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content pic Speed Racer (2008)
Starring Christina Ricci
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Born to race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized—the legendary Rex Racer, whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to ......More




content pic What Happens in Vegas (2008)
Starring Cameron Diaz
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Set in Sin City, the storyline revolves around two strangers who wake up to discover they got married sometime during the previous night's drunken festivities, with one of them winning a huge jackpot on the other's quarter. The couple set out to undermine each other and......More




content pic Fall, The (2008)
Starring Lee Pace
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Limited Release
Los Angeles, circa 1920's, a little immigrant girl (Catinca Untaru) finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man (Lee ......More




content pic Surfwise (2008)
Starring Dorian Paskowitz
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Limited Release
Like many American outsider-adventurers, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz set out to realize a utopian dream. Abandoning a successful medical practice, he sought self-fulfillment by taking up the nomadic life ......More




content pic Tracey Fragments, The (2008)
Starring Ellen Page
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Limited Release
Based on screenwriter Maureen Medved's novel of the same name, "The Tracey Fragments" uses highly inventive and dynamic Mondrian-like split screens to tell the story of why 15-year-old Tracey Berkowi......More




content pic Babysitters, The (2008)
Starring John Leguizamo
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Limited Release NY 05/09/08
Shirley Lyner (Katherine Waterston) is a typical high school teen—she worries about her grades and the SAT's; she wonders if her best friend's step-brother likes her, she baby-sits a few nigh......More




content pic Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
Starring Lynndie England
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America’s image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of s......More




content pic Fugitive Pieces (2008)
Starring Stephen Dillane
Release Date: May 2, 2008
A powerful and unforgettably lyrical film about love, loss and redemption, "Fugitive Pieces" tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is transformed by his childhood experiences during WWII. The film is based on the beloved and best-selling novel by Can......More




content pic Mister Lonely (2008)
Starring Diego Luna
Release Date: May 2, 2008
In Paris, a young American (Luna) who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe (Morton), who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin (Lavant) and her daughter, Shirley Temple.......More




content pic Son of Rambow (2008)
Starring Will Poulter
Release Date: May 2, 2008
A nostalgic trip back to the 1980s, "Son of Rambow" is an inventive valentine to an era where, for the first time in history, young minds had access to technology that allowed them to create their own stories while paying homage to their larger-than-life heroe......More




content pic Redbelt (2008)
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Set in the west-side Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops, and special forces types, "Redbelt" is the story of Mike Terry (Chewitel Ejiofor), a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to inst......More




content pic Iron Man (2008)
Starring Robert Downey Jr.
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Based upon Marvel's iconic Super Hero, "Iron Man" tells the story of Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech s......More




content pic Made of Honor (2008)
Starring Michelle Monaghan
Release Date: May 2, 2008
For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life is good: he's sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies, and knows he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life. It's the perfect setup until Hannah goes overseas to ......More




content pic Possession (2008)
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Jess, a woman whose life is torn apart when her husband, Ryan (Michael Landes), and brother-in-law, Roman (Lee Pace), crash in a horrific car accident.......More




content pic 2008 Summer Lineup
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Except for the lone non-sequel, Transformers, all four of last summer’s top earners received less-than-stellar reviews, as directors crammed in excessive characters and failed to provide worthwhile endings. This year, like no other, there is bang-for-your......More




content pic Spring Breakdown (2008)
Starring Amy Poehler
Release Date: May 1, 2008
"Spring Breakdown" follows the vacation adventure of Gayle (Amy Poehler), Becky (Parker Posey) and Judi (Rachel Dratch), three thirty-something best friends who've always dreamed of being fabulous, but never grew out of being geeks.......More




content pic Roman de Gare (2008)
Starring Audrey Dana
Release Date: Apr 25, 2008
In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross: a woman abandoned (Audrey Dana, Cesar nominee for Best Female Newcomer) a stranger awaiting his chance (Dominique Pinon,) and a best-selling author (Fanny Ardant,) who imagines the thriller of the year. Deceptiv......More




content pic Four Minutes (2008)
Starring Monica Bleibtreu
Release Date: Apr 25, 2008
A fiercely expressive story of a veteran piano teacher's tense relationship with a volatile and disturbed young piano prodigy incarcerated in a women's prison. With an exquisitely rendered performance from veteran German actress Monica Bleibtreu, and an intense film deb......More




content pic Then She Found Me (2008)
Starring Helen Hunt
Release Date: Apr 25, 2008
Release Date: April 25, 2008 (NY, LA; expands: May 2)
Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with "Then She Found Me," a touching story of schoolteacher Apr......More




content pic Deal (2008)
Starring Burt Reynolds
Release Date: Apr 25, 2008
Set against the world of high stakes poker, DEAL follows the story of Tommy Vinson, an ex-gambler who quit the game of Texas Hold'em over 30 years ago after missing a family emergency and swearing to his wife, Helen, "never again". Tommy tries to be content wi......More






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