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Last updated: Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Release Date: March 25, 2008 (except for 'Atonement', released at March 26, 2008)

CONTROL

Cast: Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Craig Parkinson, Joe Anderson, Sam Riley

Synopsis: CONTROL centers on Ian Curtis, the enigmatic lead singer of influential British band Joy Division. The award-winning drama marks the feature film directorial debut of acclaimed photographer and visual artist Anton Corbijn and stars Sam Riley (Ian Curtis), Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton (Deborah Curtis) and Alexandra Maria Lara (Annik Honoré).
Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970’s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, that fuel his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing expectations of his band, Joy Division. The strain manifests itself in his health. With epilepsy adding to his guilt and depression, desperation takes hold. Surrendering to the weight on his shoulders, Ian’s tortured soul consumes him.

THE KITE RUNNER

Cast: Atossa Leoni, Homayoun Ershadi, Khalid Abdalla, Shaun Toub, Zekiria Ebrahimi

Synopsis: “There is a way to be good again.”
Based on one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, THE KITE RUNNER is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood best friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It’s a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of an innocent kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day’s victory, one boy’s fearful act of betrayal will set in motion a catastrophe … and an epic quest for redemption. Now, after 20 years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban’s iron-fisted rule to face the dark secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.
Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forster (STRANGER THAN FICTION, FINDING NEVERLAND and MONSTER’S BALL) brings to life Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller on the screen with a globally diverse cast and crew, mixing a remarkable group of non-actors from Afghanistan and Central Asia with an accomplished international cast, and shooting on location in the Western Chinese desert bordering Afghanistan. The result is a journey into a new world -- through a universal human story that speaks to anyone who has ever yearned for a second chance to make a change and find forgiveness.

THE MIST

Cast: Andre Braugher, Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones

Synopsis: David Drayton (Jane) and his young son are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are things lurking in the mist, creatures not of this world, that force David and the hostages to band together in a fight for survival. However he begins to wonder what terrifies him more: the monsters in the mist or the ones inside the store, the human kind, the people that until now have been his friends and neighbors?

SHROOMS

Cast: Alice Greczyn, Jack Huston, Lindsey Haun, Maya Hazen, Max Kasch

Synopsis: When five American college students arrive in Ireland to go on camping trip with their old college buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the ‘trip’ of a lifetime’ because he claims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounded like it would be great fun. Now that they are tripping things don’t seem so funny. BLUTO, one of the gang is missing. TARA thinks he’s dead because she feels she has seen his death before but nobody believes her they think she is just out of it. They’re out of it too. That was the whole point of coming here, but there is something out there, something watching them, something that will kill them if they don’t get out of the forest and get help.

WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY

Cast: Cameron Bowen, Leslie Bibb, Shannyn Sossamon, Will Arnett, Patrick Fugit

Synopsis: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also 'offed' herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin?

JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS

Cast: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter

Synopsis: Embarking on a national publicity tour to promote his new book, 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid,' former US President Jimmy Carter ignites an international firestorm of controversy when he argues that only Israel's complete withdrawl from the occupied territories can bring lasting peace to the Middle East. Intimate, informative and altogether engrossing, JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS is a candid portrait of a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian and statesman whose compassion and steadfast sense of justice remains undiminished by time. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Best Director 1991; Philadelphia, 1993).

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STRANGE CULTURE

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Josh Kornbluth, Peter Coyote, Steve Kurtz, Thomas Jay Ryan

Synopsis: In this moving and wildly innovative film, director Lynn Hershman Leeson tells the terrifying true story of how one man's personal tragedy turns into persecution by a paranoid and overzealous government.
Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11, 2004, when he awoke to find his wife Hope dead of a heart attack. Police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of scientific paraphernalia in his house (materials for an art project on genetically modified food) and contacted the FBI. Soon his world was turned upside down. Only hours after his wife's tragic death he was suddenly a murder suspect, an accused bioterrorist, and a pariah to all but his closest friends.
Told through a unique blend of interviews, documentary footage, and reconstructed scenes starring Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Peter Coyote, Hershman's critically-acclaimed film is a sophisticated, look at how the traumatic events of 9/11 altered American society and undermined its long-held values.

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APRIL FOOL'S DAY

Cast: Josh Henderson, Scout Taylor-Compton, Jennifer Siebel, Joseph McKelheer, Taylor Cole

Synopsis: Each April Fool's Day, fabulously wealthy young Desiree Cartier hosts the most killer coming-out parties at her to-die-for Southern mansion, and this social event is never complete without one of her patented pranks. But when this year's joke turns deadly, Desiree, her brother, Blaine, and five of their friends all become the targets of a twisted serial killer who begins hunting them down one by one in this chilling tale of seduction, betrayal, and revenge.

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ATONEMENT

Cast: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: A From the award-winning director of Pride and Prejudice comes a stunning, critically acclaimed epic story of love. When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will irrevocably change the course of all their lives forever. Academy Award® nominee Keira Knightley and James McAvoy lead an all-star cast in the film critics are hailing 'the year's best picture' (Thelma Adams, US Weekly).

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| Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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