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Last updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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Release Date: June 17, 2008

ALIVE OR DEAD

Cast: Ann Henson, Angelica May, Gretchen Busenitz, Diego De Vargas, L. Flint Esquerra

Synopsis: While traveling down a desolate road, Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “Help Me” in one of the windows, and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. Maria soon finds herself hidden and trapped with the girl as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their journey leads to a bizarre medieval castle nestled in the desert, a location where they’ll quickly learn their enemy is not who they think. The girls must figure out whom to trust if they hope to make it home, Alive or Dead.

CARAMEL

Cast: Gisele Aouad, Joanna Moukarzel, Nadine Labaki, Sihame Haddad, Yasmine Elmasri

Synopsis: Five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colorful and sensual microcosm of Beirut where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel.

FOOL'S GOLD

Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Ray Winstone, Ewen Bremner

Synopsis: Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson go for the gold (and the diamonds, emeralds and rubies) as a just-divorced couple who bicker and banter their way through an adventure- and laugh-packed undersea treasure hunt. McConaughey is Finn, in love with his ex (Hudson) and in deep with gangster Bigg Bunny. After eight years of searching, Finn gets a clue to the whereabouts of the Queen’s Dowry, a fabulous fortune that mysteriously disappeared in the Caribbean in 1715. Now all he has to do is get the gold, get the girl and get going before Bigg Bunny gets him. Directed by Andy Tennant (Hitch), Fool’s Gold glitters with danger, action, romance, comedy, great one-liners – and a great time to be had by all!

JACK AND JILL VS. THE WORLD

Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Kelly Rowan, Taryn Manning, Vanessa Parise, Peter Stebbings

Synopsis: Jack (Freddie Prinze Jr.) is a thirty-something NYC advertising exec, living a life forged from routine. He is successful and stylish... and entirely bored. Then, he meets Jill (Taryn Manning).
Twenty-one, fiery, adorable, and possessed of nothing resembling a routine, Jill enters Jack's life like a hurricane. They meet by chance on a rooftop, and move in together by week’s end. Together, they piece together a playful manifesto of “rules to live by.” Jack’s best friend and partner, George (Peter Stebbings), notices a more playful side to Jack’s usual cynical personality, and wants to meet the cause.
But there are storm clouds, as Jill's free-spirited nature causes some friction. When her long absences go unexplained, Jack forces Jill to confess that her disappearances are a result of the treatment she needs for Cystic Fibrosis, an ultimately terminal disease. Jack is furious with Jill for violating their pact of honesty, and they break up.
It is a talk with his father Norman (Robert Forster) that incites Jack to find Jill. Jack tracks down her wacky friend, Lucy (Vanessa Parise), and pleads his case. Convinced that he truly loves Jill, Lucy admits that Jill is catching a Greyhound bus cross-country to Los Angeles. Jack reevaluates his life, and just as he quits his job, a bomb threat is called in at his work. Jack goes outside and is surprised to find the culprit is Jill. The two make up, and with their new dog in tow, they hit the highway…with no destination in sight except for a life together.

UNDER THE SAME MOON

Cast: America Ferrera, Adrian Alonso, Jesse Garcia, Kate del Castillo, Maya Zapata

Synopsis: UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA) earned a standing ovation at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for its poignant, emotionally rich tale of a mother and son living on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border connected by an enduring love. In her feature film debut, director Patricia Riggen weaves their parallel stories into a vividly textured tapestry of yearning and devotion that portrays a child’s courage and tenacity, and a mother’s sacrifice.
Nine-year-old Carlos aka Carlitos (Adrián Alonso, THE MASK OF ZORRO) is one of the countless children left behind by parents who come to the U.S. seeking a way to provide for their families. His mother, Rosario (Kate del Castillo, BORDERTOWN) has worked illegally as a domestic in Los Angeles for four years, sending money home to her son and mother to give them a chance at a better life.
When the death of his grandmother leaves young Carlitos alone, he takes his fate into his own hands and heads north across the border to find his mother. As he journeys from his rural Mexican village to the L.A. barrio, Carlitos faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles with a steely determination and unfettered optimism that earn him the grudging respect and affection of a reluctant protector, a middle-aged migrant worker named Enrique (Eugenio Derbez, PADRE NUESTRO). The unlikely pair finds its way from Tucson to East L.A., but the only clue Carlitos has to his mother’s whereabouts is her description of the street corner from which she has called him each Sunday for the last four years. Unaware that Rosario is only hours away from returning to Mexico to be with her son, Carlitos and Enrique desperately comb the vast unfamiliar city for a place he has seen only in his imagination.

WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS

Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Joy Bryant, Martin Lawrence, Michael Clarke Duncan, Mike Epps

Synopsis: Martin Lawrence leads an all-star cast, including Cedric the Entertainer, Mo'Nique, and Mike Epps, in the hit comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins. When a celebrated TV show host (Lawrence) returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation! It's one outrageous predicament after another when big-city attitude and small-town values collide in this hysterical comedy critics are praising for its 'over-the-top hilarity!' (Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel)

RAILS AND TIES

Cast: Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Eugene Byrd, Marin Hinkle, Miles Heizer

Synopsis: Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden give soaring performances in Rails & Ties, director Alison Eastwood's moving tale of people in crisis and emotions at the brink. Bacon plays Tom Stark, a train engineer unable to face his wife's (Harden) illness. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and - step by step, strength by strength - learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening his heart to a boy who needs the security of a devoted family.

MY MOM'S NEW BOYFRIEND

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Colin Hanks, Meg Ryan, Selma Blair, Tom Adams

Synopsis: FBI Field Agent Henry Durand (Colin Hanks) has a problem. It seems his mother Marty (Meg Ryan) has developed a dating life of her own in the three years he's been on assignment. Now, Henry finds himself fending off midnight serenades from lovelorn Italian chefs and watching helplessly as Marty hops on the back of a college dropout's motorcycle, all of which is enough to drive him into therapy. But things get more serious when Marty begins dating Tommy (Antonio Banderas), the FBI's number one suspect in an international art theft ring. Henry soon has to witness more of his mom's love life than he ever wanted when the FBI orders him to spy on her to catch a thief!

SUPER HIGH ME

Cast: Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Unger, Doug Benson, Patton Oswalt

Synopsis: Super High Me features comedian Doug Benson and explores the current situation with medical marijuana in California and the United States, specifically focusing on the conflict between federal and state law and the explosive growth in medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles over the past two years.
As part of his journey, Doug smokes, eats and vaporizes medical marijuana for thirty consecutive days in order to get “Super High.” But there is a catch–first Doug must go thirty days without any marijuana and undertakes a number of tests, completing the same tests while medicated and while sober, in an effort to find out what marijuana does and how it really affects people. Along the way, we follow Doug as he goes out on the road to stand up gigs across the country and hangs out with fellow comedians Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk and Patton Oswalt.

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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