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Answers to Nothing
Stars: Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Erik Palladino, Barbara Hershey
Director: Matt Leutwyler
Premise: Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don't always see.
MPAA: R (for some strong sexual content, nudity, violence and language)
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Coriolanus
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, James Nesbitt
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Premise: Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, is manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother, Volumnia, resulting in his banishment. He subsequently offers himself to his sworn enemy,Tullus Aufidius, and together they march on Rome with the intent to destroy the city.
MPAA: R (for some bloody violence)
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Knuckle
Stars: James Quinn McDonagh, Paddy Quinn McDonagh, Michael Quinn McDonagh
Director: Ian Palmer
Premise: Residing in Ireland and parts of the United Kingdom, the Travelers are a nomadic ethnic group with their own customs and a deep sense of clan pride, despite being interrelated by marriage within their small population. When conflicts arise between rival clans, arguments are often settled through ritualized, bare-knuckle fighting.
MPAA: R (for violent content and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 37 min.
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Outrage
Stars: Soichiro Kitamura, Tomokazu Miura, Tetta Sugimoto, Jun Kunimura, Takeshi Kitano
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Premise: [Japanese, subtitled] In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over saké.
MPAA: R (for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, language, a scene of sexuality and some nudity)
Run time: 1 hr. 49 min.
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Pastorela
Stars: Omar Ayala, Carlos Cobos, Joaquín Cosio
Director: Emilio Portes
Premise: [Spanish, subtitled] Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.
MPAA: R (for language throughout, brief sexual content and some violence)
Run time: 1 hr. 28 min.
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Shame
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Lucy Walters
Director: Steve McQueen (no, not the dead actor)
Premise: Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his mentally unstable younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
MPAA: NC-17 (for some explicit sexual content)
Run time: 1 hr. 39 min.
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Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Stars: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll, Chris Haywood
Director: Julia Leigh
Premise: Lucy, a young university student, answers an ad to be a lingerie waitress. But she is secretly being initiated into a world of strange new work – one where she will have to give into absolute submission to her clients by being sedated – becoming a Sleeping Beauty. Eventually this unnerving experience begins to bleed into her daily life and she finally develops the will to break the spell by discovering what happens to her while she sleeps.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 44 min.
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DECEMBER 9 |
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New Year's Eve
Stars: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Hector Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank, Sofia Vergara
Director: Garry Marshall
Premise: Celebrating love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.
MPAA: PG-13
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The Sitter
Stars: Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor, Max Records, Kevin Hernandez, J.B. Smoove
Director: David Gordon Green
Premise: A suspended college student, living at home with his single mom, is talked into babysitting the three, young, misfit kids next door. However, when he brings the kids along for an attempted sexual rendezvous, the night takes a wild and dangerous turn for the worse.
MPAA: R (for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material and some violence)
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Stars: Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Premise: An intelligence officer is recalled from retirement when there are signs that one of the top-ranking officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service is a Soviet mole. A new adaptation of the classic John le Carré novel.
MPAA: R (for violence, some sexuality/nudity and language)
Run time: 2 hr. 8 min.
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Young Adult
Stars: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe
Director: Jason Reitman
Premise: A 30-something, divorced, young-adult fiction writer returns to her hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend that got away.
MPAA: R (for language and some sexual content)
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Catch.44
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, Nikki Reed
Director: Aaron Harvey
Premise: For Tes and her two cohorts Kara and Tara, the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel at an isolated diner. But when an unstoppable chain of events unfolds, everyone soon realizes no one is who they seem and the job may be something other than eliminating the competition. What started as simple instructions has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game – with large guns pointed at everyone.
MPAA: R (for for strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some sexual content)
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I Melt with You
Stars: Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay, Carla Gugino
Director: Mark Pellington
Premise: An intense character drama about four college buddies who look within themselves and find emptiness when they have their annual summer reunion. This resurrects a pact they vowed to live, die, and kill by.
MPAA: R (for for pervasive drug use and language, some violence and sexual content)
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W.E.
Stars: Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac
Director: Madonna
Premise: The love affair between King Edward VIII and American socialite Wallis Simpson, which led to the royal's abdication, is juxtaposed with the romantic challenges of contemporary Wally Winthrop, a woman obsessed with the life of the Duchess of Windsor.
