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Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian

Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian

📅 Release: May 22, 2009
🎭 Genre: ComedyFantasy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Steve Coogan, Eugene Levy, Ricky Gervais, Dick Van Dyke, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Bill Hader, Jon Bernthal, Joe Jonas, Alain Chabat, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Keith Powell
📖 Synopsis: It's a new "Night" and "Museum" for Ben Stiller, who is joined by several other stars from the original film, as well as new characters from history - including Amy Adams as famed aviatrix Amelia Earh...
Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation

📅 Release: May 21, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionThrillerSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Bryce Dallas Howard, Helena Bonham Carter, Roland Kickinger, Chris Ashworth, Jadagrace
📖 Synopsis: In the highly anticipated new installment of "The Terminator" film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skyn...
Summer Hours

Summer Hours

📅 Release: May 15, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier, Edith Scob, Dominique Reymond, Valerie Bonneton
📖 Synopsis: Directed by acclaimed filmmaker [c=Olivier Assayas], this intimate family drama explores the weight of memory and legacy when three adult siblings reunite at their mother's idyllic country home in Fr...
Brothers Bloom, The

Brothers Bloom, The

📅 Release: May 15, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane, Maximilian Schell, Nora Zehetner, Andy Nyman, Zachary Gordon
📖 Synopsis: Welcome to the world of The Brothers Bloom, where deception is an art and nothing is as it seems. The brothers have perfected the art of swindling fortunes through years of fraternal teamwork. Now the...
Management

Management

📅 Release: May 15, 2009
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Fred Ward, Margo Martindale, James Hiroyuki Liao
📖 Synopsis: "Management" is a romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's paren...
Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons

📅 Release: May 15, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaMysteryThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Kristof Konrad, Masasa Moyo, Victor Alfieri
📖 Synopsis: The team behind the global phenomenon "The Da Vinci Code" returns for the highly anticipated "Angels & Demons," based upon the bestselling novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Harvard re...
Adoration

Adoration

📅 Release: May 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Arsinee Khanjian, Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman, Kenneth Welsh, Noam Jenkins
📖 Synopsis: "Adoration" speaks to our connections -- with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world.Sabine, a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercis...
Powder Blue

Powder Blue

📅 Release: May 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Patrick Swayze, Lisa Kudrow, Kris Kristofferson, Eddie Redmayne, Alejandro Romero
📖 Synopsis: A city of ten million people, Los Angeles is built on dreams of fame where glitz and glamour dominate the topical landscape. But beneath the tabloid headlines and the flashing cameras lies a city whos...
Love N' Dancing

Love N' Dancing

📅 Release: May 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Amy Smart, Tom Malloy, Billy Zane, Caroline Rhea, Nicola Royston, Leila Arcieri, Rachel Dratch, Betty White
📖 Synopsis: When a bored-with-life English teacher meets a West Coast Swing champion dancer, they have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what was missing in their lives. But Jessica's go...
Rudo Y Cursi

Rudo Y Cursi

📅 Release: May 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaComedySport
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Guillermo Francella, Jessica Mas, Dolores Heredia
📖 Synopsis: Tato (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Beto (Diego Luna), two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico, have a simple dream of saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But ...
Julia

Julia

📅 Release: May 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould, Ezra Buzzington, Carl Dillard, Sally Berman
📖 Synopsis: Julia, 40, is an alcoholic. She is a manipulative, unreliable, compulsive liar, all strung out beneath her still flamboyant exterior. Between shots of vodka and one-night stands, Julia gets by on nick...
Little Ashes

Little Ashes

📅 Release: May 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell, Arly Jover, Esther Nubiola, Simon Andreu, Vicky Pena, Sue Flack, Ferran Audi, Bruno Oro
📖 Synopsis: Romantic story about the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dali, filmmaker Luis Bunuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca.In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values ar...
Next Day Air

Next Day Air

📅 Release: May 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Donald Faison, Mos Def, Mike Epps, Darius McCrary, Lauren London, Wood Harris, Emilio Rivera
📖 Synopsis: In the action-comedy film [m=Next Day Air], directed by [c=Benny Boom], a simple package delivery turns into a chaotic adventure. When a group of inept criminals mistakenly receive a shipment of drug...
Star Trek

Star Trek

📅 Release: May 7, 2009
🎭 Genre: Sci-FiActionAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Simon Pegg, Winona Ryder, John Cho, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Leonard Nimoy, Tyler Perry, Jimmy Bennett, Clifton Collins Jr., Marlene Forte, Chris Hemsworth
📖 Synopsis: The greatest adventure of all time begins with "Star Trek," the incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. In the midst of...
Skeptic, The

Skeptic, The

📅 Release: May 1, 2009
🎭 Genre: Thriller
🎬 Starring: Tim Daly, Tom Arnold, Zoe Saldana, Edward Herrmann, Andrea Roth, Robert Prosky, Bruce Altman, Nicole Signore, Meg Savage
📖 Synopsis: Following the mysterious death of his aunt, power lawyer Bryan Becket (Tim Daly) moves into the elderly woman's purportedly haunted Victorian mansion. A die hard skeptic, he dismisses one eerie incide...
Limits Of Control, The

