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Movies Released October 5, 2012

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Set in the world of collegiate a cappella competitions.

Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins, Max Handelman, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Anna Camp

PG-13 Comedy Musical

67%

  • 4.4
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After being hit by a car, a pet dog is brought back to life by his loyal owner, a young boy, who creates elaborate machines which bring down a bolt of lightning that revives the animal.

Tim Burton, Robert Capron, Winona Ryder, Allison Abbate, Martin Landau, Catherine O'Hara, John August, Martin Short

PG Fantasy Suspense 1 hr, 27 mins

80%

  • 3.8
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Sequel to Pierre Morel directed thriller in which a former spy rescues his kidnapped daughter.

Luke Grimes, Liam Neeson, Luc Besson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Olivier Megaton, Robert Mark Kamen, Rade Sherbedgia

PG-13 Drama Action

95%

  • 4.3
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Story centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.

Catherine Keener, Jay Reiss, Allison Janney, Julian Farino, Anthony Bregman, Leslie Urdang, Glen Basner, Ian Helfer

Drama Comedy

83%

  • 4.4
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Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his older sister (Lea Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister drifting in and out of jobs and relationships, twelve-year-old Simon takes on the responsibility of providing for the two of them. Every day, he takes the lift up to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from rich tourists to resell to the local kids down in the valley. He is able to keep their little family afloat with his small-time hustles and his sister is thankful for the money he brings in. But, when Simon partners with a crooked British seasonal worker, he begins to lose his boundaries, affecting his relationship with his sister and plummeting him into dangerous territory.

Ursula Meier, Léa Seydoux, Gillian Anderson, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston

NR Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

40%

  • 4
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Jack, the slacker son of a backwater Florida newspaper editor and publisher, gets pulled into his older, big-city reporter brother's investigation of a rural sheriff's murder, and whether the death-row inmate convicted of it was truly responsible.

Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Almodovar, Zac Efron, John Cusack, Nicole Kidman, Avi Lerner, Lee Daniels, Scott Glenn

R Drama Thriller

78%

  • 3.6
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Follows the tale of a couple who are about to get married but see a series of mishaps, including missing bridesmaids and crashed cars, wreak havoc to their upcoming wedding day.

Juliet Oldfield, Davie Fairbanks, Geoff Carino, Mena Suvari, Talulah Riley, Noel Clarke, Matthew McNulty, Jason Maza

NR Comedy Romance

55%

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Every Halloween, sleepy Fairhaven, Massachusetts erupts with the most ambitiously creative spookery in the world. Endless styrofoam tombstones and backyard beasts come courtesy of a few supremely dedicated local "home haunters" who've devoted their lives to the art of handmade monstermaking. The American Scream follow s three of these horrific households to uncover the triumphs and tragedies that come with carrying the blackened banner of true Halloween spirit.

Michael Stephenson

NR Documentary

50%

  • 4.3
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Natalie Portman will portray the iconic Catherine Earnshaw.

Andrea Arnold, Kaya Scodelario, Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Olivia Hetreed, Nichola Burley

Drama Biography

85%

  • 3.3
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Destiny, a black foster child, faces off against Iowa’s reigning dairy diva, the beautiful but venal Laura Pickler, in an epic butter-carving competition for the ages.

Jennifer Garner, Ashley Greene, Hugh Jackman, Yara Shahidi, Alissa Phillips, Alicia Silverstone, Jim Field Smith, Michael De Luca

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

62%

  • 3.2
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It all started during Hurricane Charlie. Zach Bonner, then just 6 years old, took his little red wagon door to door in his neighborhood to collect clean water for the victims. After four months, Zach had collected 27 truck loads of supplies.

Anna Gunn, David Kanter, Michael Guillen, Frances O'Connor, David Anspaugh, Patrick Duncan, Chandler Canterbury, Dylan Matzke

Drama

93%

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ilmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America's longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.

Eugene Jarecki

NR Documentary

65%

  • 5
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An urgent expose of the culture wars being fought within America's public school system, The Revisionaries is a behind-the-scenes look at the Texas State Board of Education's decade-defining conference on state textbook standards. As Texas is the country's single largest textbook buyer--and publishers are forced to re-write content to comply with their educational standards--the board's decisions have the ability to affect the future of American education.

Scott Thurman

Historical Documentary 1 hr, 32 mins

100%

  • 5
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Tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system? Director/Producers Matthew Heineman (OUR TIME) and award-winning Susan Froemke (WAGNER'S DREAM, LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON) interweave dramatic personal arcs of patients and physicians with the stories of leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military. ESCAPE FIRE is about finding a way out of our current crisis. It's a primer on how to save the health of a nation.

Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke

Documentary

39%

  • 3
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Based on the urban myth that you can breathe in evil spirits when passing cemeteries, #holdyourbreath follows seven friends embarking on a weekend camping trip who pass a run-down cemetery and find themselves arguing about the legitimacy of the urban myth. When one friend refuses to hold his breath while passing by, he finds himself the unwitting host to a notorious serial killer who jumps from body to body in order to pick off each of the friends one by one.

Jared Cohn, Katrina Bowden, Randy Wayne

R Suspense Horror

67%

  • 4.2
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In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man to use her. Alex, a human trafficking investigator plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire, Alexs wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls. She, and Alex both still are dealing with their grief of losing a child years earlier. As both of them struggle in their own way to overcome the pain of their past and realities of child exploitation where they now live and work, they find themselves being pulled together into the lives of local neighborhood girls, whose freedom and dignity are threatened.

Dermot Mulroney, John Billingsley, Christopher Bessette, Trieu Tran

Thriller

67%

  • 4
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Journalist and filmmaker Gotham Chopra spends a year traveling the world decoding his father Deepak Chopra, resolving the spiritual icon he is to the world vs. the real man known to his family. What starts as an intimate biopic becomes a deeper plunge into the meaning of identity itself.

Gotham Chopra, Deepak Chopra, Scott Carlin, Mark Rinehart, Emilio Diez Barroso, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Julian Robinson

Documentary

20%

  • 1
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When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Calvin Reeder, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West, Lane Hughes

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 33 mins

61%

  • 4.1
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Tells the story of a British schoolteacher's (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including a very inebriated "doctor" played by Donald Pleasence), while stranded in a small town in outback Australia.

Ted Kotcheff

NR Suspense Re-Release 1 hr, 56 mins

36%

  • 4.2
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