Movies Releasing: the Week of September 14, 2007 |
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In the Valley of Elah |
DVD Release Date : ( France : May 07, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Paul Haggis. |
Starring : Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon, Jason Patric, Jonathan Tucker, James Franco, Frances Fisher, Tim McGraw, Mehcad Brooks, Wes Chatham. |
Runtime : 120 minutes. Genre : War, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.inthevalleyofelah.com/ |
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"In the Valley of Elah" tells the story of a war veteran (Tommy Lee Jones), his wife (Susan Sarandon) and the search for their son, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has mysteriously gone missing, and the police detective (Charlize Theron) who helps in the investigation. |
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Feast of Love |
Réalisateur : 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. |
Runtime : 102 minutes. Genre : Drama, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.feastoflovefilm.com/ |
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From venerable, multiple Academy Award(r)-winning director Robert
Benton ("Kramer Vs. Kramer," "Places In The Heart"), comes a kaleidoscopic ode to love in all its funny, sad, sexy, crazy, heartbreaking and extraordinary facets. This thoroughly modern version of a Midsummer Night's Dream erupts in a tight-knit Oregon neighborhood as local professor Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) witnesses love whipping up mischief among the town's residents -- who include Greg Kinnear, Selma Blair, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway and Jane Alexander - all their stories intertwine into one remarkable romantic fable. |
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The Brave One |
DVD Release Date : ( France : March 26, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Neil Jordan. |
Starring : Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen. |
Runtime : 122 minutes. Genre : Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.thebraveone.com/ |
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New York radio host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) has a life that she loves and a fiancé she adores. All of it is taken from her when a brutal attack leaves Erica badly wounded and her fiancé dead. Unable to move past the tragedy, Erica begins prowling the city streets at night to track down the men she holds responsible. Her dark pursuit of justice catches the public's attention, and the city is riveted by her anonymous exploits. But with the NYPD desperate to find the culprit and a dogged police detective (Terrence Howard) hot on her trail, she must decide whether her quest for revenge is truly the right path, or if she is becoming the very thing she is trying to stop. |
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Eastern Promises |
DVD Release Date : ( France : July 01, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : David Cronenberg. |
Starring : Armin Mueller-Stahl, Donald Sumpter, Jerzy Skolimowski, Naomi Watts, Sinead Cusack, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel. |
Runtime : 100 minutes. Genre : Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.focusfeatures.com/easternpromises/ |
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The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin (Mortensen) is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Headed by Semyon (Academy Award nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl), whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family's fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill (Vincent Cassel), who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father.
But Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova (Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts), a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's lineage and relatives. The girl's personal diary also survives her; it i... |
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Ira & Abby |
Réalisateur : Robert Cary. |
Starring : Jennifer Westfeldt, Chris Messina. |
Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.iraandabby.com/ |
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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 s... |
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D-War |
Réalisateur : Hyung-rae Shim. |
Starring : Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Aimee Garcia, Craig Robinson. |
Runtime : 107 minutes. Genre : Action, Fantasy. |
Official Website : (Not English Website) http://dragon-wars.com/ |
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In a small Korean village, five hundred years ago, a girl named Narin was born carrying the coveted Yeouijoo inside her. The Heavens sent the protector Bochun and his protégé Haram, to ensure that when it came time, Narin was peacefully sacrificed to the pre-determined Good Imoogi. Bochun vigorously trained Haram as a knight, to be prepared for the eventual day when Narin would be delivered to the Good Imoogi. The day the Dark Imoogi, Buraki, and his army destroyed Narin's village looking for the Yeouijoo, Bochun instructed Haram to take her to the Good Imoogi.
The young girl and her knight would then fulfill the giant's serpent's destiny by giving it the power to save the world and become a heavenly dragon. By this time, after spending several years together, Haram and Narin had fallen in love. Unable to sacrifice their love to the benevolent Imoogi, they jumped to their deaths together in each other's arms. The Good Imoogi's destiny was unfulfilled and he would have to wait another ... |
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Moving McAllister |
Réalisateur : Andrew Black. |
Starring : Ben Gourley, Jon Heder, Mila Kunis, Rutger Hauer. |
Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.movingmcallisterthemovie.com/ |
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Rick Robinson is a ladder-climbing law intern from Miami with four days until the Bar Exam. Desperate to score points with his boss (McAllister), he commits to a favor he can't afford. He ends up in a rundown truck headed to L.A. with his boss's possessions, his Hollywood-bound niece, and her pet pig. Amidst hitch-hikers, breakdowns, and assorted local yokels, Rick finds love, life and maybe himself in this trans-American road trip from hell. |
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Great World of Sound |
Réalisateur : Craig Zobel. |
Starring : Barlow Jacobs, Carver Johns, John Baker, Kene Holliday, Libertad Green, Mark Scarboro, Michael Harding, Pat Healy, Rebecca Mader, Robert Longstreet, Scott Reynolds, Tricia Paoluccio. |
Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.greatworldofsound.com/film/ |
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"Great World of Sound" follows Martin (Pat Healy), as he applies for a job at a company training prospective "music producers". During training he pairs up with another new employee, Clarence (Kene Holliday), a middle aged man trying to change his career path. As record producers, the two travel to towns where the company has placed newspaper ads to find undiscovered musicians. They are seeking talent for the record label- signing new artists and giving them a chance to let their music be heard... for a small fee. It's going great at first, but soon Martin and Clarence begin to question whether the company is as virtuous as it promises to be in it's promise to give people their dream.
This film evokes the image of the traveling salesman- a talent salesman- to address the increasing trend of people looking for a shortcut to fame. The film also examines the people who promise such an easy path- commenting that a "scam artist" rarely believes they are one, and that often the scam artist ... |
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King of California |
DVD Release Date : ( France : April 03, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Michael Cahill. |
Starring : Angel Oquendo, Evan Rachel Wood, Greg Davis Jr, Michael Douglas. |
Runtime : 95 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : Not Available |
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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. |
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Moondance Alexander |
Réalisateur : Michael Damian. |
Starring : Kay Panabaker, Don Johnson, Lori Loughlin, James Best. |
Genre : Family. |
Official Website : http://www.moondancealexander.com/ |
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Inspired by a true story - "Moondance Alexander" is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential. Moondance manages to talk Dante into training her and Checkers for the Bow Valley Classic and despite the criticism of her piers; discovers that perseverance, loyalty and individuality can land you in the winner's circle. |
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