Best Movies Released September 2009
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Extract
A flower extract plant owner deals with workplace issues and a stream of bad luck, including his wife's affair with a gigolo.
Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Rotenberg, Mila Kunis, Tom Lassally, John Altschuler
Gamer
The picture unfolds in a dystopian near-future, where computer devices are implanted in the brains of unlucky individuals, and the latest "craze" for a depraved few involves controlling the activities of these soulless guinea pigs. At the behest of the players, the subjects unwittingly participate in a massive, multiplayer online game called "Slayers"; its seemingly invincible hero (Gerard Butler) ranks as the most worshipped celebrity on the planet. As the story rolls on, however, he suddenly begins to wrest his own individuality away from the system and determines to destroy the entire framework of the game - while audiences of millions watch his every move.
Gerard Butler, Milo Ventimiglia, Mark Neveldine, Amber Valletta, Tom Rosenberg, Brian Taylor, Michael C. Hall, Logan Lerman
All About Steve
Sandra Bullock plays eccentric crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz who, after one short blind date, falls for handsome cable news cameraman Steve (Cooper). Convinced they are soul mates, Mary follows Steve across the country, encouraged by the self-serving actions of news reporter Hartman Hughes (Church). Along the way, Mary befriends an endearing group of oddballs who embrace her idiosyncrasies.
Sandra Bullock, Kim Barker, DJ Qualls, Phil Traill, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, Nicholas Osborne
Carriers
The film, which will be written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, revolves around four friends trying to escape a viral pandemic in the American West who discover that they are more dangerous to one another than any virus. Pine would play one of the friends.
David Pastor, Anthony Bregman, Ray Angelic, Alex Pastor, Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp, Piper Perabo
Sandstorm
Trapped at home for 12 days in a massive sandstorm, a policeman cares for his dying wife as they are run out of food and water and mourn the disappearance of their child in the storm.
Michael Mahonen
Aagey Se Right
Through a series of events which are beyond their control, a cop loses his gun and a terrorist loses his heart in Mumbai.
Indrajit Nattooji
9
The surreal tale takes place in a world parallel to our own, a post-apocalyptic fantasy in which a band of courageous rag dolls battles for the survival of civilization.
Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Jim Lemley, Christopher Plummer, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov, Dana Ginsburg, Shane Acker
Repo Chick
The story will unfold against the backdrop of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high.
Alex Cox, David Lynch, Eric Bassett, Jaclyn Jonet, Alex Feldman, Chloe Webb, Del Zamora, Miguel Sandoval
Walt & El Grupo
At the request of the U.S. government, Walt Disney and fellow artists travel to South America to shore up relations during World War II.
Theodore Thomas
Crude
Documentary focuses on the lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
Joe Berlinger
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the M...
Traces the life of silent film star and United Artists co-creator Mary Pickford.
Nicholas Eliopoulos
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All b...
Remake of the 2002 direct-to-video movie of the same name. In the original, Madea's family comes to see her while she's sick, however it's the rest of the family that needs help.
Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige, Reuben Cannon, Roger Bobb, Hope Olaide Wilson, Brian White
Sorority Row
Focuses on a group of sorority sisters murdered at a party after they accidentally kill a teacher.
Carrie Fisher, Audrina Patridge, Stewart Hendler, Mike Karz, Darrin Holender, Pete Goldfinger, Josh Stolberg, Rumer Willis
Whiteout
Carrie Stetko, the lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, is investigating the continent's first murder, which draws her into a shocking mystery. Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer.
Kate Beckinsale, Greg Rucka, David Gambino, Columbus Short, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Steve Richards, Dominic Sena
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
A newsman intentionally frames himself for a murder he didn't commit in order to point out the dangers of circumstantial evidence and to expose an overzealous district attorney who has manipulated evidence in the past to gain convictions. Everything is going as planned until his friend, the one person who can exonerate him, is killed.
Jesse Metcalfe, Joel Moore, Peter Hyams, Ted Hartley, Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Jones, Aaron Ray
Broken Hill
A gifted teenager composer dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Dagen Merrill, Alexa Vega, Timothy Hutton
Walt & El Grupo
At the request of the U.S. government, Walt Disney and fellow artists travel to South America to shore up relations during World War II.
Theodore Thomas
No Impact Man: The Documentary
A family attempts to live in their Manhattan apartment without having an impact on the environment.
Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein, Eden Wurmfeld
Bright Star
The story centers on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which is cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.
Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish
Jennifer's Body
When small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, guys who never stood a chance with her, take on new luster in the light of Jennifer's insatiable appetite.
Amanda Seyfried, Megan Fox, Diablo Cody, Karyn Kusama, Johnny Simmons, Daniel Dubiecki, Jason Reitman, Mason Novick
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball...
Bill Hader will voice Flint Lockwood, a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Anna Faris, who recently turned heads as the star of the comedy hit The House Bunny, takes on the role of Sam Sparks, a weathergirl covering the phenomenon who hides her intelligence behind a perky exterior. James Caan plays Tim Lockwood, Flint's technophobic father. Andy Samberg plays Brent, the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Bruce Campbell plays Mayor Shelbourne, who figures out that Flint's invention can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the map. Mr. T plays the by-the-rules town cop Earl Devereaux, and Tracy Morgan takes on the role of Earl's rule-breaking son, Cal.
Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, James Caan, Phil Lord, Pam Marsden, Chris Miller, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell
The Informant!
What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.
Matt Damon, George Clooney, Scott Z. Burns, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Michael London, Steven Soderbergh, Greg Jacobs
Love Happens
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.
Judy Greer, Jennifer Aniston, John Carroll Lynch, Dan Fogler, Brandon Camp, Scott Stuber, Mary Parent, Mike Thompson
Disgrace
John Malkovich stars as David Lurie, a South African professor who gets involved with a student and is fired. After moving to the Eastern Cape to stay with his daughter, he becomes wrapped up in racial politics.
John Malkovich, Scott Cooper, Steve Jacobs, Anna Maria Monticelli, Eriq Ebouaney
The Burning Plain
People try to find the healing powers of love, forgiveness and redemption.
Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Guillermo Arriaga, Martin Papazian
Pretty Ugly People
A dying woman wishes to bring six estranged friends together in the Montana wilderness. Upon arriving, the friends discover the situation isn't what they expected.
Tate Taylor, Missi Pyle
Paris
Romain Duris plays a dancer who is home-ridden when he suffers from heart disease. Instead of dancing, he watches as the city and its dwellers entertain him.
Juliette Binoche, Cédric Klapisch, Bruno Levy, Romain Duris
Bright Star
The story centers on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which is cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.
Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish
Blind Date
The movie will follow a married couple who very tragically lost their child in a car accident. Since the child's death they've been unable to spend time together, and they can't not be together, so they sort of meet on blind dates and role-play as strangers.
Stanley Tucci, Nicolas Stiliadis, Patricia Clarkson, Thijs Romer
Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael Moore's follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11" will further explore the Bush administration's foreign and domestic policies and its continued response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Rumored to be about the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy.
Michael Moore
Pandorum
In "Pandorum", actors, Dennis Quaid ("Vantage Point", "The Express") and Ben Foster ("3:10 to Yuma", "Alpha Dog"), join Cam Gigandet ("Never Back Down", "Twilight"), Cung Le ("Tekken", Fighting"), newcomer Antje Traue and director Christian Alvart ("Antibodies") to tell the terrifying story of two crew members stranded on a spacecraft who quickly realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the spacecraft. They can't remember anything - who are they, what is their mission? The only way out of the chamber is a dark and narrow airshaft. Corporal Bower (Foster), the younger of the two, crawls inside, while the other, Lt. Payton (Quaid), stays behind for guidance on a radio transmitter. As Bower ventures deeper and deeper into the ship, he begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft's shocking and deadly secrets come unraveled, and the astronauts realize that the survival of mankind hinges on their actions.
Dennis Quaid, Norman Reedus, Antje Traue, Cam Gigandet, Martin Moszkowicz, Travis Milloy, Jeremy Bolt, Robert Kulzer
Surrogates
Set in the near future, humans live in isolation and interact vicariously through surrogate robots who are better-looking versions of themselves. A cop is forced to venture from his own home for the first time in years to solve a murder mystery.
Ving Rhames, John Brancato, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, David Hoberman, Jack Noseworthy, Elizabeth Banks, David Nicksay
Fame
Much like in the Oscar-winning original, directed by Alan Parker, the story will track the failures and fortunes of super-ambitious young performers and their teachers as they navigate a school year at the prestigious High School for the Performing Arts in New York.
Kevin Tancharoen, Tom Rosenberg, Aline Brosh McKenna, Collins Pennie, Debbie Allen, Kelsey Grammer, Becky Sloviter, Mark Canton
What's Your Raashee?
A young man has only ten days to locate his soulmate as dictated by the stars, otherwise he could lose a fortune. He thus embarks on a journey through love, looking through twelve girls to find the one who fits his horoscope.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Ashutosh Gowariker, Naushil Mehta
The Boys Are Back
In the adaptation of Simon Carr's serio-comic novel "The Boys Are Back in Town," Owen plays a widower struggling to raise his two sons.
Scott Hicks, Alan Cubitt, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, Clive Owen
Coco Before Chanel
Biopic of pioneering French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Christopher Hampton, Anne Fontaine, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Camille Fontaine, Anne Wiazemsky, Audrey Tautou, Emmanuelle Devos
The Pool Boys
A pool boy and a gardener turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the world's oldest profession.
Efren Ramirez, J.B. Rogers, Rachelle Lefevre, Stuart Gibbs, Julie O'Hora, Justin Ware, Matthew Lillard
The Providence Effect
A year after his arrival, Paul J. Adams became principal of Providence St. Mel, only to be told the following year that Chicago’s archdiocese was going to close the school. After orchestrating a fundraising campaign that received national and local media attention, funds poured in and enabled Adams to buy the school from the Sisters of Providence and convert it to a not-for-profit independent school. He then set about achieving a new goal: To turn Providence St. Mel into a first rank college preparatory school, and its African-American student body into a corps of driven, disciplined, high achieving students.
Rollin Binzer, Tom Hurvis
Brief Interviews With Hideous Me...
Julianne Nicholson stars as a grad student trying to cope with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with a wide variety of men.
Dominic Cooper, Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede, James Suskin, John Krasinski, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris
The Other Man
"The Other Man" tells the story of Peter (Liam Neeson) who discovers that his wife Lisa (Laura Linney) has been receiving emails and mobile messages from Ralph (Antonio Banderas), a man he never knew existed. Peter's obsession with this unknown rival escalates and, against the advice of his daughter Abigail (Romola Garai), a hurt and vengeful Peter flies to Milan to seek out the mysterious Ralph and the truth about his relationship with Lisa.
Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Romola Garai, Richard Eyre, Bernhard Schlink, Laura Linney
Paranormal Activity
A young couple move in together, but the woman is convinced that she's been haunted all of her life. The presence that's watched over her has apparently followed her everywhere, including this new house, and the apparition that resides with them seems to have a fond interest in her. Her vain and selfish boyfriend seeks to document the spectacle with his camera & equipment and purposely ignores her pleas to respect the paranormal presence and refrain from taunting it. But as the nights pass, the events in the house become much more harrowing.
Jason Blum, Micah Sloat, Ashley Brooks, Oren Peli, Katie Featherston, Mark Friedrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
A guy tries to patch things up with his soon-to-be-married pal after botching things up at his bachelor party.
Nils Parker, Bob Gosse, Karen Firestone, Ted Hamm, Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick, Aaron Ray, Max Wong
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Dark Nuns
Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy
Fight or Flight
Extremely Unique Dynamic
Left At Wall
Cunk on Life
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