book A Seal Called Andre by Harry Goodridge and Lew Dietz.
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20th Century Fox • Director: Rob Letterman
Cast: Jack Black, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt
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Beowulf
Paramount Pictures • Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Sharisse Baker-Bernard, Richard Burns,
Chris Coppola, Shay Duffin, Greg Ellis, Brendan
Gleeson, Crispin Glover, Leslie Harter Zemeckis,
Anthony Hopkins
The Scandinavian warrior Beowulf must fight
and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who
begins killing out of revenge.
A Christmas Carol (1951)
20th Century Fox • Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison,
Jack Warner, Michael Hordern
This classic British adaptation stars Alastair Sim
as Scrooge, whose misanthropic glare is reversed
only after he has confronted the ghosts of the
present, future, and past.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Harriet the Spy
20th Century Fox • Director: Thor Freudenthal
Cast: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron
To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest
idea ever invented. It’s a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which
are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor - and a
festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties.
To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain
the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises
an endless series of can’t-miss schemes, all of which, of course, go awry.
And he’s getting it all down on paper, via a diary - “it’s NOT a diary, it’s
a journal!” Greg insists, preferring the less-sissyfied designation - filled
with his opinions, thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and
(would-be) schoolyard triumphs. “One day when I’m famous,” writes
Greg, “I’ll have better things to do than answer peoples’ stupid questions all day.” So was born the Wimpy Kid’s diary.
Paramount Pictures • Director: Bronwen Hughes
Cast: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O’Donnell,
Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith
Based on the Novel by Louise Fitzhugh. Sixth
grader Harriet M. Welch is a savvy spy. Everyday,
disguised in her foolproof spy outfit, the fearless
sixth-grader travels her spy route, cannily observing the world around her and scribbling even
the smallest detail into her secret spy notebook.
Harriet is determined to be a famous writer when she grows up. Her
notebook is filled with candid and sometimes imaginary tales about her
neighbours, her classmates, even her best friends, Janie and Sport. But
when Harriet’s classmates find her notebook and read its remarkable
contents out loud, her life is turned upside down.
Hugo
2011 • 126 min • Color • MPAA Rating: PG
20th Century Fox • Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Chloe Moretz, Jude Law, Ben Kingsley,
Sacha Baron Cohen, Emily Mortimer,
Christopher Lee, Ray Winstone, Asa Butterfield,
Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg
Because of Winn-Dixie
20th Century Fox • Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Dave Matthews,
Eva Marie Saint, Cicely Tyson
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the
walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Based on the perennial best seller, a lonely
young girl adopts an orphaned dog, Winn-Dixie
(so named for the supermarket where she found
him), who helps her make friends in the small
Florida town. The bond between the girl and her
special companion brings together the townspeople, and helps heal her own troubled relationship with her father.
Flicka
20th Century Fox • Director: Michael Mayer
Cast: Maria Bello, David Burton, Kaylee DeFer,
Sierra Doherty Gillin, Steve Fox, Ryan Kwanten,
Alison Lohman
I Robot
2004 • 115 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: PG-13
20th Century Fox • Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk,
Bruce Greenwood, Chi McBride, James Cromwell
A young girl, Katy, adopts a wild mustang she
names Flicka, only to see her father sell her now
beloved companion. To win back Flicka’s freedom, Katy secretly schemes to enter a dangerous wild horse race.
Will Smith stars in this action thriller inspired by the
well-known short story collection by Isaac Asimov,
and brought to the big screen by dynamic and
visionary director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow).
Smith plays a detective investigating a crime that
might have been perpetrated by a robot - leading
him to discover a far more frightening threat to the human race.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Paramount Pic. • Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman,
Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” leaves you breathless. Its spirit is straight from the days of those
thrilling matinee classics. Harrison Ford is the
swashbuckling hero, Indiana Jones, who, with
his spunky girlfriend, must battle foes of every
shape, size and description to keep the mysterious Lost Ark of the Covenantant out of Hitler’s hands.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
20th Century Fox • Director: Carlos Saldanha
Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
Manny, Sid and Diego return in another incredible adventure. The Ice Age is coming to an
end, and the animals are delighting in their new
world: a melting paradise of water parks, geysers
and tar pits. But when Manny, Sid and Diego discover that the miles of melted ice will flood their
valley, they must warn everyone and somehow
figure out a way to escape the coming deluge.
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Indian in the Cupboard
Rango
Paramount Pictures • Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Hal Scardino, Rishi Bhat, Litefoot
Paramount Pictures • Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin,
Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth
Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton,
Alfred Molina
On Omri’s ninth birthday, he got a skateboard
and helmet, a skeleton warrior action figure, an
old wooden cupboard his brother found in the
alley and from his best friend Patrick, a miniature
plastic Indian. Nice, but certainly nothing unique
- or was it? A world of wonder and adventure
is created for the boy named Omri when he
discovers that with the turn of a key, he can magically bring to life the
three-inch-high toy Indian he placed in the old cupboard.
A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling
hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by
bandits and is forced to literally play the role in
order to protect it.
Night at the Museum
20th Century Fox • Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke,
Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Ricky Gervais, Kim
Raver, Robin Williams
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Paramount Pictures • Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Sarah Bolger, Freddie Highmore, Seth
Rogen, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, David
Strathaim, Andrew McCarthy, Martin Short
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick
Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and
Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find
themselves pulled into an alternate world full of
faeries and other creatures.
Eragon
20th Century Fox • Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Edward Speleers, Jeremy
Irons, John Malkovich, Robert Carlyle, Gary
Lewis, Alun Armstrong
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM is an action-adventure-comedy that comes to life by night.
Good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley (Ben Stiller),
despite being perpetually down on his luck,
thinks he’s destined for something big. But even
he could never have imagined how “big,” when he accepts what appears
to be a menial job as a graveyard-shift security guard at a museum of
natural history. During Larry’s watch, extraordinary things begin to occur:
Mayans, Roman Gladiators, and cowboys emerge from their diorama
to wage epic battles; in his quest for fire, a Neanderthal burns down
his own display; Attila the Hun pillages his neighboring exhibits, and
a T-Rex reminds everyone why he’s history’s fiercest predator. Amidst
the chaos, the only person Larry can turn to for advice is a wax figure of
President Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), who helps our hero harness
the bedlam, stop a nefarious plot, and save the museum.
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy
happens upon a dragon’s egg — a discovery that
leads him on a predestined journey where he
realized he’s the one person who can defend his
home against an evil king.
