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Last updated: Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Release Date: April 22, 2008

CLOVERFIELD

Cast: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Stahl-David, Odette Yustman

Synopsis: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

ROMULUS, MY FATHER

Cast: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacek Koman, Marton Csokas

Synopsis: ROMULUS, MY FATHER is based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir. It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond.
It is the tale of a boy trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking absence and neglect from a depressive mother. It is, ultimately, a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

Cast: Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shiri Appleby, Tom Hanks

Synopsis: Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this compelling and witty film from Oscar®-winning director Mike Nichols and Primetime Emmy®-winning writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing). Based on the outrageous true story, Charlie Wilson’s War shows how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest covert operation in history.

ONE MISSED CALL

Cast: Edward Burns, Meagan Good, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancon, Azura Skye

Synopsis: It happens to one. Then another. And another. College students discover eerie voicemail messages on their cell phones. Each call comes from the near future. Each call has the chilling voice of the student during his or her last moments alive. And each call comes true.
Terror is One Missed Call away in this got-your-number shocker based on the hit Japanese thriller Chakushin ari. Does the viral spree of calls have a single source? Is there something that links the victims? Psych student Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) and detective Jack Andrews (Ed Burns) scramble for answers. And they’re working fast. Because Beth just discovered an ominous message.

THE ORPHANAGE

Cast: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Mabel Rivera, Roger Príncep

Synopsis: Returning to her childhood home - a mysterious, seaside orphanage - Laura and her family unknowingly unleash a long-forgotten, evil spirit. Now, thrust into a chilling nightmare that involves the disappearance of her young son, Laura must confront the memories of her past before the ghosts of the orphanage destroy her.and everyone she has ever loved.

THE SAVAGES

Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cara Seymour, Peter Friedman, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Academy Award nominee Laura Linney deliver unforgettable performances in this hilarious coming-of-middle age story from Oscar - nominated writer/director Tamara Jenkins. Until recently, all John and Wendy Savage (Hoffman, Linney) had in common were a lousy childhood and a few strands of DNA. But after years of drifting apart, they're forced to band together to care for the elderly, cantankerous father who made their formative 'challenging.' In the process, both of these aimless, perpetually adolescent fortysomethings may just, at long last, have to grow up!

HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS

Cast: Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, Kent Osborne, Mark Duplass, Ry Russo-Young

Synopsis: Hannah, a recent college graduate, spends a brutally hot Chicago summer falling in and out of love. As she struggles to find personal and professional fulfillment through various relationships with friends and co-workers, she risks leaving destruction in her wake. Working collaboratively with his cast, which features several prominent independent filmmakers, Joe Swanberg follows up his previous efforts, KISSING ON THE MOUTH and LOL, with this delicate look at friendship, ambition, and the pursuit of happiness.

STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING

Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Adrian Lester, Frank Langella, Jessica Hecht, Lili Taylor

Synopsis: Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him 10 years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. Formerly a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics that once praised him. But when Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront his past regrets. Langella delivers a career capping performance as a man who must redefine his work, and his perceptions, in the twilight of his life.

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