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Open in Theaters from September 29th

The Darjeeling Limited



In director Wes Anderson's THE DARJEELING LIMITED, three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be.

Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. At this moment, a new, unplanned journey suddenly begins. Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman star in this film about their adventure and their friendship.

Written by Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola

Directed by Wes Anderson

Starring - Joan Chen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang

Rated -
R for language

Running Time –
1:31 minutes

Genre - Comedy, Drama

Open in Theaters - September 29th, 2007 (NY; limited release: Oct. 5)

Open in Theaters from September 28th (1)

Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution is the new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei.

Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a phone call, and then sits and waits. She remembers...

... how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom). Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe's new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences -- and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee's trust by befriending his wife (Joan Chen) and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted -- until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee.

Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong -- having emigrated from Hong Kong -- goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit...

Written by Wang Hui-Ling, James Schamus

Directed by Ang Lee

Starring - Joan Chen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang

Rated - NC-17 for some explicit sexuality

Running Time – 2:38 minutes

Genre - Thriller, Sexuality

Open in Theaters - September 28th, 2007 (NY; additional cities: October 5)




Outsourced

Todd Anderson spends his days managing a customer call center for American novelty products in Seattle, until his job, along with those of the entire office, are outsourced to India. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to train his new replacement.

As he lands in India, Todd is assaulted by the sights and sounds of a completely different culture. Navigating through the chaos of Bombay, Todd must train the most unlikely team in the ways of America and American novelty products. Between accent and culture training to education on the cheesehead hat and hot dog toaster, Todd frantically tries to increase the effectiveness of the Indian office, so that he can return home to Seattle.

However, it is through his team of quirky yet likable Indian call center workers, including his friendly and motivated replacement, Puro, and the charming, opinionated Asha that Todd realizes that he too has a lot to learn--not only about India and America, but about himself. Todd soon discovers that being outsourced may be the best thing that ever happened to him.

Written by Unknown

Directed by John Jeffcoat

Starring - Asif Basra, Ayesha Dharker, Josh Hamilton, Arjun Mathur, Larry Pine

Rated - NONE

Running Time - 1:38 minutes

Genre - Comedy, Romance

Open in Theaters - September 28th, 2007 (Limited)



Trade

Each year, more than 1,000,000 people are trafficked across international borders... against their will. = = = = = Innocents lost...sometimes forever.

Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother, Jorge (Cesar Ramos), to save her. Trapped and terrified by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana's only friend and protector throughout her ordeal is Veronica (Alicja Bachleda), a young Polish woman tricked into the trade by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges immigration officers and incredible obstacles to track the girls' abductors, he meets Ray (Kevin Kline), a Texas cop whose own family loss to sex trafficking leads him to become an ally in the boy's quest.

Fighting with courage and hard-tested faith, the characters of Trade negotiate their way through the unspeakable terrain of the sex trade "tunnels" between Mexico and the United States. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret internet sex slave auction and the final climactic confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they give desperate chase to Adriana's kidnappers before she is sold and disappears forever into this brutal global underworld, a place from which few victims ever return.

The debut American feature of one of Germany's leading young directors, Marco Kreuzpaintner, Trade is produced by Roland Emmerich and Rosilyn Heller from a screenplay by Oscar nominee Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) that was inspired by the New York Times Magazine cover story The Girls Next Door written by Peter Landesman.

Written by Jose Rivera

Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner

Starring - Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Alicja Bachleda, Paulina Gaitan, Marco Perez, Linda Emond, Zack Ward, Kate Del Castillo, Tim Reid and Pasha D. Lychnikoff

Rated - R for disturbing sexual material involving minors, violence including a rape, language and some drug content

Running Time – 1:53 minutes

Genre - Crime, Drama

Open in Theaters - September 28th, 2007 (NY, LA)

Open in Theaters from September 28th (2)

Feast of Love

From venerable Academy Award winning director Robert Benton ("Kramer Vs. Kramer") comes a kaleidoscopic ode to life and love in all its funny, sad, sexy, crazy, heartbreaking and life sustaining facets in: FEAST OF LOVE.

In a coffee shop in a tight-knit Oregon community a local professor and writer Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) witnesses love whipping up mischief among the town's residents. Among young and old, among both parents and lovers, among the sweet and the savage, among humans and even animals, Harry watches in awe as love mystifies, wounds, devastates, inspires, makes unreasonable demands and profoundly shapes the lives of everyone around him -- including himself.