Nim’s Island
Great Expectations
1997 • 111 min • Color • MPAA Rating: R
20th Century Fox • Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, Hank Azaria,
Anne Bancroft, Chris Cooper, Robert De Niro
In an update of Dickens’ classic, a humble young
fisherman-turned-artist moves from Florida to
New York City for his first big gallery opening.
After getting his heart broken by an unattainable rich girl from back home, he learns that
his recent career success was bankrolled by an
escaped convict he helped years ago. From the director of last year’s
award winning “The Little Princess”.
Anything can happen on Nim’s Island, a magical
place ruled by a young girl’s imagination. It is an
existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary
character, Alex Rover - the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover
books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra.
They rely on the steadfast courage of their fictional hero, Alex Rover,
to inspire them to save the day. Based on the award-winning book by
Wendy Orr, NIM’S ISLAND is a funny, high-energy adventure with a
heartfelt twist.
Norma Rae
The Seven Year Itch
Sally Field won an Oscar for her portrayal of a
textile worker whose mundane life is changed
by the arrival of a union organizer from New
York.
When a New York publisher’s wife goes away
for the long, hot summer, he finds himself
succumbing to forbidden liquor and cigarettes
and dreams of girls; especially the well-stacked
blonde upstairs;who almost promises but never
delivers.
20th Century Fox • Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman
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20th Century Fox • Director: Jennifer Flackett,
Mark Levin
Cast: Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Abigail Breslin,
Sean Keenan
1955 • 105 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: N/R
20th Century Fox • Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 • 117 min • Color • MPAA Rating: PG-13
Paramount Pictures • Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette
Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Darlene Cates, Laura
Harrington, Mary Kate Schellhardt, Kevin Tighe,
John C. Reilly
A Story about a young man in a dead-end town
saddled with the responsibility of caring for his
retarded younger brother, and depressed by his
obese mother, who hasn’t left the house in seven years.
Beyond Borders
Paramount Pictures • Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus
Roache, Noah Emmerich, Yorick van Wageningen, Timothy West, Kate Trotter, Jonathan
Higgins
Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent
romance between two star-crossed lovers set
against the backdrop of the world’s most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984.
Hotel for Dogs
Paramount Pictures • Director: Thor Freudenthal
Cast: Don Cheadle, Emma Roberts, Lisa Kudrow,
Kevin Dillon, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt, Johnny
Simmons, Troy Gentile, Robinne Lee
Animals are strictly forbidden at Andi and her
little brother Bruce’s foster home. But for Friday,
the adorable dog they secretly care for, they’re
ready to risk everything. They finally find him an
ideal shelter, a huge abandoned hotel that Bruce
transforms thanks to his engineering genius. In what has become an
incredible paradise for dogs, Friday is soon joined by all kinds of furry
friends, so many in fact that their barks alert the neighbors...and the
local pound, who can’t understand the disappearance of all the stray
dogs. Andi and Bruce will have to call on all their friends and all their
imagination to stop the hotel’s secret from being discovered.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Paramount Pictures • Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah
Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it’s Christmas ! As the
angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge,
he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence.
Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it
hadn’t been for all his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able
to convince George to return to his family and forget about suicide?
Horton Hears a Who
20th Century Fox • Director: Jimmy Hayward,
Steve Martino • Cast: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell,
Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Dan Fogler,
Isla Fisher, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly
One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry for
help coming from a speck of dust. Even though
he can’t see anyone on the speck, he decides to
help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home
to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville.
Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives
him nothing but torment from his neighbours, who refuse to believe
that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the
motto that, “After all, a person is a person, no matter how small.”
How to Train Your Dragon
Paramount Pictures • Director: Dean DeBlois,
Chris Sanders • Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill,
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, T.J. Miller
Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and
wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida
Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of
Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit
in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic
dragon slayers. Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges he and his fellow Vikings to see the world
from an entirely different point of view.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
20th Century Fox • Director: Benh Zeitlin
Cast: Quvenzhan Wallis, Dwight Henry, Jonshel
Alexander, Joseph Brown, Kendra Harris,
Henry D. Coleman
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community
cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling
levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and
extraordinary imagination, she believes that the
natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes
her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to
save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to
survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
The Princess Bride
1987 • 97 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: PG • 20th Century Fox
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Andre the Giant, Robin Wright, Peter Falk, Mandy Patinkin
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime
story. The story is one that has been passed down through from father to
son for generations. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes
alive. The story is a classic tale of love and adventure as the beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the odious
Prince Humperdinck, and Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as
the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. On the way he meets an
accomplished swordsman and a huge, super strong giant, both of whom
become his companions in his quest to rescue Buttercup.
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Lassie
Paramount Pictures • Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Tom Guiry, Helen Slater, Jon Tenney, Brittany
Boyd, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth,
Michelle Williams, Joe Inscoe
Now a new generation will encounter one of
the world’s most endearing stars in an exciting,
contemporary motion picture adventure. As the
Turner family travels from Baltimore to make a
new start in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia,
they encounter a stray collie that seven-year-old Jennifer names Lassie.
The dog becomes the unexpected companion of her cynical brother, 13-year-old Matt, as he explores a country side of striking natural
beauty. With Lassie ‘s help, Matt persuades the family to take up sheep
ranching when his father ‘s promised job falls through. All seems well
until their neighbors, angered by a land dispute, decide to make their
lives impossible and Lassie must come to the rescue.
Madagascar
Paramount Pictures • Director: Eric Darnell
Cast: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith,
David Schwimmer
An animal rights group stages a daring infiltration
into the New York Central Park Zoo, freeing four
best friends (a giraffe, a hippopotamus, a lion, and
a zebra) from captivation. When the ship capsizes,
however, they end up in Madagascar, where
they are free to live in the wild... but these New
Yorkers, raised in captivity, have absolutely no clue about how to fend for
themselves without human care (and even if they did, they’re not native to
Madagascar anyway). Hilarity and high jinks ensue.
Scrooged
Paramount Pictures • Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, Karen
Allen, David Johansen, Robert Goulet
Sleepy Hollow
Paramount Pictures • Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda
Richardson, Michael Gambon
Frank, a TV Network President and a modern
day Mr. Ba Humbug, places everybody else last,
but his holiday spirit changes when he is visited
by three zany ghosts.
