July 2011 Movies

With Nicole Kidman • Andie MacDowell • Leighton Meester • Selena Gomez • Katie Cassidy • Denise Di Novi • April Blair • Alison Greenspan • Rick Schwartz • Arnon Milchan • Ron Bass • Tom Bezucha • Maria Maggenti • Cory Monteith

While on a trip to Paris with her best friend and soon-to-be-stepsister, Grace is mistaken for a British socialite, resulting in all three young women flying to Monte Carlo for a charity ball, auction, and the chance for international romance. However, when a million-dollar necklace goes missing, Grace and her friends must scramble to find it before the auction is ruined and their identities are exposed.

With Tom Hanks • Taraji P. Henson • Julia Roberts • Bryan Cranston • Rami Malek • Cedric the Entertainer • Wilmer Valderrama • Nia Vardalos • Gary Goetzman • Philippe Rousselet • George Takei • Bob Stephenson

When he's downsized from his job, Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) decides to reinvent himself by enrolling in college, where he forms some unexpected bonds with fellow students, while also catching the eye of Mercedes Tainot, a female professor played by Julia Roberts.

With Tomas Alf Larsen • John M. Jacobsen • Andre Ovredal • Otto Jespersen • Hans Morten Hansen

Focuses on a group of students who discover what they believe is a government conspiracy to keep the existence of trolls in the north of Norway hidden from the general public.

With John C. Reilly • Jacob Wysocki • Azazel Jacobs • Patrick Dewitt • Creed Bratton

Follows the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit, and the garrulous but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who takes an interest in him.

With David Hyde Pierce • Nathaniel Parker • Nick Tomnay • Clayne Crawford • Helen Reddy • Megahn Perry

A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.

With Jill Andresevic

Five different relationship stories: high school sweethearts, octogenarian lovebirds, the divorced father of two teenagers, a gay single man and a traditional Indian wedding.

With Yoav Potash

Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

With Lucas Belvaux • Yvan Attal

Yvan Attal stars as a millionaire who is kidnapped and held for ransom.

With Robert Longstreet • Michael Tully • Rachel Korine • John Maringouin • Mark Darby Robinson

Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his family's farm.

With Jennifer Aniston • Jason Bateman • Jamie Foxx • Colin Farrell • Kevin Spacey • Brett Ratner • Seth Gordon • Jason Sudeikis • Julie Bowen • Diana Pokorny • John Francis Daley • Charlie Day • Jonathan Goldstein • Michael Markowitz • Michael Disco • P.J. Byrne • Jay Stern • Toby Emmerich • Richard Brener • Sam Brown • Isaiah Mustafa

For Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day), the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston) into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con (Jamie Foxx), the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them.

With Sylvester Stallone • Adam Sandler • Kevin James • Jon Favreau • Cher • Faizon Love • Rosario Dawson • Donnie Wahlberg • Judd Apatow • David Ronn • Frank Coraci • Todd Garner • Walt Becker • Jennifer Eatz • Scot Armstrong • Bas Rutten • Jim Breuer

In "The Zookeeper," the animals at the zoo adore their caretaker Andrew (Kevin James), an amiable but lonely guy who's never quite fit in. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Andrew decides he should leave the zoo and get a life. When the zoo animals discover his plan they decide to break their code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! Now they won't shut up and they're teaching Andrew nature's best mating rituals. To help him win the girl of his dreams (Rosario Dawson) and save their happy family they're willing to do - or say - anything.

With Brad Pitt • Jessica Chastain • Sean Penn • Tye Sheridan • Terrence Malick

The story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

With Amber Heard • Jared Harris • Danielle Panabaker • Lyndsy Fonseca • John Carpenter • Michael Rasmussen • Doug Mankoff • Mike Marcus • Peter Block • Andy Spaulding • Shawn Rasmussen • Mamie Gummer

The disturbing experience of a young woman in an institution who is terrorized by a ghost.

With Paul Giamatti • Robert Carlyle • James Purefoy • Mackenzie Crook • Chris Curling • Jamie Foreman • Derek Jacobi • Rick Bennatar • Erick Kastel • Odette Yustman • Jason Flemyng • Richard Attenborough • Jonathan English • Andrew J. Curtis

Set in a time of bitter civil war, based on the true story of the great siege of Rochester castle.

