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August
2008 Movie Summaries
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The
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Trailer
Rated PG-13 for adventure action and violence 114 minutes
Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh, John Hannah
Explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor in an
epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid
Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex, wife Evelyn
and her brother, Jonathan. And this time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy
awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into
his merciless, unending service. Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress
to spend eternity in suspended animation, China's ruthless Dragon Emperor
and his 10,000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay
as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O'Connell
is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless
young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more
than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. As the monarch
roars back to life, our heroes find his quest for world domination has
only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable
supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable,
otherworldly force... unless the O'Connells can stop him first. |
Swing
Vote Trailer
Rated PG-13 for language. 110 minutes
Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley
Tucci
Bud Johnson, an apathetic, beer-slinging, lovable loser, is coasting
through a life that has passed him by. The one bright spot is his precocious,
over-achieving twelve year-old daughter Molly. She takes care of both of
them, until one mischievous moment on Election Day, when she accidentally
sets off a chain of events which culminates in the election coming down
to one vote... her dad's. |
When
Did You Last See Your Father? Trailer
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, thematic material and brief
strong language.. 92 minutes
Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew Beard, Tom Clear
An unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison
deals with his father Arthur's terminal illness and imminent death. Blake's
memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood
and teens are interspersed with tender and heartrending scenes in the present,
as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of
conflict, and learns to accept that one's parents are not always accountable
to their children. |
Bustin'
Down the Door Trailer
95 minutes
Surfing makes the journey from pastime to pro sport in this documentary
about the Hawaii scene in the 1970s. Edward Norton narrates the story as
six surfers from Australia and South Africa arrive and campaign for recognition
both of their talent and surfing's merit as a sport. |
Pineapple
Express Trailer
Rated R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence.
152 minutes
James Franco, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, James Remar, Joe Lo Truglio
Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy
dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called
Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by
a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps
his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason
to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced
back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly
discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly,
the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the
fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express. |
The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Trailer
Rated PG-13 for mature material and sensuality 117 minutes
America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, Jesse
Williams
Lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college
and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences
with each other as they always have--with honesty and humor. Discovering
their individual strengths, fears, talents and capacity for love through
the choices they make, they come to value more than ever the bond they
share and the immeasurable power of their friendship. |
Brideshead
Revisited Trailer
Rated PG-13 for some sexual content. 135 minutes
Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell
Adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, focusing on the doomed love
affair between Charles and Julia Flyte and how Catholicism destroys their
relationship and their families. |
Tropic
Thunder Trailer
Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violent
content and drug material. 106 minutes
Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, Nick Nolte
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war
film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie,
the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into
the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys. |
Star
Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer
Rated PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language
and momentary smoking. 98 minutes
On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil,
fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker,
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padme Amidala, along with brand-new heroes like Anakin's
padawan learner, Ahsoka. Sinister villains--led by Palpatine, Count Dooku
and General Grievous--are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and
the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands of the daring Jedi
Knights. Their exploits lead to the action-packed battles and astonishing
new revelations. |
Vicky
Cristina Barcelona Trailer
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexuality, and smoking.
96 minutes
Javier Bardem, Patricia Clarkson, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson,
Rebecca Hall
Vicky and Cristina, these two young Americans spend a summer in Spain
and meet a flamboyant artist and his beautiful but insane ex-wife. Vicky
is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina is a sexually adventurous
free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, both comedic and
harrowing results ensue. |
Mirrors
Trailer
Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief
nudity. 110 minutes
Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Ezra Buzzington, Erica Gluck, Cameron
Boyce
A man is head of security at a department store plagued by unexplained
deaths The store is also the target of demonstrators wanting compensation
for an earlier staff fire tragedy. The man becomes intrigued by a disturbed
woman. She claims her sister, who died in the fire, is exacting revenge,
using mirrors as a gateway back into the living world. |
Fly
Me to the Moon 3-D Trailer
Rated G 85 minutes
Three tween houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the
moon. |
Henry Poole Is Here
Trailer
Rated PG for thematic elements and some language. 101 minutes
Luke Wilson, Adriana Barraza, Radha Mitchell, Cheryl Hines, George
Lopez
When a man discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he leaves his
job, his fiancee and his overbearing mother and tries to spend his remaining
days in seclusion. But when a miracle transforms his life, his quirky neighbors
disrupt his plan to live out his days in quiet desperation. |
Bottle
Shock Trailer
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene
of drug use. 108 minutes
Freddy Rodriguez, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, Eliza Dushku, Bill Pullman
There are certain moments in history when America has proven itself
to the world: Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon; or the US Men's
Hockey team beating the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics. One such moment,
however, never got the recognition it deserved: In 1976, a small American
winery bested the exalted French wines of the time and sent the wine industry
into a tizzy - putting California wines on the map for good. Based on a
true story, Bottle Shock chronicles the events leading up to the famous
'Judgment of Paris' tastings, told through the lives of father and son,
Jim and Bo Barrett. A former real estate attorney, Jim sacrificed everything
to realize his dream of creating the perfect hand-crafted chardonnay. His
business, however, is struggling, and he's not only trying to overcome
differences with his slacker son, but is also fighting off the creditors.
