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Choke

Choke

📅 Release: September 26, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kelly Macdonald, Brad William Henke, Anjelica Huston, Clark Gregg, Heather Burns, Isiah Whitlock Jr.
📖 Synopsis: Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenact...
Miracle At St. Anna

Miracle At St. Anna

📅 Release: September 26, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, John Turturro, D.B. Sweeney, Walton Goggins, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi, Robert John Burke, Malcolm Goodwin, Lidia Biondi
📖 Synopsis: "Miracle at St. Anna" chronicles the story of four black American soldiers who are members of the US Army as part of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during Wo...
Thousand Years Of Good Prayers, A

Thousand Years Of Good Prayers, A

📅 Release: September 19, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
🎬 Starring: Faye Yu, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani, Pavel Lychnikoff, Wes Deitrick, Angela Dierdorff Petro, Lonny W. Waddle, Jared Wagner
📖 Synopsis: Mr. Shi (Henry O), a retired widower from Beijing, comes to the United States to help his only daughter through a divorce. His intentions to save her marriage and help her reconstruct her life are in ...
Hounddog

Hounddog

📅 Release: September 19, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaMusic
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Dakota Fanning, Piper Laurie, David Morse, Robin Wright Penn, Afemo Omilami, Cody Hanford, Jill Scott
📖 Synopsis: A provocative Southern tale set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, HOUNDDOG is the story of a spirited young girl LEWELLEN (Dakota Fanning) and her struggle to rise above the repression that surround...
Elite Squad

Elite Squad

📅 Release: September 19, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, Andre Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Luiz Gonzaga de Almeida, Fernanda de Freitas, Bruno Delia, Thelmo Fernandes, Emerson Gomes
📖 Synopsis: "Elite Squad" is an intense and astonishing look at Rio de Janeiro's notorious favelas, the volatile slums on the edge of the city, presenting an intimate look at the city's vast and intricate web of ...
Battle In Seattle

Battle In Seattle

📅 Release: September 19, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Andre Benjamin, Jennifer Carpenter, Isaach De Bankole, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Joshua Jackson, Ray Liotta, Tzi Ma, Connie Nielsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Rade Serbedzija
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping drama [m=Battle in Seattle], directed by [c=Stuart Townsend], a city becomes the epicenter of a fierce protest against the World Trade Organization. As tensions rise, the film explore...
Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder

📅 Release: August 13, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyAction
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Matthew McConaughey, Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Tom Cruise, Jay Baruchel
📖 Synopsis: In a wild and uproarious take on Hollywood's obsession with war films, "Tropic Thunder" follows a group of pampered actors who find themselves in over their heads while shooting a big-budget war movi...
Then She Found Me

Then She Found Me

📅 Release: April 25, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomanceDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen, Ben Shenkman, John Benjamin Hickey, Tommy Nelson
📖 Synopsis: Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with "Then She Found Me," a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely p...
Duchess, The

Duchess, The

📅 Release: September 19, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaHistory
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Aidan McArdle, Charlotte Rampling, Emily Jewell, Simon McBurney
📖 Synopsis: Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was the original "It Girl." Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and a...
Ghost Town

Ghost Town

📅 Release: September 19, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomanceFantasy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni, Billy Campbell, Greg Kinnear, Kristen Wiig, Brian d'Arcy James, Jordan Carlos, Sebastian Lacause
📖 Synopsis: In the bustling heart of New York City, Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic dentist played by [c=Ricky Gervais], finds his solitary life upended after a routine medical procedure leaves him with an unsett...
Family That Preys, The

Family That Preys, The

📅 Release: September 12, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Tyler Perry, Sanaa Lathan, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Rockmond Dunbar, Damien Leake, Jeff Rose
📖 Synopsis: Academy Award-winner Kathy Bates and Academy Award-nominee Alfre Woodard star as the matriarchs of two very different families being torn apart by greed and scandal in the contemporary drama "Tyler Pe...
Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill

📅 Release: September 12, 2008
🎭 Genre: CrimeDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg, Carla Gugino, Dan Futterman, Trilby Glover, Rob Dyrdek, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy
📖 Synopsis: Academy Award winners Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the adrenalin...
Women, The

Women, The

📅 Release: September 12, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen
📖 Synopsis: "The Women" tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all - a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-ti...
Surfer, Dude

Surfer, Dude

📅 Release: September 5, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Alexie Gilmore, Sarah Wright, K.D. Aubert, Woody Harrelson, Zachary Knighton, Scott Glenn, Willie Nelson, Nathan Phillips, Nolan North, Cassandra Hepburn, Ramon Rodriguez
📖 Synopsis: Longboarding soul-surfer Steve Addington (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Malibu for the summer to find his cool hometown vibe corrupted. New sponsorship demands Addington to expand into Virtual Reali...
Bangkok Dangerous

Bangkok Dangerous

📅 Release: September 5, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionDramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Charlie Yeung, James With, Steve Baldocchi, Philip Waley, Shaun Delaney
📖 Synopsis: The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute fou...
Mister Foe