Based on Washington Irving’s classic story
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this romantic
thriller, set in the 1970s, tells of a small-town
schoolmaster who proves his bravery to a
young woman by vowing to travel a road said
to be haunted by a headless horseman only to
discover that the horseman is more than just a legend.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of
Unfortunate Events
Paramount Pictures • Director: Brad Silberling
Cast: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, Emily
Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara Hoffman, Shelby
Hoffman, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly
The Tooth Fairy
20th Century Fox • Director: Michael Lembeck
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Julie Andrews, Ashley
Judd, Brandon T. Jackson, Billy Crystal, Ryan
Sheckler, Stephen Merchant, Alex Ferris, Rukiya
Bernard, Chase Ellison
Dwayne Johnson is “The Tooth Fairy,” also known
as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor
league hockey player whose nickname comes
from his habit of separating opposing players
from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster’s hopes,
he’s sentenced to one week’s hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete
with the requisite wings, magic wand and frilly tutu. At first, Derek “can’t
handle the tooth” - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing
his way through strangers’ homes... doing what tooth fairies do. But as
Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his
own forgotten dreams.
Enemy at the Gates
Paramount Pictures • Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes,
Rachel Weisz
Based on a true story, the plot centers on Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev, credited with killing
over 140 German soldiers during the Battle of
Stalingrad and the German officer sent to kill
him.
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This is the story of the Baudelaires, three young
orphans, Violet (Browning), Klaus (Aiken) and
Sunny, looking for a new home, who are taken
in by a series of odd relatives and other people,
including Lemony Snicket, who narrates the film, and starting with the
cunning and dastardly Count Olaf (Carrey), who hopes to snatch their
inheritance from them. Violet is the oldest of the Baudelaires at 14,
and is their brave and fast-thinking leader. The only boy is middle child
Klaus, 12, who is intensely intelligent and obsessed with words. The
youngest is infant Sunny, who speaks in a language only her siblings
can understand, and she has a tendency to, bite...
Nashville
Paramount Pictures • Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Henry Gibson, Ronee Blakely,
Keith Carradine, Lily Tomlin
In this most original and provocative American
movie, the lives of 24 unforgettable people
during five hectic days are examined. The country music milieu is the backdrop against which
show business and politics emerge. Director
Robert Altman presents his own unique vision
of America and the result is perhaps the funniest epic vision of America
ever made.
Ramona and Beezus
20th Century Fox • Director: Elizabeth Allen
Cast: Selena Gomez, Joey King, John Corbett,
Bridget Moynahan, Ginnifer Goodwin,
Josh Duhamel
The adventures of young Ramona Quimby come
to life in this all new film based on the best-selling
books (over 91 million... and counting) by Beverly
Cleary. Ramona’s vivid imagination, boundless
energy, and accident-prone antics are put to the
test when she helps her family face its biggest challenge. Along the way,
Ramona must deal with her over-achieving older sister Beezus and the onagain, off-again romance between her Aunt Bea and Bea’s former beau.
Moulin Rouge
20th Century Fox • Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John
Leguizamo, Caroline O’Connor
Set in 1899, this musical drama features Ewan
McGregor as a young poet who defies his father
by moving to “the absinthe-soaked, amoral,
bohemian” neighbourhood of Montmatre. It is
here that he meets the diminutive artist Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo) and is drafted to write a nightclub spectacular. In this seedy world of sex and drugs,
he begins a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with the most
famous courtesan (Nicole Kidman) in Paris.
Puss in Boots
Dreamgirls
Paramount Pictures • Director: Chris Miller
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach
Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris
Paramount Pictures • Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Danny
Glover, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy
Way before Puss ever met Shrek, our suave and
furry feline hero goes on a swashbuckling ride,
as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty
and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed
Goose that lays the Golden Eggs.
Dreamgirls follows the rise of a trio of women
who have formed a promising girl group- The
Dreamettes. At a talent competition, they get
the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the
back-up singers for headliner James “Thunder”
Early. Though the Dreams become a crossover
phenomenon, they soon realize that the cost of fame and fortune may
be higher than they ever imagined.
The School of Rock
Paramount Pictures • Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Jack Black
Grease
Paramount Pictures • Director: Randal Kleiser
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar
The most popular musical of all time, “Grease”
merges the talents of solid gold recording star
Olivia Newton-John as good girl Sandy and
John Travolta of “Saturday Night Fever” fame
as greaser Danny in this nostalgic look at the
Fabulous Fifties.
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn (Black) gets
fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of
debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th
grade substitute teacher at an uptight private
school where his attitude and hijinx have a
powerful effect on his students. He also meets
Yuki, a 9-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help
Dewey win a “battle of the bands” competition, which would solve his
financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
The Pagemaster
20th Century Fox • Director: J. Johnston
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd,
Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart
The Pagemaster, keeper of the books and guardian of the written word, sends a timid young boy
on an animated adventure through the fiction
section of the library, where the greatest stories
of all time come to life.
20th Century Fox • Director: David L. Cunningham
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Gregory Smith, Ian
McShane, Jonathan Jackson, Wendy Crewson,
Amelia Warner, James Cosmo, Frances Conroy,
Jim Piddock
An 11 year old boy discovers that he is the last
member of a group of immortals dedicated to
fighting dark forces of evil. As he uncovers a series of clues, some dating back to biblical times,
the boy also discovers the future of the world rests in his hands.
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Water
2006• 114 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: PG-13
20th Century Fox • Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Raghuvir Yadav, Vinay
Pathak, Rishma Malik, John Abraham
Set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles against British colonial rule, the
film examines the plight of a group of widows
forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city
of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between
one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed
on widows, and a man who is from a lower caste and a follower of
Mahatma Gandhi.
We Bought a Zoo
20th Century Fox • Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, Elle Fanning,
Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit
Acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (“Jerry
Maguire”) directs a story about finding joy, the
power of family, and the triumph of hope. A
widowed father buys a dilapidated zoo in hopes
of making a fresh start. While facing enormous
odds to keep the zoo open, he must find the
courage to recommit to his children and to their new life together.
Based on a true story.
True Grit
Enemy Mine
Paramount Pictures • Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin,
Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross’s (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the
coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is
determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the
help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal,
Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with
him — over his objections — to hunt down Chaney. Her father’s blood
demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him
before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and
brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
20th Century Fox • Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Lou Gossett, Jr., Denis Quaid, Brion James,
Richard Marcus
One of the most powerful and visionary films ever
made, “Enemy Mine” is a thrilling science-fiction
saga set against a vast interplanetary backdrop,
one hundred years in the future, Dennis Quaid
and Oscar-winner Louis Gossett, Jr. star as enemy
space pilots in a distant sun system. They must
overcome their instinctive hatred for each other in order to survive.
