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PROM NIGHT: Donna's
senior prom is supposed to be the
best night of her life. After surviving a horrible tragedy, she has finally
moved on and is enjoying her last year of high school. Surrounded by her best
friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night
turns deadly, there is only one person who could be responsible...a man she
thought was gone forever. Now, Donna
and her friends must find a way to
escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive a night "to die for." Starring Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup,
Dana Davis, Collins Pennie, Kelly Blatz, James Ransone,
Brianne Davis with Johnathon Schaech and Idris Elba. (SCREEN GEMS) Rated PG-13.
SMART PEOPLE:
SMART PEOPLE is the darkly comic story
of Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed, acerbic and self-absorbed literature
professor played by Dennis Quaid, who has alienated his son and turned his
daughter into an overachieving,
friendless teen. He dalls for Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker) one his former
students, while at the same time his ne’ er-do-well brother (Academy
Awared ® nominee Thomas Haden Church) unexpectedly shows up at his door,
triggering in him the need to change
and reconnect with his family before he can make any steps forward in his life.
Ellen Page (“Juno”) and Ashton
Holmes (“A History of
Violence”) also star. (MIRAMAX FILMS) Rated R.
STREET KINGS:
For acclaimed novelist James Ellroy, the sunny exterior of Los Angeles will never shed enough light to
illuminate the darkest parts of itself. In the City of Angels, moral codes designed to govern are
difficult to uphold-especially by those determined to harm and protect us.With STREET KINGS, David Ayer, one of LA’s
native sons, wields his camera onto the streets that are not found on picture
postcards but on a city of contradictions and often-tragic consequences. Keanu Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, a veteran
LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his
wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer,
he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire
career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around
him. Academy Award® Winner Forest Whitaker plays Captain Jack Wander, Ludlow’s mentor and
superior. The stellar cast also features Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans,
Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Amaury
Nolasco, Terry Crews, Naomie Harris, Martha Higareda, Common and The Game.
The screenplay is based on an original story by James Ellroy and written by
James Ellroy and Kurt Wimmer and Jamie Moss. Ayer, known for bringing
gritty realism to films such as TRAINING DAY and HARSH TIMES, is directing.
(FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES) Rated R.
UNDER THE SAME MOON (Expands to
Ann Arbor and Lansing): UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA
MISMA LUNA) earned a standing ovation at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for
its poignant, emotionally rich tale of a mother and son living on opposite
sides of the U.S.-Mexico border connected by an enduring love. In her
feature film debut, director
Patricia Riggen weaves their parallel stories
into a vividly textured tapestry of
yearning and devotion that portrays a child’s courage and tenacity, and a
mother’s sacrifice.
Nine-year-old
Carlos aka Carlitos (Adrián Alonso, THE MASK OF ZORRO) is one of
the countless children left behind by parents who come to
the U.S.
seeking a way to provide for their
families. His mother, Rosario (Kate del
Castillo, BORDERTOWN) has worked illegally as a domestic in Los Angeles for four
years, sending money home to her son
and mother to give them a chance at
a better life.
When
the death of his grandmother leaves young Carlitos
alone, he takes his fate into his
own hands and heads north across the border to
find his mother. As he journeys from his rural Mexican village to the L.A.
barrio, Carlitos faces seemingly
insurmountable obstacles with a steely determination and unfettered optimism
that earn him the grudging respect and affection of a reluctant protector, a middle-aged migrant worker named Enrique (Eugenio Derbez, PADRE NUESTRO). The
unlikely pair finds its way from Tucson to
East L.A., but the only clue Carlitos
has to his mother’s
whereabouts is her description of the street corner from which she has called
him each Sunday for the last four years. Unaware that Rosario
is only hours away from returning to
Mexico
to be with her son, Carlitos and Enrique desperately comb the vast unfamiliar
city for a place he has seen only in his imagination. (FOX SEARCHLIGHT
PICTURES) Rated PG-13.
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