March 04 Movie Preview

Genre: Action, Adventure

Studio: Touchstone Pictures

Director: Joe Johnston

Tagline: Unbridled. Unbroken. Unbeaten.

Website: http://hidalgo.movies.com/

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson, Louise Lombard, Said Taghmaoui, Adam Alexi-Malle, Peter Mensah, Malcolm McDowell

Plot Outline: Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier (Mortensen) who travels to Saudi Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...

Teaser: Teaser

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for adventure violence and some mild innuendo)

Title: Starsky & Hutch

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Studio: Warner Bros

Director: Todd Phillips

Tagline: They're the man.

Website: http://starskyandhutchmovie.warnerbros.com/

Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn, Carmen Electra, Juliette Lewis, Chris Penn, Molly Sims, Amy Smart, Fred Williamson, Jason Bateman, Terry Crewes, Richard Edson, Daniel Dae Kim, David Pressman

Plot Outline: Set in the 1970s in a metropolis called "Bay City," this is the tale of two police detective partners, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (Wilson), and Dave Starsky (Stiller), who always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street informer Huggy Bear (Dogg) and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod, telling the story of their first big case (as a prequel to the TV show), which involved a former college campus drug dealer (Vaughn) who went on to become a white collar criminal (Electra plays Hutch's girlfriend).

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for drug content, sexual situations, partial nudity, language and some violence)

Title: Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Genre: Action, Adventure

Studio: MGM

Director: Kevin Allen

Tagline: Adventure is an attitude.

Website: http://www.futuresecretagent.com/

Starring: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Keith David, Daniel Roebuck, Cynthia Stevenson

Plot Outline: CIA agent has stolen a top secret mind-control device and Cody has to go undercover in London to get it back. Posing as a student at an elite boarding school to get close to his suspects, Cody has to keep the other kids from discovering his true identity while infiltrating covert hideouts, spying on his sinister target - and going to class. With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: PG (for action violence and some crude humor)

Title: The Girl Next Door

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Director: Luke Greenfield

Tagline: Dude…I know.

Website: http://www.thegirlnextdoormovie.com/

Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette, Paul Dano

Plot Outline: A straight-arrow high-school senior falls in love with the perfect 'girl-next-door', only to discover she is a former porn star. He comes to realize that if he wants this very special woman, he better be willing to risk it all and experience a journey for which he never could have prepared.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexual content, language and some drug/alcohol use)

Title: Secret Window

Genre: Thriller

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Director: David Koepp

Tagline: Some windows should never be opened.

Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/secretwindow/

Starring: Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Ving Rhames, Charles Dutton, John Turturro, Len Cariou

Plot Outline: Based on Stephen King's novella "Four Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden", "Secret Window" is about a writer (Depp) going through a painful divorce, who is stalked by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims the writer stole his story. To force the writer to make amends, the stranger will go to any lengths, including murder.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence/terror, sexual content and language)

Title: Spartan

Genre: Drama

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: David Mamet

Tagline: She's missing

Website: http://www.spartanthemovie.com/

Starring: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Johnny Messner, Alexandra Kerry, Tia Texada, Kristen Bell

Plot Outline: A "lone wolf" U.S. government secret agent, Scott(Kilmer), is assigned the task of rescuing the kidnapped daughter(Bell) of the president, only to discover along the way a larger, more sinister plot with origins within the White House itself...

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for violence and language)

Title: Dawn of the Dead

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Studio: Universal Pictures

Director: Zack Snyder

Tagline: When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.

Website: http://www.dawnofthedeadmovie.net/

Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth, Ty Burrell, Jayne Eastwood, Michael Kelly, Jake Weber, Kevin Zegers

Plot Outline: A young female nurse named Anna is caught in the middle of the chaos as zombies begin taking over the world and attacking the living. She escapes into the streets and is rescued by a black police officer named Kenneth. Together they find shelter in a mall along with a group of other survivors. For a while everything is ok, but pretty soon they start running out of food, the power goes out, and the dead keep finding ways to break through their defenses. Realizing they're sitting ducks, they make a plan to head for an island by using two armored mall shuttle busses to get across the sea of zombies

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for zombie violence/gore and language)

Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Studio: Focus Features

Director: Michel Gondry

Tagline: Would you erase me?

Website: http://www.eternalsunshine.com/

Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Victor Rasuk, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood

Plot Outline: Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contracts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwaik (Tom Wilkinson), to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories progressively disappear, he begins to rediscover their earlier passion. From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure. As Dr. Mierzwiak and his crew (Kristen Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood) chase him through the maze of his memories, it's clear that Joel just can't get her out of his head.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for language, some drug use and sexual content)

Title: Intermission (Limited)

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Studio: IFC Films

Director: John Crowley

Tagline: Life is what happens in between.

