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Smart, bitchy, urban comedy skewers the Manhattan fine art world with great vigor, as a pair of striving, pretentious brothers — one an avant-garde composer ... More
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 10/23/2009
Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Jonathan Parker
Cast: Adam Goldberg, Marley Shelton, Vinnie Jones, Eion Bailey, David Beach, Kelly Deadmon, Svetlana Efremova, Gina Gabrielli, Mark A. Keeton and Zak Orth
Producer: Catherine DiNapoli, Matt Luber and Andreas Olavarria
Writer: Catherine DiNapoli and Jonathan Parker
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Amelia

Amelia Earhart is one of the most iconic women of the 20th century and lived the kind of exciting life that warrants such a description. ... More
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 10/23/2009
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Mia Wasikowska, Christopher Eccleston, Virginia Madsen, Joe Anderson, Aaron Abrams, Marina Stone and Duane Murray
Producer: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Kevin Hyman and Ted Waitt
Writer: Ronald Bass
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The American Astronaut

In this outer space musical, Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader from Nevada, sets forth through a rustic and remote solar system when he finds ... More
Genre: Comedy, Musical and SciFi/Fantasy
Release Date: 01/19/2001
Running Time: 91 mins
Director: Cory McAbee
Cast: Cory McAbee, Gregory Russell Cook, Rocco Sisto, Annie Golden and James Ransone
Producer: William Perkins, Joshua Taylor and Bobby Lurie
Writer: Cory McAbee
Distributor: Artistic License Films

Antichrist

Lars von Trier’s psychosexual horror/art melodrama sends grieving parents Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg to a cabin deep in the primeval forest to thrash out ... More
Genre: Drama, Horror and Suspense/Thriller
Release Date: 10/23/2009
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager
Writer: Lars von Trier
Distributor: IFC Films

Astro Boy

Osamu Tezuka's groundbreaking Sixties anime series gets a stylish CGI update in this sci-fi animation. A scientist (given voice by Nicolas Cage), distraught over the ... More
Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation and Family
Release Date: 10/23/2009
Running Time: 94 mins
Director: David Bowers
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Nicholas Cage, Bill Nighy, Matt Lucas, Samuel L. Jackson and Nathan Lane
Producer: Maryann Garger
Writer: Timothy Harris, Osamu Tezuka and David Bowers
Distributor: Summit Entertainment

Back to the Future

With the help of a wacky scientist, a young teen travels back to 1955 in a Delorean turned time-machine. Once there, he meets his ... More
Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy and SciFi/Fantasy
Release Date: 07/03/1985
Running Time: 111 mins
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain and James Tolkan
Producer: Bob Gale and Neil Canton
Writer: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
Distributor: Universal Pictures

The Beaches of Agnes (Les plages d'Agnes)

Recording the beaches in her life, and the people in her life, tells the story of filmmaker Agnes Varda's existence.
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 07/01/2009
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Agnès Varda
Cast: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier, Andrée Vilar, Stéphane Vilar, Christophe Vilar, Rosalie Varda, Mathieu Demy and Christophe Vallaux
Producer: Agnès Varda
Writer: Agnès Varda
Distributor: Cinema Guild

The Box

This psychological-experiment-as-thriller tests a married couple when they find a mysterious box on their doorstep. If they open it they'll earn a million dollars, but ... More
Genre: Horror, SciFi/Fantasy and Suspense/Thriller
Release Date: 11/06/2009
Running Time: 116 mins
Director: Richard Kelly
Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Basil Hoffman, Gillian Jacobs, James Rebhorn, Michele Durrett, Andria Blackman, Lisa K. Wyatt and Patrick Canty
Producer: Sean McKittrick, Richard Kelly and Dan Lin
Writer: Richard Kelly and Richard Matheson
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Bright Star

Filmmaker Jane Campion tries something difficult — to show the life and times of English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his inamorata Fanny Brawne ... More
Genre: Drama and Romance
Release Date: 09/19/2009
Running Time: 119 mins
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Paul Schneider, Abbie Cornish, Thomas Sangster, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Samuel Barnett, Samuel Roukin, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Sebastian Armesto and Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Producer: Jan Chapman Films
Writer: Jane Campion
Distributor: Apparition Films

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore gets down to basics. After targeting guns, health care, wars for oil, and various individual industries, America’s most popular and influential maker of ... More
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 09/23/2009
Running Time: 127 mins
Director: Michael Moore
Cast: Michael Moore
Producer: Michael Moore
Distributor: Overture Films

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Sixteen-year-old Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia) meets a mysterious man at a freakshow (John C. Reilly as Larten Crepsley) and soon leaves his normal life to ... More
Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror and SciFi/Fantasy
Release Date: 10/23/2009
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Ray Stevenson, Patrick Fugit, Orlando Jones, Willem Dafoe and Salma Hayek
Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner, Paul Weitz and Ewan Leslie
Writer: Paul Weitz, Brian Helgeland and Darren Shan
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

A lumpy stew of weak characterization, lame gags, ADD-afflicted storytelling, and dazzling visual invention, this computer-generated kid flick concerns a nerdy young inventor (voiced by ... More
Genre: Animation and Family
Release Date: 09/18/2009
Running Time: 81 mins
Director: Christopher Miller and Phil Lord
Cast: Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Tracy Morgan and Mr. T
Producer: Pam Marsden
Writer: Chris Miller, Phil Lord, Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett
Distributor: Sony Pictures

Coco Before Chanel

Odd concept: Dramatize the less interesting portion of French fashion designer Coco Chanel’s life, the years in which she invented short hair for women, mannish ... More
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 09/25/2009
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos, Régis Royer, Etienne Bartholomeus, Yan Duffas, Fabien Béhar and Roch Leibovici
Producer: Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne and Carole Scotta
Writer: Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine and Edmonde Charles-Roux
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Couples Retreat

Thirteen years ago, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau were the definition of Hollywood cool in Swingers. In Couples Retreat, which they wrote together, the pair ... More
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 10/09/2009
Running Time: 107 mins
Director: Peter Billingsley
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman, Kristen Bell, Kali Hawk and Jean Reno
Producer: Vince Vaughn and Scott Stuber
Writer: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn and Dana Fox
Distributor: Universal Pictures

The Damned United

Depending on your familiarity with the history of English club soccer football, director Tom Hooper’s humorous, nostalgic profile of manager Brian Clough (played by go-to ... More
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 10/09/2009
Running Time: 98 mins
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent, Joseph Dempsie, Maurice Roëves, Henry Goodman, Stephen Graham, Brian McCardie and Peter McDonald
Producer: Andy Harries
Writer: Peter Morgan and David Peace
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

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Action/Adventure 11
Animation 2
Comedy 13
Documentary 11
Drama 15
Family 3
Horror 7
Musical 4
Program 2
Romance 2
SciFi/Fantasy 8
Suspense/Thriller 4
War 1
Western 1

BOX OFFICE LEADERS

1. Michael Jackson's This Is It - $23.2 million
2. Paranormal Activity - $16.4 million
3. Law Abiding Citizen - $7.4 million
4. Couples Retreat - $6.5 million
5. Where the Wild Things Are - $5.9 million
6. Saw VI - $5.3 million
7. Astro Boy - $3.5 million
8. The Stepfather - $3.2 million
9. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - $3.1 million
10. Amelia - $3.0 million

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