With James Marsh • Simon Chinn

The life of a chimpanzee who was raised like a human child as part of a pioneering 1970s experiment. The film combines interviews with participants in the experiment and archival footage to depict the chimpanzee's experience.

With Charlie Hunnam • Patrick Wilson • Terrence Howard • Liv Tyler • Moshe Diamant • Mark Damon • Michael Mailer • Matthew Chapman

Story centers on a man standing on a high-rise ledge who insists he must jump by noon as the policeman below (Terrence Howard) tries to manage the situation.

With Michael Rapaport

Documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama that follow the band, A Tribe Called Quest, even today and explores what’s next for a group many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap. Having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group’s much-publicized breakup in 1998

With Jordan Matthews • Thomas Ian Nicholas • Brian Metcalf • Karoline Kautz

A young man defends his town from evil forces, aided by a magic sword.

With Ram Bergman • Famke Janssen • Nick Stahl • Natalie Carter • Emilie de Ravin • Ellen Barkin • Marc-Andre Grondin • Jean Paul Salome • Bill Perkins • Cooper Richey • Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar • Pierre Kubel

The reunion of a young man and his family after being positively identified in an unsolved missing-persons case. The reunion turns bittersweet when suspicions arise about whether he really is their son.

With Yoav Potash

Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

With Steven Schneider • Nicolas Goldbart

Coco (Daniel Hendler) has just moved to a new apartment with his wife Pipi (Jazmin Stuart), who’s seven months pregnant. At first, they don’t seem to notice the growing chaos around them, but when authorities quarantine their building after a deadly pandemic breaks out, Coco joins forces with his off-kilter, but well-prepared and stocked next-door neighbor Horacio to defend his refrigerator and keep Pipi safe.

With Emma Watson • Ralph Fiennes • Daniel Radcliffe • Timothy Spall • Rupert Grint • John Hurt • David Heyman • Jason Isaacs • Kelly MacDonald • Helena Bonham Carter • Robbie Coltrane • David Thewlis • David Yates • Warwick Davis • Steve Kloves • David Barron

The final adventure of Harry Potter as he attempts to bring an end to his nemesis, Lord Voldemort.

With Tom Kenny • John Lasseter • Stephen J. Anderson • Max Burkholder • Jim Cummings • Gilbert Gottfried • Craig Ferguson • Kath Soucie • Clark Spencer • Travis Oates • Don Hall • Burny Mattinson

This all-new hand-drawn animated movie reunites audiences with the philosophical "bear of very little brain" and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga, Roo—and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail. "Well a tail is either there or it isn’t there," said Pooh. “And yours isn’t… there." Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. It turns out to be a very busy day for a bear who simply set out to find some hunny.

With Zhang Ziyi • Li Bingbing • Angela Workman • Ron Bass • Wendi Murdoch • Florence Sloan

Set in 19th century remote China, the movie revolves around the lifelong friendship of Lily and Snow Flower and their imprisonment by rigid cultural codes of conduct for women.

With Errol Morris

The salacious adventures of a beauty queen with an IQ of 168, whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography, magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.

With Stephen K. Bannon

A documentary on Sarah Palin inspired by her book Going Rogue.

With Jeffrey Tambor • Colin Hanks • Ari Graynor • Gil Cates Jr. • Ann Margret • Caitlin Murney • Kent Sublette

Ben Keller (Colin Hanks) has just won the Iowa State Lotto. The catch? The winning ticket belongs to Leslie Singer, the dead girl in his closet. With $36 million now at his disposal, Ben has the newfound confidence to pursue his life-long crush, Lucy St. Martin (Ari Graynor). But can all the money in the world compensate for the fact that Ben is a fledgling serial killer? As their relationship spirals out of control and the body count rises, Lucy and Ben do all they can to survive love, marriage, and each other.

With Jennifer Connelly • Pierce Brosnan • Marisa Tomei • Ed Harris • Celine Rattray • Jim Gaffigan • Howard Hesseman • Douglas Stone • Greg Kinnear • Isabelle Fuhrman • George Ratliff • Cathy Schulman

A private detective investigates the killing of a professor and it becomes a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish.

