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Movies Releasing: the Week of April 02, 2010 |
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Warlords |
DVD Release Date : ( France : August 20, 2009 ) |
Réalisateur : Peter Chan. |
Starring : Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu. |
Runtime : 110 minutes. Genre : Action, History. |
Official Website : http://www.warlordsmovie.com/ |
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"Warlords" is set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s. Jet Li stars as General Pang, who after a surviving a massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Lau) and Wu Yang (Kaneshiro). After fighting back attackers from an helpless village, the three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," pledging loyalty to one another until death, but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan (Wu Jing-Lei). |
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Leaves of Grass |
Réalisateur : Tim Blake Nelson. |
Starring : Edward Norton, Tim Blake Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Keri Russell, Lucy DeVito, Steve Earle, Josh Pais. |
Genre : Comedy, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.leavesofgrassmovie.com/ |
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When Ivy League classics professor Bill Kincaid receives news of the murder of his estranged identical twin brother, Brady (both played by two-time Academy Award® nominee Edward Norton), in a pot deal gone bad, he leaves the world of Northeastern academia to travel back to his home state of Oklahoma. Upon arrival, he finds that reports of his brother's death are greatly exaggerated, and he's soon caught up in the dangerous and unpredictable world of drug commerce in the backwaters of the Southwest. In the process, he reconnects with his eccentric mother (Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon), meets a wise and educated young woman who has bypassed academia in favor of the gentler rhythms of life (Keri Russell), and unwittingly helps his troubled brother settle a score with a pernicious drug lord (Academy Award® winner Richard Dreyfuss) who uses Tulsa, Oklahoma's small Jewish community for cover. "Leaves of Grass" follows a twisting narrative path merging crime drama, drug comedy, classi... |
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Don McKay |
Réalisateur : Jake Goldberger. |
Starring : Thomas Haden Church, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, M. Emmet Walsh, Keith David. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.donmckaymovie.com/ |
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In this edgy thriller, Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church, "Sideways") flees his hometown after a horrendous tragedy and vows never to return. But 25 years later he comes back to find a dark menace looming over the town. As he attempts to rekindle his romance with an old high school girlfriend (Elisabeth Shue, "Leaving Las Vegas"), Don is pulled into a malevolent world from which he may never escape. |
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Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? |
DVD Release Date : August 31, 2010 |
Réalisateur : Tyler Perry. |
Starring : Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Denise Boutte, Lamann Rucker, Richard T. Jones, Keesha Sharp. |
Runtime : 113 minutes. Genre : Comedy, Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.whydidigetmarriedtoomovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Following the success of his previous films "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," "Madea's Family Reunion" and "Daddy's Little Girls," Tyler Perry returns with his fourth feature film, "Why Did I Get Married?" Stepping in front of the camera for the first time since "Madea's Family Reunion," Perry stars alongside a talented ensemble cast that includes Janet Jackson, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Denise Boutte and Lamann Rucker.
A big-screen adaptation of Perry's hit stage play of the same title, "Why Did I Get Married?" is an intimate story about the difficulty of maintaining a solid love relationship in modern times. During a trip to the picturesque snowcapped mountains of Colorado, eight married college friends have gathered for their annual seven-day reunion. But the cozy mood is shattered when the group comes face-to-face with one pair's infidelity. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins questioning the validity of their own marriage. Over the c... |
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