| Release Dates |
Movies |
| November
5th |
-The Matrix Revolutions |
| November
7th |
-Elf
-Love Actually |
| November
14th |
-Looney Tunes: Back in Action
-Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
-Tupac: Resurrection (Limited) |
| November
19th |
-The Cooler(Limited)
-The Missing(Limited) |
| November
21st |
-21 Grams(Limited)
-Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
-Gothika |
| November
26th |
-The Haunted Mansion
-Timeline |
November
5th
| Title: The Matrix Revolutions |
| Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Studio: Warner Bros. |
| Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski |
| Tagline: Everything that has a beginning has an end |
| Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss,
Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Daniel Bernhardt, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Matt McColm, Harold Perrineau Jr., Harry Lennix, Stuart Wells |
| Plot Outline: In "The Matrix Revolutions," the
final chapter in the "Matrix" trilogy, the rebels' long
quest for freedom culminates in a final explosive battle. As the Machine
Army wages devastation on Zion, its citizens mount an aggressive defense
-- but can they stave off the relentless swarm of Sentinels long enough
for Neo to harness the full extent of his powers and end the war? |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: Rated R for sci-fi violence |
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November
7th
| Title: Elf |
| Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
| Studio: New Line Cinema |
| Director: Jon Favreau |
| Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Bob
Newhart, Ed Asner |
| Plot Outline: After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf
community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the
North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild rude humor and language) |
|
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| Title: Love Actually |
| Genre: Comedy, Romance |
| Studio: Universal Pictures |
| Director: Richard Curtis |
| Tagline: Coming soon actually. |
| Starring: Hugh Grant, Rowan Atkinson, Elisha Cuthbert, Colin
Firth, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Denise Richards,
Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Martin Freeman, January Jones, Andrew
Lincoln, Martine McCutcheon, Chris Marshall, Bill Nighy, Rodrigo Santoro |
| Plot Outline: This ensemble comedy tells ten separate (but
intertwining) stories of love in London (with a small portion set
in France), leading up to a big climax on Christmas Eve. One of the
threads follows the brand new (unmarried) Prime Minister (Grant) of
the United Kingdom, who on his first day in 10 Downing Street falls
in love with the girl (McCutcheon) who brings him his tea (Thompson
plays his sister; Rickman plays her husband). Another story follows
the relationship between a stepfather (Neeson) and his young stepson. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: R (for sexuality, nudity and language) |
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November 14th
| Title: Looney Tunes: Back in Action |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy |
| Studio: Warner Bros. |
| Director: Joe Dante |
| Tagline: Real life has never been so animated |
| Starring: : Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Joan
Cusack, Heather Locklear, Timothy Dalton, Bill Goldberg, Robert Picardo,
Matthew Lillard (cameo) |
| Plot Outline: Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs
Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman
Bobby Delmont (Fraser) and embarks on a round-the-world adventure.