Limits Of Control, The

📅 Release: May 1, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Isaach De Bankole, Gael Garcia Bernal, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Luis Tosar, Hiam Abbass, Paz De La Huerta, Alex Descas, Youki Kudoh
📖 Synopsis: In the enigmatic world crafted by director [c=Jim Jarmusch], a solitary and methodical loner, played with stoic intensity by [c=Isaach De Bankolé], arrives in Spain for a mysterious job. Communicati...
Battle For Terra

Battle For Terra

📅 Release: May 1, 2009
🎭 Genre: AnimationSci-FiAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Dennis Quaid, Brian Cox, James Garner, Chris Evans, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, David Cross, Danny Trejo, Ron Perlman, Rosanna Arquette
📖 Synopsis: The film tells the story of Senn (Justin Long) and Mala (Evan Rachel Wood), two rebellious alien teens living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place that promotes peace and tolerance, having long ago ...
Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past

Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past

📅 Release: May 1, 2009
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas, Emma Stone, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Anne Archer, Amanda Walsh, Rachel Boston, Daniel Sunjata, Noureen DeWulf, Robert Forster
📖 Synopsis: Celebrity photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) loves freedom, fun and women...in that order. A committed bachelor with a no-strings policy, he thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple wom...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

📅 Release: May 1, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionFantasySci-Fi
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Lynn Collins, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am, Troye Mellet, Dominic Monaghan, Danny Huston, Daniel Henney, Scott Adkins, Kevin Durand, Troye Sivan
📖 Synopsis: In a world where mutants navigate the treacherous waters of prejudice and power, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" delves into the turbulent past of one of the most iconic characters in the X-Men universe. ...
Earth

Earth

📅 Release: April 22, 2009
🎭 Genre: Documentary
⭐ Rating: G
🎬 Starring: James Earl Jones, Patrick Stewart, Ulrich Tukur
📖 Synopsis: In a breathtaking journey across the globe, "Earth" unveils the stunning beauty and intricate ecosystems of our planet, narrated by the iconic voices of [c=James Earl Jones] and [c=Patrick Stewart]. ...
Obsessed

Obsessed

📅 Release: April 24, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Scout Taylor-Compton, Christine Lahti, Bruce McGill, Christine Lahti, Ron Rogge, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Ruccolo
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping drama-thriller "Obsessed," a seemingly perfect life is thrown into chaos when a seductive temp, played by [c=Ali Larter], becomes dangerously infatuated with successful businessman De...
Tyson

Tyson

📅 Release: April 24, 2009
🎭 Genre: Documentary
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mike Tyson
📖 Synopsis: Tyson is acclaimed indie director James Toback's stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasi...
Informers, The

Informers, The

📅 Release: April 24, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Amber Heard, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Austin Nichols, Rhys Ifans, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Stroup
📖 Synopsis: Bret Easton Ellis ("Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho") adapts his own acclaimed novel for the screen, returning to the Los Angeles of the early 1980's with a multi-strand narrative that deftly bal...
Fighting

Fighting

📅 Release: April 24, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao, Luis Guzman, Brian J. White, Cung Le
📖 Synopsis: Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Board...
Soloist, The

Soloist, The

📅 Release: April 24, 2009
🎭 Genre: BiographyDramaMusic
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Rachael Harris, Stephen Root, Tom Hollander, Lisa Gay Hamilton
📖 Synopsis: In a poignant exploration of friendship and the transformative power of music, "The Soloist" tells the true story of Nathaniel Ayers, played by [c=Jamie Foxx], a gifted musician whose promising caree...
Crank: High Voltage

Crank: High Voltage

📅 Release: April 17, 2009
🎭 Genre: Action. Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Clifton Collins Jr., Bai Ling, Reno Wilson
📖 Synopsis: In the high-octane sequel to the cult classic, Chev Chelios, played by [c=Jason Statham], finds himself in a perilous situation where he must keep his adrenaline pumping to survive. After a deadly en...
Every Little Step

Every Little Step

📅 Release: April 17, 2009
🎭 Genre: Documentary
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Michael Bennett, Bob Avian, Marvin Hamlisch, Donna McKechnie, Charlotte d'Amboise, Jacques d'Amboise
📖 Synopsis: "Every Little Step" explores the incredible journey of "A Chorus Line," from ambitious idea to international phenomenon. Through 15 years of continuous performances from the 70's to 90's and a revival...
American Violet

American Violet

📅 Release: April 17, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Michael O'Keefe, Xzibit, Malcolm Barrett, Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton, Scott A. Martin, Tim Ware
📖 Synopsis: Based on real events and set in small town Texas in the year 2000, "American Violet" tells the story of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year old African-American mother of four who is swept up in a...
Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

📅 Release: April 17, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Michael Caine, David Morrissey, Bill Milner, Thelma Barlow, Anne-Marie Duff, Leslie Phillips, Rosemary Harris, Linzey Cocker
📖 Synopsis: Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business af...
17 Again

17 Again

📅 Release: April 17, 2009
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Michelle Trachtenberg, Thomas Lennon, Sterling Knight, Melora Hardin, Katerina Graham, Allison Miller, Tyler Steelman, Tommy Dewey
📖 Synopsis: What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O'Donnell is a star on his high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But...