From the die-hard romantic coffee shop owner Bradley (Greg Kinnear) who has a serial habit of looking for love in all the wrong places, including with his current wife Kathyrn (Selma Blair); to the edgy real estate agent Diana (Radha Mitchell) who is caught up in an affair with a married man (Billy Burke) with whom she shares an ineffable connection; to the beautiful young newcomer Chloe (Alexa Davalos) who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar (Toby Hemingway); to Harry himself, whose adoring wife (Jane Alexander) is looking to break through his wall of grief after the wrenching loss of a loved one . . .

All of these strands intertwine into one epic love story in which no one can escape being bent, befuddled, delighted and ultimately redeemed by love's inescapable spell.

Written by Allison Burnett

Directed by Robert Benton

Starring - Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Stana Katic, Billy Burke, Fred Ward, Erika Marozsan

Rated - R for strong sexual content, nudity and language

Running Time – 1:42 minutes

Genre - Drama

Open in Theaters - September 28th, 2007




The Game Plan

Joe Kingman had the perfect game plan to win the championship... but first, he has to tackle one little problem.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is about to meet his greatest match -- and she's about four feet tall. Emanating a unique
screen presence that combines his undeniable charm and self-deprecating humor, he further establishes himself as
the consummate leading man and one of today's surprisingly new masters of movie comedy with his role as superstar
quarterback Joe Kingman in Disney's THE GAME PLAN. Sure,

Joe's known as one of the toughest players to ever take the field. Blessed with amazing strength and agility, he's famed for being able to handle any hit, no matter how ferocious. But, just when he doesn't see it coming, Joe is about to be knocked silly by the hardest-hitting challenge he could ever have imagined: an 8-year-old girl.

In this hilarious and heartwarming fish-out-of-water tale, "Rock" gets a chance to showcase his unexpectedly funny, not to mention fatherly, side, while still mixing it up in scenes of fast-paced football action, as the last guy you'd ever expect to find a way to become a great new dad.

It all begins as Kingman's Boston-based pro football team, The Rebels, is chasing their long awaited championship. As their victorious quarterback, Joe has been living the ultimate bachelor fantasy: he's cool, rich, famous and the life of every party -- and there are a lot of parties. But his dream is suddenly sacked for a loss when he discovers Peyton (Disney Channel star MADISON PETTIS), the daughter he never knew existed, on his doorstep.

Now, just as his career is soaring, Joe must learn to juggle his old lifestyle of parties, practices and dates with supermodels while tackling the new challenges of ballet, bedtime stories and baby dolls -- all without fumbling. Equally perplexed is his hard-edged mega-agent, Stella Peck (KYRA SEDGWICK), herself without a parental bone in her body. But, as the championship grows nearer, Joe is about to realize that the game that truly matters has nothing to do with money, endorsements or even touchdowns -- it's all about the really tough stuff: patience, teamwork, selflessness...and winning the heart of the one little fan who turns out to count the most.

Written by Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

Directed by Andy Fickman

Starring - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Roselyn Sanchez, Kyra Sedgwick, Morris Chestnut, Madison Pettis, Gordon Clapp

Rated - PG for some mild thematic elements

Running Time - 1:50 minutes

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - September 28th, 2007




The Kingdom

Trust no one

Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx leads an all-star ensemble in a timely thriller that tracks a powder-keg criminal investigation shared by two cultures chasing a deadly enemy ready to strike again in The Kingdom.

When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team (Oscar winner Chris Cooper and Golden Globe winners Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing.

Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol -- and with the clock ticking on their five days -- the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms.

Fleury's crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Barhoum), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. With these unlikely allies sharing a propulsive commitment to crack the case, the team is led to the killer's front door in a blistering do-or-die confrontation. Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won't stop until justice is found in The Kingdom.

Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan

Directed by Peter Berg

Starring - Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, Danny Huston, Richard Jenkins, Ashraf Barhoum, and Ali Suliman

Rated - R for intense sequences of graphic brutal violence, and language

Running Time - 1:50 minutes

Genre - Thriller

Open in Theaters - September 28th, 2007




Bordertown

Since 1993, almost 400 women have been murdered in Juarez, Mexico, a factory town that is home to people who toil away at "maquiladoras" (border factories) making cheap consumer goods for the US market. "Bordertown" tells the story of Lauren Fredricks (Jennifer Lopez), an ambitious newspaper reporter, who has been sent to Juarez by her editor (Martin Sheen) to investigate what has happened to these hundreds of women and how the local police and authorities have been covering up the brutal rapes and murders. Lauren looks up her former colleague (and lover) Alfonso Diaz (Antonio Banderas), who now runs the local paper, and they soon uncover one of the hottest stories of the year when they come across the only known survivor of one of these mysterious attacks. The victim is reluctant to speak, but Lauren convinces her to break the silence; yet the real danger is not the murder, but the larger forces who don't want the story told.

