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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Seven Pounds
[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Screenwriter: Grant Nieporte
Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Woody Harrelson
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material, some disturbing content and a scene of sensuality)
Official Website: SevenPounds.com
Plot Summary: Academy Award® nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of "The Pursuit of Happyness" for the emotional drama "Seven Pounds." In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] The Tale of Despereaux
[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Sam Fell, Rob Stevenhagen
Screenwriter: Gary Ross (Screenplay), Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi (Screenstory)
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Ciaran Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, Stanley Tucci, Tracey Ullman, Emma Watson, Sigourney Weaver
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: G
Official Website: TheTaleofDespereauxmovie.com
Plot Summary: Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, raucous laughter aplenty and gallons of mouth-watering soup. But a terrible accident left the king broken-hearted, the princess filled with longing and the townsfolk despondent. All hope was lost in a land where sunlight disappeared and the world became dreary gray. Until Despereaux Tilling was born...
A brave and virtuous mouse, Despereaux is simply too big for his small world. Though tiny, wheezy and saddled with comically oversized ears, Despereaux refuses to live a life of weakness and fear...believing he was destined to be celebrated in the tales of chivalry he so adores.
When he's banished from his home for not following the rules that society expects of a mouse, Despereaux befriends fellow outcast Roscuro, a good-hearted rat who can't bear to look in the mirror and hopes to live far from the grim underground of his kind. While Despereaux begins his noble quest to rescue Pea--a princess who can't see beyond her distorted view of the world--his pal Roscuro receives a painful rejection from her highness that sets him on a course of self-destruction.
Along their parallel adventures, the two encounter colorful characters from a serving girl who wishes to be a princess to the evil leader of the sewer rats, who plots revenge on humans from his fiefdom in the subterranean shadows he relishes but Roscuro can't abide.
From the highest turrets of the glittering castle to the dankest dark of Dor's sewers, friendships will be tested as Despereaux and Roscuro embark upon a journey that will change the way they look at their world--and themselves--forever. In this tale of bravery, forgiveness and redemption, one tiny creature will teach a kingdom that it takes only a little light to show that what you look like doesn't equal what you are.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Yes Man
[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Peyton Reed
Screenwriter: Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel
Starring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John Michael Higgins, Danny Masterson, Terence Stamp
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude sexual humor, language and brief nudity)
Official Website: YesistheNewNo.com | MySpace.com/YesManmovie
Plot Summary: Jim Carrey stars as Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere—the operative word being "no"—until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything...and anything. Unleashing the power of "YES" begins to transform Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, getting him promoted at work and opening the door to a new romance. But his willingness to embrace every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing.
The Class
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Laurent Cantet
Screenwriter: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet
Starring: François Bégaudeau
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language)
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A remarkable new film about what happens over the course of a year between a single collège (junior high or middle school) class in the multi-ethnic 20th arrondissment of Paris and their French teacher.
Director Laurent Cantet shot multiple improvised takes of real students and a real teacher using three cameras to make "The Class."
Moscow, Belgium
Studio: NeoClassics Films Ltd.
Director: Christophe Van Rompaey
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Pat van Beirs
Starring: Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet, Johan Heldenbergh
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Plot Summary: Matty (Barbara Sarafian) is a no-nonsense, working class forty-one-year-old mother of three with a thousand yard stare whose life seems to come apart after a minor collision with a Belgian truck transporting Italian lollipops. The 29-year-old redhead driver Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet) has not only bruised her car but also her sense of self. Not only is Johnny uneducated, balding and a dozen years younger, it also turns out that he has an alcohol problem, a criminal record and a fondness for cheesy lyrics.
