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State Of Play

State Of Play

📅 Release: April 17, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThrillerPolitical
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels, Helen Mirren, Viola Davis
📖 Synopsis: Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering thriller about a rising congressman and an investigative journalist embroiled in an case of seemingly unrelated, brutal murders. Crowe...
Hannah Montana: The Movie

Hannah Montana: The Movie

📅 Release: April 10, 2009
🎭 Genre: ComedyMusical
⭐ Rating: G
🎬 Starring: Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Moises Arias, Mitchel Musso, Jason Earles, Emily Osment, Vanessa Williams, Dolly Parton, Tyra Banks, Bucky Covington, Lucas Till, Melora Hardin, Barry Bostwick, Margo Martindale, Peter Gunn
📖 Synopsis: In the charming musical comedy "Hannah Montana: The Movie," viewers are drawn into the double life of teenage sensation Miley Stewart, portrayed by [c=Miley Cyrus], who struggles to balance her ordin...
Dragonball Evolution

Dragonball Evolution

📅 Release: April 10, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventureFantasy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Chow Yun-Fat, Joon Park, Jamie Chung, Randall Duk Kim, Texas Battle, Ernie Hudson, Shavon Kirksey, Luis Arrieta
📖 Synopsis: In a world where ancient legends and modern-day challenges collide, "Dragonball Evolution" takes audiences on an exhilarating journey filled with action, adventure, and fantasy. The story centers aro...
Lymelife

Lymelife

📅 Release: April 8, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Cynthia Nixon, Kieran Culkin, Timothy Hutton, Jill Hennessy
📖 Synopsis: Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin) is a typical 15-year-old boy growing up in late-1970s Long Island. His suburban existence is primarily marked by a nerdy interest in Star Wars, fending off bullies at high...
Observe And Report

Observe And Report

📅 Release: April 10, 2009
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Michael Pena, Danny McBride, Jesse Plemons
📖 Synopsis: At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist. The master of his domain, he combats skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional...
Sugar

Sugar

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: Documentary
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Algenis Perez Soto, Alina Vargas, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli
📖 Synopsis: Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macoris, struggling to make it to the bug leagues and pull himself and his family our of poverty. Playing p...
Paris 36

Paris 36

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Gerard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Pierre Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
📖 Synopsis: The setting is Spring 1936 ; a working-class district in the north of Paris. This neighborhood probably had a name once but now everyone simply calls it The Faubourg. In early May, three residents of ...
Alien Trespass

Alien Trespass

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: Sci-FiComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Dan Lauria, Robert Patrick, Jody Thompson, Aaron Brooks, Andrew Dunbar, Sarah Smyth
📖 Synopsis: In the 1950s-inspired sci-fi comedy [m=Alien Trespass], director [c=R.W. Goodwin] crafts a loving homage to the classic B-movies of yesteryear. The story begins in the small desert town of Mojave, Ca...
Escapist, The

Escapist, The

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: ThrillerDrama
🎬 Starring: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Mackintosh, Damian Lewis
📖 Synopsis: Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer; in prison for the rest of his natural born days. He's never had a problem with that: he did the crime; he'll do the time. Until now. He receives a letter telling hi...
Gigantic

Gigantic

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Edward Asner, Jane Alexander, Leven Rambin, Cassidy Gard, Robert Stanton, Mary Page Keller
📖 Synopsis: In the whimsical and offbeat romantic comedy Gigantic, [c=Paul Dano] stars as Brian Weathersby, a quietly eccentric mattress salesman whose life is defined by a single, peculiar dream: to adopt a bab...
Bart Got A Room

Bart Got A Room

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Steven Kaplan, William H. Macy, Cheryl Hines, Alia Shawkat, Ashley Benson, Mike Benitez, Brandon Hardesty, Dinah Manoff
📖 Synopsis: Nerdy high school senior Danny (newcomer Steven Kaplan) has spent six hundred bucks on the hotel room, the limo and the tux for his prom. He's only missing one thing-the girl. Hampered by well-intenti...
Adventureland

Adventureland

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Mary Birdsong, Josh Pais, Matt Bush
📖 Synopsis: It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), anuptight recent college grad, can't wait to embark on his dream tour ofEurope. But when his parents (Wendie Malick and Jack Gilpin) annou...
Fast And Furious

Fast And Furious

📅 Release: April 3, 2009
🎭 Genre: Action
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz, Laz Alonso, Shea Whigham, Gal Gadot, Tego Calderon
📖 Synopsis: Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed -- "Fast and Furious." Heading back to the streets where it all began, they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jor...
12 Rounds

12 Rounds

📅 Release: March 27, 2009
🎭 Genre: ActionThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: John Cena, Steve Harris, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Brian J. White, Gonzalo Menendez, Kyle Russell Clements, Rosalind Rubin
📖 Synopsis: In the adrenaline-fueled action thriller "12 Rounds," police officer Danny Fisher, portrayed by [c=John Cena], finds himself entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse when a notorious criminal, pla...
Merry Gentleman, The

Merry Gentleman, The

📅 Release: May 1, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Michael Keaton, Kelly Macdonald, Tom Bastounes, Bobby Cannavale, Darlene Hunt, Guy Van Swearingen, William Dick
📖 Synopsis: Running away from a troubled marriage, Kate Frazier (Kelly Macdonald) hopes to find anonymity with a new home and a new job in Chicago. Despite friendly flirtation from co-workers and others, the shy ...
Mysteries Of Pittsburgh, The