Written by Gregory Nava

Directed by Gregory Nava

Starring - Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Martin Sheen, Maya Zapata

Rated - R for violence including a brutal rape, sexuality, nudity and language

Running Time – 1:52 minutes

Genre - Thriller

Open in Theaters - September 28th, 2007 (Limited: Dallas, El Paso)

Open in Theaters from September 21st (1)

Randy and the Mob

From Academy Award winning director Ray McKinnon, comes "Randy and the Mob," a feel-good, slice of Southern life comedy. It's the story of good ol' boy Randy Pearson (McKinnon), who can't seem to help getting in over his head. His latest scheme to keep his businesses afloat goes awry when a long-standing debt becomes due to a couple of low level Italian mobsters. Randy's forced to swing into action, but his only hope is a helping hand from his carpal-tunneled, baton-teaching wife (Golden Globe Nominee Lisa Blount); his estranged, gay twin brother (also played by McKinnon), and "Tino Armani" ("The Shield's" Walton Goggins), a mysterious modern day prophet with a knack for high fashion, Italian cooking and clogging.

Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2007 Nashville Film Festival and shot on location in and around Atlanta by all Southern filmmakers, "Randy and the Mob" is a powerful reminder of the strength of Southern roots, where love and family can usually be counted on to trump all adversities.

Written by Ray McKinnon

Directed by Ray McKinnon

Starring - Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Lisa Blount, Paul Ben-Victor, Brent Briscoe, Tim DeKay, Sam Frihart, Bill Nunn, Burt Reynolds, April Rich

Rated - PG for thematic elements, mild violence, language and momentary smoking

Running Time - 1:39 minutes

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - Friday, September 21st, 2007




Sydney White

In a college comedy that puts a modern-day twist on an age-old story, Sydney White tells the tale of a tomboy freshman who ditches her conniving sorority sisters and finds a new home with a group of very dorky outcasts. Fed up with the way they've all been treated, she's off to war against the reigning campus royalty.

Gorgeous freshman Sydney White (Amanda Bynes) has come to Southern Atlantic University to pledge her late mom's once-dignified sorority. But while surviving the pledging process wrought by evil campus witch Rachel (Sara Paxton), Syd finds out this version of sisterhood isn't remotely what it's cracked up to be.

Banished to a condemned house on Greek Row, Syd finds her rightful place with a band of seven very socially challenged guys. With the help of one lovestruck frat boy named Tyler (Matt Long), she and the doofs campaign to take over student government. Fighting for the rights of misfits big and small, Syd organizes her gang to revolutionize the system, once and for all.

In a biting new comic film for the nerd in us all, Amanda Bynes brings her trademark style of comedy to the story of a plumber's daughter who builds an army of dorks done wrong: Sydney White.

Written by Chad Creasey

Directed by Joe Nussbaum

Starring - Amanda Bynes, Matt Long, Sara Paxton, John Schneider, Jack Carpenter, Crystal Hunt, Jeremy Howard, Samm Levine, Danny Strong, David Skyler

Rated - PG-13 for some language, sexual humor and partying

Running Time - 1:30 minutes

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters – September 21st, 2007





Sea of Dreams

A beatiful woman, led to believe she has powerful ties to the sea, defies everyone to prove them wrong, in a world where man and nature connect in improbable ways, where myths are real and truth is imaginary. "Sea of Dreams" creates a fascinating world that celebrates the miracles of falling in and out of love, of death, and of freedom.

The story is a classic narrative that celebrates the mysteries and wonders of human relationships in a magical world where people carry strong beliefs that can fufill the heart's deepest desires.

Directed by José Bojorquez

Starring - Johnathon Schaech, Sendi Bar, Angélica María, Nicholas Gonzalez, Seymour Cassel

Running Time - 1:39 minutes

Genre - Drama

Open in Theaters - Friday, September 21st, 2007




Transformers: The IMAX Experience

For centuries, two races of robotic aliens – the Autobots® and the Decepticons® – have waged a war, with the fate of the universe at stake. When the battle comes to Earth, all that stands between the evil Decepticons® and ultimate power is a clue held by young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). With the world hanging in the balance, Sam comes to realize the true meaning behind the Witwicky family motto – "No sacrifice, no victory!"

