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Release Date: May 8, 2007

BECAUSE I SAID SO

Cast: Diane Keaton, Lauren Graham, Mandy Moore, Piper Perabo, Gabriel Macht

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton stars with Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo in this heartwarming comedy about mothers, daughters and cutting the apron strings. When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne (Keaton) is just your normal overprotective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie (Moore), will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all the wrong things for all the right reasons...and all in the name of motherly love.

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CATCH AND RELEASE

Cast: Jennifer Garner, Juliette Lewis, Kevin Smith, Sam Jaeger, Timothy Olyphant

Synopsis: Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancé, Gray (Jennifer Garner) moves in with her late love's best friends. While Sam (Kevin Smith) and Dennis (Sam Jaeger) do their best to cheer Gray up, Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) doesn't seem to care. Once Gray breaks through Fritz's defenses, however, she finally sees why her fiancé thought so highly of him. As they spend more time together, Gray learns that her chances for love have not died out with her fiancé. But when some surprise guests show up on their doorstep, it'll take the love of all of her new friends to help Gray learn that life may be messy, but love is messier.

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Clips (Windows Media):
I Owe You An Apology
What Took You So Long?
Apology
Surprise

MUSIC AND LYRICS

Cast: Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston, Campbell Scott

Synopsis: First you're hot, then you're not and then you're Alex Fletcher. So when the sizzlingest tween-queen on the charts asks the has-been 80s pop sensation to write her a song, he grabs for another chance at stardom. Problem: Alex can say it with music, but he sure can't say it with words. Enter Sophie Fisher, his beguiling if quirky plant lady, who has a green thumb for lyrics. Together, they go after songwriting success -- and discover that if you want to write the perfect love song, it helps to fall in love. With Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore at the keyboard and Marc Lawrence (Two Weeks Notice) directing, Music and Lyrics is a witty, wacky romantic comedy that faces the music and laughs!

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BREAKING AND ENTERING

Cast: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Vera Farmiga, Martin Freeman

Synopsis: Will (Jude Law)is a partner in a thriving landscape architecture firm which he runs with his friend, Sandy (Martin Freeman). Professionally, things could not be better but Will spends less and less time at home with his beautiful, melancholy partner, Liv (Robin Wright Penn) and her troubled 13 year-old daughter, Bea. Will’s office has recently relocated to King's cross, the centre of Europe’s most ambitious urban regeneration site and their state-of-the-art studio repeatedly attracts the attention of a local gang of thieves. After one of the break-ins, Will follows teenaged Parkour Enthusiast Miro (Rafi Gavron) back to the apartment he shares with his mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche), a Bosnian refugee. With his relationship already in crisis, Will embarks on a passionate journey into both the wilder side of himself and the city in which he lives.

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DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Cast: Oliver O'Grady, Thomas Doyle

Synopsis: DELIVER US FROM EVIL is the story of Father Oliver O’Grady, the most notorious pedophile in the history of the modern Catholic Church. Completely lacking in moral fiber and devoid of any sense of shame or guilt, O’Grady used his charm and authority to violate dozens of faithful Catholic families across Northern California for more than two decades. His victims ranged from a nine month-old infant to the middle-aged mother of another adolescent victim. Despite early warning signs and complaints from several parishes, the Church, in an elaborate shell game designed to avoid liability and deflect criticism, lied to parishioners and local law enforcement, while continuing to move O’Grady from parish to parish. Over the years, O’Grady successfully exploited mothers and fathers in order to get to their children. His penchant for sexual mayhem was as essential to him as breathing, and internal Church documents prove that since 1973, he raped and sodomized with the full knowledge of his Catholic superiors. Remarkably, DELIVER US FROM EVIL filmmaker Amy Berg tracked down Father O’Grady and persuaded him to participate in the making of her film. O’Grady’s account of his years in various Northern California parishes is chilling and he tells his story without remorse or self-reflection. Also included in the film is never-before-seen footage of the deposition of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony and his former second-in-command, Monsignor Cain. She also interviews canon lawyer and medieval historian Fr. Thomas Doyle, former priests, lawyers and the abuse survivors themselves.

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FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Ty Burrell

Synopsis: Travel through the looking glass and experience a tale of personal and artistic discovery in the fascinating romantic drama Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.

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THE PAINTED VEIL

Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Sally Hawkins, Toby Jones

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, 'The Painted Veil' is a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS

Cast: Julie Christie, Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Camara, Steven Mackintosh

Synopsis: Starring Academy Award winner Tim Robbins, The Secret Life of Words is a powerfully acted and moving story about discovering love and hope when least expected. From the director of Talk to Her and Volver, this critically acclaimed film powerfully demonstrates the fragility of human emotions and strength of compassion that must be shared with loved ones on DVD.

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THE TIGER AND THE SNOW

Cast: Jean Reno, Roberto Benigni, Emilia Fox, Nicoletta Braschi, Tom Waits

Synopsis: 'The Tiger and the Snow' is about a Roman poet and lecturer named Attilio (Benigni) who feels compelled to head to Baghdad when he discovers that the woman he loves, Vittoria (Nicoletta Braschi) has been seriously injured during a bomb explosion. Moving heaven and earth, he manages to get to Iraq, and through a combination of luck and pig-headedness, and inspired by his passionate love of Vittoria, he finds the hospital where Vittoria has been taken. Unconscious, and more dead than alive, the woman of his dreams is in need of a drug that will relieve the pressure of the cerebral edema that is killing her. Given that there is nothing immediately available, Attilio goes off into the city in search of the drug - to find only abandoned pharmacies and ruins. Refusing to abandon hope, Attilio must confront the horrors and disasters of war to save the love of his life.

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Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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