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Release Date: January 13, 2009

APPALOOSA

Cast: Ed Harris, Jeremy Irons, Renee Zellweger, Viggo Mortensen, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: In Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch's line of work, you shoot quick, you shoot clean and you relaod straightaway. No feelings. Feelings get you killed.
Paired as rivals in A History of Violence, Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen stand together as friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in a character- driven, bullet-hard Western based on Robert B. Parker's novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Renee Zellweger adds feelings - those things that can get you killed - to a quest to bring murderer Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) to justice. Blood will spill in the town called Appaloosa.

BLINDSIGHT

Cast: Erik Weihenmayer, Sabriye Tenberken, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi Pasang

Synopsis: Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping true-life adventure of six blind Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up formidable Mount Everest.
Believed to be possessed by demons because of their blindness, the children are feared by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by a blind educator and adventuress, the students invite a famous blind mountain climber to visit their school and let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The result is nothing anyone could have predicted.

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

Cast: Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: A heartbreaking romantic epic, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED tells an evocative story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in the pre-WWII era. In the film, Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode, Match Point, The Lookout) becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain family, first through the charming and provocative Sebastian (Ben Whishaw, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), and then his sophisticated sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell, Cassandra’s Dream and the upcoming The Duchess). As Charles’ emotional attachment to the entire Marchmain clan deepens, however, he finds himself and his atheism increasingly at odds with the family’s ardent Catholic beliefs, rigidly enforced by the matriarch, Lady Marchmain (Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson). The rise and fall of Charles’ infatuations reflect the decline of a decadent era in England between the wars.
The film, based on Evelyn Waugh’s acclaimed novel is adapted for the screen by multiple BAFTA Award-winner Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones Diary, Bleak House) and Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland) and directed by Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane).

TYLER PERRY'S THE FAMILY THAT PREYS

Cast: Jennifer Hudson, Kathy Bates, Sanaa Lathan, Tyler Perry, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright (Kathy Bates) and her dear friend Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard), a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Suddenly, their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered newlywed daughter Andrea (Sanaa Lathan) is betraying her trusting husband Chris (Rockmond Dunbar) by engaging in a torrid affair with her boss and mother's best friend's son William (Cole Hauser). While cheating on his wife Jillian (KaDee Strickland) with a string of ongoing dalliances with his mistress Andrea, William's true focus is to replace the COO of his mother's lucrative construction corporation. Meanwhile, Alice's other daughter Pam (Taraji P. Henson), a kind but no nonsense woman married to a hard working construction worker (Tyler Perry), tries to steer the family in a more positive direction.
While paternity secrets, marital infidelity, greed and unsavory business dealings threaten to derail both families, Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin in TYLER PERRY'S THE FAMILY THAT PREYS.

MIRRORS

Cast: Amy Smart, Kiefer Sutherland, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck, Paula Patton

Synopsis: From the director of 'The Hills Have Eyes' comes 'MIRRORS,' the terrifying story of troubled ex-cop who must save his family from an unspeakable evil that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL

Cast: Alec Baldwin, Dane Cook, Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson, Lizzy Caplan

Synopsis: Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis is the girl of Dustin's dreams. But after only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down permanently. Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank, the rebound specialist. A master at seducing and offending women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus.
But when Tank works his magic on Alexis, he ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Alexis is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and a strange new attraction to his best friend's girl.

SWING VOTE

Cast: Dennis Hopper, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Costner, Stanley Tucci, Paula Patton

Synopsis: Swing Vote follows the story of Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner), an apathetic, beer-slinging, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that has passed him by. The one bright spot is his precocious, over-achieving twelve year-old daughter Molly. She takes care of both of them, until one mischievous moment on Election Day, when she accidentally sets off a chain of events which culminates in the election coming down to one vote…her dad’s.
Swing Vote is a comical look at the journey of one father and daughter who discover that everyone has the power to change the world.

ALL ROADS LEAD HOME

Cast: Jason London, Patton Oswalt, Peter Boyle, Peter Coyote, Vivien Cardone

Synopsis: All Roads Lead Home is an award-winning drama for the entire family that will make you laugh and cry. Belle (Vivien Cardone), an animal loving 12-year old, becomes sullen and withdrawn after her mother’s death in an automobile accident. Rebelling against her father (Jason London), she is sent to live at the horse ranch of her gruff maternal grandfather (Peter Coyote). With the help of the animals, Belle’s work on the farm transforms the entire family. Life and death take on new meaning as the family makes some tough choices involving compassion, trust, and letting go of the past in order to find hope in the future.

BRICK LANE

Cast: Christopher Simpson, Lana Rahman, Naeema Begum, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee

Synopsis: Nazneen's life is turned upside down at the tender age of seventeen,. Forced into an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance.
Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life.
Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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