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DECEMBER 16 |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Stars: Anna Faris, Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney
Director: Mike Mitchell
Premise: After surviving the sinking of their cruise ship, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore must survive on a Polynesian island.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Jared Harris, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, Rachel McAdams
Director: Guy Ritchie
Premise: Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large – Professor Moriarty – and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
MPAA: PG-13
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Carnage
Stars: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly, Elvis Polanski
Director: Roman Polanski
Premise: After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the "victim" invite the parents of the "bully" over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of child rearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colors. None of them will escape the carnage.
MPAA: R (for language)
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Corman's World
Stars: Roger Corman, Paul W.S. Anderson, Allan Arkush, Eric Balfour, Timur Bekmambetov
Director: Alex Stapleton
Premise: The story of B-movie king Roger Corman and how he influenced Hollywood through his films and the filmmakers he has mentored. Interviewees include Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard, and Jonathan Demme.
MPAA: R (for for some violent images, nudity and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 30 min.
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DECEMBER 21-25 |
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The Adventures of Tintin
Stars: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Director: Steven Spielberg
Premise: The fearless young reporter Tintin is on the trail of a big story which leads him into a world of high adventure. He and his friends go on a treasure hunt when they find directions to a sunken ship, and Tintin must face the notorious Red Rackham.
MPAA: PG (for for adventure action violence, some drunkenness and brief smoking)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Elodie Yung, Christopher Plummer
Director: David Fincher
Premise: A journalist-turned-detective and his female associate get tangled up in the underworld when he is hired to write the saga of a powerful family.
MPAA: R
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Ving Rhames
Director: Brad Bird
Premise: Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates "Ghost Protocol." Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency's name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know.
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We Bought a Zoo
Stars: Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Scarlett Johansson, Angus MacFadyen, John Michael Higgins
Director: Cameron Crowe
Premise: A widower and his family work together to restore a dilapidated zoo to its former glory.
MPAA: PG (for language and some thematic elements)
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In the Land of Blood and Honey
Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Goran Kostic, Zana Marjanovic
Director: Angelina Jolie
Premise: Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, a Bosnian held captive in the camp Danijel oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain.
MPAA: R (for war violence and atrocities including rape, sexuality, nudity and language)
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The Darkest Hour
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Joel Kinnaman, Rachael Taylor
Director: Chris Gorak
Premise: Fve young people find themselves stranded in Moscow and fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sci-fi action violence and some language)
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War Horse
Stars: Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell
Director: Steven Spielberg
Premise: The friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.
MPAA: PG-13 (for intense sequences of war violence)
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Stars: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, James Gandolfini
Director: Stephen Daldry
Premise: Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.
MPAA: PG-13 (for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language)
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DECEMBER 28-30 |
LIMITED RELEASE DECEMBER 28 |
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Pariah
Stars: Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mellesse
Director: Dee Rees
Premise: Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the support of her best friend, Laura, she is especially eager to find a girlfriend. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.
MPAA: R (for sexual content and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 26 min.
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The Iron Lady
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Alexandra Roach, Olivia Colman, Anthony Head
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Premise: A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. Story will focus on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some violent images and brief nudity)
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A Separation
Stars: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Premise: [Farsi, subtitled] Wanting to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh, Simin makes all the necessary arrangements. However, her husband Nader refuses to leave behind his father who suffers from Alzheimers. Determined to leave, Simin sues for divorce, and when her request is rejected, she moves in with her parents. Her daughter Termeh chooses to stay with her father with the hope that one day her mother will change her mind. Finding it difficult to keep cope, Nader hires Razieh to look after his father. The young woman is pregnant and has accepted the job without her husband's permission. Following, Nader arrives home one day to find his father alone and tied to a table. When Razieh returns, things completely combust, shattering Nader's life and also Termeh's image of her father.
MPAA: PG-13 (for mature thematic material)
Run time: 2 hr. 2 min.
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Tower Heist
Stars: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe, Casey Affleck, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Michael Pena, Alan Alda
Director: Brett Ratner
Premise: After Arthur Shaw, resident of an illustrious penthouse tower in New York City, pulls off a Ponzi scheme that robs many of their life savings, a group of his victims, including tower manager Josh Kovaks, form a crew to pull off a heist that will get their money back with interest.