With Oliver Schmitz

A drama, based on the novel Chanda's Secrets, about AIDS orphans in South Africa.

With Jackson Rathbone • Shannon Marie Woodward • Patch Mackenzie • Justin Lerner • Evan Sneider • Amanda Plummer

A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.

With David Barker

On their way to a wedding, Danny and Irene pick up a hitchhiker and find themselves against a conniving gang of kidnappers

With Christian Byers • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Marton Csokas • Morgana Davies • Julie Bertuccelli

After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots.

With Vadim Jendreyko

Her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps and then young Svetlana experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.

With Emma Stone • Andy Samberg • Woody Harrelson • Mila Kunis • Justin Timberlake • Will Gluck • Patricia Clarkson • Richard Jenkins • Jenna Elfman • David Newman • Keith Merryman • Alex Rodriguez

Story centers on a headhunter who recruits a magazine editor for a job, and realizing each is too busy to find a mate, they agree to sleep together with no strings attached. However, things start to get complicated when the guy falls for the girl, who’s started dating someone else.

With Chris Evans • Samuel L. Jackson • Sebastian Stan • Tommy Lee Jones • Derek Luke • Neal McDonough • Avi Arad • Toby Jones • Hugo Weaving • Dominic Cooper • Hayley Atwell • Stanley Tucci • Alan Fine • Kevin Feige • Stan Lee • Christopher Markus • Stephen McFeely • David Maisel • Louis D'Esposito • Anatole Taubman • Joe Johnston

Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment... Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Solider Serum and bombarded by "vita-rays." Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and battle savvy, Captain America has continued hiswar against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and as leader of the Avengers.

With Rohit Shetty

Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) is a police sub- inspector who hails from a small town of Sawantwadi in Maharashtra. He fights against corruption with the valor of lion. When Kavya (Kaajal Aggarwal) comes to Sawantwadi, from Goa to visit her grandparents on a vacation she is charmed by Bajirao’s bold and courageous demeanor. Everything goes well for Singham until there is a clash with a goon that eventually escalates into a full blown fight. Singham eventually gets promoted & is transferred to Goa which also happens to be the operational hub of the goon. While this move brings Singham closer to Kavya, it also brings him in the clutches of the very same goon who is on a mission to destroy him. How Singham rises to the challenge to expose this crook and put an end to his malicious activities forms the rest of the story.

With Jenna Fischer • Michael J. Weithorn • Dena Hysell • Joe Gressis

A recently widowed single mom reconnects with an old flame, who happens to be her sister's husband.

With Brit Marling • William Mapother • Mark Cahill • Jordan Baker

Rhonda, an ambitious MIT astrophysics student, kills a man's family in a car accident after leaning out of the window to catch sight of a newly discovered planet. After she spends four years in prison, she returns home compelled to meet the bereaved husband and father.

With Kristin Scott Thomas • Niels Arestrup • Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah's family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia's life becomes entwined with Sarah's heart-breaking story she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward.

With David Robert Mitchell • Adele Romanski

Storyline follows four teens on the last night of summer.

With Kevin Macdonald • Liza Marshall

Shot by filmmakers all around the world, the documentary aims to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the July 24, 2010.

With Gereon Wetzel

For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli -- repeatedly voted the world's best -- and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season.

With Emma Stone • Ryan Gosling • Kevin Bacon • Steve Carell • David Siegel • Julianne Moore • Denise Di Novi • Marisa Tomei • John Requa • Liza Lapira • Analeigh Tipton • Glenn Ficarra • Greg Silverman • Vance Degeneres • Dan Fogelman • Josh Groban • Tracy Weaver

At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream—good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his “perfect” life quickly unravels. Worse, in today’s single world, Cal, who hasn’t dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth. Now spending his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protégé to handsome, thirtysomething player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). In an effort to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal’s eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can’t be found at Supercuts or The Gap. Cal and Emily aren’t the only ones looking for love in what might be all the wrong places: Cal’s 13-year-old son, Robbie, is crazy about his 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica, who harbors a crush on Cal. And despite Cal’s makeover and his many new conquests, the one thing that can’t be made over is his heart, which seems to keep leading him back to where he began.

