Brooklyn’s Finest
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Michael C. Martin, Brad Caleb Kane
Cast: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Jesse Williams, Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Brian F. O’Byrne, Shannon Kane, Will Patton, Vincent D’Onofrio
Plot: Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
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Release Date: March 5, 2010
The Ghost Writer
Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Roman Polanski, Robert Harris
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Hutton, Eli Wallach
Plot: A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Uncertainty
Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Writers: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Nelson Landrieu, Olivia Thirlby
Plot: A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Edge of Darkness
Director: Martin Campbell
Writers: William Monahan, Andrew Bovell
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Bojana Novakovic, Frank Grillo, Gbenga Akinnagbe
Plot: As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Dear John
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Writer: Jamie Linden
Cast: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Richard Jenkins, Keith Robinson
Plot: A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he’s home on leave.
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The Maiden Heist
Director: Peter Hewitt
Writer: Michael LeSieur
Cast: Morgan Freeman , Christopher Walken, Marcia Gay Harden, William H. Macy, Wynn Everett, Roger Dillingham Jr., Christy Scott Cashman, Desiree April Connolly
Plot: A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Peter and Vandy
Director: Jay DiPietro
Writer: Jay DiPietro
Cast: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler, Jesse L. Martin, Tracie Thoms, Noah Bean
Plot: A love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy’s romantic beginnings with the twisted, manipulative, regular couple they become. The film explores the question most couples ask themselves… ‘How the hell did we get this way?’
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Release Date: October 9, 2009
The Messenger
Director: Oren Moverman
Writers: Oren Moverman, Alessandro Camon
Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker
Plot: An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.
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Release Date: November 13, 2009
Good Hair
Director: Jeff Stilson
Writer: Lance Crouther
Cast: Chris Rock, Maya Angelou, Eve, Meagan Good, Ice-T, Nia Long, Raven-Symoné, Al Sharpton, Kerry Washington
Plot: An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the black community.
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Release Date: October 9, 2009
Tooth Fairy
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writers: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia, Randi Mayem Singer
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant, Ryan Sheckler, Billy Crystal
Plot: A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.
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Release Date: January 22, 2010
The Crazies
Director: Breck Eisner
Writers: Ray Wright, Scott Kosar
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson
Plot: About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.
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Release Date: February 26, 2010
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
Red Cliff
Director: John Woo
Writers: Khan Chan, Cheng Kuo, Heyu Sheng, John Woo
Cast: Chen Chang, Yong Hou, Jun Hu, Tong Jiang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Plot: In Autumn of 208 AD, 100,000 peasants fled with their beloved leader Liu Bei from Cao Cao’s million man army. With the aid of heroes like Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, they escape across the Great River to take refuge with Sun Quan, the leader of the south. As Cao Cao prepares his huge navy to invade southern China and destroy them both, geniuses like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu devise a grand strategy. They hope to destroy Cao Cao’s 10,000 ships with fire upon the river, but must first trick Cao Cao into chaining his ships together, and then change the direction of China’s famous and freezing North Wind. While these two struggle to put aside the rivalry between Liu Bei and Sun Quan’s forces, they must hatch their legendary schemes before Cao Cao is ready.
Release Date: November 20, 2009
It’s Complicated
Director: Nancy Meyers
Writer: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski, Zoe Kazan, Lake Bell, Hunter Parrish, Pat Finn, Rita Wilson
Plot: A romantic comedy in which two men vie for the affection of a woman.
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Release Date: December 25, 2009