MPAA: PG-13 (for language and sexual content)
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garces, Eddie Kaye Thomas, David Krumholtz, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Premise: When Harold accidentally burns down his father-in-law's prize Christmas tree, he and Kumar journey through New York in search for the perfect replacement tree, which takes them through party heaven – and almost blows Christmas Eve sky high.
MPAA: R (for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence)
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Killing Bono
Stars: Ben Barnes, Krysten Ritter, Charlie Cox, Romola Garai, Bill Nighy
Director: Nick Hamm
Premise: Two Irish brothers struggle to forge their path through the 1980s music scene, whilst the meteoric rise to fame of their old school pals U2 only serves to cast them deeper into the shadows.
MPAA: R (for pervasive language, some sexuality/nudity and drug use)
Run time: 1 hr. 54 min.
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The Son of No One
Stars: Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan, Juliette Binoche
Director: Dito Montiel
Premise: When a young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, an old secret threatens to destroy his life and family.
MPAA: R for violence, pervasive language and brief disturbing sexual content
Run time: 1 hr. 33 min.
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Immortals
Stars: Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Kellan Lutz, Joseph Morgan, Isabel Lucas, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff
Director: Tarsem Singh
Premise: A mortal chosen by Zeus named Theseus must lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake.
MPAA: R (for sequences of strong bloody violence, and a scene of sexuality)
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J. Edgar
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Lucas, Armie Hammer, Damon Herriman, Lea Coco
Director: Clint Eastwood
Premise: Based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the man often credited with making the FBI what it is today: an efficient, crime-fighting organization shrouded in secrecy. Hoover founded the organization in 1935 and remained director until his death in 1972.
MPAA: R
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Jack and Jill
Stars: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Dana Carvey
Director: Dennis Dugan
Premise: Family man Jack Sadelstein must deal with his twin sister, Jill, when she visits for Thanksgiving and then will not leave.
MPAA: PG (for crude and sexual humor, language, comic violence and brief smoking)
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11-11-11
Stars: Timothy Gibbs, Wendy Glenn, Michael Landes
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Premise: An author travels to Barcelona to see his estranged brother and dying father, where he learns that his life is plagued by events that occur at 11:11.
MPAA: R (for bloody violence)
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The Conquest
Stars: Denis Podalydès, Florence Pernel, Samuel Labarthe, Bernard LeCoq, Michèle Moretti
Director: Xavier Durringer
Premise: [French, subtitled] Chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy's startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power. On the day the diminutive Sarkozy conquered his ultimate ambition, his wife, who for twenty years had struggled to pull the man she loved from the shadow into the light, walked out on him for another man.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 45 min.
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The Greening of Whitney Brown
Stars: Sammi Hanratty, Kris Kristofferson, Brooke Shields, Aidan Quinn, Keith David
Director: Peter Odiorne
Premise: A spoiled pre-teen from the city is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times.
MPAA: PG (for brief mild language)
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London Boulevard
Stars: Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, David Thewlis, Ben Chaplin, Anna Friel
Director: William Monahan
Premise: A fresh-out-of-prison ex-con lands a legit job as a handyman for a rich actress, but can't truly escape his criminal past.
MPAA: R (for strong violence, pervasive language, some nudity and drug use)
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Melancholia
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt
Director: Lars von Trier
Premise: Justine, a newlywed suffering from an extreme case of clinical depression, notices a planet, with no orbit of its own, hurtling toward Earth.
MPAA: R (for some graphic nudity,sexual content and language)
Run time: 2 hr. 10 min.
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NOVEMBER 18 |
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Happy Feet 2
Stars: Elijah Wood, Robin Wiliams, Hank Azaria, Pink, Sofia Vergara, Hugo Weaving, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Common, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: George Miller
Premise: Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven -- a penguin who can fly!
MPAA: PG (for some rude humor and mild peril)
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli
Director: Bill Condon
Premise: Bella and Edward, plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequences brought on by a marriage, honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of a child, which brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black.