Stardust
Paramount Pictures • Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro,
Sienna Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jason Flemyng,
Sarah Alexander, Ben Barnes
Aliens
20th Century Fox • Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn,
Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen
In a countryside town bordering on a magical
land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he’ll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
The bloodcurdling terror that began in Alien
continues in the horrifying sequel to the smash
hit! Sigourney Weaver returns as Warrant Officer
Ripley, sole survivor of the massacre that took
place aboard the spaceship Nostromo. Now
an entire horde of acid-bleeding, metaljawed
monsters has come to life, and they are even more vicious than their
evil predecessors. It’s up to Weaver and a troop of futuristic soldiers
including battle-hardened Michael Biehn (The Terminator), to stop the
attack of these blood-thirsty murderers! Aliens is a nightmarish shocker
that multiplies the horror of the original film.
Cocoon
20th Century Fox • Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Steve Guttenburg, Don Ameche, Brian
Dennehy, Gwen Verdon
A group of Florida retirees comes face to face
with friendly aliens in Ron Howard’s Academy
Award-winning science-fiction fantasy. Howard
has assembled an impressive cast of screen
veterans for this heartwarming tale of hope and
discovery. George Lucas’s industrial Light and
Magic provides the marvelous special effects that add to the wonder
and beauty of the film.
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Star Trek (2009)
Paramount Pictures • Director: J.J. Abrams
Cast: Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy,
Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of
bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent,
thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock,
was raised in a logic-based society that rejects
all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm
reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership
is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable
danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians:
The Lightning Thief
20th Century Fox • Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, Rosario
Dawson, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Catherine
Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Erica
Cerra, Steve Coogan
Based on the first of a series of best selling
novels, PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS:
THE LIGHTNING THIEF is set in a modern world
where the twelve gods of Mount Olympus (perched 600 stories above
the planet on New York’s landmark Empire State Building) are alive
and are creating a new race of young mythological heroes who are
demigods — half mortal, half god. Percy, the teenage son of Poseidon,
is suspected by Zeus of stealing his lightning bolt, the universe’s most
powerful weapon. To prove his innocence and avoid a devastating war
among the gods, Percy embarks on a transcontinental odyssey to find
the real thief. Along his journey, he confronts fierce enemies determined to stop him, and attempts to save his mother from the deadly
clutches of another Greek god, Hades.
Flags of Our Fathers
Paramount Pictures • Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Patrick Dollaghan, Jon Kellam, Andri Sigur
sson, Joey Allen, Allison Appleby, James E. Ash,
Gunnarr Baldursson, Adam Beach, Tom Beaver,
Jamie Bell
The life stories of the six men who raised the
flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in
WWII.
Shane
Paramount Pictures • Director: George Stevens
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon
de Wilde, Jack Palance
The excitement and importance of this legendary rendition of the archetypal Western myth
was sensed the day it opened, and the film
earned six Academy Award nominations. The
story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family
terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun. In fighting the last,
decisive battle, Shane sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious,
moody and atmospheric, the film is enhanced by the intense performances of its splendid cast.
The Adventures of Tintin:
The Secret of the Unicorn
Paramount Pictures • Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis,
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh,
Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook
A Walk in the Clouds
20th Century Fox • Director: Alfonso Arau
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon,
Anthony Quinn, Debra Messing
After returning from World War II, an unhappily
married GI falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a stern Mexican-American vineyard owner.
They spend three magical days together during
harvest time and surrounded by the sensual
beauty of the California countryside, vow to
overcome all odds to be together.
Doctor Dolittle
20th Century Fox • Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt,
Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff, Kristen Wilson,
Jeffrey Tambor, Kyla Pratt
A talented physician, Dr. John Dolittle (Murphy)
has long suppressed a very special talent he
possessed as a child: the ability to communicate with animals. But now, as a “responsible”
adult, more everyday concerns occupy his time.
Unfortunately, Dolittle’s wife and two young daughters have taken a
back seat to his medical and fiscal ambitions. All that changes when,
driving home one evening, Dolittle barely misses hitting a stray dog.
When the pooch, Lucky, turns around and gives him a piece of his
mind, Dr. Dolittle’s long dormant talents are re-awakened ... with a
vengeance! After a period of stunned disbelief, Dr. Dolittle can no longer deny his unique verbal skills. Owls, horses, guinea pigs — virtually
every member of the animal kingdom — are now seeking his medical
advice. And Dr. Dolittle’s new four-legged and furry friends, in turn,
teach him a few things about being human.
The Thin Red Line
20th Century Fox • Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben
Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody
Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Jared Leto, Dash Mihok,
Tim Blake Nelson, Nick Nolte, Bill Pullman, John
C. Reilly, Larry Romano, John Savage, John
Travolta, Arie Vereen
Set during World War II, the story follows an
Army rifle company during several months of
one of the fiercest struggles of the twentieth century - the battle of
Guadalcanal Island. “The Thin Red Line” marks a much-anticipated
return to the director’s chair by Malick, whose two previous efforts,
“Badlands” and “Days of Heaven” were hailed by critics worldwide.
Tintin and his friends discover directions to a
sunken ship commanded by Capt. Haddock’s
ancestor and go off on a treasure hunt.
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Literary Adaptations for Adults
The Godfather
Footloose
Paramount Pictures • Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, James Caan, Al Pacino,
Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
The definitive, Oscar-winning record-breaking,
trend-setting crime film. A serious, epic vision
of an Italian-American family features Marlon
Brando as the utterly amazing Corleone patriarch. An acknowledged cinematic masterpiece.
There Will be Blood
Paramount Pictures • Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano,
Kevin J. O’Connor, Ciaran Hinds, Russell Harvard,
Paul F. Tompkins, Kevin Breznahan, John Kerry,
Jim Meskimen
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil,
centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas
prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days
of the business.
Paramount Pictures • Director: Craig Brewer
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Julianne
Hough, Kim Dickens, Kenny Wormald, Patrick
John Flueger, Miles Teller, Amber Wallace, Brett
Rice, Anessa Ramsey, Mary-Charles Jones,
Maggie Jones
Ren MacCormack (played by newcomer Kenny
Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the
small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community
was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night
out and Bomont’s local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw
Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that
prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren
challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the
minister’s troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.
Fever Pitch
Almost Famous
Paramount Pictures • Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate
Hudson, Jason Lee
Set in 1970’s, the story tells of a high school student who gets the opportunity to interview and
write about an emerging rock n’ roll band.