TRANSFORMERS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE, from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, has been enhanced into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through IMAX’s DMR® (Digital Re-Mastering) technology.

Directed by Michael Bay

Starring - Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Rachael Taylor

Running Time - 2:23 minutes

Genre - Action

Open in Theaters - Friday, September 21st, 2007




Antonia (Antonia - O Filme)

Friends since childhood, Preta, Barbarah, Mayah and Lena are backup singers in a rap group fronted by a gang of testosterone-laden men, performing to huge audiences in the favelas. Convincing the guys to let them perform one song of their own, their musical stylings drive the crowd wild.

Dreaming of the opportunity to make something of their lives, the girls form their own group, Antonia. But what chance do they stand against poverty, sexism and the everyday danger of life in the favela?

Directed by Tata Amaral

Starring - Chico Andrade, Nathalye Cris, Valney Damasceno, Ezequiel da Silva, Thobias da Vai-Vai

Running Time - 1:30 minutes

Genre - Drama

Open in Theaters - Friday, September 21st, 2007




Adrift in Manhattan

Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help—something neither does easily.

Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence.

Directed by Alfredo de Villa

Starring - William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese, Heather Graham, Elizabeth Peña, Victor Rasuk, Graham Gremm

Running Time - 1:29 minutes

Genre - Drama

Open in Theaters - Friday, September 21st, 2007




The Man of My Life (L'homme de sa vie)

The family that centres the story is typically middle-class, but just happens to be well-adjusted and happy. Frederic is deeply in love with his wife, Frederique, and they have a jolly, rambunctious child. There are no clouds on their horizon. Long hours are spent soaking up the sun, swimming in nearby rivers and enjoying wine and food on terraces.

One day Hugo, a new neighbor, appears. He is invited for dinner; one thing leads to another and conversation soon reveals that Hugo is gay.

So begins a finely inscribed depiction of a growing friendship between two men: one is happily married, monogamous and deeply settled in his ways; the other is a restless free thinker who does not believe in love and moves freely between multiple relationships.

Directed by Zabou Breitman

Starring - Bernard Campan, Charles Berling, Lea Drucker, Jacqueline Jehanneuf, Eric Prat

Running Time - 1:54 minutes

Genre - Drama

Open in Theaters - Friday, September 21st, 2007

Open in Theaters from September 21st (2)

Resident Evil 3: Extiction


The third and final installment of the $100 million RESIDENT EVIL hits, RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the last film left off. Alice (MILLA JOVOVICH), now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (ODED FEHR) and L.J. (Mike Epps), along with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke ) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead...and to seek justice. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive.

Written by Paul W.S. Anderson

Directed by Russell Mulcahy

Starring - Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Chris Egan, Ashanti, Iain Glen, Sienna Guillory, Jason O'Mara

Rated - R for strong horror violence throughout and some nudity

Running Time - 1:35 minutes

Genre - Action, Horror

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 20073



Good Luck Chuck


He has to break the curse before she breaks his heart.

It all started when Charlie Logan was ten years old. Breaking the cardinal rules of spin-the-bottle, Charlie refused to lip-lock with a demented Goth girl - and she put a hex on him. Now, twenty-five years later, Charlie (Dane Cook) is a successful dentist...and still cursed. While his plastic surgeon best friend, Stu (Dan Fogler), pursues as many of his patients as possible, Charlie can't seem to find the right girl. Even worse, he discovers at an ex-girlfriend's wedding that every woman he's ever slept with has found true love - with the next guy after him. Before he knows it, Charlie's reputation as a "good luck charm" has women - from sexy strangers to his overweight receptionist - lining up for a quickie. But a life filled with all sex and no love has Charlie lonelier than ever - that is, until he meets Cam (Jessica Alba). An accident-prone penguin specialist, Cam is as hard-to-get as she is beautiful. But when a genuine romance develops, Charlie realizes he's got to find a way to break his good-luck curse...before the girl of his dreams winds up with the next guy she meets.

Written by Josh Stolberg

Directed by Mark Helfrich

Starring - Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler

Rated - R for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use

Running Time - 1:36 minutes

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007



Into The Wild


Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22 year-old Christopher McCandless (EMILE HIRSCH) instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people. Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naïve idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature?

Each strand of his journey is woven into Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's acclaimed bestseller, Into the Wild, which is as much about the insatiable yearning for family, home and connection as it is the search for truth and happiness.

