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The Blind Side

The Blind Side

Rated PG-13 Opened 11/20/09
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The Blind Side

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 2:06

The story: Sandra Bullock plays a well-to-do housewife who takes in a homeless African American teenager, thereby changing both their lives.

The Messenger

The Messenger

Rated R Opened 11/13/09
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The Messenger

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 1:45

The story: A recently returned Iraq war veteran is assigned to the Casualty Notification Service, where he confronts his own buried feelings about his experience.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Rated R Opened 11/06/09
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The Men Who Stare at Goats

  • Comedy
  • Running Time: 1:30

A reporter (Ewan McGregor) meets a man (George Clooney) who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit that trains soldiers to harness their psychic powers.

The Maid (La nana)

The Maid (La nana)

Rated NR Opened 10/30/09
* In limited release
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The Maid (La nana)

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 1:34

A maid attempts to keep her job with the family for whom she has worked for 23 years.

A Serious Man

A Serious Man

Rated R Opened 10/09/09
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A Serious Man

  • Comedy
  • Running Time: 1:45

The Coen brothers direct this 1960s-set comedy about a physics professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) who seeks guidance from three rabbis when his life begins to fall apart.

The Informant!

The Informant!

Rated R Opened 09/18/09
* In limited release
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The Informant!

  • Comedy, Drama

Steven Soderbergh directs this film, based on the true story of a whistle blower (Matt Damon) who works with the government to prove the existence of price fixing at agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Rated NR Opened 12/25/46
* In limited release
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

  • Classics
  • Running Time: 02:10

The classic yuletide tale of George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), a man who regains his reason for living with some help from an angel named Clarence.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Rated R Opened 11/20/09
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 2:01

The story: Nicolas Cage plays a rogue police detective in post-Katrina New Orleans, where he shakes down drug dealers and murderers while scrounging coke, heroin and other illicit goodies on the side. Mendes plays his girlfriend, a hooker with -- what else? -- a heart of gold.

Pirate Radio

Pirate Radio

Rated R Opened 11/13/09
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Pirate Radio

  • Comedy
  • Running Time: 2:00

The story: This comedy is based on the real-life exploits of a group of DJs who rocked 1960s Britain when they took to the high seas with their bootleg radio broadcasts.

Skin

Skin

Rated PG-13 Opened 11/06/09
* In limited release
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Skin

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 1:47

The true story of a black girl -- born to a pair of white South Africans with black ancestry, during the era of apartheid -- and the journey she takes when her skin color begins to have a negative impact on her life.

Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

Rated PG Opened 10/16/09
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Where the Wild Things Are

  • Action/Adventure, Family

Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, in which Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world -- a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity

Rated R Opened 10/02/09
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Paranormal Activity

  • Horror
  • Running Time: 1:26

In this low-budget horror film, a couple moves into a new house and senses what appears to be a supernatural presence in their midst.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Rated PG Opened 09/18/09
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

  • Animated
  • Running Time: 1:30

Based on the children's book, this animated adventure tells the story of an inventor who makes food fall from the sky like rain, a prospect that sounds wonderful until he realizes his food-producing machine is out of control.

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Rated NR Opened 11/20/09
* In limited release
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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

  • Documentary
  • Running Time: 1:25

The story: Civil rights lawyer William Kunstler was one of the most valorized and hated men of the 20th century as he took on the era's most controversial cases, including representing the "Chicago 8" after the 1968 Democratic convention and helping the inmates of Attica prison after their uprising.

2012

2012

Rated PG-13 Opened 11/13/09
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2012

  • Action/Adventure
  • Running Time: 2:38

The story: It's the end of the world as we know it, by way of the P.T. Barnum of the apocalypse, Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day").

A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin

Rated NR Opened 11/06/09
* In limited release
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A Woman in Berlin

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 2:11

Based on a true story, this drama focuses on the relationship between a victimized German woman and a Russian soldier during the Red Army invasion of Berlin.

Good Hair

Good Hair

Rated PG-13 Opened 10/09/09
* In limited release
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Good Hair

  • Documentary
  • Running Time: 1:35

Prompted by a question from his young daughter, comic Chris Rock sets out to explore the importance of hair in black culture. Rock interviews celebrities such as Ice-T and Raven Symone, and visits hair salons, stylist competitions and an Indian temple to learn about hair culture.

Zombieland

Zombieland

Rated R Opened 10/02/09
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Zombieland

  • Comedy
  • Running Time: 1:27

Survivors (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg) of a zombie apocalypse join forces against the undead.

Shorts

Shorts

Rated PG Opened 08/21/09
* In limited release
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Shorts

  • Family
  • Running Time: 1:29

A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults set out to get their hands on it.

Rashomon (1950)

Rashomon (1950)

Rated NR Opened 11/13/09
* In limited release
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Rashomon (1950)

  • Foreign, Repertory, Drama, Classics
  • Running Time: 1:28

This classic Akira Kurosawa film revolves around four varying points of view of a woman's rape and the murder of her husband in the 12th century.

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Rated R Opened 11/13/09
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The story: A overweight teenager in 1980s Harlem battles psychological and physical violence at the hands of her toxically abusive mother and searches for redemption in a literacy program.

An Education

An Education

Rated PG-13 Opened 10/30/09
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An Education

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 1:40

A teen (Carey Mulligan) is courted by an older suitor (Peter Sarsgaard) who gives her a taste of sophisticated, adult life.

Coco Before Chanel

Coco Before Chanel

Rated PG-13 Opened 10/09/09
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Coco Before Chanel

  • Drama
  • Running Time: 1:45

A look at the early life of designer Coco Chanel (Audrey Tautou) at the point when she meets a wealthy heir (Benot Poelvoorde) who makes her his lover and fashion consultant.

Love Happens

Love Happens

Rated PG-13 Opened 09/18/09
* In limited release
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Love Happens

  • Romance
  • Running Time: 1:49

Aaron Eckhart stars as a self-help guru still struggling with the loss of his wife who finds himself falling for a new woman (Jennifer Aniston) equally concerned about letting go of her own baggage.

The Hangover

The Hangover

Rated R Opened 06/05/09
* In limited release
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The Hangover

  • Comedy
  • Running Time: 1:39

After a night in Vegas, three groomsmen lose their friend who is about to be married.

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