Meanwhile, her art teacher husband Werner (Johan Heldenbergh) is trying to work out whether he prefers Matty to one of his 22-year-old students, while their three children are trying to figure out where they stand in relation to the opportunities and pratfalls of puberty. As Johnny worms his way into the heart of Matty and the lives of the other members of this dysfunctional but lovable family, it becomes clear that everyone has a right to happiness but that this right can be reached only by making choices, which are not always easy.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Seven Pounds
[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Screenwriter: Grant Nieporte
Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Woody Harrelson
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material, some disturbing content and a scene of sensuality)
Official Website: SevenPounds.com
Plot Summary: Academy Award® nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of "The Pursuit of Happyness" for the emotional drama "Seven Pounds." In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] The Tale of Despereaux
[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Sam Fell, Rob Stevenhagen
Screenwriter: Gary Ross (Screenplay), Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi (Screenstory)
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Ciaran Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, Stanley Tucci, Tracey Ullman, Emma Watson, Sigourney Weaver
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: G
Official Website: TheTaleofDespereauxmovie.com
Plot Summary: Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, raucous laughter aplenty and gallons of mouth-watering soup. But a terrible accident left the king broken-hearted, the princess filled with longing and the townsfolk despondent. All hope was lost in a land where sunlight disappeared and the world became dreary gray. Until Despereaux Tilling was born...
A brave and virtuous mouse, Despereaux is simply too big for his small world. Though tiny, wheezy and saddled with comically oversized ears, Despereaux refuses to live a life of weakness and fear...believing he was destined to be celebrated in the tales of chivalry he so adores.
When he's banished from his home for not following the rules that society expects of a mouse, Despereaux befriends fellow outcast Roscuro, a good-hearted rat who can't bear to look in the mirror and hopes to live far from the grim underground of his kind. While Despereaux begins his noble quest to rescue Pea--a princess who can't see beyond her distorted view of the world--his pal Roscuro receives a painful rejection from her highness that sets him on a course of self-destruction.
Along their parallel adventures, the two encounter colorful characters from a serving girl who wishes to be a princess to the evil leader of the sewer rats, who plots revenge on humans from his fiefdom in the subterranean shadows he relishes but Roscuro can't abide.
From the highest turrets of the glittering castle to the dankest dark of Dor's sewers, friendships will be tested as Despereaux and Roscuro embark upon a journey that will change the way they look at their world--and themselves--forever. In this tale of bravery, forgiveness and redemption, one tiny creature will teach a kingdom that it takes only a little light to show that what you look like doesn't equal what you are.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Yes Man
[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Peyton Reed
Screenwriter: Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul, Andrew Mogel
Starring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John Michael Higgins, Danny Masterson, Terence Stamp
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude sexual humor, language and brief nudity)
Official Website: YesistheNewNo.com | MySpace.com/YesManmovie
Plot Summary: Jim Carrey stars as Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere—the operative word being "no"—until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything...and anything. Unleashing the power of "YES" begins to transform Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, getting him promoted at work and opening the door to a new romance. But his willingness to embrace every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing.
The Class
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Laurent Cantet
Screenwriter: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet
Starring: François Bégaudeau
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language)
Official Website: Not Available
Plot Summary: A remarkable new film about what happens over the course of a year between a single collège (junior high or middle school) class in the multi-ethnic 20th arrondissment of Paris and their French teacher.
Director Laurent Cantet shot multiple improvised takes of real students and a real teacher using three cameras to make "The Class."
Moscow, Belgium
Studio: NeoClassics Films Ltd.
Director: Christophe Van Rompaey
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Pat van Beirs
Starring: Barbara Sarafian, Jurgen Delnaet, Johan Heldenbergh
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Plot Summary: Matty (Barbara Sarafian) is a no-nonsense, working class forty-one-year-old mother of three with a thousand yard stare whose life seems to come apart after a minor collision with a Belgian truck transporting Italian lollipops. The 29-year-old redhead driver Johnny (Jurgen Delnaet) has not only bruised her car but also her sense of self. Not only is Johnny uneducated, balding and a dozen years younger, it also turns out that he has an alcohol problem, a criminal record and a fondness for cheesy lyrics.
Meanwhile, her art teacher husband Werner (Johan Heldenbergh) is trying to work out whether he prefers Matty to one of his 22-year-old students, while their three children are trying to figure out where they stand in relation to the opportunities and pratfalls of puberty. As Johnny worms his way into the heart of Matty and the lives of the other members of this dysfunctional but lovable family, it becomes clear that everyone has a right to happiness but that this right can be reached only by making choices, which are not always easy.