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Release Date: September 16, 2008

88 MINUTES

Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Benjamin McKenzie, Deborah Kara Unger, Leelee Sobieski

Synopsis: In 88 MINUTES, Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out.

THE BABYSITTERS

Cast: Cynthia Nixon, John Leguizamo, Katherine Waterston, Lauren Birkell, Louisa Krause

Synopsis: Shirley Lyner keeps her life in a nice, orderly manner. She likes her right angles. She likes knowing where things are. She likes the expected, not the surprises. As Shirley is fond of saying, “everything and everyone has a place”.
Michael Beltran has a different outlook on life. The father of two, Michael married Gail, the ‘party-girl’ who turned out to be the responsible one in the family. He works a job he doesn’t like, misses the occasional AA meeting, and longs for a little of the excitement he used to know.
When Michael drives Shirley home from babysitting the first night, they both find something they need in each other. Michael wants someone, anyone, to think of him as fascinating and funny and vital. Shirley wants someone to think of her as grown up. But, as Shirley says, as soon as one thing is out of place, it throws everything out of whack, and when a stolen kiss is returned both Shirley and Michael set in motion a series of events fatally destined to crash.
For Michael, guilt over the kiss leads him to overpay Shirley for her babysitting services. For Shirley, what she doesn’t admit she can’t regret, so she puts the money away with the rest of her college fund. When a friend of Michael’s wants the same experience and Shirley’s best friend is willing to “baby-sit” Shirley sees it as a simple matter of supply and demand…and a way to make twenty percent off the top.
But sex is never as easy as stamping “services paid”, and love to a teenage girl doesn’t mean the same as lust to a middle aged man. So while “business” is soon booming, so too are greed, envy and jealousy threatening to spiral Shirley’s carefully constructed world wildly out of control.

HAROLD

Cast: Ally Sheedy, Cuba Gooding Jr., Fred Willard, Nikki Blonsky, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: As a young teenager suffering from really early male-pattern baldness, Harold has never had it easy. Despite the efforts of his scattered mother --- and aggravated by his beauty-queen-mean sister - life is a trial for Harold.
And now his teen angst is topping out: He's facing his first day at a new high school in a new town. He's not only going to be the 'new kid,' but the 'new weird bald kid.'

THE LOVE GURU

Cast: Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Mike Myers, Romany Malco, Verne Troyer

Synopsis: In the comedy 'The Love Guru,' Pitka (Mike Myers in his first original character since Austin Powers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke's wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams' owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old 'Bullard Curse' and win the Stanley Cup.

MADE OF HONOR

Cast: Kelly Carlson, Michelle Monaghan, Patrick Dempsey, Beau Garrett, Sydney Pollack

Synopsis: In Columbia Pictures’ romantic comedy Made of Honor, Tom (Patrick Dempsey) has finally realized that the woman of his dreams is the one who has been there all along: his best friend, Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But just as he’s getting ready to pop the question, Hannah gets engaged to another man – Scotsman Colin (Kevin McKidd) – and throws Tom for a loop by asking him to be her maid of honor. Tom accepts, seeing his opportunity to get close to the bride-to-be 2 and woo her before it’s too late. As Hannah begins to realize that Tom may be marriage material after all, she will have to decide between marrying her best friend or the man who asked first. “Hannah’s choice is not an easy one,” says Neal H. Moritz, producer of Made of Honor. “Both Tom and Colin are good guys, they both have merit.”

SNOW ANGELS

Cast: Amy Sedaris, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: 'Snow Angels,' adapted from the novel of the same title by Stewart O’Nan, is two stories of love and loss converging. One is of a recently separated couple attempting to pick up the threads of a future when faced with tragedy. The second is about an awkward young man, currently in the throes of discovering his first romance, forced to deal with the separation and subsequent strife of his parents’ relationship.

SPEED RACER

Cast: Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Matthew Fox, Rain

Synopsis: Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized—the legendary Rex Racer—whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill.
Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer (John Goodman), the designer of Speed’s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner (Roger Allam) but uncovers a terrible secret—some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line.

FINDING AMANDA

Cast: Brittany Snow, Matthew Broderick, Maura Tierney, Peter Facinelli, Steve Coogan

Synopsis: Taylor Peters (Matthew Broderick) is a television writer and producer working on a low-rated, little-respected half-hour sitcom. Once destined for bigger and better things, Taylor's compulsive gambling, recreational drug use and drinking all conspired to throw his career off the rails. After kicking the alcohol and drugs, he only has one more hurdle...the horses.
His beautiful twenty - year old niece Amanda (Brittany Snow) has her own habit to kick. Living in Las Vegas, working as a 'dancer,' her family has just discovered she is actually a prostitute, and they suspect hooking for drug money.
On their way home from an emergency family meeting, Taylor's wife Lorraine (Maura Tierney) finds recent racing stubs in Taylor's glove compartment. After years of standing by him, she leaves.
Taylor comes up with a plan: he'll win back his wife by doing the right thing. He'll go to Las Vegas, find Amanda, and deliver her to a rehabilitation center in Malibu. While he’s at it, he might even catch up with some old friends (like slimy casino host Steve Coogan). But besides that, it's strictly the business at hand—while he's there, he vows, he won't gamble a single cent, but things don't turn out quite as he'd planned.

KABLUEY

Cast: Christine Taylor, Lisa Kudrow, Chris Parnell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Scott Prendergast

Synopsis: Leslie (played by Lisa Kudrow), a mother of two rambunctious young boys, is barely holding things together while her husband's National Guard unit is off fighting in Iraq.
Desperate for some help, she agrees to let her husband's brother, Salman (played by Scott Prendergast), come to act as a make-shift nanny. But Salman's parenting skills are questionable at best and soon all hell has broken loose. In order to keep the family afloat, Salman must take a job as a corporate mascot for a failing Internet company. He spends his days baking in the heat of an enormous blue costume, pointlessly trying to hand out flyers to passing cars, he has hit rock bottom.
But then things start to turn around for Salman inside his big, blue suit. Anonymity offers him a fresh start and surprising new opportunities. And when he accidentally stumbles upon his sister-in-law's secret, Salman and his alter ego 'KABLUEY' must struggle to make things right and to keep the family together.

NOISE

Cast: Bridget Moynahan, Tim Robbins, William Baldwin, William Hurt, Gabrielle Brennan

Synopsis: Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins stars as David Owen, a Manhattan husband and father so unhinged by the noise outside his window that he declares a one-man war on car alarms. But when David goes over the edge and becomes a citywide noise-vigilante known as ‘The Rectifier’, he incurs the wrath of New York’s sleazy blowhard Mayor (a hilarious performance by Oscar® winner William Hurt) who vows to stop him. How much damage will one guy inflict for a little peace and quiet? Bridget Moynahan (I, ROBOT) and William Baldwin (DIRTY SEXY MONEY) co-star in this wickedly funny black comedy from award-winning writer/director Henry Bean (THE BELIEVER) that The New Yorker hails as “a splendidly eccentric film alive with the creative madness of New York City!”

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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