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The Best Movies of 2008
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Movie: Fireflies in the Garden ( 2008 )
The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.
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Movie: Untraceable ( 2008 )
FBI agent Jennifer Marsh is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out, the cat and mouse chase becomes more personal.
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Movie: Wild Child ( 2008 )
A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.
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Movie: Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs ( 2008 )
The Planet Express crew discovers a tentacle covered, planet sized alien that wishes to copulate with it all the inhabitants of Earth.
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Movie: Max Payne ( 2008 )
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective and an assassin, who will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
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Movie: Cadillac Records ( 2008 )
Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
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Movie: Horton Hears a Who! ( 2008 )
Horton the Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists.
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Movie: Meet Dave ( 2008 )
A spaceship shaped like a human lands face first on Liberty Island. Its crew (of tiny, intelligent, and unemotional beings) is looking for an orb sent from its planet to extract the oceans' salt, which will ruin Earth. The orb is in the possession of Josh, the fifth-grade son of a single mom whose car strikes the ambulatory alien spaceship and cripples its power supply. The crew has 48 hours to recover the orb, throw it in the Atlantic, and leave Earth. Over the course of two days, the ship's crew experiences chaos and emotion in New York. Do Earth's giants - Josh and his mom - have anything to teach these brainy aliens? Meanwhile, mutiny is afoot and the cops are closing in.
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Movie: The Reader ( 2009 )
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
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Movie: The Ruins ( 2008 )
A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
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Movie: Recount ( 2008 )
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
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Movie: The Lucky Ones ( 2008 )
Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from the war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.
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Movie: Flash of Genius ( 2008 )
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
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Movie: Che: Part Two ( 2009 )
In 1965, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. After arriving in La Paz, Bolivia late in 1966, by 1967, Che with several Cuban volunteers, have raised a small guerrilla army to take on the militarist Bolivian movement. However, Che must face grim realities about his few troops and supplies, his failing health, and a local population who largely does not share the idealistic aspirations of a foreign troublemaker. As the US supported Bolivian army prepares to defeat him, Che and his beleaguered force struggle against the increasingly hopeless odds.
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Movie: You Don't Mess with the Zohan ( 2008 )
An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
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Movie: Brideshead Revisited ( 2008 )
A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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Movie: Ong Bak 2 ( 2008 )
A young Thai boxer learns the skills and inner meaning of martial arts.
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Movie: Last Chance Harvey ( 2009 )
In London for his daughter's wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.
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Movie: Speed Racer ( 2008 )
Young driver Speed Racer aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.
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Movie: Hell Ride ( 2009 )
Two rival bikers gangs, the Victors and the Six-Six-Six's, refuel their decades-old rivalry.
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Movie: The Eye ( 2008 )
A woman receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.
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Movie: The Lazarus Project ( 2008 )
A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.
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Movie: Saw V ( 2008 )
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.
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Movie: Transsiberian ( 2008 )
A Transsiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
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Movie: Meet the Spartans ( 2008 )
A spoof of 300 (2006) and many other movies, TV series/shows/commercials, video games and celebrities. King Leonidas of Sparta and his army of 12 go to war against Xerxes of Persia to fight to the death for Sparta's freedom.
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Movie: Quarantine ( 2008 )
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
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Movie: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ( 2008 )
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.
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Movie: Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( 2008 )
After the Republic's victory on Christophsis, Anakin and his new apprentice Ahsoka Tano must rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. Political intrigue complicates their mission.
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Movie: Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead ( 2008 )
After their car breaks down in the desert, four friends try to find their way back to civilization while trying to escape Rusty Nail's bloody wrath.
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Movie: Semi-Pro ( 2008 )
Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.
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Movie: New York, I Love You ( 2009 )
Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.
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Movie: Extreme Movie ( 2009 )
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.
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Movie: What Doesn't Kill You ( 2009 )
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
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Movie: 27 Dresses ( 2008 )
After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
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Movie: Nim's Island ( 2008 )
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
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Movie: Bangkok Dangerous ( 2008 )
A hitman who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs violates his personal code when he falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.
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Movie: Another Cinderella Story ( 2008 )
Mary lives with her evil stepmom/sisters and slaves for them. At the high school masquerade ball, she gets to dance with her pop idol, Joey. Running home before midnight, she drops her Zune. Joey tries to find the girl who fits the Zune.
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Movie: Miracle at St. Anna ( 2008 )
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
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Movie: The Family That Preys ( 2008 )
Two families from different walks of life learn to work together.
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Movie: Hamlet 2 ( 2008 )
In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Movie: Easy Virtue ( 2008 )
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
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Movie: Revolutionary Road ( 2009 )
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
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Movie: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People ( 2008 )
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.
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Movie: What Happens in Vegas ( 2008 )
A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
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Movie: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day ( 2008 )
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
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Movie: Appaloosa ( 2008 )
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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Movie: The Ramen Girl ( 2008 )
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
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Movie: Be Kind Rewind ( 2008 )
Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.
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Movie: Drillbit Taylor ( 2008 )
Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.
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Movie: The Love Guru ( 2008 )
Pitka, an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge is to settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
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Movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe ( 2008 )
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
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Movie: 21 ( 2008 )
Inspired by real events and people, 21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in Black Jack and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
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Movie: Over Her Dead Body ( 2008 )
A ghost tries to sabotage her former boyfriend's current relationship with a psychic.
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Movie: CJ7 ( 2008 )
A poor Chinese laborer learns important lessons after his son gets a strange new toy.
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Movie: Good ( 2009 )
John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.
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Movie: Pathology ( 2008 )
A group of medical students devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder.