Based on the Nick Hornby novel and movie “Fever
Pitch” (1997) starring Colin Firth. The film has been
updated to centre on a guy and his obsession with
the Boston Red Sox. Ben meets Lindsey. They fall
in love. All things are wonderful. But their future together is threatened
once the baseball season comes around and Lindsey discovers something
about Ben...his obsession with the Boston Red Sox.
Edward Scissorhands
20th Century Fox • Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest,
Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker,
Robert Oliveri
A fantastic modern day suburban fairy tale. Edward’s unconventional charm is soon discovered
as he styles hair, gardens and grooms dogs with
the shears of metal where his fingers should
have been.
Forrest Gump
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary
Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Rebecca
Williams, Michael Conner Humphreys,
Harold G. Herthum
Oscar-winner Tom Hanks brings honesty and
pathos to his portrayal of a kindhearted man
with a subnormal IQ, in the award-winning hit
that was the #1 audience favourite of 1994. Robert Zemeckis directs this extraordinary film about a gentle hero making
his way through a world growing increasingly more complicated.
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20th Century Fox
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Miranda
Black, Lenny Clarke, Brandon Craggs, Gary Edwins, John Ferus, Jessamy Finet, Isabella Fink
Fast Food Nation
20th Century Fox • Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Erinn Allison, Patricia Arquette, Mitch
Baker, Tim Brown, Bobby Cannavale, Michael D.
Conway, Paul Dano
A dramatic feature based on material from the
incediary novel Fast Food Nation, a no-holdsbarred exploration of the fast food industry
that ultimately revealed the dark side of the “All
American Meal.”
Flight
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Goodman,
Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Melissa Leo, Nadine
Velazquez, James Badge Dale, Tamara Tunie,
Garcelle Beauvais
An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but
an investigation into the malfunctions reveals
something troubling.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Paramount Pictures • Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Mickey
Rooney, Patricia Neal
One of the screen’s Best-loved romances, this
dazzling romantic comedy stars Audrey Hepburn
as a free-spirited golddigger and George Peppard
as a frustrated young writer. They fall in love and
each exerts a positive influence on the other in this
delightful early movie directed by Blake Edwards.
500 Days of Summer
Life of Pi
20th Century Fox • Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Sonu Sood,
Suraj Sharma, Adil Hussain
Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel,
is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Dwellers
in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move
to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter.
After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific
Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a
450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.
20th Century Fox • Director: Marc Webb
Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Matthew Gray Gubler,
Rachel Boston, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moritz
The Diary of Anne Frank
20th Century Fox •Director: George Stevens
Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut,
Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer
This post modern love story is never what we
expect it to be - it’s thorny yet exhilarating,
funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and
lows that doesn’t quite go where we think it will.
When Tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter
and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer dumps
him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days
“together” to try to figure out where things went wrong. His reflections
ultimately lead him to finally rediscover his true passions in life.
This real life diary of a young Jewish girl in
Nazi-occupied Holland perfectly conveys the
tension, claustrophobia, and intense hardships
suffered by two fugitive families.
Into the Wild
Paramount Pictures • Director: Sean Penn
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Kristen
Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, Catherine Keener,
William Hurt, Zach Galifianakis, Haley Ramm
Flushed Away
Paramount Pictures • Director: Henry Anderson, David Bowers • Cast: Kate Winslet, Hugh
Jackman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy,
Simon Callow, Shane Richie, Geoffrey Palmer,
Susan Duerden
The young, idealistic Christopher McCandless
(Hirsch) abandons life as most of us know it for
the Alaskan wilderness. Based on the bestseller
by Jon Krakauer.
The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed
down the toilet from his penthouse apartment,
ending in the sewers of London, where he has to
learn a whole new and different way of life.
Defiance
Paramount Pictures • Director: Ed Zwick
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell,
Alexa Davalos, Tomas Arana, Mark Feuerstein
Garfield
20th Century Fox • Director: Peter Hewitt
Cast: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt; voices of Bill Murray, Debra Messing, Alan Cumming
He’s cynical, lazy and, literally, a fat cat. Now,
Garfield, America’s favorite feline, is about to
become a major motion picture star, in a film
with broad-audience appeal. The live action
/ CGI picture is adapted from the syndicated
cartoon strip read in 2600 newspapers by 260
million readers around the globe. In his film debut, Garfield’s owner,
Jon, takes in sweet but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield’s perfect
world upside down. Now, Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his
home and life! But when the hapless pup disappears and is kidnapped
by a nasty dog trainer, Garfield, maybe for the first time in his life, feels
responsible. Pulling himself away from the TV, Garfield springs into
action.
In WWII Russia, Jewish refugees band together
into a brigade that hides in the forest, ambushes
Germans and survives until war’s end, eventually
1200 strong.
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
1968 • 138 min. • Color • MPAA Rating: PG-13 • Paramount Pictures
Director: Franco Zeffirelli • Cast: Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting,
Michael York, Milo O’Shea
Perhaps more than any other cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare,
Franco Zeffirelli’s film demonstrates how exhilarating the experience of
watching a Shakespearean play can be. Romeo and Juliet is magnificent
as a scholarly interpretation, as pure entertainment, and as one of the
most beautiful and sensuous films ever made.
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Rosemary’s Baby
Shark Tale
Paramount Pictures • Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
From Ira Levin’s best-selling novel comes one of
the best horror films ever made, with Mia Farrow
as the victim of her husband’s pact with the devil
and Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon as the malevolent neighbour. ROSEMARY’S BABY penetrates
the subconscious and inspires an instinctive
terror. Superb suspense.
Shutter Island
Paramount Pictures • Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben
Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams, Max
von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley, Elias Koteas,
Patricia Clarkson, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch
Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels
is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the
criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding
on the remote Shutter Island.
Last of the Mohicans
20th Century Fox • Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe,
Jodhi May, Eric Schweig
Paramount Pictures
Director: Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson
Cast: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Martin Scorsese,
Doug E. Doug, Peter Falk, James Gandolfini,
Michael Imperioli, Ziggy Marley
The sea underworld is shaken up when the
son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a
young fish named Oscar is found at the scene.
Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and
makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. Oscar soon comes
to realize that his claim may have serious consequences.
Deck the Halls
This holiday comedy is centered around two
neighbors in a small New England town who go
to war when one of them decides to decorate
his house with so many Christmas lights that
they are visible from space. The neighborhood is
turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of
Christmas.