MPAA: PG-13 (for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements)
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Another Happy Day
Stars: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church
Director: Sam Levinson
Premise: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into primal, dysfunctional family dynamics. On the day of the wedding of her son, whom she was not allowed to raise because of her acrimonious divorce, a feud rages between Lynn and her ex-husband's hot-tempered wife. Meanwhile, the three children Lynn did raise display several disturbing behaviors like cutting and drug addiction, which Lynn's mother and sisters ridicule and blame her for.
MPAA: R (for teen drug/alcohol abuse, pervasive language including sexual references, and brief graphic nudity)
Run time: 1 hr. 58 min.
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The Descendants
Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Mary Birdsong, Nick Krause, Judy Greer
Director: Alexander Payne
Premise: Matt King is an indifferent husband and fatherof two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
MPAA: R for language including some sexual references
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The Lie
Stars: Joshua Leonard, Jess Weixler, Jane Adams, Mark Webber, Gerry Bednob
Director: Joshua Leonard
Premise: A musician is forced to give up his dreams in order to support his family. Deciding he needs some time away from his soul-sucking job to renew his stalled aspirations, Lonnie calls in sick and creates a shocking lie to justify his absence. Swept away in a series of misadventures beyond his control, he attempts to close the Pandora's box, but finds that it is too late.
MPAA: R (for language and some drug use)
Run time: 1 hr. 20 min.
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Tomboy
Stars: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy
Director: Celine Sciamma
Premise: [French, subtitled] Ten-year-old Laure moves into a new town with her parents and little sister. Laure does not know any of the kids in the neighborhood, and when she meets a girl named Lisa, she lets her think she's a boy. Laure starts to play with other kids, taking on the persona of a boy named Mickael. As she gets closer to Lisa, the creation of her persona makes the ambiguity of her situation ever more complicated.
MPAA: none
Run time: 1 hr. 24 min.
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Arthur Christmas
Stars: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton
Director: Barry Cook
Premise: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But this year, Santa's son Arthur has an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
MPAA: PG (for some mild rude humor)
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Hugo
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law
Director: Martin Scorsese
Premise: Hugo is a wily and resourceful boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform him and all those around him, and reveal a safe and loving place he can call home.
MPAA: PG (for mild thematic material, some action/peril, and smoking)
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The Muppets
Stars: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Zach Galifianiakis, Jack Black
Director: James Bobin
Premise: To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the Muppet theater from a greedy Texas oilman, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways.
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The Artist
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Béjo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Premise: Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For his lover, young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit – major movie stardom awaits.
MPAA: PG-13 (for a disturbing image and a crude gesture)
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A Dangerous Method
Stars: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel
Director: David Cronenberg
Premise: Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Jung takes on the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient, wielding the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Before long, both men fall under Sabina's spell.
MPAA: R (for for sexual content and brief language)
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My Week with Marilyn
Stars: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Dougray Scott
Director: Simon Curtis
Premise: Colin Clark met Marilyn Monroe while working as a young assistant on Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl. When Marilyn experienced emotional difficulties during shooting, the 23-year-old third assistant director came to her aid and romance developed. But one week of honesty and fun was not enough to save the doomed star from self-destruction.
MPAA: R (for for some language)
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The Ides of March
Stars: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella, Evan Rachel Wood
Director:George Clooney
Premise: During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
MPAA: R (for pervasive language)
Run time: 1 hr. 42 min.
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Real Steel
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Kevin Durand, Anthony Mackie, Evangeline Lilly
Director: Shawn Levy
Premise: A future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centered on a struggling promoter who thinks he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
MPAA: (PG-13 for some violence, intense action, and brief language)
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1911
Stars: Jackie Chan
Directors: Zhang Li, Jackie Chan
Premise: A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
MPAA: R (for war violence)
Run time: 1 hr. 58 min.
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Blackthorn
Stars: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier
Director: Mateo Gil
Premise: In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorne) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
MPAA: R (for violence and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 38 min.
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Dirty Girl
Stars: Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Jeremy Dozier
Director: Abe Sylvia
Premise: Danielle is the dirty girl of Norman High School. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to special ed, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.
MPAA: R (for for sexual content including graphic nudity, and for language)
Run time: 1 hr. 30 min.