With Jon Favreau • Sam Rockwell • Harrison Ford • Daniel Craig • Paul Dano • Olivia Wilde • Adam Beach • Clancy Brown • Steven Spielberg • Alex Kurtzman • Abigail Spencer • Keith Carradine • Damon Lindelof • Mark Fergus • Brian Grazer • Hawk Ostby • Ron Howard • Roberto Orci • Scott Mitchell Rosenberg • Ervin Rustemagic • Noah Ringer

1875. New Mexico Territory. A stranger (Daniel Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). It's a town that lives in fear.

But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents—townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors—all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

With Sofia Vergara • Quentin Tarantino • Alan Cumming • Neil Patrick Harris • Jayma Mays • Jordan Kerner • Hank Azaria • George Lopez • Anton Yelchin • Kenan Thompson • Paul Reubens • Jonathan Winters • Fred Armisen • Raja Gosnell • Audrey Wells • Paul Neesan • Katy Perry • David Stem • David Weiss • Ben Haber • Ezra Swerdlow

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours – in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, and Hank Azaria star on camera opposite an all-star voice cast. Anton Yelchin will play Clumsy Smurf; comedy legend Jonathan Winters, who voiced roles in the "Smurfs" television series, will voice Papa Smurf; Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Katy Perry will play Smurfette; Alan Cumming will play Gutsy Smurf; "SNL's" Fred Armisen will voice Brainy Smurf; and George Lopez will play Grouchy Smurf.

In the live-action roles, Azaria will play the Smurfs' nemesis, the evil wizard Gargamel. Harris and Mays star as an expectant couple whose lives are turned upside down when the Smurfs cross over from their magical village to New York City. Vergara plays Odile, Harris's boss, a cosmetics executive.

With Kristin Scott Thomas • Niels Arestrup • Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah's family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia's life becomes entwined with Sarah's heart-breaking story she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward.

With Christian Slater • Eva Longoria • Gabriela Tagliavini • Paul Rodriguez • Judy Reyes • Yvette Yates

In a remote South American town, the women remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas.

With Edgar Wright • Nick Frost • Luke Treadaway • John Boyega • Tessa Ross • Joe Cornish • Franz Drameh • Simon Howard • Jodie Whittaker • Nira Park • Jenny Borgars • Alex Esmail • Leeon Jones

A gang of South London teenagers defends their housing project against an alien attack.

With Elena Anaya • Gilles Lellouche • Fred Cavaye • Roschdy Zem • Gerard Lanvin • Mireille Perrier

A hospital nurse forced to do the bidding of a criminal after his pregnant wife is kidnapped.

With Don Cheadle • Brendan Gleeson • Fionnula Flanagan • Martin McDonagh • Mark Strong • David Wilmot • Rory Keenan • Ed Guiney • John Michael McDonagh • Chris Clark • Andrew Lowe

A small-town cop gets pulled into the investigation of an international drug smuggling ring.

With Emjay Rechsteiner • Dominic Cooper • Lee Tamahori • Mem Ferda • Ludivine Sagnier • Paul Breuls • Michael Thomas • Amber Rose Revah • Ben Shafik • Catherine Vandeleene

The story centers on the inner circle of Suddam Hussein, and the love triangle between Hussein’s son, Uday, his body double Latif Yahia, and the concubine they both loved.

With Jay Baruchel • Scott Speedman • Jacob Tierney • Emily Hampshire • Kevin Tierney

Set in the dead of winter, Good Neighbors tells the story of a serial killer on the loose. Three residents of a small apartment building retreat indoors, but they might not be any safer there.

With Julio Cedillo • Daniel Meisel • Amy Wendel

In a small Texas town, a high school student enters a powerlifting competition in order to earn a college scholarship.

With U. Roberto Romano

Children who work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year in the scorching hot sun, without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working here, in our back yard, in America.

With Hamish Linklater • Gerhard Meixner • Roman Paul • Miranda July • Gina Kwon

A story about a thirtysomething couple grappling with their personal and professional malaise, which is narrated by a talking shelter cat named Paw Paw.

With Steve James

The stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.