In the American Colonies, England and France,
aided by Native American allies, wage a fierce
and savage war for a continent neither is destined to control. Amidst the conflict, Hawkeye,
a frontiersman raised by Mohicans, and Cora
Munro, the daughter of a British officer, fall
desperately in love, in Michael Mann’s retelling of the classic James
Fenimore Cooper novel.
The Kite Runner
Paramount Pictures • Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Shaun Toub, Khalid Abdalla, Mason Hsieh,
Atossa Leoni, Homayon Ershadi, Ahmad Khan
Mahmidzada, Laurie Burke, Ismail Bashey
After spending years in California, Amir returns
to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old
friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
20th Century Fox • Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Bill
Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Michael Gambon, Helen
McCrory, Wes Anderson, Eric Anderson,
Jarvis Cocker
Based on the beloved story by Roald Dahl, the
film tells the tale of the noble, charming and
fantastic Mr. Fox who uses his wits and cunning
to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens
with the crafty creature.
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20th Century Fox • Director: John Whitesell
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Danny DeVito, Kelly
Aldridge, Sabrina Aldrige, Dylan Blue, Kristin
Chenoweth, Kristin Davis
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Paramount Pictures • Director: John Davis
Cast: Megan Cavanagh, Mark DeCarlo, Debi Derryberry, Jeffrey Garcia, Bob Goen, Mary Hart
This animated feature tells of a super intelligent
pre-teen boy inventor and his dog, Gaddard.
Together they undertake a daring rescue mission
to battle evil aliens, save Earth and, perhaps most
importantly, return home in time for dinner.
Family Stone
20th Century Fox • Director: Thomas G. Bezucha
Cast: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson
The comedy revolves around the annual holiday
gathering of a bohemian family that’s thrown
into turmoil when the fair-haired son introduces
his fiancee, a high strung New York businesswoman whom the family hates.
The Last King of Scotland
The Talented Mr. Ripley
20th Century Fox • Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy,
Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson
In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor
(James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one
of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin
(Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s
brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly
self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal
physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered
and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin’s savagery
- and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan
tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
Cheaper by the Dozen
Paramount Pictures • Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law,
Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Jack Davenport
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom
Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at
a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends
to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go
to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches
himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie’s cultured fiancée, pretending to
love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides
lying, Tom’s talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom
goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf’s privileges his own.
Chicken Run
20th Century Fox • Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo,
Hilary Duff, Tom Welling
A successful small-town football coach and his
wife lead a surprisingly idyllic - if necessarily regimented - life with their family of twelve children.
When dad gets an offer he can’t refuse to coach
a Big Ten football team, they move to the city,
his increasing workload, and his wife’s book tour,
turn the clan upside down.
Water for Elephants
20th Century Fox • Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon,
Christoph Waltz, James Frain, Hal Holbrook,
Paul Schneider, Adrienne Rusk, Ashley Palmer,
Dan Lauria
20th Century Fox • Director: Nick Park, Peter Lord
Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Benjamin Whitrow
From the Academy Award-winning team behind
the popular “Wallace and Gromit” shorts comes
a feature-length animated adventure set at
Tweedy’s chicken farm, where any chicken who
doesn’t make her egg quota can meet a “fowl”
fate. The action turns on the characters of Rocky
(an American rooster) and Ginger (a British chicken) who, along with their
fellow flock, are determined to break out from the sinister farm before
they can be fried, filleted or fricasseed.
Full Monty
20th Century Fox • Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Steve Huison,
William Snape, Tom Wilkinson
Based on the acclaimed bestseller, WATER FOR
ELEPHANTS presents an unexpected romance in
a uniquely compelling setting. Veterinary school
student Jacob meets and falls in love with Marlena, a star performer
in a circus of a bygone era. They discover beauty amidst the world of
the Big Top, and come together through their compassion for a special
elephant. Against all odds including the wrath of Marlena’s charismatic
but dangerous husband, August-Jacob and Marlena find lifelong love.
Six unemployed steel workers, inspired by the
Chippendale’s dancers, form a male striptease
act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full
monty” - total nudity.
The Hours
Election
Paramount Pictures • Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon,
Loren Nelson, Chris Klein, Phil Reeves,
Emily Martin, Jonathan Marion
Tracey Flick is running unopposed for this year’s
high school student council president election.
But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a
different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep
personal anger towards Tracey, Jim talks popular varsity football player
Paul Metzler to run for president as well.
Paramount Pictures • Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Eileen Atkins, Toni Collette, Claire Danes,
Stephen Dillane, Ed Harris, Allison Janney
In 1949, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is
planning a party for her husband, but she can’t
stop reading the novel ‘Mrs. Dalloway’. Clarissa
Vaughn, a modern woman living in present
times is throwing a party for her friend Richard,
a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously
linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who’s writing the novel
mentioned before.
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Juno
M*A*S*H
20th Century Fox • Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner,
Jason Bateman, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney
and Rainn Wilson
20th Century Fox • Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally
Kellerman, Robert Duvall
The MASH crew offsets the gruesome realities
of the Korean War by devastating the compound with outrageous practical jokes. M*A*S*H
stands as one of the most original and enduring
comedies ever made.
JUNO stars Ellen Page as the title character, a
whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned
pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Cera). With
the help of her hot best friend Leah, Juno finds
her unborn child a perfect set of parents: an
affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa (Bateman and Garner),
longing to adopt.
Megamind
Paramount Pictures • Director: Tom McGrath
Cast: Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey
Little Miss Sunshine
20th Century Fox • Director: Jonathan Dayton,
Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette,
Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin
Tells the story of the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families ever seen on motion
picture screens. Together, the motley six-member
family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss
Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California,
to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big
dreams.
Morning Glory
Paramount Pictures • Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Patrick
Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Keaton, 50 Cent,
Arden Myrin, Reed Birney, Lloyd Banks, Vanessa
Aspillaga, Tony Yayo
When hard-working TV producer Becky Fuller
(McAdams) is fired from a local news program,
her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless
love life. Stumbling into a job at “Daybreak” (the
last-place national morning news show), Becky decides to revitalize the
show by bringing on legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy (Ford). Unfortunately, Pomeroy refuses to cover morning show staples like celebrity
gossip, weather, fashion and crafts - let alone work with his new co-host,
Colleen Peck (Keaton), a former beauty queen and longtime morning show
personality who is more than happy covering morning “news.” As Mike and
Colleen clash, first behind the scenes and then on the air, Becky’s blossoming love affair with fellow producer, Adam Bennett (Wilson) begins to unravel - and soon Becky is struggling to save her relationship, her reputation,
her job and ultimately, the show itself.
