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MARLEY & ME - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner Director: David Frankel Synopsis: The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Runtime: 2 hr 3 min MPAA Rating: PG - for thematic material, some suggestive content and language. Genres: Comedy, Drama |
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THE SPIRIT - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Paulson, Eva Mendes, Dan Lauria, Paz Vega Director: Frank Miller Synopsis: A former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as The Spirit to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, The Octopus has a different mission: he's going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront... all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Runtime: 1 hr 50 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for intense sequences of stylized violence and action, some sexual content, and brief nudity. Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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VALKYRIE - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann Director: Bryan Singer Synopsis: In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler’s own emergency plan – known as Operation Valkyrie – these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself. Runtime: 2 hr 0 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for violence and brief strong language. Genres: Drama, Thriller, War Country of Origin: Germany, USA Language: English, German |
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON- [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Tilda Swinton Director: David Fincher Synopsis: The story about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. "Benjamin Button," is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time. Runtime: 2 hr 47 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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AUSTRALIA - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson Director: Baz Luhrmann Synopsis: In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor. Runtime: 2 hr 35 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language. Genres: Drama, Romance Country of Origin: Australia, USA |
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SEVEN POUNDS - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Woody Harrelson Director: Gabriele Muccino Synopsis: A suicidal IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers. Runtime: 2 hr 4 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for thematic material, some disturbing content and a scene of sensuality. Genre: Drama |
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TWILIGHT - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Director: Catherine Hardwicke Synopsis: an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. Intelligent and witty, he sees straight into her soul. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands – and he hasn't aged since 1918. Tthe closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when James, Laurent and Victoria, the Cullens' mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for her? Runtime: 2 hr 2 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for some violence and a scene of sensuality. Genres: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller |
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BOLT - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton Directors: Byron Howard, Chris Williams Synopsis: An animated comedy adventure featuring a super-dog named Bolt (voice of John Travolta), whose days are filled with danger and intrigue—at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet—a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions—a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino —Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero. Runtime: 1 hr 36 min MPAA Rating: PG - for some mild action and peril. Genres: Animation, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm, Kyle Chandler Director: Scott Derrickson Synopsis: A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor's appearance, a woman (Jennifer Connelly) and her young stepson get caught up in his mission – and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described "friend to the Earth." Runtime: 1 hr 44 min MPAA Rating: Not Rated Genres: Action, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: David Schwimmer, Cedric the Entertainer, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath Synopsis: Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, these New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa itself - where our zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. While discovering their roots, they quickly realize the difference between the concrete jungle and the heart of Africa. Despite long-lost relatives, romantic rivals and scheming hunters, Africa seems like a "crack-a-lackin" great place... but is it better than their Central Park home? Runtime: 1 hr 30 min MPAA Rating: PG - for some mild crude humor. Genres: Animation, Comedy, Kids |
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FOUR CHRISTMASES - [ showtimes ] [ movie website ] [ movie trailer ] Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau, Mary Steenburgen Director: Seth Gordon Synopsis: When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation—and unable to escape—they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood fears raised, adolescent wounds reopened... and their very future together uncertain. As Brad counts the hours to when he can get away from their parents, step-parents, siblings and an assortment of nieces and nephews, Kate is starting to hear the ticking of a different kind of clock. And by the end of the day, she is beginning to wonder if their crazy families' choices are not so crazy after all. Runtime: 1 hr 30 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 - for some sexual humor and language. Genres: Christmas, Comedy |
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