McCandless' quest took him from the wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River to the non-conformists' refuge of Slab City, California, and beyond. Along the way, he encountered a series of colorful characters at the very edges of American society who shaped his understanding of life and whose lives he, in turn, changed. In the end, he tested himself by heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he had seen and learned and felt came to a head in ways he never could have expected.

Written by Sean Penn

Directed by Sean Penn

Starring - Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Catherine Keener, Kristen Stewart, Zach Galifianakis

Rated - R for language and some nudity

Running Time - 2:27 minutes

Genre - Adventure, Drama

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007 (NY, LA)



The Jane Austen Book Club


You don't have to know the books to be in the club.

As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), is shocked when her husband Daniel (Jimmy Smits), leaves her after 20 plus years and three children. Jocelyn (Maria Bello), her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie (Emily Blunt) is a young French teacher, in possession of a worthy husband yet distracted by persistent fantasies about sex with another man. The many times married Bernadette (Kathy Baker) develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness. Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra (Maggie Grace), Sylvia and Daniel's lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg (Hugh Dancy), a young science fiction fan and computer whiz, seems horribly both out of place and obliviously at ease as the only man to be invited into the book circle.

Today's central California may be far removed from Regency England, but some things never change.

We're still every bit as preoccupied with the complexities of marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements, position, and social manners and mores as was Jane Austen at the turn of the 1800s. THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine.

Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings and wisdom about their own trajectories within
Austen's beloved narratives.

Written by Robin Swicord

Directed by Robin Swicord

Starring - Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Jimmy Smits, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Kevin Zegers, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker, Marc Blucas

Rated - PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content, brief strong language and some drug use

Running Time - 1:43 minutes

Genre - Drama, Romance

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007 (Limited show)




The Assassination of Jesse James


Jesse James (BRAD PITT) was one of the country's first bona fide celebrities.
There have been countless books written and tales told about America's most famous outlaw--all of them colorful and fascinating, all focused on his larger-than-life public persona and daring exploits, and most of them bearing only incidental reference to the truth.
To those he robbed and terrorized, and to the families of those he admittedly killed, he may have been just a criminal, but in the sensational newspaper articles and dime novels chronicling the James Gang throughout the 1870s, Jesse was the object of awe and admiration. He was a Robin Hood, they suggested, targeting railroad owners and banks that exploited poor farmers. He was a man with a tragic cause, a wronged and wounded Confederate soldier striking back against the Union that had ruined his life. Most importantly, to an increasingly buttoned-down and citified population leading ordinary lives, he was the last frontiersman -- a symbol of freedom and the American spirit, a charismatic rebel who flouted the law and lived by his own rules...by all accounts, a legend.
Foremost among his admirers was Robert Ford (CASEY AFFLECK), an idealistic and ambitious young man who had devoted his life to the hope of one day riding alongside his idol. He could never have imagined that history would ultimately mark him as the "the dirty little coward" who shot Jesse in the back.
But who was Jesse James, really - behind the folklore and the selling of newspapers? And who was Robert Ford, just nineteen and a member of Jesse's inner circle, who was able to bring down such a formidable figure when lawmen across ten states had tried and failed? How did they come to be friends and what happened between them in the days and hours leading up to the gunshot that would end one man's life and become the definition and sum total of another's?
No one will ever know the whole truth.
Based on the novel by Ron Hansen, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" delves into the private lives of America's most notorious outlaw and his unlikely assassin to offer a new perspective on a legend and address the question of what really may have transpired in the months before that infamous shooting.
The year is 1881 and Jesse is 34 years old. As he plans his next great robbery, he continues to wage war on his enemies who are trying to collect the reward money and the glory riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life could come from those he would trust the most.

Written by Ron Hansen

Directed by Andrew Dominik

Starring - Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Renner, Paul Schneider, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel

Rated - R for some strong violence and brief sexual references

Running Time - 2:40 minutes

Genre - Action, Western

Open in Theaters - September 21st, 2007 (Limited show)

Opened in Theaters, Friday, September 14th (1)

Ira And Abby

A sweet, hilarious and slightly subversive romantic comedy that examines the issues of marriage, monogamy and whether "I do" is the only path to life-long love and happiness.

Ira Black, is brilliant, neurotic, Jewish and has so many issues he can't fit them into 12 years of analysis. He can't finish his dissertation, he can't commit to his longtime girlfriend, and he's incapable of making a decision, even if it's just what to order at the diner. Abby Willoughby, is a free spirit who's better at solving her friends' problems at the gym than selling memberships. When the two meet, the impossible happens: they fall in love, meet each other's parents and decide to get married, all in a few breathless hours.

And life is good, until Ira finds out that Abby is a divorcee... two times over. Despite even more therapy, Ira can't help but feel that their marriage was built on a lie. They divorce quietly, while cracks grow wider in their parents' marriages. Ira's gorgeous analyst mother Arlene starts a secret liaison with Abby's charming voiceover artist father Michael, while Abby's mother Lynne wonders why she's no longer attractive to her husband and Ira's father Sy pretends not to notice.

Of course, Ira soon realizes he's miserable without Abby. He asks her forgiveness and they marry again, this time making more realistic vows. But Ira's jealousy issues and Abby's free-floating tendencies lead him to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend. When Abby finds out about their parents' infidelities, the three couples converge for a group therapy session with all of their therapists. Ira and Abby ultimately realize that they were meant to be together. But divorced. Because marriage just isn't for them...

Written by Jennifer Westfeldt

Directed by Robert Cary

Starring - Jennifer Westfeldt, Chris Messina

Rated -
R for language and some sexual content

Running Time – 1:45 min

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007 (Limited show)



Moving McAllister

The road less traveled is about to get some company.

"Moving McAllister" is an on-the-road comedy that proves that a mismatched pair can find love in all the wrong places.

What would you do for the job of your dreams? For ladder-climbing law intern Rick Robinson (Ben Gourley), it would be just about anything. A lowly intern at a prestigious law firm, Rick dreams of becoming a partner. Eager to impress, he agrees to help the firm's top lawyer and partner, Maxwell McAllister (Rutger Hauer), a favor he can neither afford nor has time for with the bar exam a mere four days away. Utterly unprepared, Rick finds himself in charge of moving McAllister's dearest possession, his seductive, yet strictly off-limits niece Michelle (Mila Kunis), across the country.

Thrust together on a road trip from hell, the mismatched pair encounter obstacles and colorful characters including free-spirited hitchhiker Orlick Prescott Hope (Jon Heder). As Rick watches the clock tick rapidly toward the day of his exam, his future plans begin to unravel and his life changes as he starts to realize his travel companion might be the girl of his dreams . . .

Written by Ben Gourley

Directed by Andrew Black

Starring - Mila Kunis, Jon Heder, Ben Gourley, Rutger Hauer

Rated -
PG-13 for some drug content, sexual references and crude humor

Running Time – 1:29 min

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007 (Limited show)



Mr. Woodcock

Letting go of your past is hard... especially when it's dating your mom.

For students at Forest Meadow Middle School, P.E. class is not playtime, but rather an exercise in mental and physical humiliation administered by the tough as gristle Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton).

Run more like a military boot camp than a gym class, Woodcock's physical education class takes on a new meaning where no child's flaws or weaknesses are safe from the torture and embarrassment that follow the sound of the despised teacher's whistle.

For John Farley (Seann William Scott), author of the national bestseller Letting Go: Getting Past Your Past, the painful memories of being in Mr. Woodcock's class have since been replaced by the self confidence gained from becoming a successful writer and motivational speaker. When a last minute cancellation on his book tour gives him an unexpected day off, John returns home to surprise his mother, Beverly (Susan Sarandon), with the news that he will be awarded the small town's prestigious "Corn Cob Key" during its annual Cornival Festival.

John's jubilation quickly turns to angst when he discovers his mother has fallen in love with Mr. Woodcock. Forced to spend time with his old nemesis, John must endure the familiar sting of his former teacher's sharp tongue and intimidation tactics all over again. Ignoring the pleas of his hard-nosed book publicist Maggie (Amy Poehler) to get back on tour, John extends his visit in an effort to disrupt the relationship between his mother and Woodcock, but with each passing day he finds himself regressing deeper into the insecurities and awkwardness that plagued his youth.

Mortified and panic-stricken by the inevitability of his mother marrying the one man he truly despises, John enlists the help of his old school mate, Jay Nedderman (Ethan Suplee), in a last-ditch attempt to take down Mr. Woodcock. The result is a series of hilarious confrontations that lead John to discover that one's past is often hard to escape.

Written by Michael Carnes, Josh Gilbert

Directed by Craig Gillespie

Starring - Seann William Scott, Billy Bob Thornton, Susan Sarandon, Ethan Suplee, Amy Poehler, Emily Wagner, Evan Helmuth

Rated - PG-13 for crude and sexual content, thematic material, language and a mild drug reference

Running Time – 1:27 min

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007



Return with Honor: A Missionary Homecoming

Having a second change in life is something you should consider well

Rowe McDonald is a headstrong missionary who has life after his mission all figured out. When a fatal car crash interrupts his plans, he is given sixty days to return to life and finish his work. Now he must choose whether to lead the life he planned, or reach beyond himself to change the lives of others. What will he do? Who will he touch? How will he prepare to leave it all behind?