Website: Intermission Website

Starring: Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, David Wilmot, Brian F.O’Byrne

Plot Outline: Intermission is an urban love story about people adrift and their convoluted journeys in the search for some kind of love. When the desperately insecure and emotionally inarticulate John (Murphy) breaks up with Deirdre (Macdonald) to 'give her a little test' his plan backfires leaving her broken-hearted and him alone and miserable. Through chance and coincidence, their break-up triggers a roller coaster ride of interweaving escapades in the lives of everyone around them. Intermission presents a slice of life, the passage between breaking up and making up, exploring how our lives intersect, and the power we all possess to affect the lives of those around us.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence)

Title: Taking Lives

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: D.J. Caruso

Tagline: He would kill to be you

Website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/clubdread/

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo, Jean Hugues Anglade, Gena Rowlands

Plot Outline: An FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: Rated R

Title: Dogville (NY, LA; wider release: April)

Genre: Drama

Studio: Lions Gate Films

Director: Lars von Trier

Tagline: A quiet little town not far from here.

Website: http://www.dogvillemovie.com/

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Siobhan Fallon, Chloë Sevigny, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Philip Baker Hall, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, James Caan, Blair Brown, Harriet Andersson, Jean-Marc Barr, Katrin Cartlidge, Ben Gazzara, Udo Kier, Miles Purinton, Bill Raymond, Erich Silva, Trinity Stiles

Plot Outline The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth...

Teaser: Teaser

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for violence and sexual content)

Title: Jersey Girl

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Studio: Miramax Films

Director: Kevin Smith

Tagline: Forget about who you thought you were, and just accept who you are.

Website: http://www.miramax.com/jersey_girl/

Starring: Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, Raquel Castro, Jason Biggs, George Carlin, Jason Lee (cameo), Matt Damon (cameo), Stephen Root, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Will Smith (cameo as himself), Mike Starr

Plot Outline: Jersey Girl is a '90s-era dramatic comedy about a man named Ollie Trinke and the effects a new wife and 6-year-old daughter, Gertie, have on his seemingly already full life. Gertie is precocious and entirely lovable. Like her mother, she is down to earth, clever, and a huge fan of the musical Sweeney Todd. While Gertie is able to manipulate Ollie with the finesse of an adult, she is ultimately Daddy's little girl.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language and sexual content including frank dialogue)

Title: The Ladykillers

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Studio: Touchstone Pictures

Director: Joel Coen

Website: http://ladykillers.movies.com/

Starring: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall, George Wallace, Ryan Hurst, Jason Weaver, Steven Root

Plot Outline: A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language and sexual content including frank dialogue)

Title: Ned Kelly (Limited)

Genre: Action, Drama, Western

Studio: Focus Features

Director: Gregor Jordan

Tagline: A film about the legendary outlaw whose story outgrew his life.

Website: http://www.nedkellythemovie.com/

Starring: Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths, Laurence Kinlan, Joel Edgerton, Phil Barantini, Kerry Condon

Plot Outline: The story of Ned Kelly, who formed the notorious Kelly gang with his brother Dan and two other men. Making use of homemade steel helmets and chest plates to stop bullets, they committed a series of robberies from 1878-80, when Kelly was captured and hanged in Melbourne.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for violence and brief nudity)

Title: Never Die Alone

Genre: Thriller

Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Director: Ernest Dickerson

Website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/neverdiealone/

Starring: DMX, David Arquette, Michael Ealy, Reagan Preston-Gomez, Jennifer Sky, Paige Hurd, Rhoda Jordan, Keesha Sharp, Drew Sidora

Plot Outline: A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: R (for strong violence, drug use, sexuality and language)

Title: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Raja Gosnell

Tagline: They came. They saw. They ran.

Website: http://www.scoobydoo2movie.com/

Starring: Matthew Lillard, Neil Fanning, Linda Cardellini, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seth Green, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Alicia Silverstone, Peter Boyle, Nick Millard, Tim Blake Nelson, Pat O'Brien (cameo as himself)

Plot Outline: The Gang investigates the dastardly plans of a masked villain who is planning to take control of the city of Coolsville by tampering with the "Monster Machine" that reproduces Mystery, Inc's classic foes such as The 10,000 Volt Ghost, Captain Cutler and The Creeper. Their investigation leads them to the Coolsonian Museum where they are attending a book release red carpet event, along the way they encounter the mysterious museum curator Patrick (Seth Green) and a pesky Reporter (Alicia Silverstone), with a reported romantic subplot between the Reporter and our beloved Fred.

Trailer: Trailer

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for language and sexual content including frank dialogue)

Thanks goes out to www.imdb.com and www.comingsoon.net. Compiled by M for Rap Basement.
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