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Color Of The Cross

Color Of The Cross

📅 Release: October 27, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jean Claude LaMarre, Debbi Morgan, David Gianopoulos, Elya Baskin, Ananda Lewis
📖 Synopsis: Nu-Lite Entertainment has finished production on a Christian-themed film entitled Color of the Cross. This powerful, epic film vividly portrays the last 48 hours of the life of Jesus Christ and chal...
Conversations With God

Conversations With God

📅 Release: October 27, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Henry Czerny, Ingrid Boultin, Jerry McGill, Michelle Merring, T. Bruce Page, Vilma Silva, Michael A. Goorjian
📖 Synopsis: Adapted from the books by Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide, "Conversations with God" tells the true story of Walsch (Henry Czerny) who, at the lowest poi...
Saw III

Saw III

📅 Release: October 27, 2006
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Dina Meyer, Bahar Soomekh, Angus MacFadyen
📖 Synopsis: With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. Whi...
Catch A Fire

Catch A Fire

📅 Release: October 27, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Robert Hobbs
📖 Synopsis: Powerfully telling the story of a South African hero's journey to freedom, "Catch a Fire" is the new film from director Phillip Noyce ("The Quiet American," "Rabbit-Proof Fence"). The political thri...
Marine, The

Marine, The

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: ActionDramaThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: John Cena, Kelly Carlson, Robert Patrick, Jeff Chase, Jon Bennett, Abigail Bianca, Troy Brenna, Ashley Lyons, Anthony Ray Parker, Drew Powell
📖 Synopsis: When a decorated Marine is discharged for disobeying orders, he finds the greatest battle awaits him at home. [c=John Cena] stars as John Triton, a man whose disciplined world is shattered when his w...
Sweet Land

Sweet Land

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Alan Cumming, Ned Beatty, Lois Smith, Alex Kingson, John Heard, Tim Guinee
📖 Synopsis: In the wake of World War I, a young German mail-order bride named Inge arrives in rural Minnesota with dreams of a new life, only to find her future hanging by a thread. Portrayed with quiet resilien...
Zerophilia

Zerophilia

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: Comedy
🎬 Starring: Kelly LeBrock, Taylor Handley, Kyle Schmid, Gina Bellman, Marieh Delfino, Alison Folland, Adam Zolotin
📖 Synopsis: Imagine discovering that you possess a rare genetic condition that allows you to change gender at will. That is the bizarre and life-altering reality facing Luke, a young man played by [c=Taylor Hand...
Sleeping Dogs Lie

Sleeping Dogs Lie

📅 Release: October 20, 2006
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Melinda Page Hamilton, Bryce Johnson, Geoff Pierson, Colby French, Jack Plotnick, Bonita Friedericy, Brian Posehn, Morgan Murphy, Steve Agee
📖 Synopsis: Amy (Melinda Page Hamilton) is a seemingly normal young girl, adored by her parents and golden-boy fiance. Her future looks bright until her fiance suggests they tell each other their darkest secrets ...
Flicka

Flicka

📅 Release: October 20, 2006
🎭 Genre: DramaFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw, Maria Bello, Ryan Kwanten, Armie Hammer
📖 Synopsis: In "Flicka," a contemporary motion picture adaptation of Mary O'Hara's beloved novel "My Friend Flicka," 16-year-old Katy McLaughlin (Alison Lohman) dreams of fulfilling her family legacy by working o...
Man Of The Year

Man Of The Year

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum, Shawn Roberts, Sasha Roiz
📖 Synopsis: What would happen if one of the nation's funniest men became its leading one? Oscar® winner Robin Williams reunites with the director of "Good Morning, Vietnam" to answer just that question in the ...
Nearing Grace

Nearing Grace

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster, Ashley Johnson, David Morse, David Moscow, Chad Faust, Brian Doyle-Murray, Sharon Lawrence, Logan Bartholomew
📖 Synopsis: The Nearing family's loss of its female leader. Rose, wife to Shep (Morse) and mom to Henry and Blair (David Moscow), died six months before. The time is the late '70s, when lifestyles and sexuality...
Tideland

Tideland

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: DramaFantasy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, Janet McTeer
📖 Synopsis: "Tideland" celebrates the resiliency of childhood and the power of the imagination as only Terry Gilliam, one of our few truly visionary filmmakers, could conceive it. Jeliza-Rose (Ferland) is a y...
Infamous

Infamous

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdonovich, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini, Sigourney Weaver
📖 Synopsis: What was it about this tiny man that made him big enough for two movies? Given the riveting contradictions in Truman Capote's character, the rich range of people who made up his circle, and the comi...
Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons

📅 Release: October 13, 2006
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Oliver Milburn, Michelle Duncan, Tamsin Eggerton
📖 Synopsis: This rites of passage comedy introduces a shy and downtrodden Ben (Rupert Grint) with yet another dreary school holiday coming around. Seventeen years of living in an absurdly conservative and tradi...
Facing The Giants

Facing The Giants

📅 Release: September 29, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: James Blackwell, Bailey Cave, Shannen Fields, Tracy Goode, Alex Kendrick, Jim McBride, Tommy McBride, Jason McLeod, Steve Williams, Chris Willis
📖 Synopsis: From the award winning producers of FLYWHEEL, comes an action-packed drama about a Christian high school football coach who uses his undying faith to battle the giants of fear and failure. In six ye...
Science Of Sleep, The

Science Of Sleep, The

📅 Release: September 22, 2006
🎭 Genre: ComedyDramaFantasy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Jean-Michel Bernard, Emma de Caunes, Inigo Lezzi, Stephane Metzger, Aurelia Petit
📖 Synopsis: In director Michel Gondry's, "The Science of Sleep," life seems to be looking up for shy and withdrawn Stephane (Gael García Bernal) when he is coaxed to return to his childhood home with the promi...
Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, A

Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, A

📅 Release: September 29, 2006
🎭 Genre: DramaAction
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Eric Roberts, Scott Michael Campbell
📖 Synopsis: In the gritty, autobiographical drama [m=Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A], director [c=Dito Montiel] adapts his own memoir to paint a raw and unflinching portrait of coming of age in the violent ...
Feast

Feast

📅 Release: September 22, 2006
🎭 Genre: HorrorComedyThriller
🎬 Starring: Navi Rawat, Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, Judah Friedlander, Jenny Wade, Duane Whitaker, Josh Zuckerman, Eileen Ryan, Clu Gulager, Diane Goldner
📖 Synopsis: "Feast" is the highly anticipated horror movie whose inception and production was made possible and documented by the third season of the hit show "Project Greenlight" on the Bravo network. The film...
Renaissance

Renaissance

📅 Release: September 22, 2006
🎭 Genre: AnimationActionDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce, Romola Garai, Ian Holm, Catherine McCormack, Rick Warden
📖 Synopsis: In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Cut off from the world for its own protection, the city has nonetheless continued to expand. Now, 21st century skyscrapers...
Bandidas

Bandidas

📅 Release: September 22, 2006
🎭 Genre: AdventureActionComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Joe Reitman
📖 Synopsis: In the lawless frontier of 1890s Mexico, two women from vastly different worlds are forged into an unlikely duo of legendary outlaws. [c=Salma Hayek] stars as Sara, a sophisticated banker's daughter ...
Keeping Mum

Keeping Mum

📅 Release: September 15, 2006
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Dame Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze
📖 Synopsis: "Keeping Mum" stars Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf in...
Haven

Haven

📅 Release: September 15, 2006
🎭 Genre: DramaAction
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Orlando Bloom, Bill Paxton, Zoe Saldana, Sarah Carter, Joy Bryant, Rachel Miner, Agnes Bruckner, Jake Weber, Bobby Cannavale, Caroline Goodall
📖 Synopsis: With federal agents on his heels, a corrupt Miami businessman (Bill Paxton) tapes a million dollars to his midsection and flees to the exotic Cayman Islands, his unsuspecting daughter Pippa (Agnes B...
Gridiron Gang

Gridiron Gang

📅 Release: September 15, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: The Rock, Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy, Danny Martinez, Mo, Trever O'Brien, Six Reasons, Brandon Smith, Jade Yorker, Robert Zepeda
📖 Synopsis: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and MTV's "Pimp My Ride" host, Xzibit, star in a story based on actual events about the creation of a football team within the confines of a juvenile detention camp. "Grid...
Everyone's Hero

Everyone's Hero

📅 Release: September 15, 2006
🎭 Genre: AnimationComedy
⭐ Rating: G
🎬 Starring: William H. Macy, Rob Reiner, Brian Dennehy, Raven-Symone, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind, Dana Reeve, Jake T. Austin, Joe Torre, Mandy Patinkin
📖 Synopsis: In "Everyone's Hero," a young boy (Jake T. Austin) finds himself at an extraordinary crossroads: He has a chance to be a hero – and make a difference against incredible odds – or he can play it ...
Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis

📅 Release: September 15, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Steven Pasquale
📖 Synopsis: Ever since the premature death of his father, 25-year-old Minneapolis slacker Duncan (Joshua Jackson) is content with shuffling aimlessly through life, hanging out with his lifelong friends, and dit...
Protector, The

Protector, The

📅 Release: September 8, 2006
🎭 Genre: ActionComedyThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Tony Jaa, Mum Jokmok, Xing Jing, Nathan Jones, Johnny Nguyen, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Amonphan Gongtragan
📖 Synopsis: From acclaimed director [c=Prachya Pinkaew] comes a pulse-pounding action spectacle that blends bone-crunching martial arts with unexpected comedic beats. [c=Tony Jaa] stars as Kham, a fiercely loyal...
Idiocracy

Idiocracy

📅 Release: September 1, 2006
🎭 Genre: AdventureComedySci-Fi
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, David Herman, Sara Rue, Stephen Root, Justin Long, Kimo Keoke, Charles E. Gray, Terry Crews
📖 Synopsis: In a world where the average American has devolved into a blissful moron, [c=Luke Wilson] stars as Joe Bauers, a perfectly average soldier who finds himself at the center of a bizarre military experi...
Sherrybaby

Sherrybaby

📅 Release: September 8, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ryan Simpkins, Brad William Henke, Bridget Barkan, Sam Bottoms, Kate Burton, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito
📖 Synopsis: Three years after entering prison for robbery as a 19-year-old heroin addict, Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal) begins her first day of freedom, clean and sober. A model prisoner who has undergone ...
Crossover

Crossover

📅 Release: September 1, 2006
🎭 Genre: ActionDramaSports
🎬 Starring: Anthony Mackie, Welsey Jonathan, Wayne Brady, Kristen Wilson, Lil' J.J., Phillip "Hot Sauce" Champion, Eva Pigford, Alecia Fears
📖 Synopsis: The clock strikes midnight, the ball hits the floor, the word has spread and the converted rail station is alive with basketball. They don't play for a school and they don't cheer for a pro team. Th...
Invincible

Invincible

📅 Release: August 25, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rispoli, Kevin Conway, Kirk Acevedo, Lola Glaudini, Michael Kelly
📖 Synopsis: From the studio that brought you "The Rookie" and "Remember the Titans" comes "Invincible," inspired by the true story of Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), a man with nothing to lose who ignored the sta...