Movies Releasing: the Week of March 14, 2008 |
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Horton Hears a Who |
DVD Release Date : ( France : December 03, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino. |
Starring : Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Dan Fogler, Amy Poehler, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly, Jonah Hill. |
Runtime : 95 minutes. Genre : Animation. |
Official Website : http://www.hortonmovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
The film is based on the beloved book, first published in 1954, by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. "Horton Hears a Who" is about an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help. |
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Never Back Down |
DVD Release Date : ( France : November 12, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Jeff Wadlow. |
Starring : Sean Faris, Djimon Hounsou, Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard, Evan Peters, Wyatt Smith. |
Runtime : 110 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.neverbackdownthemovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, "Never Back Down" is the story of Jake Tyler, a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler, played by Sean Faris, is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler.
Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard) Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McDonald (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Marshall Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua, played by Djimon H... |
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Doomsday |
DVD Release Date : ( France : October 22, 2008 ) |
Réalisateur : Neil Marshall. |
Starring : Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell. |
Runtime : 105 minutes. Genre : Horror. |
Official Website : http://www.doomsdayiscoming.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall ("The Descent"), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades – until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare. |
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Pride and Glory |
Réalisateur : Gavin O'Connor. |
Starring : Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Noah Emmerich, Samantha Morton, Lake Bell, Jennifer Ehle, John Voight. |
Runtime : 130 minutes. Genre : Drama, Crime. |
Official Website : http://www.prideandglorymovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Edward Norton and Colin Farrell star in "Pride and Glory," an authentic, gritty and emotional portrait of the New York City Police Department. The film follows a multi-generational police family whose moral code is tested when one of two sons on the force investigates an incendiary case involving his older brother and brother-in-law. The case forces the family to choose between their loyalties to one another and their loyalties to the department. |
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Sleepwalking |
Réalisateur : Bill Maher. |
Starring : Charlize Theron, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb. |
Runtime : 101 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.sleepwalking-themovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment. |
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