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12‑Sep	The Family That Preys (Lionsgate) Drama - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adults 30+ Two families from different walks of life learn to work together. The Family That Preys Righteous Kill (Overture Films) Crime/Drama - Rated R Target Market: Males 25+ After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren’t. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can’t do on their own—take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars? Righteous Kill The Women (Picturehouse) Drama/Com - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Females 18+ The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man. Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary's catty friends, especially the scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler, who has little room to talk - she finds herself on a train to Reno and headed for divorce right after Mary. But with a bit of guts and daring, Mary snatches her man right back from Crystal's clutches. The Women Burn After Reading (Focus Features) Drama/Com - Rated R Target Market: Adults 25-55 A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. Burn After Reading Towelhead (Warner Independent Pictures) Drama - Rated R Target Market: Adult Art House 30-50 A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. Towelhead Greetings From the Shore (NewStyle Releasing) Drama - Rated R Target Market: Adults 35+ Still reeling from the death of her father, a young girl spends one last summer at the Jersey Shore before heading off to college. But when her plans fall apart, the girl stumbles into a mysterious world of Russian sailors, high-stakes gambling, and unexpected love. Greetings From the Shore Moving Midway (First Run) Documentary Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ At Christmas 2003, New York-based film critic Godfrey Cheshire is visiting his family in North Carolina when his cousin Charlie Silver tells him something startling. Charlie inherited Midway Plantation, the ancestral home of his and Cheshire's extended family, and has been its devoted caretaker. But now Charlie and his wife Dena have made a decision: They want to move Midway - the antebellum manor house and several outbuildings - to a new location to escape Raleigh's encroaching sprawl. Can you really transplant a plantation? Will the "place" be the same if it is uprooted from the soil in which it has stood since 1848? Charlie's plan provokes immediate controversy in Cheshire's tradition-minded family. For Cheshire, it brings back memories of the wild, strange and magical place Midway seemed when he was a child, and of the stories he heard there - stories of his mother's family, the Hintons, settling the area in the early 1700s, fighting in the Revolution, being invaded by Yankee troops in the Civil War, and surviving Reconstruction. Yet stories, Cheshire realizes, both convey and conceal. The reality of the Southern plantation was that it depended on the institution of slavery. In Cheshire's family, stories of slaves always depicted them as happy and devoted, which surely disguised a more painful, complex reality. In fact, Midway bred two sets of Hintons, one white, one black. For years, they have rarely encountered each other. But that begins to change as Cheshire sets out to chronicle Charlie's attempt to move Midway. Moving Midway Walking on Dead Fish (Variance Films) Documentary - Rated PG-13 Target Market: New Orleans Adults A group of 16 year old football players band together in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina Walking on Dead Fish Forgiveness (International Film Circuit) Foreign Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village. Forgiveness
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19‑Sep	Ghost Town (Paramount) Romantic Comedy - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Date Crowd 18-45 In the romantic comedy "Ghost Town," Bertram Pincus, is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. That puts Pincus squarely in the middle of a triangle with spirited result. Ghost Town My Best Friend's Girl (Lionsgate) Com/Romance - Rated R Target Market: Date Crowd 16-30 Tank faces the ultimate test of friendship when his best friend hires him to take his ex-girlfriend out on a lousy date in order to make her realize how great her former boyfriend is. My Best Friend's Girl Igor (MGM) Animated - Rated PG Target Market: Kids A mad scientist's hunchbacked assistant invents Eva, a giant, indestructible monster, in hopes of winning first place at the annual Evil Science Fair. Igor Lakeview Terrace (Sony) Drama/Thriller - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adults 30+ An LAPD officer will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who just moved in next door. Lakeview Terrace Appaloosa (Warner Bros.) Western - Rated R Target Market: Males 30+ 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. Appaloosa The Duchess (Paramount Vantage) Drama - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Females 25+ A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who reviled for her extravagant political and personal lives. The Duchess Hounddog (Empire) Drama - Rated R Target Market: Adult Art House 30-45 A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley. Hounddog A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Magnolia) Drama/Rom. Target Market: Adult Art House 25-55 A Chinese man travels to America to visit his estranged daughter after her recent divorce. Though his trip starts off as a mission to see his daughter remarry, he sparks to an Iranian woman who, despite their language barrier, captures his heart. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Elite Squad (IFC Films) Foreign - Rated R Target Market: Adult Art House 20-45 In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged. Captain Nascimento is trying to find a man to replace him because his wife is pregnant and he intends to quit the command and become a trainer of the new recruits. Meanwhile, the two idealistic friends Neto and Matias join the Military Police force expecting to become honest policemen and fight the criminals. However, they see only corruption, lack of competence and stupid bureaucracy in the Military Police, and after a serious incident in the Morro da Babilônia, they decide to join the BOPE. The lives of Capitain Nascimento, Neto and Matias are entwined along the next months, first in the tough training period and then in action against drug dealers. Nascimento believes that Neto could be his substitute, but his impulsive attitudes jeopardizes his choice. Later, the intelligent Matias seems to be the correct choice, but he needs to prove that he has heart. Elite Squad Fraulein (Film Movement) Foreign Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ Ruza left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruza's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two strong willed women. Fraulein
