Adventureland
Release Date: 08/25/2009
Inspired by writer/director Greg Mottola's own true-life job-from-hell experience, Adventureland stars The Education of Charlie Banks' Jesse Eisenberg as an uptight recent college graduate who discovers that he'll have to get a degrading minimum-wage job at a local amusement park instead of spending his summer drinking German beer, visiting world-class museums, and flirting with cute French girls. It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Eisenberg) has just graduated from college. James is all set ...
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Director(s): Greg Mottola
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Albino Farm
Release Date: 09/22/2009
Four college students investigate the disturbing legend of an Ozark Mountain town with a long history of religious fanaticism with predictably terrifying results. Deep in the Ozarks exists a town populated by sadistic, inbred misfits who prey on unsuspecting travelers. For some adventure seekers, the dark stories surrounding the Albino Farm are simply too bizarre to resist. But as a group of nanve students are about to discover, some folklore has roots in reality, and your first trip to Albino Farm m ...
Actor(s): Tammin Sursok, Chris Jericho, Richard Christy
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MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Alien Trespass
Release Date: 08/11/2009
Will & Grace star Eric McCormack headlines X-Files veteran R.W. Goodwin's feature directorial debut, a playful send-up of 1950s-era sci-fi films tracing the bizarre events that unfold after a mysterious space object crashes into a California mountaintop. Based on a story by James Swift and Steven Fisher (who also penned the screenplay), the Technicolor-flavored genre-bender follows a benevolent alien (McCormack) as he attempts to fend off a seriously strange invader. Robert Patrick, Jenni Baird, and ...
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Director(s): R.W. Goodwin
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Science Fiction, Feature
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Aliens in the Attic
Release Date: 11/03/2009
A group of kids defend their Maine vacation home from knee-high alien invaders in this adventure comedy for the entire family. When Michigan native Bethany Pearson (Ashley Tisdale) arrives home after a secret outing with her boyfriend (Robert Hoffman), her father, Stuart (Kevin Nealon), decides that it's high time for a family vacation. Packing up the car with wife Hannah (Ashley Boettcher), teenage son Tom (Carter Jenkins), and big sister Bethany in tow, Stuart invites the extended family to join th ...
Actor(s): Carter Jenkins, Ashley Tisdale, Austin Butler
Director(s): John Schultz
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Children's/Family, Feature
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All About Steve
Release Date: 12/22/2009
A brilliant crossword-puzzle designer travels across the country in hopes of convincing a CNN cameraman that the pair is meant to be together, only to find her quest taking an unexpected turn in this romantic comedy starring Thomas Haden Church and Sandra Bullock. Despite the fact that she has only gone on one short date with the man, a love-struck puzzle creator becomes enamored with a successful cameraman and follows him to a series of media events in hopes that the feeling is mutual. While she is ...
Actor(s): Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church
Director(s): Phil Traill
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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Amelia
Release Date: 02/02/2010
Hilary Swank and Richard Gere star in director Mira Nair's biopic tracing the life of famed aviator Amelia Earhart -- who made history in 1932 by becoming the first woman ever to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Five years later, as Earhart attempted to fly around the world, the pilot and her plane simply vanished after crashing into the Pacific Ocean. Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor co-star in the Avalon Pictures production. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor
Director(s): Mira Nair
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Drama, Feature
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American Violet
Release Date: 10/13/2009
Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, and Xzibit headline this fact-based drama about an innocent Texas mother caught up in a high-profile drug raid, and unjustly accused due to the uncorroborated testimony of a single informant. Dee Roberts (Beharie) is a young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma (Alfre Woodard), and rejects the plea-bargain that would free h ...
Actor(s): Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton
Director(s): Tim Disney
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Anaconda 4: Trail of Blood
Release Date: 06/02/2009
A dying mogul wages one last, desperate bid to extend his life, in the process pitting a beautiful herpetologist against the very slithering horror that she helped to create. Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies) is convinced that he can cheat death by drawing on the regenerative power of the elusive blood orchid. But when Murdoch's doctor tests the experimental serum on a baby snake, the tiny serpent grows into an unstoppable monster overnight, devouring the doctor whole before breaking free from the lab and e ...
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Director(s): Don E. Fauntleroy
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Angels & Demons
Release Date: 11/24/2009
Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the earlier movie. Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, the most respected symbologist in the United States, who uses his knowledge in order to decode a symbol on the skin of a murder victim. The clues put him ...
Actor(s): Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor
Director(s): Ron Howard
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Thriller, Feature
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Assassination of a High School President
Release Date: 10/06/2009
A teenage take on Roman Polanski's post-noir classic Chinatown, The Sophomore stars Reece Daniel Thompson, Mischa Barton, and Bruce Willis in the tale of a Catholic high-school newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a disturbing conspiracy. Prompted by the most popular girl in school to investigate the theft of the SAT exams, an ambitious young fact-finder discovers that the school's president -- a disillusioned Gulf War veteran -- and the top jock are responsible for the crime. As if this information ...
Actor(s): Mischa Barton, Reece Daniel Thompson, Bruce Willis
Director(s): Brett Simon
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Mystery, Feature
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Avatar
Release Date: 04/22/2010
A paraplegic ex-marine finds a new life on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet's indigenous Na'vi race in this ambitious digital 3D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron. The film, which marks Cameron's first dramatic feature since 1997's Titanic, follows Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a war veteran who gets called to the depths of space to pick up the job of his slain twin brother for the scientific arm of a megac ...
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Director(s): James Cameron
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Science Fiction, Feature
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