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To Catch A Dollar

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 43

Language: English

Director: Gayle Ferraro

Plot: To Catch a Dollar, a 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection, documents the birth of Grameen America and the effort to bring Nobel Peace Prize winner and Presidential Medal of Honor winner Muhammad Yunus’s revolutionary microfinance program to the United States. The film features stories of women borrowers from around the world – with a focus here in the U.S on the plight of those struggling to save. It proves it is possible to meet the needs of Americans living without access to affordable financial services, and can fuel a social movement campaign that can go even further. It also educates viewers about the potential for microfinance as a solution to a number of these pressing social challenges. Lastly, the film provides clear and sustainable calls to action that extend the reach of the film and its stories beyond the theater and into the lives of those who are living in poverty – and those who can help.
The film, narrated by Hugh Jackman, chronicles the inspiring, logic-defying, yet true story of Yunus’ idea to bring his model of micro-lending to the United States and depicts the millions of lives it has changed in the process.

 

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 109

Language: English

Director: David Bowers

Plot: In this sequel to 2010’s surprise hit, Greg Heffley, the kid who made “wimpy” cool is back in an all-new family comedy based on the best-selling follow-up novel by Jeff Kinney. As he begins seventh grade, Greg and his older brother – and chief tormentor – Rodrick must deal with their parents’ misguided attempts to have them bond.

 

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Sucker Punch

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Zack Snyder

Plot: Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared.

“Sucker Punch” is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, and her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary.

She has been locked away against her will, but Babydoll (Emily Browning) has not lost her will to survive. Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls – the outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone), the street-smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the fiercely loyal Amber (Jamie Chung) and the reluctant Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish) – to band together and try to escape their terrible fate at the hands of their captors, Blue (Oscar Isaac), Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino) and the High Roller (Jon Hamm).

Led by Babydoll, the girls engage in fantastical warfare against everything from samurais to serpents, with a virtual arsenal at their disposal. Together, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stay alive. But with the help of a Wise Man (Scott Glenn), their unbelievable journey – if they succeed – will set them free.

 

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Thunder Soul

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 44

Language: English

Director: Mark Landsman

Plot: Thunder Soul movie trailer – Directed by Mark Landsman. Theatrical Release Date: 3/25/2011
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated

 

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Potiche Trophy Wife

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 127

Language: French

Director: Francois Ozon

Plot: Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, POTICHE is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol, a submissive, housebound ‘trophy housewife’ (or “potiche,”) who steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her wealthy and tyrannical husband (Fabrice Luchini) after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone’s surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. Gérard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne’s ex-beau who still holds a flame for her. Acclaimed writer-director Francois Ozon (“Swimming Pool,” “Under the Sand,” “Time to Leave,”) who had previously directed Ms. Deneuve in the international hit “8 Women,” twists the original play on its head to create his own satirical and hilarious take on the war between the sexes and classes.

 

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Miral

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 121

Language: English (International)

Director: Julian Schnabel

Plot: From Julian Schnabel, Academy Award© nominated director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes Miral, the story of four women whose lives intertwine in the starkly human search for justice, hope and reconciliation amid a world overshadowed by conflict, rage and war. The story begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when Hind Husseini (HIAM ABBASS, The Visitor, Amreeka) opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2000 orphans. One of the children is seventeen year old Miral (FRIEDA PINTO, Slumdog Millionaire) who arrived at the orphanage 10 years earlier, following her mother’s tragic death. On the cusp of the Intifada resistance, Miral is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she falls for a fervent political activist, Hani (OMAR METWALLY, Munich, Rendition) and finds herself in a personal battle that mirrors the greater dilemma around her: to fight like those before her or follow Mama Hind’s defiant belief that education will pave a road to peace.

 

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White Irish Drinkers

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 90

Language: English

Director: John Gray

Plot: It’s early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18 year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. They both live with their parents, Paddy (Stephen Lang), a longshoreman, and his long suffering wife, Margaret (Karen Allen) who puts up with Paddy’s drinking and abusive behavior, especially to her and Danny . Though Paddy has never been physically abusive to Brian, every time he sees his brother’s suffering, his heart breaks a little more. Brian works for Whitey (Peter Riegert) at the failing Lafayette movie theater. Owing money to local mobsters, Whitey calls in a favor to an old friend who works with The Rolling Stones. They come up with a deal to have the Stones play at Whitey’s theater for one night only before their gig at Madison Square Garden and Brian is put in charge with getting the word out to everyone in the neighborhood. In the twists and turns that follow on that fateful night of the concert, both brothers must reexamine their dreams, and make decisions that will change their lives forever.

 

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Skateland

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Anthony Burns

Plot: Skateland explores the rupture of charismatic Richie Wheeler, brother and sister Brent and Michelle Burkham, and wise-cracking lady-killer Kenny Crawford’s seemingly complacent existence as they struggle with the collapse of their tumultuous home lives, the alcohol induced idling of wreckless-adolescence, and the wane of their hometown hangout, the local roller rink.