Meanwhile in Paris, unwitting British wine shop owner Steven Spurrier hopes
to revive his own failing business by sponsoring a competition which will
pit the traditional French powerhouse against the California upstarts.
Little did Steven and Jim realize that they were both on course to change
the history of wine forever. |
American
Teen Trailer
Rated PG-13 for some strong language, sexual material, some drinking
and brief smoking--all involving teens. 100 minutes
Documentary following the lives of four teenagers--a jock, the popular
girl, the artsy girl and the geek--in one small town in Indiana through
their senior year of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques,
the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make
profound decisions about the future. Filming daily for ten months, filmmaker
Nanette Burstein developed a deep understanding of her subjects. The result
is a film that goes beyond the enduring stereotypes of high school to render
complex young people trying to find their way into adulthood. Hannah Bailey
is smart and beautiful, but a misfit in her high school. She is a liberal,
atheist living in a traditional, Christian, conservative town and dreams
of moving to California after graduation. Colin Clemens is the star of
the high school basketball team--and in Indiana, basketball is everything.
Colin is under enormous pressure this year playing not only to make his
town, his school, and his father proud, but for a college scholarship.
Jake Tusing is considered to be a nerd in high school. Though quite funny
and charming one-on-one, he is painfully shy in group situations and crushed
with self-doubt. In his senior year he vows that nothing will stand in
the way of him finding a girlfriend. Megan Krizmanich is the student council
Vice President and the youngest daughter of a prominent local surgeon,
anxiously awaiting word from Notre Dame University admissions. Wealthy,
pretty, smart and popular, she rules her high school--just don't get on
her bad side. When Megan's peers challenge her authority, she can't help
but take action, even if it means risking her future. Mitch Reinholdt is
an attractive and charming Varsity basketball jock with a soft side. When
he puts his social status on the line, avoiding his popular friends for
dates with artsy Hannah Bailey, he strains to maintain his reputation while
discovering a new side of himself. |
Brick
Lane Trailer
Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and brief strong language 101
minutes
Tannishta Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Debjani Deb, Kusimika Neager,
Christopher Simpson
The story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, who arrives
in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged
marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East
London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears
her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live
a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the
next. Nazneen struggles to accept her own lifestyle, and keeps her head
down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot
be avoided--and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young
Karim comes knocking at her door. |
The
Rocker Trailer
Rated PG-13 for drug and sexual references, nudity and language. 102
minutes
Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Jane Lynch, Josh Gad, Jeff Garlin
A failed drummer is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman
is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the
eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until
he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years after his rock
star fantasies are destroyed, just when Fish has finally given up all hope,
he hears that his nephew's high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for
a new drummer. They reluctantly make him the newest member of the band,
giving him a chance to reclaim the rock God throne he's always thought
he deserved, and taking the young band along for the ride of their lives. |
Death
Race Trailer
Rated R for strong violence and language. 105 minutes
Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie Martinez
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the U.S. penal system
has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic
Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for
televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence
and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race',
the world's biggest, most brutal sporting event. Five-time NASCAR champion
Jensen Ames is a man who has become an expert at survival. After eight
years of hard time, he has only six weeks before reuniting with his family.
But when Weyland demands a driver to headline the big game, Ames is forced
to submit. Donning the costume of mythical rider Frankenstein, the racer
becomes an instant crowd favorite, an unequaled sporting superstar. His
face hidden by a metallic black mask, one convict will be put through a
brutal three day challenge, with the trophy being the ultimate prize: freedom.
The only catch is that he must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals
in this post-industrial wasteland to claim it. Driving a monster car outfitted
with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, Ames must now kill
or be killed to win the most treacherous spectator sport on Earth: 'Death
Race'. |
The
House Bunny Trailer
Rated PG-13 for sex-related humor, partial nudity and brief strong
language. 97 minutes
Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, Kat Dennings, Katherine McPhee
Shelley Darlington has lived at the Playboy mansion for the last nine
years. She is Hef's favorite and acts like a den mother to the other girls.