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26‑Sep	Eagle Eye (Paramount) Thriller - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Young Adults 17-35 A young slacker and a single mom get tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting a political assassination. Eagle Eye Nights in Rodanthe (Warner Bros.) Drama/Rom. - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Females 20+ Adrienne Willis is a woman with her life in chaos, who retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her -- a wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teen-aged daughter who resents her every decision. Almost as soon as Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner arrives. The only guest at the inn, Flanner is not on a weekend escape but rather is there to face his own crisis of conscience. Now, with the storm closing in, the two turn to each other for comfort and, in one magical weekend, set in motion a life-changing romance that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives. Nights in Rodanthe Miracle at St. Anna (Buena Vista) Drama/War - Rated R Target Market: Adults 25+ Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII. Miracle at St. Anna Choke (Fox Searchlight) Drama/Com - Rated R Target Market: Adults 25-45 Victor Mancini is a medical-school dropout who has devised an ingenious scam to pay elder care for his Alzheimer's-afflicted mother: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, go on to send checks to support him. When he's not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. Choke Blindness (Miramax) Drama/Thriller - Rated R Target Market: Adults 30+ A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos and disorder. Blindness The Lucky Ones (Lionsgate) Drama/Com - Rated R Target Market: Adults 30+ The story revolves around three soldiers -- Collee, T.K. and Cheever -- who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S., with Collee on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family because he saved her life, T.K. seeking confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury that threatens his sexual function and middle-aged Cheever planning to hit the casinos in a desperate effort to pay for his son's college tuition The Lucky Ones Smother (Variance Films) Comedy - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Date Crowd 18-45 What would you do if your mother moved in with you and just wouldn't leave? When Noah Cooper is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can't possibly get worse. When he arrives home his already full house gets even crazier when Marilyn, Noah's overbearing mother arrives with her five dogs in tow needing a place to stay. Comedy ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won't quit smothering! Smother Whaledreamers (Monterey Media) Documentary Target Market: Nautical Buffs This visually stunning film offers an incredible glimpse into a rarely seen and scarcely understood tribal culture whose entire story of creation revolves around whales and has endured for centuries. The film passionately explores the connection between the subtle elegance of these "mothers of the sea" and ancient civilizations around the world whose culture and very existence is based on whales. Whaledreamers Humboldt County (Magnolia) Drama/Com - Rated R Target Market: Young Adult Art House 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. Humboldt County The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (Regent) Drama/Foreign Target Market: Adult Gay Art House Raquela is a transsexual-or "ladyboy"-from the Philippines who dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris. In order to make her dreams come true, she turns from prostitution toward the more lucrative business of Internet porn. Her success as a porn star brings new friends, including Valerie, a ladyboy in Iceland, and Michael, the owner of the website Raquela works for. Valerie helps Raquela get as far as Iceland. From there, Michael offers her a rendezvous in Paris. Will Paris be everything she dreamed of? And will Michael turn out to be her Prince Charming? The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
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1‑Oct	Ballast (Alluvial Film Company) Drama Target Market: Adult Art House 25+ A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict. Ballast
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3‑Oct	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Sony) Romance - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Young Adults 15-30 It's been three weeks, 2 days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? Nick, in a desperate attempt to show her he's moved on too, turns to the girl next to him and asks her to be his 5 minute girlfriend. This begins the night of Nick, Norah and manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, russian food, psychotically jewish ex boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex girlfriends. It's the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It's a night they'll never forget. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Buena Vista) Comedy/Adv Target Market: Kids While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home Beverly Hills Chihuahua Flash of Genius (Universal) Drama - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Adults 25-55 Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their version of the American Dream. Local university professor Bob married teacher Phyllis and, by their mid-thirties, had six kids who brought them a hectic but satisfying Midwestern existence. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants who embraced Bob's creation unceremoniously shunned the man who invented it. Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob is haunted by what was done to his family and their future. He becomes a man obsessed with justice and the conviction that his life's work-or for that matter, anyone's work-be acknowledged by those who stood to benefit. And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, this everyday David will try the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees. Flash of Genius How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (MGM) Comedy Target Market: Date Crowd 16-35 Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Religulous (Lionsgate) Documentary - Rated R Target Market: Young Adults 18-35 Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion. Religulous Rachel Getting Married (Sony Classics) Drama - Rated R Target Market: Adults 25+ A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding. Rachel Getting Married An American Carol (Vivendi Entertainment) Comedy - Rated PG-13 Target Market: Conservatives 25+ An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to show him the country's good sides. An American Carol
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8‑Oct	RockNRolla (Warner Bros.) Action/Crime - Rated R Target Market: Young Adults 15-30 London's criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster's shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs. RockNRolla
