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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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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Shorts
Release Date: 11/24/2009
A young boy living in a cookie-cutter suburb gets hit on the head with a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes to anyone who holds it in this family-oriented fantasy comedy from Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez. All the houses in Black Falls look exactly the same, and everyone who lives in this suburban Shangri-la works for Black Box Unlimited Worldwide Industries Incorporated. A highly profitable company thanks to their latest invention, Mr. Black's Black Box -- an all-in-one communication devic ...
Actor(s): Jimmy Bennett, Jake Short, Kat Dennings
Director(s): Robert Rodriguez
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy, 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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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Release Date: 12/01/2009
Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox's tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon provide the script, with Chris Columbus returning to handle producing duties. Amy Adams (Enchanted) and Hank Azaria join the returning cast of Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, and Owen Wilson in the 1492 and 2 ...
Actor(s): Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Robin Williams
Director(s): Shawn Levy
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Adventure, Feature
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