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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
Stars: Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Vivien Bridson, Bill Hutchens
Director: Tom Six
Premise: The story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and who imagines putting the 'centipede' idea into practice.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 28 min.
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The Way
Stars: Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, Emilio Estevez, Angela Molina, Eusebio Lazaro
Director: Emilio Estevez
Premise: After arriving in Spain to recover the body of his dead estranged son, a widower sets off on the "Camino de Santiago" pilgrimage to Galicia.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some thematic elements, drug use and smoking)
Run time: 1 hr. 55 min.
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The Women on the 6th Floor
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Premise: [French, subtitled] In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by two Spanish maids.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 44 min.
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The Big Year
Stars: Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Brian Dennehy, Anjelica Huston
Director: David Frankel
Premise: Three obsessive bird watchers go off on their "Big Year," duking it out to spot and record the highest number of species in 1998 –the year El Niño brought an unprecedented number of species to North America. During the course of their wild, ultra competitive adventure, the guys learn that there just may be other things more important than winning.
MPAA: PG (for for language and some sensuality)
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Footloose (2011)
Stars: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller
Director: Craig Brewer
Premise: Remake of the Kevin Bacon '80s flick in which a teen arrives in a small town that has outlawed loud music and dancing.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 53 min.
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The Thing (2011)
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Jonathan Walker (II), Eric Christian Olsen
Director: Matthijs Van Heijningen
Premise: A shape-shifting creature from outer space terrorizes a group of people in a remote facility.
MPAA: R for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language
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Chalet Girl
Stars: Ed Westwick, Felicity Jones, Sophia Bush, Tamsin Egerton, Bill Bailey, Brooke Shields, Bill Nighy
Director: Phil Traill
Premise: A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss' son.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 36 min.
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Father of Invention
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Craig Robinson, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville, Camilla Belle
Director: Trent Cooper
Premise: A humble inventor spends eight years in prison when one of his inventions goes awry. Upon release, he is determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sexual material and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 34 min.
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Labios Rojos
Stars: Jorge Salinas, Silvia Navarro
Director: Rafa Lara
Premise: [Spanish, subtitled] A couple experiencing martial problems due to the husband's sexual dysfunction each resort to desperate and absurd measures to try to rekindle their romantic life.
MPAA: R (for strong sexual content, nudity and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 33 min.
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The Skin I Live In
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Premise: [Spanish, subtitled] A plastic surgeon takes revenge on his daughter's rapist by giving him a forced homemade sex change operation. The surgeon then falls in love with the "new woman."
MPAA: R (for disturbing violent content including sexual assault, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 57 min.
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Texas Killing Fields
Stars: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke
Director: Ami Canaan Mann
Premise: In an area of coastal Texas replete with oil refineries known to locals as "The Fields," homicide detectives fight two sets of fierce killers to save the life of a street kid named Little Anne.
MPAA: R (for violence and language including some sexual references)
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Trespass
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn, Cam Gigandet, Liana Liberato
Director: Joel Schumacher
Premise: When home invaders storm the manor of a wealthy businessman's family, everyone is tangled up in betrayal, deception, temptation and scheming. Husband, wife, and daughter will take the ultimate risk to make it out with their lives –and their family –intact.
MPAA: R (for violence and terror, pervasive language and some brief nudity)
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Paranormal Activity 3
Stars: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Mark Fredrichs, Lauren Bittner
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Premise: The third installment of the franchise takes it back to 1988, when two young sisters encounter an invisible force haunting their home.
MPAA: R
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The Three Musketeers (2011)
Stars: Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz, Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson, Orlando Bloom, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Premise: The hot-headed young D'Artagnan joins forces with three rogue Musketeers. They must stop the evil Richlieu and face off with Buckingham and the treacherous Milady.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sequences of action adventure violence)
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Stars: Kevin Clash, Elmo
Director: Constance Marks
Premise: Elmo is one of the most beloved characters among children and adults across the globe. Here, we meet the man behind the puppet – Kevin Clash, who once dreamed of working with Jim Henson and is now a key figure in the production of Sesame Street.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 16 min.