A story syncopated with moments of violent turbulence, of heartbreak and of new beginnings, Skateland immerses the audience in the brutal, but beautiful vastness of East Texas blue skies and the emotional claustrophobia of the Bible belt. Enveloped by the brooding melodies and incendiary rock riffs of the early 80’s, Skateland is a place where aging values wrestle with contemporary pop culture to create a paradoxical balance between old and new.

 

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Peep World

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 141

Language: English

Director: Barry W. Blaustein

Plot: Peep World follows 24 hours in the life of the wealthy, neurotic, Meyerwitz family, as they prepare for the 70th birthday party of the family patriarch, HENRY MEYERWITZ. Each family member has been shaped in one way or another by the power, success and manipulation of Henry, and not necessarily in a positive way. With the release and overwhelming success of Peep World, a novel exposing the family’s secrets, familial tensions begin to rise.

By the time they all make it to Henry’s celebration, each Meyerwitz has reached a breaking point, making for a comically out-of-control family dinner.

 

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My Perestroika

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 154

Language: Russian

Director: Robin Hessman

Plot: When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid first-person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely ever seen on film, where people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country.

 

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Choose

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 128

Language: English

Director: Marcus Graves

Plot: All is not well in sleepy suburbia….Woken in the middle of the night, teenager Sara finds her parents tied to their bed by a terrifying intruder. An intricate hour-glass filled with blood is placed before her and she is told that she has 60 seconds to choose which of her parents should die. If she doesn’t make the choice then both of them will perish at the hands of the deranged killer. Who is the scarred man and why has he chosen Sara and her famliy as his victims? Marcus Graves’ new slasher flick will have you squirming in your seat as the gruesome horror unfolds.

 

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Desert Flower

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 123

Language: English (International)

Director: Sherry Horman

Plot: The incredible true story of a Somali nomad who escaped her destiny and became the darling of the fashion world, as well as a champion for women everywhere.

 

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Limitless

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Neil Burger

Plot: Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in Limitless, a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unpublished writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to NZT, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows him to tap his full potential. With every synapse crackling, Eddie can recall everything he has ever read, seen or heard, learn any language in a day, comprehend complex equations and beguile anyone he meets—as long as he keeps taking the untested drug.

Soon Eddie takes Wall Street by storm, parlaying a small stake into millions. His accomplishments catch the eye of mega-mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who invites him to help broker the largest merger in corporate history. But they also bring Eddie to the attention of people willing to do anything to get their hands on his stash of NZT. With his life in jeopardy and the drug’s brutal side effects grinding him down, Eddie dodges mysterious stalkers, a vicious gangster and an intense police investigation as he attempts to hang on to his dwindling supply long enough to outwit his enemies.

 

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Winter in Wartime

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 126

Language: Dutch

Director: Martin Koolhoven

Plot: Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, thirteen-year-old MICHIEL (Martijn Lakemeier) is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel’s boyish sense of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desperation, as Michiel is forced to act without knowing whom to trust among the adults and townspeople around him. Wartime’s harsh reality encroaches on childhood innocence as Michiel confronts good and evil, courage and duplicity, and his own burden of responsibility.

 

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The Lincoln Lawyer

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 60

Language: English

Director: Brad Furman

Plot: In the gripping thriller “The Lincoln Lawyer,” Matthew McConaughey stars as Michael “Mick” Haller, a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime: defending a rich Beverly Hills playboy (Ryan Phillippe) who is accused of attempted murder. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money pay-off swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller.

 

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Motherland

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 68

Language: English

Director: Doris Yeung

Plot: After years abroad, a young Asian American woman, Raffi Tang returns to the US when her estranged mother is murdered. She finds herself drawn into a web of deception by her stepfather and his right-hand man. Raffi struggles with investigative incompetence and her own grief, forced to confront some long-buried truths in her family.

 

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Paul

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 148

Language: English

Director: Greg Mottola

Plot: For the past 60, years an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base for reasons unknown. The space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on to the first vehicle out of town – a rented rv containing earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as the two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.

 

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The Music Never Stopped

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Jim Kohlberg

Plot: Based on a case study by Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), and featuring music from Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped chronicles the heartwarming journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s.

 

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Cracks

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 120

Language: English (International)

Director: Jordon Scott

Plot: In an austere and remote all girls boarding school, the most elite clique of girls are the illustrious members of the schools’ diving team. DI, LILY, POPPY, LAUREL, ROSIE and FUZZY are the envy of their fellow pupils who watch on as the girls compete for the attention of their glamorous teacher MISS G (Eva Green). MISS G in turn thrives on the attention she receives from her girls and believes it is her role to teach them the ways of the world. As Team Captain, DI is closest of all the girls to MISS G but her position is challenged when a beautiful Spanish girl, FIAMMA, arrives at the school and joins the diving team. DI, pulls rank as team captain and lays down the rules in an attempt to assert her position but MISS G is spellbound by FIAMMA’s beauty and maturity and becomes obsessed with her new favourite girl.

 

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Nostalgia for the Light

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 114

Language: Spanish

Director: Patricio Guzmán

Plot: For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET CASE), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe.
The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, “disappeared” by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973.
So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families’ histories.
Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey.

 

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