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Joel, the owner of an Extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. This film is written and directed by Mike Judge ("Office Space") and stars Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis and Kristen Wiig.

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

  • 2.5

66%

34%
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The oddly competitive process of nursery school admissions.

Documentary

  • 2

33%

67%

A mysterious and intriguing tale of a woman who may have killed someone or something while driving on a dirt road. Dazed and confused, she tries to piece together what happened, while her husband systematically tries to erase her tracks.

NR Drama Thriller 1 hr, 27 mins

  • 1.7

40%

60%

A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.

R Drama Crime

  • 2.3

67%

33%
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A tortured man returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman he has always loved yet can never have.

R Drama Thriller

  • 2.3

29%

71%

One juror on a murder trial manages to convince his fellow colleagues that the case is not as clear cut as it might have seemed in the courtroom.

PG-13 Drama Thriller 2 hrs, 39 mins

  • 2.5

53%

47%
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After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, grad student Sara Quinn is left looking for answers as to what went wrong. Directing all her energies into her anthropological dissertation, Sara conducts a series of interviews with men in an effort to uncover the secret thoughts that drive their behavior. As she records the astonishing and disquieting experiences of various subjects, Sara discovers much more about men and herself than she bargained for.

NR Documentary 1 hr, 20 mins

  • 2

61%

39%

"Capitalism: A Love Story" will explore the root causes of the global economic meltdown and take a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore described as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country” - the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.

R Documentary 2 hrs, 7 mins

  • 2

51%

49%

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping—a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can't quite get her foot in the door—until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more hilarious and extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future.

PG Comedy

  • 2.4

93%

7%

A troubled young man retreats from the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He is drawn into a relationship with a young woman whose boyfriend ends up dead, leaving the new arrival as a suspect.

Drama Thriller 1 hr, 42 mins

  • 1.7

63%

38%

"Management" is a romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona, what starts with a bottle of wine "compliments of management" soon evolves into a multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose. Mike, an aimless dreamer, bets it all on a trip to Sue's workplace in Maryland - only to find that she has no place for him in her carefully ordered life. Buttoned down and obsessed with making a difference in the world, Sue goes back to her yogurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango (Woody Harrelson), who promises her a chance to head his charity operations. But having found something worth fighting for, Mike pits his hopes against Sue's practicality, and the two embark on a twisted, bumpy, freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together.

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 33 mins

  • 2.3

78%

22%

Running away from a troubled marriage, Kate Frazier (Kelly Macdonald, No Country for Old Men) hopes to find anonymity with a new home and a new job in Chicago. What Kate finds instead is Frank Logan (Michael Keaton, Batman), a veteran hit man who intends to kill her when he learns she may be a witness to his latest hit. But when he realizes she is like him, a troubled soul haunted by the past, their relationship deepens, and his plans change. Now, Logan must decide if he should walk away from his old life or use it as a way to secure their future.

R Drama 1 hr, 49 mins

  • 2

46%

54%

Ten ordinary women learn the art of the striptease when they dive into the glamorous world of burlesque.

NR Documentary

  • 1.5

38%

63%

In the film, Jerry O'Connell and Heather Graham will play a married couple whose lives are tossed upside down because of an unplanned pregnancy.

Comedy Romance

  • 1.7

69%

31%

A humble small town barber with a wife, and a famous friend. Their unlikely friendship is rooted in Indian mythology about lord Krishna’s childhood friendship with mortal Sudama.

NR Comedy

  • 1.7

71%

29%

The indie drama follows a pair of story lines that revolve around two brothers (Lucas and Haas). While Haas' character must deal with his mother (Bisset), his brother is lost in life until he is befriended by a scam artist (Brody).

Drama

  • 2

67%

33%

Body snatchers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes have pillaged their last grave. With just five hours before Arthur follows Willie to the chopping block, he recounts his life story to Father Francis Duffy. It soon becomes clear that Blake and Grimes are no ordinary grave robbers. And through Arthur's story the priest learns that not all corpses are equal.

NR Comedy Horror

  • 1.8

50%

50%

A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity.

R Horror

  • 2.3

50%

50%

A widower writes a book about grieving that turns him into a phenomenon. Reinvented as a charismatic self-help guru, he falls for a woman at a seminar and is forced to confront the fact that he hasn't come to grips with his own loss.

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 49 mins

  • 2.1

83%

17%

The project stars A.J. Cook (CBS' "Criminal Minds") as a religious conservative who receives a message from God telling her to act as a surrogate mother for two gay men desiring to raise a child.

NR Drama Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

  • 2.5

44%

56%

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