The Time Traveler’s Wife
Director: Robert Schwentke
Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston
Plot: A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian (Bana) with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.
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Release Date: August 14, 2009
World’s Greatest Dad
Director: Bob Goldthwait
Writer: Bob Goldthwait
Cast: Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore, Daryl Sabara, Geoff Pierson, Henry Simmons, Mitzi McCall
Plot: A comedy about a man who learns that the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy, and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone.
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Release Date: August 21, 2009
Shutter Island
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis Lehane
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow
Plot: From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.
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Release Date: October 2, 2009
More Than a Game
Director: Kristopher Belman
Writer: Kristopher Belman, Brad Hogan
Cast: Lebron James, Dru Joyce, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton, Willie McGee
Plot: This documentary follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James’ journey to fame.
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Release Date: October 2, 2009 ( Cleveland )
Where the Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Writers: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, Maurice Sendak (book)
Cast: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini
Plot: Maurice Sendak’s classic book Where the Wild Things Are comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.
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Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Box
Directors: Richard Kelly
Writers: Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson
Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Plot: What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars…but simultaneously take the life of someone you don’t know? Would you do it? And what would be the consequences? The year is 1976. Norma Lewis is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur, is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son…until a mysterious man with a horribly disfigured face appears on their doorstep and presents Norma with a life-altering proposition: the box. With only 24 hours to make their choice, Norma and Arthur face an impossible moral dilemma. What they don’t realize is that no matter what they decide, terrifying consequences will have already been set in motion. They soon discover that the ramifications of this decision are beyond their control and extend far beyond their own fortune and fate.
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Release Date: October 30, 2009
Gamer
Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Writers: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Cast: Gerard Butler, John Leguizamo, Logan Lerman
Plot: Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called “Slayers” looks to regain his independence while taking down the game’s mastermind.
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Release Date: September 4, 2009
Alice in Wonderland
Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Linda Woolverton, Lewis Carroll
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman
Plot: The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner.
Release Date: March 5, 2010
The Book of Eli
Directors: Hughes Brothers
Writers: Gary Whitta
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Michael Gambon, Jennifer Beals, Ray Stevenson
Plot: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
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Release Date: January 15, 2010
Lion’s Den (Leonera)
Director: Pablo Trapero
Writer: Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui
Cast: Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Laura García
Plot: Sent to prison for allegedly killing her lover, Julia discovers she is pregnant and is sent to a high-security maternity ward to serve her time. Julia’s only concern now is her son. Her fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally; her mother Sofía, her opponent. One attempts to teach her how to be a mother; the other wishes to take over rearing the child. The film, shot in a real prison with inmates as extras, shines a light on a little known aspect of prison life: motherhood behind bars. An official selection of Cannes Film Festival.
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Release Date: July 3, 2009
Halloween II
Director: Rob Zombie
Writers: Rob Zombie
Cast: Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif
Plot: It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Rob Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town’s got an unlikely new hero …
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Release Date: August 28,2009
The Collector
Director: Marcus Dunstan
Writers: Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton
Cast: Josh Stewart, Karley Scott Collins, Juan Fernandez, Jabari Thomas, Colvin Roberson, Michael Reilly Burke
Plot: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer’s country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
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Release Date: July 31, 2009
A Perfect Getaway
Director: David Twohy
Writer: David Twohy
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth, Marley Shelton, Steve Zahn
Plot: Cliff and Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they’ve found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back.
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Release Date: August 7, 2009
2012
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton
Plot: Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
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Release Date: November 13, 2009