New in Town
In Theaters: January 30, 2009
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., J.K. Simmons, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Frances Conroy, Jimena Hoyos, Wayne Nicklas
Director:Jonas Elmer
Genre: Comedy /Romance
Synopsis: A Miami businesswoman is transferred to rural Minnesota, and while she is there she re-evaluates her big-city values.
Rating: PG for language and some suggestive material
Length: 96 Minutes
Box Office: $16.7 Million
Hes Just Not That Into You
In Theaters: February 6, 2009
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper, Ben Affleck, Kevin Connolly, Justin Long, Sasha Alexander, Kris Kristofferson, Wilson Cruz
Director: Ken Kwapis
Genre: Comedy /Romance
Synopsis: Based on the popular bestseller from Sex and the City scribes Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, Hes Just Not That Into You tells the stories of a group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty- and thirtysomethings as they navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex… and hoping to be the exceptions to the no-exceptions rule.
Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and brief strong language
Box Office: $93.9 Million
Revolutionary Road
In Theaters: December 26, 2008
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, Ryan Simpkins, Zoe Kazan, Ty Simpkins, David Harbour, Jared Morrison
Director: Sam Mendes
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they didnt expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other.
Rating: R for language and some sexual content/nudity
Box Office: $22.9 Million
Powder Blue
Year: 2009
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Patrick Swayze, Eddie Redmayne, Kris Kristofferson, Riki Lindhome, Lisa Kudrow, Alejandro Romero, Chandler Canterbury
Director: Timothy Linh Bui
Genre: Drama/Suspense
Synopsis: On the gritty streets of Los Angeles, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost his will to live, a terminally ill ex-con and a pathologically shy mortician.
Rating: R for sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use
Length: 106 Minutes
