Falling Up
Release Date: 01/05/2010
A hotel doorman falls for the daughter of the wealthiest residents in the building, discovering that love knows no social boundaries as their playful friendship blossoms into a full-blown romance. Henry (Joseph Cross) was studying for his nursing degree when his father died unexpectedly. Realizing that the responsibility of caring for his family has fallen on his shoulders, Henry drops out of school and lands a job as a doorman at a posh Manhattan apartment building. Henry's boss (Joe Pantoliano) is ...
Actor(s): Joseph Cross, Sarah Roemer, Snoop Dogg
Director(s): David M. Rosenthal
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Comedy
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Fame
Release Date: 01/12/2010
This remake of the '80s classic focuses on a group of young students attending a high school for the performing arts. Classmates study various aspects of performance, from dance to songwriting to acting, all of them hoping for the chance to one day become stars. Debbie Allen, Charles S. Dutton, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullally, and Bebe Neuwirth portray the instructors, with a host of newcomers toplining the production as the students. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Kristy Flores, Asher Book, Paul Iacono
Director(s): Kevin Tancharoen
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Fast & Furious
Release Date: 08/03/2009
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return to the film franchise that helped to launch each of their respective careers as the Fast and the Furious series winds to a close under the creative eye of Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin. Fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) is back in Los Angeles to seek out the truth behind a high-profile crime, but his presence in town doesn't sit well with Agent Brian O'Conner (Walker). These two rivals are forced to unite in the cause of fighting a common e ...
Actor(s): Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster
Director(s): Justin Lin
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Action, Feature
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Fired Up!
Release Date: 06/09/2009
Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen headline this teen comedy concerning two high-school football players who attempt to avoid another summer at football camp by becoming cheerleaders. Out on the gridiron, Gerald R. Ford High School students Shawn Colfax (D'Agosto) and Nick Brady (Olsen) are star players. But summer is drawing near, and this year neither Shawn nor Nick can stomach the prospect of spending their sun-soaked months lunging at tackling dummies and getting berated by their coach. F ...
Actor(s): Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer
Director(s): Will Gluck
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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Five Fingers
Release Date: 07/07/2009
Writer-director Lawrence Malkin's thriller Five Fingers casts Ryan Philippe as Martijn, a gifted Dutch jazz pianist who flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. On Middle Eastern soil, however, he and his security person, Gavin (portrayed by Colm Meaney) are promptly kidnapped by terrorists, dragged to a warehouse, chained down and blindfolded. The captors promptly kill Gavin and then begin systematic attempts to extract information from the pianist (about where he obtained the money to ...
Actor(s): Laurence Fishburne, Ryan Phillippe, Gina Torres
Director(s): Laurence Malkin
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Action, Feature
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Flying By
Release Date: 07/07/2009
A successful real estate developer rediscovers his adolescent dreams of becoming a rock star after spontaneously performing with his old band at their 25th high school reunion in this musical drama starring Billy Ray Cyrus and Heather Locklear. George Barron (Cyrus) always dreamt of performing before thousands of adoring fans, but when life got in the way, he embraced the responsibilities of adulthood. Twenty five years later, George is attending his high school reunion when his old band-mates summon ...
Actor(s): Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, Olesya Rulin
Director(s): Jim Amatulli
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Four Christmases
Release Date: 11/24/2009
A crafty couple run the Christmas Day gauntlet by racing to visit their divorced parents' four separate households in this Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon comedy that proves the holidays are no time for relaxing. Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Witherspoon) have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is embarrassed to see the ...
Actor(s): Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall
Director(s): Seth Gordon
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy, Feature
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Frayed
Release Date: 08/25/2009
Thirteen years after being institutionalized for beating his mother to death, a violent sociopath escapes from the asylum and returns to his small town to finished what he started when he was just a young boy. It was September 12, 1994. Police could never have anticipated the horror he would witness when summoned to Sheriff Pat Baker's typical suburban home in Smith Haven, Washington. Eight year old Kurt was acting up at his sister's birthday party when his mother scolded him and sent him to his room ...
Actor(s): Tony Doupe, Aaron Blakely, Alena Dashiell
Director(s): Rob Portmann
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Friday the 13th
Release Date: 06/16/2009
A man in search of his missing sister stumbles across a deadly secret in the woods surrounding Crystal Lake as Texas Chainsaw Massacre redux duo Michael Bay and Marcus Nispel resurrect one of the silver screen's most feared slashers -- machete-wielding, hockey mask-wearing madman Jason Voorhees. The last time Clay heard from his sister, she was headed toward Crystal Lake. There, amidst the creaky old cabins and moss-coated trees, an unstoppable force of evil lies quietly dormant, patiently waiting fo ...
Actor(s): Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti
Director(s): Marcus Nispel
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Horror, Feature
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Frost/Nixon
Release Date: 04/21/2009
Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time Nixon sat down with Frost to discuss the sordid details that ultimately derailed his presidency, it had been three years since the former commander in chief had been forced out of office. The Watergate scandal was still fresh in ev ...
Actor(s): Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon
Director(s): Ron Howard
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Drama, Feature
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Funny People
Release Date: 11/24/2009
Judd Apatow casts his former real-life roommate Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a comic superstar who learns in the movie's opening scene that he suffers from a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. This news gives him the impulse to go back out and work on his standup, something he hasn't done in years thanks to the massive success of his movie career. At a club, he meets struggling standup Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), takes a shine to him, and hires the young man both to write jo ...
Actor(s): Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann
Director(s): Judd Apatow
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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