The brilliant and diabolical super-villain Oobermind has been attempting to conquer Earth for
over 20 years but, each time, he’s been thwarted
by his arch nemesis, the caped superhero Metro
Man. But all that changes one day when Oobermind accidentally kills Metro Man in the throes
of one of his evil plans. Suddenly finding himself
without a foe to overcome, the despondent evil genius decides that
the only way out of his rut is to create a new super rival. He’s a bigger,
better and stronger opponent than Metro Man ever was. But when the
former good guy begins to wage his own war aimed at destroying the
world, Oobermind must decide: Can he defeat his own (now) diabolical
creation? Can the worlds smartest man make the smart decision for
once? Can the Evil Genius switch sides and become the Hero of his own
story?
Kiss the Girls
Paramount Pictures • Director: Gary Flede
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Timothy Hutton, Ashley
Judd, Richard Timothy Jones, Cary Elwes
“Kiss the Girls” tells the tale of Alex Cross, a
Washington DC police detective with a Ph.D. in
psychology who is a widower with 2 small children who learns his college niece, a 22 year-old
Duke University law student, is missing. While
investigating her disappearance, Alex uncovers
two cunning serial rapist/murderers, one of whom is keeping a horrifying modern day harem.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Mother
Paramount Pictures • Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds, Rob Morrow, Lisa Kudrow, Isabel Glasser, Peter White
After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer
(Brooks), decides coming to terms with his mom,
will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with his mom (Reynolds).
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20th Century Fox • Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll,
Ophelia Lovibond, Angela Lansbury, Kelli Barrett,
Philip Baker Hall, James Tupper
Jim Carrey is Mr. Popper, in a family comedy
about a driven businessman who is clueless
when it comes to the important things in life until he inherits six penguins. While Popper’s penguins turn his swank New York apartment into
a snowy winter wonderland and the rest of his life upside-down they
teach him valuable lessons about families... human or otherwise. MR.
POPPER’S PENGUINS is a contemporary update of the award-winning
book.
Imagine That
Paramount Pictures • Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Bobb’e J. Thompson, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Ronny Cox,
James Patrick Stuart, Zachary Gordon, Vanessa
Williams, Stephen Rannazzisi, Heidi Marnhout
A financial executive (Murphy) who can’t stop his
career downspiral is invited into his daughter’s
imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
The Prince of Egypt
Runaway Bride
Paramount Pictures • Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack,
Rita Wilson
Julia Roberts stars as a commitment-phobic
woman who has already left three grooms at the
altar. The action turns on the character played
by Richard Gere, a cynical reporter who writes a
scathing article about her marital near-misses.
Although their initial relationship is adversarial, it
eventually turns to love.
DreamWorks • Director: Brenda Chapman,
Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ralph Finnes, Danny Glover,
Jeff Goldblum, Val Kilmer, Steve Martin, Helen Mirren, Michelle Pfeifer, Martin Short, Patrick Stewart
The Simpsons Movie
20th Century Fox • Director: David Silverman
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy
Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry
Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Erin
Brockovich, Minnie Driver, Albert Brooks
DreamWorks’ epic drama “The Prince of Egypt”
tells the story of two men-one born a prince,
the other born a slave... but only one was chosen
to lead. A lie made them brothers; the truth will
destroy a kingdom and forever separate them... in faith... in heritage...
in destiny. “The Prince of Egypt” stars Val Kilmer and Ralph Fiennes
respectively as Moses and Ramses, brought together by fate and ripped
apart by a secret revealed. The film features six new songs written by
Academy Award-wining lyricist Stephen Schwartz (“Pocahontas”) and a
score composed by Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer
(“The Lion King”), as well as the handiwork of more than 350 animators,
artists and technicians.
Homer makes a mistake at the nuclear power
plant which poisons the towns water causing
everyone to evacuate and an angry mob to
chase Homer.
Amistad
Waking Life
20th Century Fox • Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Wiley Wiggins, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei
Linklater, Glover Gill
Richard Linklater’s feature length animation
centers on Wiggins, a man who walks through
his dream into different scenarios.
Jumper
20th Century Fox • Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell,
Teresa Palmer, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane
David is a “JUMPER” who can teleport himself to
the streets of New York and Tokyo, the ruins of
Rome, and the summit of Mt. Everest. He can see
twenty sunsets in one night, whisk his girlfriend
around the world in the blink of an eye, and grab
millions of dollars in a matter of minutes. But David’s global odyssey takes a deadly turn when he finds himself relentlessly
pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. Forming an uneasy
alliance with another Jumper, David becomes a key player in a war that
has been raging for thousands of years. As these world-changing events
unfold, David begins to discover the secrets and mythology behind his
incredible ability.
Paramount Pictures • Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne,
Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou,
Matthew McConaughey
Based on a true story, “Amistad” is the saga of a
failed mutiny on board a Spanish slave ship and
the trial that followed. In the summer of 1839,
fifty-three African captives, led by Cinque (Djimon
Hounsou), broke free and took over the slave ship
Amistad. Captured off the eastern seaboard after failing in a desperate attempt to sail home, they find themselves strangers in a strange land and at
the mercy of the American justice system. Fighting for the Africans are abolitionist Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and young lawyer Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey). However, seeking re-election, President Martin
Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is willing to sacrifice the Africans to appease
the pro-slavery South. The case takes on historic proportions when former
President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) comes out of retirement
to take the Africans’ cause all the way to the United States Supreme Court in
a trial that challenges the very foundation of the American legal system.
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Waitress
Working Girl
20th Century Fox • Director: Adrienne Shelly
Cast: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines,
Adrienne Shelly, Eddie Jemison
20th Century Fox • Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney
Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco
The story of one woman trapped in a life from
which she dreams of escape. Jenna’s (Russell)
secret ambition is to save enough money from
her waitressing job to leave her overbearing and
controlling husband (Sisto). Jenna is a sharp,
sassy woman with a gift for making unusual pies
whose recipes are inspired by the trials, tribulations and circumstances
of her life. An unwanted pregnancy changes the course of events giving
her an unexpected confidence via letters to her unborn baby.
A sweet but street smart working girl named
Tess is on the trip up the corporate ladder. A
white-collar prince charming becomes her ally in
battling her high-powered piranha boss.
Fight Club
20th Century Fox • Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham
Carter, Meat Loaf
The War of the Roses
20th Century Fox • Director: Danny De Vito
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny
De Vito, Heather Fairfield
Barbara and Oliver Rose were the perfect couple.
