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Movies Released December 19, 2008

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Nov. 30, 2009

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Academy Award® nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of "The Pursuit of Happyness" for the emotional drama "Seven Pounds." In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Steve Tisch, Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Gabriele Muccino, Todd Black, James Lassiter, Jason Blumenthal, Grant Nieporte

PG-13 Drama

95%

  • 4.1
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"Yes Man" stars Jim Carrey as Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere - the operative word being "no" - until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say "yes" to everything and anything. Unleashing the power of "YES" begins to transform Carl's life in amazing and unexpected ways, getting him promoted at work and opening the door to a new romance. But his willingness to embrace every opportunity might just become too much of a good thing.

Dana Goldberg, Jim Carrey, Bruce Berman, David Heyman, David Iserson, Danny Masterson, John Michael Higgins, Marty Ewing

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 44 mins

87%

  • 3.9
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The tale of three unlikely heroes--a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears--whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.

Ciaran Hinds, Emma Watson, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Viscardi, Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, William H. Macy

G Drama Adventure

91%

  • 2.8
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Washington, DC political journalist Rachel Armstrong writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. When a special government prosecutor demands she divulge her source, she refuses and finds herself behind bars, struggling to defend the principles she has based her career upon.

Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Edie Falco, Alan Alda, David Schwimmer, Marc Frydman, Bob Yari

R Drama 1 hr, 47 mins

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Based on a book by Roberto Saviano, "Gomorra" takes an inside look at the Neapolitan mob.

Matteo Garrone, Domenico Procacci, Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino

R Drama Crime

36%

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The story focuses on a former Nazi collaborator who later becomes the head of an asylum.

Jeff Goldblum, Derek Jacobi, Paul Schrader, Noah Stollman, Willem Dafoe, Ulf Israel, Ayelet Zurer

Drama Historical

50%

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