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Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

📅 Release: July 18, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyMusicalRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski
📖 Synopsis: Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. Bringing the...
Death Defying Acts

Death Defying Acts

📅 Release: July 11, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaRomanceThriller
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan, Cloe Mackie, Holly Mackie, Frankey Martyn
📖 Synopsis: When famous escape artist Harry Houdini arrives in Edinburgh and offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from beyond the grave, a beautiful but deceptive psychic and her young 'si...
Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D

Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D

📅 Release: July 11, 2008
🎭 Genre: AdventureFantasySci-Fi
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean Michel Pare, Jane Wheeler, Giancarlo Caltabiano, Garth Gilker, Kaniehtiio Horn
📖 Synopsis: An exciting adventure based on the classic Jules Verne novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth," "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D" stars Brendan Fraser ("Crash," "The Mummy") as a science prof...
Forbidden Kingdom, The

Forbidden Kingdom, The

📅 Release: April 18, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionKung Fu
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou, Liu Yi Fei, Li Bingbing, Morgan Benoit
📖 Synopsis: In "Forbidden Kingdom," American teenager Jason (Michael Angarano), who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kungfu classics, finds an antique Chinese staff in a pawn shop: the legendary stick weapon...
Stone Angel, The

Stone Angel, The

📅 Release: July 11, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser, Dylan Baker, Kevin Zegers, Ellen Page, Sheila McCarthy, Samantha Weinstein
📖 Synopsis: Feisty firecracker Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her passionate heart has always ruled her head and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. With her life nearly beh...
Harold

Harold

📅 Release: July 11, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Spencer Breslin, Ally Sheedy, Nikki Blonsky, Cuba Gooding Jr., Colin Quinn, Stella Maeve, Chris Parnell, Rachel Dratch
📖 Synopsis: As a young teenager suffering from really early male-pattern baldness, Harold has never had it easy. Despite the efforts of his scattered mother -- and aggravated by his beauty-queen-mean sister - lif...
August

August

📅 Release: July 11, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott, Robin Tunney, David Bowie, Rip Torn, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Andre Royo, Charlene Biton
📖 Synopsis: "August" is the story of two brothers, Tom and Joshua Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott) whose Internet start-up, Landshark, is as hot as a New York City summer - only this is the summer of 2001,...
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na

Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na

📅 Release: July 3, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyMusicalRomance
🎬 Starring: Imran Khan, Genelia D'Souza, Manjari Fadnis, Ratna Pathak, Paresh Rawal, Naseeruddin Shah, Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan, Anuradha Patel
📖 Synopsis: Our story begins at the airport. With a story.When Rotlu, Jiggy, Bombs and Shaleen offer to tell Mala the tale of Jai and Aditi - a match made in the pastry shop of heaven - Mala is convinced that she...
Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

📅 Release: July 4, 2008
🎭 Genre: DocumentaryBiography
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Hunter S. Thompson, Pierre Adeli, Angela Berliner, Pat Buchanan, Joe Cairo, Eugenia Care, David Carlo, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Depp
📖 Synopsis: Directed by acclaimed filmmaker [c=Alex Gibney], this electrifying documentary plunges into the chaotic, brilliant, and deeply controversial life of [c=Hunter S. Thompson], the godfather of gonzo jou...
Hancock

Hancock

📅 Release: July 2, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Adam Del Rio, Daeg Faerch, Darrell Foster, Lauren Hill, Valerie Azlynn, Ron Fassler
📖 Synopsis: There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then there's Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility -- everyone knows that -- everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflict...
Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: AnimationComedyAction
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen, Ian McShane, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Fogler
📖 Synopsis: "Kung Fu Panda" features Jack Black as Po the Panda, a lowly waiter in a noodle restaurant, who is a kung fu fanatic but whose shape doesn't exactly lend itself to kung fu fighting. In fact, Po's defi...
Mist, The

Mist, The

📅 Release: November 21, 2007
🎭 Genre: Horror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, William Sadler, Alexa Davalos, Frances Sternhagen, Jeffrey DeMunn
📖 Synopsis: Three-time Oscar®-nominee Frank Darabont ("The Green Mile," "The Shawshank Redemption") reunites with horror-master Stephen King to write and direct this chilling adaptation of the author's origina...
Kabluey

Kabluey

📅 Release: July 4, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Scott Prendergast, Teri Garr, Christine Taylor, Chris Parnell, Conchata Ferrell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patricia Buckley, Angela Sarafyan
📖 Synopsis: In the quirky comedy [m=Kabluey], directed by [c=Scott Prendergast], a directionless man named Salman finds himself thrust into an unexpected role when his brother is deployed to Iraq, leaving behind...
Diminished Capacity

Diminished Capacity

📅 Release: July 4, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
🎬 Starring: Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda, Dylan Baker, Lois Smith, Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Terry Kinney
📖 Synopsis: Director Terry Kinney's delightfully poignant and bittersweet comedy poses the question: How much is a good memory worth? That's the question that faces newspaper editor Cooper (Matthew Broderick) aft...
Wackness, The

Wackness, The

📅 Release: July 3, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Method Man, Aaron Yoo, Jane Adams, Sean Dillon
📖 Synopsis: "The Wackness" centers upon a troubled high school student named Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck)--a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley), a psychiatrist and kindr...
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic

Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic

📅 Release: June 27, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomanceFantasy
🎬 Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Akshat Chopra, Shriya Sharma, Rachit Sidana, Ayushi Berman, Amisha Patel, Rishi Kapoor
📖 Synopsis: Ranbeer Talwar (Saif Ali Khan), one of the country's top industrialists, is a loner, not by choice, but because he lost everyone he ever loved. He is now faced with a very peculiar and uncomfortable s...
Wanted

Wanted

📅 Release: June 27, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionSci-Fi
🎬 Starring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Common, Kristen Hager, Konstantin Khabensky, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Marc Warren, David O'Hara, Chris Pratt, Lorna Scott
📖 Synopsis: Based upon Mark Millar's explosive graphic novel series and helmed by the stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov-creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history, the "Night Wat...
Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The

Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The

📅 Release: May 16, 2008
🎭 Genre: AdventureFantasyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Anna Popplewell, Ben Barnes, William Moseley, Liam Neeson, Warwick Davis, Tilda Swinton, Peter Dinklage, Eddie Izzard, Vincent Grass
📖 Synopsis: The characters of C.S. Lewis' timeless fantasy come to life once again in this newest installment of the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, in which the Pevensie siblings are magically transported back fr...
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

📅 Release: July 2, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: G
🎬 Starring: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn, Max Thieriot, Willow Smith, Glenne Headly, Zach Mills, Kenneth Welsh, Madison Davenport, Joan Cusack, Stanley Tucci, Dylan Smith, Douglas Nyback
📖 Synopsis: In the first feature film based on the hugely popular American Girl book series, Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, NIM'S ISLAND) stars as a resourceful young girl whose bravery, com...
Finding Amanda

Finding Amanda

📅 Release: June 27, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Matthew Broderick, Brittany Snow, Maura Tierney, Peter Facinelli, J.P. Manoux, Bill Fagerbakke, Daniel Roebuck, Jack McGee, Patrick Fischler
📖 Synopsis: Taylor Peters (Matthew Broderick) is a television writer and producer working on a low-rated, little-respected half-hour sitcom. Taylor was probably destined for better things, but his compulsive gamb...
Last Mistress, The

Last Mistress, The

📅 Release: June 27, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Anne Parillaud, Jean-Philippe Tesse
📖 Synopsis: "The Last Mistress" marks the monumental pairing of cinema's premiere provocateur, director Catherine Breillat ("Romance," "Fat Girl") with the most fearless and explosive actor of our generation, Asi...
Ruins, The

Ruins, The

📅 Release: April 4, 2008
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson, Bar Paly, Sergio Calderon, Dimitri Baveas, Jesse Ramirez
📖 Synopsis: A group of young American tourists, including the level-headed Jeff ([c=Jonathan Tucker]) and his girlfriend Amy ([c=Jena Malone]), along with their friends Eric ([c=Shawn Ashmore]), Stacy ([c=Laura ...
Teeth

Teeth

📅 Release: January 18, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyHorror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Ashley Springer, Vivienne Benesch, Lenny von Dohlen, Nicole Swahn, Julia Garro, Adam Wagner
📖 Synopsis: High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her taks is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Br...
Expired

Expired

📅 Release: June 20, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
🎬 Starring: Samantha Morton, Jason Patric, Teri Garr, Illeana Douglas, Joanne Baron, Joe Camareno, Terence Bernie Hines, Sonia Iris Lozada
📖 Synopsis: The sight of a dark-suited municipal employee doling out parking violations stirs a primal hate in all but the most enlightened souls.And the heroine of our film, "Expired," the meter maid Claire (Mor...
Brick Lane

Brick Lane

📅 Release: June 20, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Christopher Simpson, Satish Kaushik, Naeema Begum, Lana Rahman, Zafreen, Harvey Virdi, Harsh Nayyar
📖 Synopsis: "Brick Lane" is the story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen (Chatterjee), who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life...
Quid Pro Quo

Quid Pro Quo

📅 Release: June 13, 2008
🎭 Genre: ThrillerDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Aimee Mullins, Ashlie Atkinson, Dylan Bruno, Kate Burton, Phil LaMarr, James Frain
📖 Synopsis: Isaac Knott (Nick Stahl) is a Public Radio reporter in New York City. When he was eight, his mother and father died in an automobile accident that left him in a wheelchair.On air, Isaac recounts how h...
Happening, The

Happening, The

📅 Release: June 13, 2008
🎭 Genre: ThrillerSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Spencer Breslin, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Robert Bailey Jr., M. Night Shyamalan, Alan Ruck
📖 Synopsis: From director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense," "Signs") comes a lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threat...
Incredible Hulk, The

Incredible Hulk, The

📅 Release: June 13, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionFantasySci-Fi
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Christina Cabot
📖 Synopsis: "The Incredible Hulk" kicks off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most popular superheroes of all time. In this new beginning, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperate...
Baghead

Baghead

📅 Release: June 13, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Elise Muller, Anthony Cristo, Jett Garner
📖 Synopsis: While the Duplass Brothers were shooting their last feature film The Puffy Chair, a crew member raised the question "what's the scariest thing you can think of?" Someone immediately said "a guy with a...
Sarkar Raj

Sarkar Raj

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaCrimeThriller
🎬 Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Tanisha, Ravi Kale, Victor Banerjee, Supriya Pathak, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Rajesh Shringarpore
📖 Synopsis: Sarkar Raj is an intense political drama and is essentially a study of power; it explores the politics of development and takes a fresh look at the tradition versus modernity debate.When Anita Rajan (...