Their mission? Find Bobby's father's missing blue diamond... and stay
one step ahead of Bugs and the studio exec (Elfman) who are on their
trail! |
| Trailer: Trailer
|
| MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild language and innuendo)
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| Title: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| Genre: Action, Drama, War. |
| Studio: 20th Century Fox |
| Director: Peter Weir |
| Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James
D'Arcy, Lee Ingleby, George Innes, Mark Lewis Jones, Chris Larkin,
Richard McCabe, Robert Pugh, David Threlfall |
| Plot Outline: Ship Surgeon Stephen Maturin (Bettany) and
Navy Capt. Jack Aubrey (Crowe) sail out to see the richness and strangeness
of life on the far side of the world, against the backdrop of Napoleonic
Wars. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: N/A |
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| Title: Tupac: Resurrection (Limited) |
| Genre: Crime, Documentary, Musical |
| Studio: Paramount Pictures |
| Director: Lauren Lazin |
| Starring: Tupac Shakur |
| Plot Outline: The first authorized documentary about the
life and times of Tupac Amaru Shakur. This 90-minute feature documentary
is driven by the music and art he created, and the revolutionary ideas
he voiced. It captures the dramatic life experiences of a sensitive
and versatile young man whose life was tragically cut short, but whose
legacy of music and poetry continues to inspire others around the
world. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: R (for strong language and images of drugs,
violence, sex) |
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November
19th
| Title: The Cooler(Limited) |
| Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance |
| Studio: Lions Gate Films; wider release: December 19 |
| Director: Wayne Kramer |
| Tagline: : Love ...you have to play to win |
| Starring: William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello, Shawn
Hatosy, Ron Livingston, Paul Sorvino, Estella Warren, Arthur J. Nascarella,
M.C. Gainey, Ellen Greene, Joey Fatone, Don Scribner, Tony Longo,
Richard Israel, Timothy Landfield |
| Plot Outline: The unluckiest man in Vegas (Macy) - a guy
whose bad luck is contagious - is used by the last of the old time
mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls
in love with a cocktail waitress (Bello) and gets "lady luck,"
which throws the situation into reverse. Things turn nasty when the
casino director (Baldwin) tries to break up the romance. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: R (for strong sexuality, violence, language
and some drug use) |
|
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| Title: The Missing(Limited) |
| Genre: Suspense, Thriller |
| Studio: Columbia Pictures; wider release: November 26 |
| Director: : Ron Howard |
| Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood,
Jenna Boyd, Eric Schweig, Sergio Calderon, Aaron Eckhart |
| Plot Outline: In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy
Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter
Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father
and estranged daughter to work together to get her back. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: R (for violence) |
|
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November
21st
| Title: 21 Grams(Limited) |
| Genre: Drama |
| Studio: Focus Features; wider release: November 26; wider
release: December 26 |
| Director: How much does life weigh? |
| Starring: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte
Gainsbourg, Marc Musso |
| Plot Outline: Explores the emotionally and physically charged
existences of three characters: Christina (Watts), Paul (Penn), and
Jack (Del Toro). Initially not even acquainted, the trio and their
destinies become irrevocably intertwined in a fusion of love, redemption,
and obsession. 21 Grams is the weight we lose when we die, the weight
carried by those who survive. 21 Grams: the gravity of life. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, sexuality, some violence
and drug use. |
|
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| Title: Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat |
| Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
| Studio: Universal Pictures |
| Director: Bo Welch |
| Tagline: The Cat is Back! |
| Starring: Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Dakota
Fanning, Spencer Breslin, Amy Hill, Sean Hayes |
| Plot Outline: Conrad and Sally Walden (Spencer Breslin and
Dakot Fanning) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside,
and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat (Mike Myers)
walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination,
and at first it's all fun and games, until things get out of hand,
and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: |
|
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| Title: Gothika |
| Genre: Supernatural, Thriller |
| Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Director: Mathieu Kassovitz |
| Tagline: Because someone is dead doesn't mean they're
gone. for gothika |
| Starring: Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr.,
Charles S. Dutton |
| Plot Outline: Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist
wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no
memory of committing a terrible crime. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: R |
|
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November
26th
| Title: The Haunted Mansion |
| Genre: Comedy, Family |
| Studio: Walt Disney Pictures |
| Director: Rob Minkoff |
| Tagline: Open House |
| Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp, Wallace
Shawn, Don Knotts, Marsha Thomason |
| Plot Outline: When a workaholic visits a haunted house with
his family during a job interview, he meets a ghost that teaches him
a lesson about the importance of the family that he has neglected. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating: : |
|
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| Title: Timeline |
| Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Studio: Paramount Pictures |
| Director: Richard Donner |
| Tagline: This fall you're history |
| Starring: Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Frances O'Connor, Ethan
Embry, Marla Welsh, Neal McDonough, Michael Sheen, Billy Connolly,
Anna Friel, David Thewlis |
| Plot Outline: Michael Crichton's novel opens on the threshold
of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on
the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two
points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single
molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group
of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal
France. Imagine the risks of such a journey. |
| Trailer: Trailer |
| MPAA Rating:: PG-13 (for intense battle sequences and brief
language) |
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