January
9th
| Title: Chasing Liberty |
| Genre: Comdey, Romance |
| Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Director: Andy Cadiff |
| Tagline: Every family has a rebel. Even the First Family. |
| Starring: Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Piven, Anabella Sciorra, Mark Harmon, Caroline Goodall |
| Plot Outline: The President’s daughter (Moore), unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger (Goode), who also happens to be working undercover for her father (Harmon). |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content and brief nudity) |
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January 16th
| Title: My Baby’s Daddy |
| Genre: Comedy |
| Studio: Miramax Filmx |
| Director: Cheryl Dunye |
| Starring:Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Method Man, Tom ‘Tiny’ Lister Jr., Joanna Bacalso, Ling Bai, Dee Freeman, Naomi Gaskin, Michael Imperioli, Paula Jai Parker, Amy Sedaris, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Marsha Thomason, Scott Thompson |
| Plot Outline: Lonnie (Griffin), G (Anderson) and Dominic (Imperioli) are three bachelor buddies from the hood who, after a lifetime of hard partying, are in for a rude awakening when their respective girlfriends all get pregnant at the same time. The fathers-to-be embark on an always hilarious and often touching journey while learning as much about themselves as they do about love and fatherhood. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: N/A |
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| Title: Along Came Polly |
| Genre: Comedy, Romance |
| Studio: Universal Pictures |
| Tagline: For the most cautious man of Earth, life is about to get interesting. |
| Director: John Hamburg |
| Starring: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Hank Azaria, Alec Baldwin, Bryan Brown, Jsu Garcia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mitch Silpa |
| Plot Outline: Ben Stiller portrays risk-averse Reuben Feffer, whose best-laid plans for life and love zoom wildly off track when his wife (Messing) dumps him on their honeymoon for a scuba instructor (Azaria). Stunned, humiliated and in the grip of acute indigestion, Reuben plans to play it safer than ever. But a chance encounter with an adventure-craving, globe-trotting friend from middle school (Aniston) shoots him into a whirlwind of extreme sports, spicy foods, ferrets, salsa dancing and living in the moment. |
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| Title: Torque |
| Genre: Action |
| Studio: Warner Bros. |
| Director: Joseph Kahn |
| Starring: : Martin Henderson, Jaime Pressly, Ice Cube, Jay Hernandez, Matt Schulze, Adam Scott, Will Yun Lee, Faizon Love, Christina Milian, Fredro Starr, Monet Mazur |
| Plot Outline: Biker Cary Ford is framed by and old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey (Ice Cube), leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence, sexuality, language and drug references) |
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| Title: Disney’s Teacher Pet |
| Genre: Animation, Family, Musical |
| Studio: Walt Disney Pictures |
| Director: Timothy Bjoklund |
| Starring: Nathan Lane, Shaun Fleming, Kelsey Grammer, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Stiller, Debra Jo Rupp, Mullally, Paul Reubens, Rob Paulsen, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, Jay Thomas |
| Plot Outline: Spot (Lane) is a dog who can talk and read. Posing as a human, he sneaks into school with his master Leonard (Flemming). Educational adventures ensue. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: PG (for some mildly crude humor) |
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January 12th
| Title: The Butterfly Effect |
| Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Studio: New Line Cinema |
| Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber |
| Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, Elden Henson, Ethan Suplee, Melora Walters, John Patrick Amedori, Cameron Crigger, Irene Gorovaia, Brandy Heidrick, Jesse James, Callum Keith Rennie, Kevin Schmidt, William Lee Scott |
| Plot Outline: Struggling with the psychological effects of his repressed childhood memories, a young man (Ashton Kutcher) devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body. As he attempts to mend the broken lives of those closest to him, he finds that every trip into the past brings chaotic results into the present, leading him to travel back again and again and causing irreparable damage. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: R (for violence, sexual content, language and brief drug use) |
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| Title: Mindhunters |
| Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller |
| Studio: Dimension Films |
| Director: Renny Harlin |
| Starring: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Eion Bailey, Will Kemp, Jonny Lee Miller, Clifton Collins Jr., Kathryn Morris, Patricia Velazquez |
| Plot Outline: Hiding inside a group of eight young FBI profilers learning to hunt serial killers is a killer attempting to hunt them. As one by one the agents begin to disappear, none can be trusted. Each one is under suspicion. And they are all in mortal danger until, in the ultimate test of their crime-solving skills, they uncover the mysterious predator lurking in their midst. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: R (for violence/grisly images and brief nudity) |
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| Title: Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! |
| Genre: Comedy, Romance |
| Studio: DreamWorks Pictures |
| Director: Robert Luketic |
| Tag Line: In Every love story, there’s only room for one leading man. |
| Starring: Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace, Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes, Ginnifer Goodwin, Gary Cole |
| Plot Outline: A small-town girl wins a date with a male celebrity through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the male celebrity, and the girl’s best friend. |
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January
30th
| Title: The Big Bounce |
| Genre: Noir, Thriller |
| Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Director: George Armitage |
| Starring: Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, Sara Foster, Vinnie Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Harry Dean Stanton |
| Plot Outline: Set on Hawaii’s stunning North Shore, a charismatic drifter (Wilson) forms a dubious alliance with a powerful local businessman (Freeman) while hooking up with a criminally-minded seductress (Foster) to double-cross a wealthy developer (Sinise) and his cohorts (Sheen, Jones). |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content and nudity, violence and language) |
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January
25th |
| Title: You Got Served |
| Genre: Drama |
| Studio: Screen Gems (Sony) |
| Director: Christopher B. Stokes |
| Tagline: If you want respect, you’ve got to take it. |
| Starring: Omarion, J Boog, Raz B, Lil Fizz, Marques Houston |
| Plot Outline: In order to achieve their dream of opening a recording studio, two friends (Omarion, Houston) must first win their city’s dance contest — a fierce competition that pits them against a group of tough street dancers. |
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| Title: The Perfect Score |
| Genre: Comedy, Crime |
| Studio: Paramount Pictures |
| Director: Brian Robbins |
tagline: The SAT is hard to take. It’s even harder to steal.
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| Starring: Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, Bryan Greenberg, Leonardo Nam |
| Plot Outline: It’s a film about 6 teenagers from diverse backgrounds – among them the school’s star basketball player – who conspire to break into a SAT testing center to steal the answers in hope of acing their exam. They quickly realize that the answer to their problems and the key to their happiness do not lie in achieving a perfect score. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language, sexual content and some drug references) |
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