EVAN ALMIGHTY
Cast: John Goodman, Lauren Graham, Molly Shannon, Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell
Synopsis: Steve Carell (The 40 Year-Old Virgin), reprising his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter of Bruce Almighty, is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy Evan Almighty. Blockbuster comedy director Tom Shadyac (The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty) returns behind the camera for this next episode of divine intervention. This time, however, his cast grows two-by-two. Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can’t decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions…
1408
Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L Jackson, Tony Shalhoub, Kate Walsh, Mary McCormack
Synopsis: Adapted from the terrifying short story by suspense master, Stephen King. Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) believes only in what he can see with his own two eyes. But after a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he has no real proof of life…afterlife. But Enslin’s phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, “Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms.” Defying the warnings of the hotel manager (Jackson), the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another bestseller may be imminent, but like all Stephen King heroes, first he must go from skeptic to true believer – and ultimately survive the night.
A MIGHTY HEART
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Dan Futterman, Denis O'Hare, Will Patton
Synopsis: On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world
changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the
Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard
Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised
access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told
Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.
In the
face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief
in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his
disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder
in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband
Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was
carrying a son that Danny hoped the name Adam. She wrote the book to
introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending
religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise
above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post
9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she
and Danny shared.
YOU KILL ME
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Bill Pullman, Luke Wilson, Tea Leoni, Dennis Farina
Synopsis: Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) loves his job. He
just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo,
New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a
critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle
(Philip Baker Hall) sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act.
Played with gruff charm by Kingsley, Frank is not a touchy-feely kind
of guy. But he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor (played by
Luke Wilson) and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the
tart-tongued Laurel (Tea Leoni), a woman who is dangerously devoid of
boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren't going well in Buffalo where an
upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence
erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist
from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
Stylishly directed by
John Dahl (Rounders, The Last Seduction), You Kill Me is the story of
what happens when two mismatched people find a common calling. With
dead-on performances by Kingsley and Leoni, You Kill Me is a
street-smart mob comedy that scores a direct hit.
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