Written by Tracy Garner

Directed by Michael Amundsen

Starring - Tracy Garner, Timothy Hall, Joey Jalalian, Tayva Patch, Javen Tanner

Rated – For All

Running Time – not available

Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007



Silk

Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, "Silk" is the story of Herve Joncour (Pitt), a 19th Century French silkworm merchant who travels to Japan and begins a clandestine and forbidden romance with a mysterious and sensual woman.

Silkworm eggs. In one's palm one could hold thousands of them. When the pébrine epidemic-the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860s-spread overseas, however, eggs from as far away as Africa and India became infected and the entire European silk trade seemed doomed.

To continue his lucrative trade Baldabiou (Molina), a roguish French trader, decides to send a young military officer Herve Joncour (Pitt) on a perilous mission to Japan. Thus, separating him for months on end from Helene (Knightley), his lovely and devoted schoolteacher wife. The island that produced the finest silk in the world for thousands of years, prior to the opening of the Suez Canal, Japan was considered a dominion forbidden to foreigners, quite literally the opposite end of the world.

It is here that Herve encounters the powerful and feared local baron, Hara Jubei (Yakusho), with whom he will trade for the precious silkworm eggs. And it is here, in a world unlike anything that Herve has experienced before, that he becomes entranced by the baron's concubine, a deeply mysterious girl of intoxicating beauty. Without speaking one another's language, together they share a doomed, obsessive love...

A film of painterly beauty and ravishing romance, "Silk" is a historically rapturous epic romance of East meets West.

Written by François Girard, Michael Golding

Directed by François Girard

Starring - Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina, Michael Pitt, Koji Yakusho, Sei Ashina, Mark Rendall

Rated - R for sexuality and nudity

Running Time - 1:50 minutes

Genre - Drama, Romance

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007 (Limited show)

Opened in Theaters, Friday, September 14th (2)

Dragon Wars

They've made our world their battleground

The story begins with Ethan Kendrick, a TV reporter. While investigating a disaster that occurred at the Seven Palms Resort, he notices that the ground is turned up all around and forklifts have been tumbled over. It looks like a hurricane has gone by. Ethan notices the FBI investigator dusting off a specimen with a brush. It looks like a giant dinosaur fossil or scale. He videotapes it on his Handycam.

Back at CGNN Headquarters in downtown, Ethan examines the image of the scale. While he is looking at his computer screen, he has a flashback to when he was a boy. At an antique shop with his father, young Ethan meets a man named Jack. The old man tells him a story about giant serpents called Imoogi, a story that most have presumed to be merely a legend.

Five hundred years ago in ancient Korea, a baby girl was born with a gift called the Yuh Yi Joo. The Yuh Yi Joo will completely form inside her by the time she turns twenty. An Imoogi who possesses it can transform itself into a dragon. An old monk and his disciple are the only two who believe this legend and try to protect the Yuh Yi Joo bearing girl. Haram, the warrior who is charged with protecting her falls in love with her. Instead of sacrificing her to the Imoogi, the two lovers plunge to their deaths. Jack tells young Ethan that he is the old monk re-incarnated and that Ethan is the warrior. The old man tells Ethan he must find a girl named Sarah, who bears the mark of a dragon on her shoulder. He is to take her to the Grand Cave on her twentieth birthday.

Ethan searches for this mysterious woman named Sarah. Meanwhile, the Evil Imoogi, named Buraki has appeared in Los Angeles with its army of foot soldiers and beasts. The FBI also connect the disaster and the scale to Sarah. They are all looking for Sarah .

Ethan must protect Sarah from the Imoogi and save the city from total destruction.
Ethan must ultimately choose between love and destiny.

Written by unknown

Directed by Hyung-rae Shim

Starring - Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Aimee Garcia, Craig Robinson

Rated - PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and creature action

Running Time – 1:47 min

Genre - Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007 (Limited show)




Great World of Sound

They're coming to make you a star!

An audience-pleasing riff on the dirty underbelly of the American Idol phenomenon, GREAT WORLD OF SOUND stars Pat Healy and Kene Holliday as Martin and Clarence, two normal southern guys who get caught up in the excitement of a record industry talent scouting scheme.