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Margin Call
Stars: Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany
Director: J.C. Chandor
Premise: Centers on the employees of an investment bank during a tumultuous 24-hour period during the 2008 financial collapse.
MPAA: R (for language)
Run time: 1 hr. 49 min.
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia
Director: T. Sean Durkin
Premise: A damaged woman, haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, struggles to re-assimilate with her family after escaping an abusive cult.
MPAA: R (for disturbing violent and sexual content, nudity and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 50 min.
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Oranges and Sunshine
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham,Tara Morice, Lorraine Ashbourne
Director: Jim Loach
Premise: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.
MPAA: R
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Revenge of the Electric Car
Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Director: Chris Paine
Premise: Behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors, the race is on to develop the most economically accessible, electric car. Here, we follow the innovative business models engineered by CEOs and independent entrepreneurs looking to jump-start the electric car industry, getting us off our dependence on foreign oil, and to win over the hearts and minds of the public around the world.
MPAA: PG 13 (for brief strong language)
Run time: 1 hr. 30 min.
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Snowmen
Stars: Doug E. Doug, Christian Martyn, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Beverley Mitchell, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Rob Kirbyson
Premise: Three boys in a small town unite to try and set a Guinness World Record.
MPAA: PG (for thematic material, some rough bullying and peril, language and brief juvenile humor)
Run time: 1 hr. 26 min.
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Anonymous
Stars: Jamie Campbell Bower, Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Xavier Samuel, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Vicky Krieps
Director: Roland Emmerich
Premise: A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare-- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford-- set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some violence and sexual content)
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In Time
Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried
Director: Andrew Niccol
Premise: In the near future, people are immortal because the aging gene has been deactivated. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency. The rich can live forever, and the rest have to negotiate for their immortality. When a young man comes into a fortune of time, he ends up on the run from a corrupt force known as "time keepers."
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Johnny English Reborn
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Kaluuya
Director: Oliver Parker
Premise: Johnny English goes up against international assassins hunting down the Chinese premier.
MPAA: PG (for for mild action violence, rude humor, some language and brief sensuality)
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Puss in Boots
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris
Director: Chirs Miller
Premise: Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town..
MPAA: PG (for some adventure action and mild rude humor)
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The Rum Diary
Stars: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Bruce Robinson
Premise: A love triangle takes place against the politically charged backdrop of Puerto Rico in the late 1950's between 3 Americans who relocated to the island for their own reasons: a journalist, a property developer, and his fiancee.
MPAA: R (for language, brief drug use and sexuality)
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Stars: Jason Statham, Sam Riley, 50 Cent, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone
Director: Gela Babluani
Premise: A young man stumbles across instructions meant to be used by a dead gangster. His curiosity leads him to a clandestine world where men gamble behind closed doors with the lives of other men.
MPAA: R (for sequences of bloody violence, some disturbing images and brief nudity)
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And They're Off
Stars: Sean Astin, Cheri Oteri, Martin Mull, Mark Moses
Director: Rob Schiller
Premise: A losing thoroughbred horse trainer whose only chance to save his career and get back into the winner‟s circle is to hire his erratic ex-girlfriend / jockey, who is equally as desperate to get back into his circle.
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The Double
Stars: Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Stana Katic, Stephen Moyer, Martin Sheen, Odette Annable
Director: Richard Gere
Premise: A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.
MPAA: PG-13 for for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images and language
Run time: 1 hr. 38 min.
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Janie Jones
Stars: Abigail Breslin, Elisabeth Shue, Alessandro Nivola, Brittany Snow, Peter Stormare
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Premise: When her mother checks into rehab, 13-year old Janie is placed in the custody of her burned-out rock star father, Ethan, whom she has never met. With no instinct for fatherhood, Ethan's drug and booze-fueled antics on tour take their toll on and off stage as his band deserts him one by one. As Ethan's self-destructive spiral threatens to derail his career, Janie uses her own surprising musical talents to help guide him along the rocky road to redemption.
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Like Crazy
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Charles Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Chris Messina
Director: Drake Doremus
Premise: Centers on a long-distance relationship between a young American man and a young British woman who meet while in college, but are separated after she overstays her visa.
MPAA: PG-13
Run time: 1 hr. 29 min.
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