Movies Releasing: the Week of March 24, 2006 |
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American Gun |
Réalisateur : Aric Avelino. |
Starring : Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Linda Cardellini, Nikki Reed, Arlen Escarpeta, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Schuyler Fisk, Tony Goldwyn, Melissa Leo, Christopher Marquette. |
Runtime : 95 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.americangun-movie.com/ |
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"American Gun" is a powerful series of interwoven storylines that bring to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically affect and shape the every day lives of its citizens. The film opens at the start of another day in a Virginia gun store, where owner Carl (Donald Sutherland), continues to sidestep controversy while running the shop he loves. His newest employee is his granddaughter Mary Ann (Linda Cardellini), a college student pressured to spend a semester in the family business. Despite her misgivings, curiosity overcomes her as she is slowly seduced by the weapons she sells.
Across the country in Oregon, Janet (Marcia Gay Harden) is suffering through a television interview marking the third anniversary of her older son's high school shooting rampage and suicide. As a single mother, she worries for her younger son David (Christopher Marquette) who is now the same age his brother was when he committed the terrible acts. While dealing with his own rage and grief, ... |
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Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector |
DVD Release Date : August 08, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Trent Cooper. |
Starring : Larry the Cable Guy, Iris Bahr, Bruce Bruce, Joanna Cassidy, Brooke Dillman, Tony Hale, David Koechner, Lisa Lampanelli, Megyn Price, Tom Wilson, Joe Pantoliano. |
Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.healthinspectorthemovie.com/ |
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Sporting a cut-off flannel shirt and armed with a truckload of one-liners, Larry the Cable Guy is America's reigning king of blue-collar comedy. Now, after two #1 comedy tours (out-selling both Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock), two hit concert films, a best-selling book, two chart-topping comedy albums and a multi-platinum DVD special, Larry makes his feature film debut in the outrageous Lionsgate comedy, "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector".
Irreverent as ever, Larry plays a big city health inspector who's happy with his usual beat of greasy spoon diners and low-rent ethnic restaurants. But his easygoing life is turned upside-down when he's saddled with a straight-arrow rookie partner (Iris Bahr) and assigned the biggest case of his career: investigating an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city's swankiest restaurants. Infuriating restaurateurs with his bad manners, Larry still manages to charm a sweet, shy waitress (Megyn Price) into a budding romance. But when his u... |
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Inside Man |
DVD Release Date : August 08, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Spike Lee. |
Starring : Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Plummer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Gerety, Peter Frechette, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Darryl 'Chill. |
Runtime : 130 minutes. Genre : Crime. |
Official Website : http://www.theinsideman.net/ |
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Directed by Spike Lee, written by Russell Gewirtz and produced by Academy Award winner Brian Grazer, "Inside Man" is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in a tense hostage drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation. |
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Stay Alive |
DVD Release Date : September 19, 2006 |
Réalisateur : William Brent Bell. |
Starring : Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Sophia Bush, Adam Goldberg. |
Runtime : 88 minutes. Genre : Horror, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.canustayalive.com/ |
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After the mysterious brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," a next generation horror survival videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman known as "The Blood Countess." The gamers don't know anything about the game other than they're not supposed to have it... and they're dying to play it. Not able to resist temptation, the group begins to play the grisly game and soon a chilling connection is made – they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same method as the character they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the group must find a way to defeat the vicious and merciless Blood Countess, all the while trying to... STAY ALIVE. |
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Take the Lead |
DVD Release Date : August 29, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Liz Friedlander. |
Starring : Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Elijah Kelley, Dante Basco, Jenna Dewan. |
Runtime : 115 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.theleadmovie.com/ |
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Inspired by a true story, Antonio Banderas stars as internationally acclaimed ballroom dancer Pierre Dulane in the family drama "Take the Lead". The film revolves around a professional dancer who volunteers to teach in the New York City public school system. But when his classic methods clash with his students' hip hop instincts, he teams up with them to create a new style of dance and becomes their mentor in the process. "Take the Lead" co-stars Alfre Woodard and marks the feature directing debut of veteran music video helmer Liz Friedlander (U2, Blink 182, Simple Plan). |
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Brick |
DVD Release Date : August 08, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Rian Johnson. |
Starring : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Matt O’Leary, Noah Segan, Meagan Good, Emilie de Ravin, Richard Roundtree, Lukas Haas. |
Runtime : 109 minutes. Genre : Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.brickmovie.net/ |
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"Brick," the dynamic debut feature from writer/director Rian Johnson, won the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision.
"Brick," while taking its cues and its verbal style from the novels of Dashiell Hammett, also honors the rich cinematic tradition of the hard-boiled noir mystery, here wittily and bracingly immersed in fresh territory – a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school. There, student Brendan Frye's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) piercing intelligence spares no one. Brendan is not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does – until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily (Emilie de Ravin of "Lost"), reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. Brendan's feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata.
To find her, Brendan enlists the aid of his only true peer, The Brain (Matt O'Leary), while keeping t... |
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Lonesome Jim |
DVD Release Date : ( France : May 17, 2006 ) |
Réalisateur : Steve Buscemi. |
Starring : Liv Tyler, Casey Affleck, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan. |
Runtime : 91 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : Not Available |
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"Lonesome Jim" explores the existence of a lost young man searching for his elusive path, while painting a vivid portrait of small town life that is at once funny, sad, and true.
Jim (Casey Affleck) begrudgingly returns to his hometown in rural Indiana after failing to make it on his own in New York. Once back, living in his childhood room, he soon remembers why he left: a doting but overbearing mother (Mary Kay Place), a distant father (Seymour Cassel), and a depressed older brother (Kevin Corrigan).
Soon after his homecoming, Jim's brother gets in a mysterious car accident, and Jim is forced to take on his brother's duties -- working at his parent's factory and helping out with his two nieces. Crippled by these obligations and his own anxieties, Jim trudges on. A glimmer of hope springs from his developing relationship with a local nurse (Liv Tyler) and her young son, and Jim slowly learns how to move forward without leaving everyone behind.
Steve Buscemi's seamless directio... |
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L'Enfant (The Child) |
DVD Release Date : ( France : April 20, 2006 ) |
Réalisateur : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne. |
Starring : Jérémie Renier, Déborah Francois, Jérémie Segard, Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet. |
Runtime : 95 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.lenfantmovie.com/ |
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Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Jérémie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia's unemployment benefits along with the panhandling and petty thefts committed by Bruno and his gang. Their lives change forever when Sonia gives birth to their child, Jimmy. She returns home after Jimmy's birth to find that Bruno has sublet their apartment to total strangers. After an initial and promising change of heart about becoming a father and changing his ways, Jimmy becomes little more to Bruno than a potential source of wealth. Desperate for money and unable to face his parental responsibilities, Bruno sells Jimmy to a black market connection, who promises to find the child an adoptive home. Realizing the error in his actions Bruno sets out to try and undo his callous deed, leading him to a powerful personal transformation. |
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