Astro Boy
Director: David Bowers
Writer: Timothy Harris
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Freddie Highmore
Plot: When a scientist’s young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot child to replace him, however the robot uses it’s incredible powers to become a world famous super-hero, and faces his biggest challenge when an alien race threatens Earth.
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Release Date: October 23, 2009
A Christmas Carol
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes
Plot: An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Release Date: November 6, 2009
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Cast: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Roman Coppola
Plot: Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family.
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Release Date: November 13, 2009
Planet 51
Directors: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez
Writer: Joe Stillman
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese
Plot: The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.
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Release Date: November 20, 2009
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Director: Betty Thomas
Writers: Johnathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Cast: Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler
Plot: David Seville and chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, return in the sequel to lay waste to Seville’s surroundings and sing in three-part harmony. The sequel movie introduce the Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes.
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Release Date: December 25, 2009
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Director: Shane Acker
Writer: Pamela Pettler
Cast: Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer
Plot: A post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened.
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writers: Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman
Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah
Plot: In “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” much-loved characters from the worldwide blockbusters “Ice Age” and “Ice Age: The Meltdown” are back, on an incredible adventure… for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he’s growing too “soft” hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck – and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Princess and the Frog
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
Writers: Ron Clements, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, John Musker, Jason Oremland
Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, John Goodman, Bruno Campos
Plot: A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age.
Release Date: December 25, 2009