Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton,
Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar, Togo Igawa, Essie Davis, Nina Fogg, Bruno Lastra,
Emil Marwa,Nabil Massad, Taro Sherabayani, Christopher Simpson, Benedict
Wong
Plot
Outline: Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type
near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through
checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papelles,"
a special travel permit issued by the totalitarianistic government, the
"Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and
shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens – people without papelles forced
to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government
investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake papelles,
he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries,
he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime
and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as
his papelles: 24 hours. Back home, William is obessed with the memory
of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week
later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks
her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation
and any further relationship is impossible.
MPAA
Rating: R
(for a scene of sexuality, including brief graphic nudity)
Title: Collateral
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama,
Thriller
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Director: Michael Mann
Tagline: It started like any
other night
Website:
http://www.collateral-themovie.com/
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jamie
Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill,
Dennis Farina, Irma Hall, Javier Bardem, Bodhi Elfman Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Plot
Outline: A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging
contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one
night in LA. He must find a way to save both himself and one last
victim.
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Kathy Bates, Holly Hunter,
Rashida Jones, Sharon Lawrence, Josie Maran, Julianne Nicholson,
Jason Antoon, Samantha Murphy, Rick Overton, Gavin Rossdale, Kevin
Sussman
Plot
Outline: Stacy Holt (Murphy), an associate producer for a daytime
talk show, is confounded by her boyfriend Derek’s (Livingston) unwillingness
to talk about his previous relationships. Egged on by her co-worker
Barb (Hunter), Stacy sneaks a look at his Palm Pilot, scores the
names and numbers of his exes, and sets up interviews with them
— all in an effort to get closer to her man. Her plan starts to
unravel, however, when she becomes friends with one of the women.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for
sexual content/humor and language)
Title: Open
Water (limited)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Director: Chris Kentis
Tagline: Who will save you?
Website:
http://www.openwatermovie.com/
Starring: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel
Travis, Saul Stein, Estelle Lau, Michael E. Williamson, Cristina
Zenaro, John Charles
Plot
Outline: Susan and Daniel are a happily married couple hoping to
have a memorable vacation in the Bahamas. Their relaxing vacation
soon ends when they are left in the middle of the ocean by careless
diving boat crew. As the reality of isolation sets in, they turn
to one another for support. Unable to support each other, they begin
to panic and are soon prompted to question their own fates as encircling
sharks start to appear…
Starring: Thomas Jane, Ashley
Taylor, David O’Hara, Dexter Fletcher, Deborah Unger, Marius Weyers,
At Botha, Lionel Newton, Melanie Merle, Hannes Muller, Shaeleen
Tobin, Sean Else
Plot
Outline: In the early 1980′s, a white police officer (Andres Stander,
played by Thomas Jane) in Johannesburg suffers a crisis of conscience
due to his involvement in apartheid and becomes a notorious bank
robber on the run. Then from 1983 to 1984, the "Stander gang"
(Stander, Alan Heyl & Patrick McCall) rob as many as four banks
a day.
MPAA Rating: R (for violence,
language, some sexuality and nudity)
August 11th
Title: Princess
Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Garry Marshall
Tagline: She needs the rock
to rule.
Website:
http://www.princessdiaries2.com/
Starring: Anne
Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, John
Rhys-Davies, Callum Blue, Caroline Goodall, Sean O’Bryan, Joel McCrary,
Chris Pine
Plot
Outline:Where the
smash hit "The Princess Diaries" ended, the fun begins
as Mia (Hathaway) is ready to assume her role as princess of Genovia.
But no sooner has she moved into the Royal Palace with her beautiful,
wise grandmother Queen Clarisse (Andrews) than she learns her days
as a princess are numbered – Mia’s got to lose the tiara and immediately
take the crown herself. As if getting ready to rule wasn’t enough,
the stakes for Mia have never been higher – with Genovian law stating
that princesses must be married before being crowne, Mia’s in for
a parade of suitors who’d all like to be her king. In the quest
for a groom, comedy and complications rule the day as the cast and
filmmakers behind the first film, including director Garry Marshall
("Pretty Woman," "Runaway Bride"), return for
this hilarious romantic comedy.
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul
Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, Agathe De La
Boulaye, Tommy Flanagan, Carsten Norgaard, Joseph Rye, Sam Troughton,
Tom Woodruff Jr.
Plot
Outline: The iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises
ever, battle each other on Earth for the first time on film. The
discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team
of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There, they
make an even more terrifying discovery: two alien races engaged
in the ultimate battle. No matter who wins, we lose.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Laura
Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts, Sam Charles, Haili Page, Jennifer
Bishop, Jim Francis, Amber Rothwell
Plot
Outline: A Warner Independent Pictures release of a Renaissance
Films presentation of a Front Street Pictures presentation. Based
on the short stories "We Don’t Live Here Anymore" and
"Adultery" by Andre Dubus, the film stars Mark Ruffalo,
Laura Dern, Peter Krause and Naomi Watts, is directed by John Curran
and written by Larry Gross, produced by Harvey Kahn, Naomi Watts
and Jonas Goodman, executive produced by Ruth Epstein, Mark Ruffalo,
Larry Gross and co-produced by Ken Lawson, Robert Lee and Sanford
Rosenberg.
Tagline: The call of the wild,
the thrill of adventure. The mistake of a lifetime.
Website:
http://www.withoutapaddlemovie.com/
Starring: Seth
Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Ethan Suplee, Abraham Benrubi,
Rachel Blanchard, Burt Reynolds, Christina Moore, Bonnie Somerville,
Danielle McCormack, Liddy Holloway, Morgan Reese Fairhead, Mia Blake,
Tony Brown, Kody Shaw, Cameron Wakefield
Plot
Outline: A high-speed comedy-adventure in which three young guys
go into the Oregon wilderness in search of lost treasure. They take
a canoe upriver and everything that can go wrong does. Hunted by
two backwoods dope farmers, they encounter death-defying rapids,
tree-hugging hippie chicks and a crazy old mountain man played by
Burt Reynolds.