Mysteries Of Pittsburgh, The

📅 Release: April 10, 2009
🎭 Genre: AdventureComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Nick Nolte, Mena Suvari, Marc Macaulay, Omid Abtahi, David Morse, Seth Adams, Keith Gregory
📖 Synopsis: Set in Pittsburgh in the early eighties, the story chronicles the last true summer of Art Bechstein's (Jon Foster) youth. Stuck in a dead-end job working for his eccentric sometime girlfriend Phlox (M...
Spinning Into Butter

Spinning Into Butter

📅 Release: March 27, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti Williamson, Beau Bridges, Miranda Richardson, James Rebhorn, Victor Rasuk, Richard Riehle, Paul James
📖 Synopsis: Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex & the City, The Family Stone, Failure to Launch) gives a stunning performance in a powerful adaptation of Rebecca Gilman's controversial play, hailed by Time Magazine as one ...
Education Of Charlie Banks, The

Education Of Charlie Banks, The

📅 Release: March 27, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Eva Amurri, Christopher Marquette, Sebastian Stan, Gloria Votsis, Alex Guarino, Jason Anthony, Declan Baldwin
📖 Synopsis: The SEVENTIES: When New York was still the greatest, dirtiest, most conflicted city in the world.At 16, socially responsible upper west-sider CHARLIE BANKS (Jesse Eisenberg) witnesses charismatic blue...
Haunting In Connecticut, The

Haunting In Connecticut, The

📅 Release: March 27, 2009
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew, D.W. Brown
📖 Synopsis: In the tradition of such real-life horror movies as 'The Exorcist' and 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose', "The Haunting in Connecticut" tells the astounding true story of one family's supernatural ordeal. ...
Monsters Vs. Aliens

Monsters Vs. Aliens

📅 Release: March 27, 2009
🎭 Genre: AnimationActionComedy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Rainn Wilson, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Kiefer Sutherland, Renee Zellweger, Stephen Colbert
📖 Synopsis: When California girl Susan Murphy is unexpectedly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk, she mysteriously grows to 49 feet, 11 inches tall and is instantly labeled a "monster" named Ginormica...
Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre

📅 Release: March 20, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Karl Braun, Diana Garcia, Guillermo Villegas, Damayanti Quintanar
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping drama-thriller Sin Nombre, directed by [c=Cary Fukunaga], audiences are drawn into the perilous journey of two young individuals caught in the harrowing world of immigration and survi...
Bob Funk

Bob Funk

📅 Release: March 20, 2009
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Michael Leydon Campbell, Rachael Leigh Cook, Steven Root, Grace Zabriskie, Amy Ryan, Eddie Jemison, Lucy Davis
📖 Synopsis: When we meet Bob Funk, he isn't much of a role model for the upwardly mobile Generation X or anyone for that matter - For starters, he is laudably outspoken, crass and seemingly reprehensible. With se...
Great Buck Howard, The

Great Buck Howard, The

📅 Release: March 20, 2009
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Steve Zahn, Emily Blunt, Ricky Jay, Tom Hanks, Adam Scott, Matthew Gray Gubler, Griffin Dunne
📖 Synopsis: Once upon a time, Buck Howard (John Malkovich) spent his days in the limelight. His mind-boggling feats as a mentalist extraordinaire - not to be confused with those of a mere magician - earned him a ...
Duplicity

Duplicity

📅 Release: March 20, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Carrie Preston, Thomas McCarthy, Tom Stratford
📖 Synopsis: Oscar winner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite for "Duplicity," from writer/director Tony Gilroy (seven-time Oscar-nominated "Michael Clayton").In the film, they star as spies-turned-corporate oper...
I Love You, Man

I Love You, Man

📅 Release: March 20, 2009
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Jaime Pressly, Thomas Lennon, Carla Gallo, Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari
📖 Synopsis: In "I Love You, Man," a comedy from John Hamburg ("Along Came Polly," co-writer of "Meet the Parents," "Meet the Fockers," "Zoolander"), Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd, "Knocked Up" "The 40 Year Old Virgin")...
Knowing

Knowing

📅 Release: March 20, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Adrienne Pickering, Tamara Donnellan, Brett Robson, Jayson Sutcliffe
📖 Synopsis: Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in "Knowing", a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrify...
Cake Eaters, The

Cake Eaters, The

📅 Release: March 13, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Elizabeth Ashley, Jayce Bartok, Bruce Dern, Aaron Stanford, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, Miriam Shor, Talia Balsam, Jesse L. Martin
📖 Synopsis: "The Cake Eaters" is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss.Living in rural America, The Kimbrough fa...
Perfect Sleep, The

Perfect Sleep, The

📅 Release: March 13, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Patrick Bauchau, Roselyn Sanchez, Peter J. Lucas, Tony Amendola, Anton Pardoe, Dominiquie Vandenberg
📖 Synopsis: Think of the hard-boiled world of film noir: the world of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, a world of femme fatales, a world of shadows. Now imagine this world populated with characters from tragic Russi...
Edge Of Love, The

Edge Of Love, The

📅 Release: March 13, 2009
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie, Lisa Stansfield, Karl Johnson
📖 Synopsis: Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinar...
Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning

📅 Release: March 13, 2009
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Clifton Collins Jr., Alan Arkin, Steve Zahn, Eric Christian Olsen, Kevin Chapman, Mary Lynn Rajskub
📖 Synopsis: A single mom and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy Sunshine Cleaning.Directed by Christine Jeffs (Rain, Sylvia), this uplifting film ...