Unemployed one day and record producers the next, Martin and Clarence have a blast signing new acts and hit the road looking for the next big thing. But what happens once the checks are cashed? A playful, contemporary take on the classic American story of the confidence man, GREAT WORLD OF SOUND evokes conflicted hucksters from Willy Loman and the Maysles Brothers' SALESMAN to the seedy charmers of seventies Robert Altman. With real-life audition footage weaved into the fictional narrative, Craig Zobel's provocative debut explores the outer limits of our desire for celebrity, where big dreams beget bigger illusions, and fame always has its price.

Martin (Pat Healy) is an uncomplicated southern guy with a resume that includes experience at a few small town radio stations, doing mostly engineering work. Unemployed, he responds to an ad in the paper for a company called Great World of Sound, that's setting up shop in a generic office park. After his interview, he's invited to attend a Saturday seminar explaining what the job entails. There he meets larger than life Clarence (Kene Holliday) -- the two hit it off right away.

At the seminar, an articulate but somewhat slimy man named Shank (John Baker) explains that the seminar participants have been selected out of a field of 80 applicants to be A&R executives for GWS, seeking out new, untapped musical talent. GWS will put out a record for these artists -- all they ask for is a financial commitment from them up front to show that they're serious, and to allay the costs of studio recording time and marketing. After all, GWS is an independent record company working on a budget. Shank and his cohort then talk about how much money the producers stand to make, and as if to prove it, dials into his bank account, letting the room hear his $13,000+ balance. Martin is suspicious, but Clarence believes that this is a whole new way of looking at the world, and if they sign someone that hits it big, they'll hit it big with them. Martin, who likes the idea of helping new artists, agrees to sign on.

Clarence and Martin soon start auditioning acts as a team, all of them very, very bad. While Martin has a hard time disguising his displeasure, Clarence is a natural: he enthusiastically encourages those who audition, while Martin trips over explaining the financial commitment the company will need from the artists. When a skeptical neophyte producer admits at a staff meeting that he thought they were only supposed to sign "the good ones," Shank compares GWS to a university: in order to support the "best and the brightest," universities must admit a lot of mediocre students.

Clarence and Martin soon prove to be among the best of the GWS crew, so the company sends them on the road to audition musicians responding to ads in other cities. Armed with the dubious gold records that Shank has displayed in the sparse GWS offices, the two men hit the road, holding musical auditions in cheap hotel rooms. This is where things start going downhill -- first they find that GWS has booked the two of them into a motel room with only one bed. Later they are sent on a business trip with one-way plane tickets, only to find that GWS hasn't booked them flights back home. And worst of all they soon learn that some are the artists that they've signed are having less than favorable experiences in the recording studio.

As the veneer falls away from GWS, Clarence and Martin have no choice but to reconcile the excitement and escape that their new jobs have provided them with reality. Have they become scam artists? Or are they victims of the scam themselves?

Written by Craig Zobel, George Smith

Directed by Craig Zobel

Starring - Pat Healy, Kene Holliday

Rated - R for language

Running Time – 1:46 min

Genre - Drama

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007 (NY)



In the Valley of Elah

Sometimes finding the truth is easier than facing it.

On his first weekend back after serving in Iraq, Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) goes missing and is reported AWOL. When Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), a former military MP and his wife Joan (Susan Sarandon) get the phone call with the disturbing news, Hank sets out to search for their son. Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron), a police detective in the jurisdiction where Mike was last seen, reluctantly helps him in his search.

As the evidence grows, her missing person's case begins to look more and more like foul play, and soon Sanders finds herself in a fight with the military brass as she and Hank struggle to keep control of the investigation. But when the truth about Mike's time in Iraq finally begins to emerge, Hank's entire world is challenged and he's forced to reevaluate long-held beliefs to solve the mystery behind his son's disappearance.

Written by Paul Haggis

Directed by Paul Haggis

Starring - Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon, James Franco, Frances Fisher, Tim McGraw, Jason Patric, Mehcad Brooks, Wes Chatham

Rated -
R for violent and disturbing content, language and some sexuality/nudity

Running Time – 2:05 min

Genre - Drama, War

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007 (Limited; wider release: Sept. 21)




King of California

A young girl's teenage years are complicated by an eccentric and manic-depressive father who becomes obsessed with his belief that there's buried treasure in the San Fernando Valley.

Written by Mike Cahill

Directed by Mike Cahill

Starring - Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Greg Davis Jr, Angel Oquendo

Rated -
PG-13 for some strong language, mature thematic elements and brief drug references

Running Time – 1:36 min

Genre - Comedy

Open in Theaters - September 14th, 2007 (Limited show)

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