He was a prominent Washington lawyer, she had
a wildly successful catering business; they had a
great house, great art, great cars and great kids. So
when she sues him for divorce he vows not to go
down without a fight? This is war.
In this adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1998
novel, Brad Pitt stars as Tyler Durden, a sociopath filled with anarchic rage, who organizes an
underground organization of “fight clubs.” These
clubs, in which young men with white collar
jobs engage in no-holds-barred bouts, spread
across the city. But Tyler has far more insidious plans - he enlists the aid
of his unassertive friend, Jack (Edward Norton), to destroy conventional
“society” through a deadly series of bombings. When Jack realizes the
nightmarish and shocking truth, he fights to bring Tyler down.
Amelia
Whip It
20th Century Fox • Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Ewan McGregor, Hilary
Swank, Richard Gere, Virginia Madsen, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Aaron Abrams,
Marina Stone
20th Century Fox • Director: Drew Barrymore
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page, Juliette Lewis,
Alia Shawkat, Kristen Wiig, Marcia Gay Harden,
Zoe Bell, Daniel Stern, Jimmy Fallon,
Ari Graynor
A look at the life of legendary American pilot
Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying
over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to
make a flight around the world.
WHIP IT, the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, stars Ellen Page (Juno) as Bliss, a rebellious
Texas teen who throws in her small town beauty
pageant crown for the rowdy world of roller derby. Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River, Pollock) plays Bliss’ disapproving
mother, while Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live) and Juliette Lewis (Old
School) play roller-derby stars.
Kinsey
The Four Feathers
Paramount Pictures Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson,
Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Alek Wek, Kris
Marshall
Set in 1898 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted
from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British
officer who resigns his post right before his
regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and
fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice, but little
do they know he’s actually going undercover and plans to redeem his
honor.
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20th Century Fox • Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John
Lithgow, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry
Academy Award-winning Bill Condon (GODS
& MONSTERS, CHICAGO) explores the life
of the pioneer of human sexuality research,
Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson). Spanning six
decades from his childhood in the early 1900s
to his death in 1956, the film turns the microscope on the man whose
landmark studies on the sexual behaviors of the common man rocked
a nation. The interviewer of tens of thousands, Kinsey subjected his
own life and that of his researchers to the same type of analysis that
produced his 1948 best-selling book “Sexual Behavior in the Human
Male.” But while the Kinsey team’s focus was predominantly outward,
perhaps what they learned about themselves was as great as that which
they taught their country.
Anywhere But Here
Waiting for Superman
20th Century Fox • Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Bonnie
Bedelia, Shawn Hatosy
Based on Mona Simpson’s 1986 coming-of-age
novel, the story tells of a runaway wife (Susan
Sarandon) and her teenage daughter (Natalie Portman), who have pulled up stakes from small-town
Wisconsin and driven straight toward the sunset as
if it were the future. Adele’s goal is to make yet another move to establish herself and her reluctant offspring in the glamorous
life of her dreams. But it is a life, that like the city of Beverly Hills, remains
tantalizingly just over the horizon. Adjusting to their new environments and
ever changing relationship, mother and daughter struggle together. They
finally reach an understanding as Ann prepares to leave for college.
The Soloist
Paramount Pictures • Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener,
Stephen Root, Jamie Foxx, Justin Martin, Nelsan
Ellis, Tom Hollander, Angela Featherstone,
Rachael Harris
Paramount Pictures • Director: Davis Guggenheim
Cast: The Black Family, Geoffrey Canada, The
Esparza Family, The Hill Family, George Reeves,
Michelle Rhee, Bill Strickland, Randi Weingarten
For a nation that proudly declared it would leave
no child behind, America continues to do so at
alarming rates. Despite increased spending and
politicians’ promises, our buckling public-education system, once the best in the world, routinely
forsakes the education of millions of children. Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) reminds us that
education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and
Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR
“SUPERMAN.” As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system
that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim
undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out
factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system
and its seemingly intractable problems. However, embracing the belief that
good teachers make good schools, Guggenheim offers hope by exploring
innovative approaches taken by education reformers and charter schools
that have - in reshaping the culture-refused to leave their students behind.
City of Ember
A schizophrenic (Jamie Foxx), is a homeless musician from Skid Row, Los Angeles who dreams of
playing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Through
“chance,” he meets a journalist (Robert Downey
Jr.), who tries to help this mentally disturbed man get “back on his feet” and
make his dreams come true.
Die Hard
20th Century Fox • Director: John McTeirnan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald
VelJohnson, Paul Gleason, De’voreaux White,
William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta
Paramount Pictures • Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau,
Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Mackenzie Crook,
Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Harry
Treadaway, Liz Smith
For 200 years, the citizens of Ember have lived
in a vast and glittering city of lights. But now the
massive generator is losing power and the lights
are failing. It is up to two teenagers to search
the city, crack the code of an ancient mystery and help the people of
Ember escape before the lights go out forever.
Facing Christmas 3,000 miles from his estranged
wife and two children, New York policeman John
McClane flies to Los Angeles bearing presents and
hoping to patch up his marriage. He then becomes
the only hope for a small group of hostages, one
of whom is his estranged wife, trapped in a Los Angeles high-rise building
when it is seized by terrorists on Christmas Eve.
Hitchcock
20th Century Fox • Director: Sacha Gervasi
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett
Johansson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jessica Biel, Toni
Collette, Ralph Macchio, Danny Huston
A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the
filming of Psycho in 1959.
Over the Hedge
Paramount Pictures • Director: Tim Johnson,
Karey Kirkpatrick
Cast: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell,
Thomas Haden Church, Madison Davenport, Omid
Djalili, Allison Janney, Avril Lavigne, Eugene Levy,
Nick Nolte
Traveling raccoon con artist, RJ (Willis), arrives in
a woods outside a human city in the Midwest,
excited about the wonders that living near humans can bring hungry animals. What he finds, however, is an Amish-like
community that is deathly afraid of humans, after their leader, Vern the
tortoise (Shandling), has an encounter with human boys that terrifies him.
Encouraged by RJ, however, the animals slowly venture over the hedge
that separates them from the brand new suburban development that
appeared over the winter while they were sleeping, and what RJ shows
them is a whole new world where humans leave tin cans full of fish and
other food in big canisters, ripe for the taking. As they get closer and closer
to humans, however, their comfortable lives in the woods appears to be
threatened...
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