On her birthday, she is unceremoniously evicted from Hef's pad for 'being
too old.' Homeless and without essential skills, Shelley wanders around
L.A. until she finds a new job--the housemother at the most unpopular sorority
on campus. |
The
Longshots Trailer
Rated PG for some thematic elements, mild language and brief rude humor.
94 minutes
Ice Cube , Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Dash Mihok
Curtis Plummer -- a down-on-his-luck former high school football star
-- turns his niece, Jasmine, into the quarterback of the local team, the
Minden Browns, and gets his stride back when he becomes the team coach.
With Curtis as their new leader and their pigtail-wearing star player,
this team of misfits wins its way to the Pop Warner Super Bowl and the
small city of Minden, Illinois, is ignited with team spirit, town pride
and the glory it once knew. . |
Hamlet
2 Trailer
Rated R for language including sexual references, brief nudity and
some drug content. 94 minutes
Skylar Astin, Amy Poehler, Phoebe Strole, Melonie Diaz, Steve Coogan
A failed actor-turned-worse-high-school- drama teacher rallies his Tucson,
AZ students as he conceives and stages a politically incorrect musical
sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
Disaster
Movie Trailer
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content througout, language,
drug references and comic violence. 90 minutes
Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Gary "G-Thang" Johnson, Nicole Parker,
Crista Flanagan
In DISASTER MOVIE, the filmmaking team behind the hits "Scary Movie,"
"Date Movie," "Epic Movie" and "Meet The Spartans" this time puts its unique,
inimitable stamp on one of the biggest and most bloated movie genres of
all time -- the disaster film. DISASTER MOVIE follows the comic misadventures
of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings during one fateful
night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural
disaster and catastrophic event -- asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the
works -- hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of
mysteries to end the rampant destruction. Taking aim at everything and
everyone, from "Indiana Jones" and "Iron Man" to Amy Winehouse and "High
School Musical," DISASTER MOVIE lampoons the blockbuster movie, pop culture
icons and public figures along the way as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
satirize everything as only they can. |
Traitor
Trailer
Rated PG-13 for intense violent sequences, thematic material
and brief language. 110 minutes
Don Cheadle, Archie Panjabi, Guy Pearce, Lorena Gale, Raad Rawi
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation
into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back
to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure
with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack
for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency
task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor
who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer, a fellow FBI agent. The
task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and
a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing
Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military
operative -- or something far more complicated. Obsessed with discovering
the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier
burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue. |
Babylon
A.D Trailer
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language
and some sexuality. 90 minutes
Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gerard
Depardieu
It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe
and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest,
a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast
wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns.
It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known
only as Toorop, lives by a simple survivor's code: kill or be killed. His
latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent
in Kazakhstan to New York City. Toorop, his new young charge Aurora and
Aurora's guardian Sister Rebeka embark on a 6,000 mile journey that takes
them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in New Russia across the
Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra
of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York. Facing obstacles at every
turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways
he could never have imagined--as he comes to understand that he is the
custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind. For the first time
in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk
away and save himself. Too bad it came on the day he died. |
College
Trailer
Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, nudity, language, drug
and alcohol abuse. 94 minutes
Andrew Caldwell, Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Alona Tal, Ryan Pinkston
After Kevin, a high school senior, gets dumped by his girlfriend for
being too boring, he doesn't want to go to the freshman orientation weekend
at Fairmont University, where they had planned to go together. But his
best friends, Cater and Morris, convince him that the weekend away will
help get his mind off her. Once there, one of the rowdiest fraternities
on campus decides to recruit them as "pledges" in return for granting them
access to the college party scene. Though forced to put up with the disgusting
antics of fraternity brothers Teague, Bearcat, and Cooper, the guys meet
sorority girls Kendall, Heather, and Amy, and sparks fly all around. But
once Teague feels threatened by Kevin's new relationship with Kendall,
he takes the pre-frosh humiliation to a greater level, and the guys decide
to fight back, pulling a huge prank that lands them on top. |
The
Wackness Trailer
Rated R for pervasive drug use, language and some sexuality.. 95 minutes
Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Olivia Thirlby
New York, summer 1994, the greatest year in hip-hop, a troubled teenage
drug dealer trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist
intent on living his life to the fullest. The two form an unlikely friendship,
but things get complicated when the kid falls for the doctor's daughter. |
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