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Movie: Open Season 2 ( 2008 )
Elliot (Joel McHale) incessantly parades proudly with his antlers, until unwise rock-jumping sees them crushed, and thus his new pride. Bride Giselle (Jane Krakowski) thinks Elliot has commitment anxiety when he rushes off to take the lead in the rescue of canine buddy Mr. Weenie (Cody Cameron), who is kidnapped by a poodle's gang of master-devoted pets determined to reconvert him. The feral gang has great trouble even penetrating the heavily guarded holiday resort where the brainwashing attempt is happening.
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Movie: Baby Mama ( 2008 )
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
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Movie: Righteous Kill ( 2008 )
Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.
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Movie: Changeling ( 2008 )
Los Angeles, 1928. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) returns from work to find her nine-year-old son Walter (Gattlin Griffith) gone. She calls the L.A.P.D. to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description, and he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the L.A.P.D. reunite mother and son, but she insists he's not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the Police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power?
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Movie: Hunger ( 2008 )
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
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Movie: Man on Wire ( 2008 )
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.
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Movie: Sunshine Cleaning ( 2009 )
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out?
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Movie: Zombie Strippers! ( 2008 )
A zombie epidemic spreads throughout a strip club in Nebraska.
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Movie: The Haunting of Molly Hartley ( 2008 )
A girl with PTSD attempts to refresh her life at a new school, but soon finds it impossible when she's afflicted by not only bullying and bad memories, but also the supernatural.
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Movie: Prom Night ( 2008 )
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
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Movie: The Alphabet Killer ( 2009 )
Based on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.
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Movie: The Secret of Moonacre ( 2009 )
A 13-year-old girl (played by The Golden Compass' Dakota Blue Richards) discovers that she is the only hope for banishing an ancient curse from a magical kingdom in director Gabor Csupo's adaptation of author Elizabeth Goudge's 1946 children's book The Little White Horse.
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Movie: Vacancy 2: The First Cut ( 2009 )
In 2004, the managers of the Meadow View Motel Gordon and Reece use room 6 to videotape the intimacy of the guests to sell porn movies. When the mysterious Mr. Smith checks in with a young woman, they witness the sadistic psychopath guest stabbing and killing his mate. The footage is a success and they decide to make other snuff movies with Smith. When Caleb, who is traveling from Chicago with his fiancée Jessica and his best friend Tanner, decides to rest in Meadow View, they have a nightmarish night and try to survive from the sick intention of the gang.
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Movie: Pride and Glory ( 2008 )
A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
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Movie: The Rocker ( 2008 )
In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's high school rock band.
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TV Show: Comanche Moon ( 2008 )
Comanche Moon, the prequel to McMurtry's bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lonesome Dove follows Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Zahn) and Woodrow F. Call (Urban), now in their middle years, as they continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life--Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe (Cardellini), and Call with Maggie Tilton (Banks), the young prostitute who loves him and bears him his son, Newt (Joseph Castanon). Kilmer plays Captain Inish Scull, a Yankee aristocrat and hero of the recently concluded Mexican War. Griffiths plays Inez Scull, the Captain's sexy wife who doesn't hesitate to fill her time with other men when he's away from home. Wes Studi plays Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump.
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Movie: Snow Buddies ( 2008 )
In this spin-off of the Air Bud franchise, five pups follow an ice cream transport truck to a plane and end up flying with the ice cream shipment to Alaska. There they find a pup friend and a boy who needs five dogs for a big race.
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Movie: The Express ( 2008 )
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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Movie: Amusement ( 2008 )
Three women are stalked by a killer with a grudge that extends back to the girls' childhoods.
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Movie: The Spirit ( 2008 )
Rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City.
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Movie: Day of the Dead ( 2008 )
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
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Movie: The Brothers Bloom ( 2009 )
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Movie: Soul Men ( 2008 )
Though it's been about twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.
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Movie: The Women ( 2008 )
A wealthy New Yorker wrestles with the decision to leave her cheating husband, as she and her friends discover that women really can have it all.
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Movie: The Oxford Murders ( 2008 )
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
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Movie: Adam Resurrected ( 2008 )
In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
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Movie: Management ( 2009 )
A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
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Movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 ( 2008 )
Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.
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Movie: Elegy ( 2008 )
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood", thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
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Movie: Traitor ( 2008 )
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
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Movie: The Great Buck Howard ( 2009 )
A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.
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Movie: Diary of a Nymphomaniac ( 2008 )
A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.
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Movie: Made of Honor ( 2008 )
A guy in love with an engaged woman tries to win her over after she asks him to be her maid of honor.
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Movie: Jolene ( 2008 )
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak. Based on E.L. Doctorow's story, "Jolene: A Life."
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Movie: Little Ashes ( 2009 )
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
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Movie: The Onion Movie ( 2008 )
Satirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior.
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Movie: The Red Baron ( 2008 )
German biopic loosely based on the World War I fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron by friend and foe alike.
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Movie: Disaster Movie ( 2008 )
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.
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Movie: Humboldt County ( 2008 )
A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.
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Movie: Passengers ( 2008 )
A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.
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Movie: The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning ( 2008 )
In the kingdom of Atlantica where music is forbidden, the youngest daughter of King Triton, named Ariel, discovers her love of an underground music club and sets off to a daring adventure to bring restoration of music back to Atlantica.
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Movie: Witless Protection ( 2008 )
When a small-town sheriff witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap.
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Movie: Lakeview Terrace ( 2008 )
Based on a true story, a troubled and racist African-American L.A.P.D. Officer will stop at nothing to force out a friendly interracial couple who just moved in next door to him.
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Movie: The Secret Life of Bees ( 2008 )
In 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.