Mister Foe

📅 Release: September 5, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani, Ciaran Hinds, Ewen Bremner, Jamie Sives, Ruth Milne, John Paul Lawler
📖 Synopsis: Starring Jamie Bell ("King Kong," "Flags of Our Fathers," and "Jumper") in his first starring role in a British film since his breakout debut in "Billy Elliot," "Mister Foe" a story of people seeing l...
Everybody Wants To Be Italian

Everybody Wants To Be Italian

📅 Release: September 5, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Cerina Vincent, Jay Jablonski, John Kapelos, John Enos III, Marisa Petroro, Penny Marshall
📖 Synopsis: From director Jason Todd Ipson comes the warm-hearted, romantic comedy, "Everybody Wants To Be Italian."Jake (Jay Jablonski), a lovelorn fishmonger who has spent nearly a decade trying to win back his...
Babylon A.D.

Babylon A.D.

📅 Release: August 29, 2008
🎭 Genre: AdventureSci-FiAction
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Gerard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Radek Bruna, Lambert Wilson
📖 Synopsis: It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopol...
Step Brothers

Step Brothers

📅 Release: July 25, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Andrea Savage
📖 Synopsis: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who last teamed in the box-office smash "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," now star in "Step Brothers," directed by Adam McKay ("Talladega Nights"). In "St...
Strangers, The

Strangers, The

📅 Release: May 30, 2008
🎭 Genre: ThrillerSuspense
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Kip Weeks, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward, Laura Margolis, Peter Clayton-Luce
📖 Synopsis: Lock the door. Pretend you're safe.The brutal events that took place in the Hoyt family's vacation home on the night of February 11, 2005, are still not entirely known.Champagne. Rose petals. Candleli...
College

College

📅 Release: August 29, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell, Kevin Covais, Nick Zano, Zach Cregger, Gary Owens, Ryan Pinkston, Haley Bennett, Camille Mana, Nathalie Walker
📖 Synopsis: A new outrageous comedy, COLLEGE is the story of three high school seniors (Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell and Kevin Covais) who visit a local college campus as prospective freshman anticipating the best...
Disaster Movie

Disaster Movie

📅 Release: August 29, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Matt Lanter, Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Minnillo, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Parker, Ike Barinholtz, Nick Steele, G. Thang
📖 Synopsis: In "Disaster Movie," the filmmaking team behind the hits "Scary Movie," "Date Movie," "Epic Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" this time puts its unique, inimitable stamp on one of the biggest and most bl...
Traitor

Traitor

📅 Release: August 27, 2008
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Neal McDonough, Archie Panjabi, Alyy Kahn, Said Taghmaoui
📖 Synopsis: Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda," "Crash") and Guy Pearce ("Memento," "L.A. Confidential") star in "Traitor," a taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert count...
Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2

📅 Release: August 29, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Skylar Astin, Joseph Julian Soria, Phoebe Strole, Elisabeth Shue, David Arquette, Amy Poehler, Melonie Diaz, Deborah Chavez, Natalie Amenula, Josh Berry
📖 Synopsis: "The hit, the very palpable hit" of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, "Hamlet 2" is an irreverent comedy centering on one teacher's overzealous quest to mount a high school musical. The film is directe...
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

📅 Release: August 22, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaHorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jason Cottle, Cara Buono, Scott Patrick Green, Robert Padilla, Tori Spelling, Jeffrey Brown
📖 Synopsis: Adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend fro...
Get Smart

Get Smart

📅 Release: June 20, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, The Rock, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, Bill Murray, Ken Davitian, Nate Torrence, David Koechner, Masi Oka, Terry Crews, Craig Susser
📖 Synopsis: Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and ...
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

📅 Release: July 11, 2008
🎭 Genre: SuperheroSci-FiAction
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, James Dodd, John Alexander, Luke Goss, John Hurt, Anna Walton, Brian Steele, Jeffrey Tambor, Roy Dotrice
📖 Synopsis: With a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world's toughest, kitten-loving hero from Hell continues to unfold in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army." Bigger muscl...
Longshots, The

Longshots, The

📅 Release: August 22, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaSport
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, Matt Craven, Jill Marie Jones, Malcolm Goodwin, Dash Mihok, Garrett Morris, Earthquake, Michael Colyar
📖 Synopsis: From Ice Cube, the star of such hits as "Are We There Yet?," "Are We Done Yet?" and "First Sunday," comes a feel-good family comedy, "The Longshots" -- a hilarious and heartwarming story of the the fi...
Death Race

Death Race

📅 Release: August 22, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionThrillerSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Jacob Vargas, Robert LaSardo, Max Ryan, Jason Clarke
📖 Synopsis: Terminal Island: The very near future.The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has growninto reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition hasemerged and its co...
Wild Child

Wild Child

📅 Release: August 15, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Shirley Henderson, Aidan Quinn, Johnny Pacar, Sophie Wu, Jessica Ritchie
📖 Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Poppy (Emma Roberts, "Nancy Drew") is a self-obsessed, incorrigible brat who lives a pampered life in her L.A. world. Though she's handed credit cards with unlimited balances and surr...