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10‑Oct	Body of Lies (Warner Bros.) Drama/Thriller - Rated R Target Market: Adults 20-60 Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris, who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA veteran Ed Hoffman and the collegial, but perhaps suspect, head of Jordanian intelligence. Although ostensibly his allies, Ferris questions how far he can really trust these men without putting his entire operation - and his life - on the line. Body of Lies The Express (Universal) Drama - Rated PG Target Market: Adults 30+ The life story Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy, whose NFL career was cut short by leukemia. The Express City of Ember (20th Fox) Fantasy/Adv. - Rated PG Target Market: Kids For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing . . . and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever. City of Ember Quarantine (Sony) Horror/Thriller - Rated R Target Market: Teens Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, Internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape. Quarantine Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Adults 25+ Poppy is an irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher who won't let anyone or anything get her down. Even when her bicycle, which she so happily rides through the busy streets of London is stolen, her first thought is only: "I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye." Living with her flatmate Zoe, Poppy has a gift for making the most of life. Determined to learn to drive, she finds herself matched with Scott, an uptight driving instructor who is everything she is not. Happy-Go-Lucky Ashes of Time Redux (Sony Classics) Foreign Target Market: Adult Art House 23-50 A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings. Ashes of Time Redux Breakfast With Scot (Regent) Drama Target Market: Adult Gay Art House Eric and Sam have been in a committed relationship for four years. Eric's a former hockey player turned sportscaster and Sam's a sport's lawyer. But when Sam's adventure seeking brother Billy, takes a job in South America, his ex-girlfriend, Julie, is discovered dead from a drug overdose leaving her son Scot (not Billy's son) to Billy. But Billy is missing in action so Sam is left to pick up the pieces. But the problem is Eric never wanted kids. When 11-year-old Scot arrives and they open his duffel bag, inside they find... one pink musical hairbrush, two plastic containers of beads and faux-gold chains, a pink poodle belt, and four pairs of white sock-ettes with lacy fringe at the top... they realize Scot is more out of the closet then they are even though he does not know it yet. A unique boy in an even more unusual situation, Scot throws Eric and Sam's life into complete disarray. When Billy finally show's up to take Scot back to South America - Eric and Sam can't bear the thought of losing Scot. Breakfast With Scot
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15‑Oct	Frontrunners (Oscilloscope) Documentary Target Market: Young Adult Art House It's hard to run for office - even in high school. And the campaign for student body president at Stuyvesant, perhaps the most prestigious public high school in the country, is almost as sophisticated as any presidential election. Candidates must choose running mates, navigate primaries, write political platforms, perform in televised debates, shake as many hands as possible, and win newspaper endorsements. But unlike presidential candidates, they also have to do their homework, take their SATs and write their college applications. FRONTRUNNERS follows the recent elections at the country's most competitive high school, exploring how politics works at a nascent level. As the race unfolds, it takes on undertones familiar to anyone who has watched a national election -- revealing that teenagers have an implicit understanding of how strategy, race, gender, personality, platforms, charisma, and hairstyle figure into a winning campaign. Frontrunners
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17‑Oct	Max Payne (20th Fox) Action Target Market: Males 12+ A DEA agent in New York, Max Payne has it all: A terrific job, a baby daughter, and a loving wife - the American dream. But this dream soon becomes his worst nightmare, as he returns home one day to discover that his wife and child have been brutally slain by psychotic hit men. Now on a personal mission to avenge their deaths and framed for murder along the way, he finds himself being hunted by the NYPD, the mob, and a ruthless corporation, all in the cold night, during the worst blizzard the city has ever seen. Truly a man with nothing to lose, only Max, with his loyalty, determination, and everlasting love for his lost family, can uncover the mysteries behind their murder, and above all else - get the revenge that he so deserves. Max Payne The Secret Life of Bees (Fox Searchlight) Drama Target Market: Females 18+ With pieces of her past all jumbled up in her head, young Lily Owens seizes an opportunity to leave behind her father and their South Carolina peach farm. Traveling with her nanny, Rosaleen, Lily encounters the Boatwrights, a trio of beekeeping sisters, who fold the girl into their strange, secret world. The Secret Life of Bees W. (Lionsgate) Drama Target Market: Left Wing Adults Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd President to the big screen as only he can. "W" takes viewers through Bush's eventful life -- his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush's decision to invade Iraq. W. Sex Drive (Summit Entertainment) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Teens A horny teenager brings his friends along on a road trip from Chicago to Knoxville to lose his virginity with a girl he met online. Sex Drive Morning Light (Buena Vista) Documentary Target Market: Adult Yachting Fans Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. This documentary tells the story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the TRANSPAC, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of "Morning Light" matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2300 mile showdown against top professionals. From their earliest training sessions in Hawaii conducted by world-class teachers through their test of endurance on the high seas, they form an unbreakable bond in the process of becoming a singular team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Morning Light What Just Happened (Magnolia) Comedy - Rated R Target Market: Adults 30+ Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer (De Niro) who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made. What Just Happened Filth and Wisdom (IFC Films) Comedy Target Market: Young Adults 18-30 A comedy centered on three flatmates living desperate lives in London. Filth and Wisdom
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22‑Oct	Stranded: I Have Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (Zeitgeist) Documentary Target Market: Adult Art House 30+ For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival. Stranded: I Have Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains