MOVIES THIS WEEK

Last updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009

MOVIES THIS WEEK

Release Date: July 1, 2009

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS

Cast: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Ray Romano, Chris Wedge

Synopsis: The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters 'Ice Age' and 'Ice Age: The Meltdown' are back, on an incredible adventure...For the ages, Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie awaits the birth of their mini-mammoth; Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's going too 'soft' hanging with his pals and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna, run amuck, and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.

PUBLIC ENEMIES

Cast: Billy Crudup, Channing Tatum, Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Leelee Sobieski, Marion Cotillard

Synopsis: In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp), the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.
But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi) thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, 'the dashing Clark Gable of the FBI.'
However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents) and orchestrating epic betrayals from the infamous 'Lady in Red' to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Thursday, July 2, 2009

E-mail this to a friend

Printable version

MOVIES THIS WEEK

Related News: