Movies Released April 28, 2006

A heart-warming, triumph-over adversity drama, "Akeelah and the Bee" centers on a precocious eleven-year-old girl, Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer), from south Los Angeles, who is discovered to have a talent for words. In spite of the objections of her mother Wanda (Angela Bassett), Akeelah enters a spelling contest. Her gift takes her to compete in the National Spelling Bee, the most famous competition of its kind in the world. On the way, she is helped by a forthright, mysterious teacher, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) and a cast of colorful characters from the community. Her journey evokes pride in the neighborhood, bringing them together and, in the end, all witness the courage and inspiration of one amazing little girl.

Angela Bassett, Marc Butan, Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Sid Ganis, Mark Cuban, Doug Atchison, Todd Wagner

PG Drama

75% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

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100%

5 / 5

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The Lost City

During the Cuban Revolution of 1958-59, the three brothers of the Fellove family are ruined: brother Luis supports Castro as a clandestine terrorist and is killed by the forces of Batista; brother Ricardo joins Castro's forces as a freedom fighter and kills himself when he realizes that Castro is just another power-hungry dictator; and wary brother Fico, a nightclub entrepreneur, stays apolitical during the Revolution and sees his life's work confiscated by Castro's puritanical and acquisitive goons.

Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Andy Garcia, Frank Mancuso, G. Cabrera Infante

Drama 2 hrs, 18 mins

100% WILL SEE

5 / 5

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1 / 5

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Art School Confidential

"Art School Confidential" follows Jerome, an art student who dreams of becoming the greatest artist in the world. Arriving as a freshman at a prestigious East Coast art school, filled with every artsy "type" there is, Jerome quickly discovers his affected style and arrogance won't get him very far. When he sees that a clueless jock is attracting the glory rightfully due him, he hatches an all-or-nothing plan to hit it big in the art world and win the heart of the most beautiful girl in the school.

John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Terry Zwigoff, Anjelica Huston, Ethan Suplee, Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, Ezra Buzzington

R Comedy Satire

0% WILL SEE

1 / 5

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Water

Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, "Water" begins when 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.

Deepa Mehta, David Hamilton, Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, John Abraham

R Drama Foreign

0% WILL SEE

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56%

1 / 5

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United 93

An unflinching drama that tells the story of the passengers and crew, their families on the ground and the flight controllers who watched in dawning horror as United Airlines Flight 93 became the fourth hijacked plane on the day of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil: September 11, 2001.

Lloyd Levin, Tim Bevan, Olivia Thirlby, Eric Fellner, Corey Johnson, Paul Greengrass, David Rasche, Daniel Sauli

R Drama Historical 1 hr, 30 mins

56% WILL SEE

1 / 5

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64%

Waist Deep

An urban action thriller with a sexy 21st-century Bonnie and Clyde. Ex-con O2 (Tyrese Gibson) is suddenly plunged into a life-or-death situation; trying to go straight for the sake of his young son Junior, O2 is forced to go back outside the law when Junior is kidnapped in a carjacking. His son is now in the hands of a vicious criminal leader, Meat (hip-hop superstar The Game). O2's shady cousin Wanna Be (Larenz Tate) is caught between loyalties, and so the only person who can or will help O2 now is wily street-smart hustler Coco (Meagan Good). With the clock ticking down, the heat between them rises as they become a lawbreaking couple, on an action-packed tear through town to save Junior and outwit the underworld.

Darin Scott, Tyrese Gibson, Ted Field, Preston Holmes, Russell Simmons, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, Vondie Curtis-Hall

R Drama Crime

64% WILL SEE

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1 / 5

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Clean

Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung) is a woman who wrestles with her dream of becoming a singer, her fitness as a mother, and daily life without her partner Lee (James Johnston). Her past is riddled with drugs and regrets, the result of which left Lee dead in a desolate motel room in Hamilton, Ontario, and landed Emily with a six-month jail sentence. The only thing that she desires for the future is a loving relationship with her son Jay, who is being cared for by Lee's parents, Albrecht (Nick Nolte) and Rosemary (Martha Henry). While Rosemary blames Emily for the death of Lee, Albrecht recognizes the importance of the bond between a mother and her son, and his faith sets the standard for the faith Emily must find in herself. Clean follows Emily to Hamilton, Paris, London and San Francisco and in three languages (English, French and Cantonese), as she battles for a place in a world reluctant to forget the woman she has been and unwilling to accept her as the woman she longs to be.

Patrick Fabian, Nick Nolte, Olivier Assayas, Don McKellar, Laura Smet, Malachy Martin, Sarah Perry, Maggie Cheung

Drama

1 / 5

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