September 2008 Movies

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Best Movies Released September 2008

Eagle Eye Movie Poster

Drama

88%

4.2 / 5

Miracle at St. Anna Movie Poster

Drama

Miracle at St. Anna

29%

3.4 / 5

Surfer, Dude Movie Poster

Comedy

50%

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys Together Movie Poster

Comedy

Tyler Perry's The Fami...

82%

4.5 / 5

Nights in Rodanthe Movie Poster

Drama

Nights in Rodanthe

75%

3.6 / 5

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Drama

67%

5 / 5

My Best Friend's Girl Movie Poster

Comedy

My Best Friend's Girl

73%

2.9 / 5

Fireproof Movie Poster

Drama

100%

4.4 / 5

The Women Movie Poster

Comedy

100%

3.5 / 5

Righteous Kill Movie Poster

Action

50%

4.3 / 5

Hounddog Movie Poster

Drama

38%

4.5 / 5

The Duchess Movie Poster

Adaptation

50%

4.5 / 5

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Released Friday, September 5th

Surfer, Dude Poster

50%

Surfer, Dude

Longboarding soul-surfer Steve Addington returns to Malibu for the summer to find his cool hometown vibe corrupted. New sponsorship demands Addington to expand into Virtual Reality Video Games and Reality TV. Unwilling to participate in this new digital-reality, he chooses to spend his summer surfing his home break. But in a twist-of-fate, the waves go flat and stay flat. Out of money, his expense-accounts canceled, and betrayed by his buddies, Addington is backed into a harsh corner. He must endure the insanity that comes with no waves or give into "the Man" and his new, reality-altering machines. Aided by his manager, his mentor, his guardian-angel and his summer lover, Addington has a chance of keeping his cool, but it's not going to be easy. The dude needs a wave, and there's never been a drought like this.

Matthew McConaughey, Tom Hanks, K. D. Aubert, Willie Nelson, Rob Bindler, Gus Gustawes, Mark Gustawes, Gary Goetzman

R Comedy 1 hr, 28 mins

50% WILL SEE

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56%

3.4 / 5

(11)

Bangkok Dangerous

The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok's intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard... just as Surat decides it's time to clean house.

Nicolas Cage, William Sherak, Jason Shuman, Norm Golightly, Initial's Graham King, Steve Baldocchi, Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pan

R Drama Action

56% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

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Released Tuesday, September 9th

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60%

5 / 5

(1)

American Loser

Paralyzed by learning disabilities, recovering alcoholic Jeff Nichols (Scott) is trying his darndest to figure who he is and how he's supposed to live his life... and nothing seems to be working.

Seann William Scott, Gretchen Mol, Tod Harrison Williams

Drama Thriller

60% WILL SEE

5 / 5

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Released Friday, September 12th

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys Together Poster

82%

4.5 / 5

(15)

Tyler Perry's The Family Tha...

Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Suddenly, their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered newlywed daughter Andrea is betraying her trusting husband Chris by engaging in a torrid affair with her boss and mother's best friend's son William. While cheating on his wife Jillian with a string of ongoing dalliances with his mistress Andrea, William's true focus is to replace the COO of his mother's lucrative construction corporation. Meanwhile, Alice's other daughter Pam, a kind but no nonsense woman married to a hard working construction worker, tries to steer the family in a more positive direction. While paternity secrets, marital infidelity, greed and unsavory business dealings threaten to derail both families, Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin.

Tyler Perry, Cole Hauser, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan

PG-13 Drama Comedy

82% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

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The Women Poster

100%

3.5 / 5

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The Women

"The Women" tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all – a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life – a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York's cutting edge. But when Mary's husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry 'spritzer girl' lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose. Mary and Sylvie's relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well.

Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Annette Bening, Carrie Fisher, Ana Gasteyer, Mick Jagger, Victoria Pearman, Christopher Eberts

PG-13 Comedy Remake

100% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

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Righteous Kill Poster

50%

4.3 / 5

(12)

Righteous Kill

A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

Robert De Niro, Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Jon Avnet, Al Pacino, Russell Gewirtz, 50 Cent

R Drama Action

50% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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Burn After Reading Poster

43%

4 / 5

(8)

Burn After Reading

A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. CIA agent Osborne Cox decides to pen his memoirs and is fired from the agency. The disc containing the memoirs inadvertently gets left in a ladies locker room at a gym, where Linda and co-worker Chad, hatch a plan to sell its contents to the highest bidder.

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton

R Comedy Thriller 1 hr, 36 mins

43% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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Amusement Poster

31%

3 / 5

(4)

Amusement

A traumatized woman is questioned by a policeman and a psychiatrist about three stories that involve her and two of her female friends from childhood.

Jake Wade Wall, Keir O'Donnell, Mike Macari, John Simpson, Neal Edelstein, Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, Jessica Lucas

R Thriller Suspense

31% WILL SEE

3 / 5

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Released Wednesday, September 17th

Appaloosa Poster

70%

4.3 / 5

(12)

Appaloosa

Set in the Old West territory of New Mexico, "Appaloosa" revolves around a pair of hired guns (Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris) who come to clean up a dangerous town run by a ruthless, powerful rancher (Jeremy Irons) and his band of outlaws. While boldly bringing new order to the town, the two fearless lawmen meet a provocative outsider (Renée Zellweger) whose unconventional ways threaten to destroy their decade-old bond.

Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Robert Knott, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance Henriksen, Michael London

R Action Adventure

70% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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Released Friday, September 19th

My Best Friend's Girl Poster

73%

2.9 / 5

(7)

My Best Friend's Girl

When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives--an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank's best friend, Dustin, is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out--and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend's girl.

Dane Cook, Alec Baldwin, Kate Hudson, Greg Lessans, Howard Deutch, Adam Herz, Josh Shader, Guymon Casady

R Comedy

73% WILL SEE

2.9 / 5

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Hounddog Poster

38%

4.5 / 5

(4)

Hounddog

Taking place in the 1960s American South, Dakota Fanning plays Lewellen. a troubled 12-year old girl who finds solace from an abusive life through blues music. Blues music is delicately woven throughout this touching film to create a colorful tapestry of a melancholy life that finds release and healing through the music of Elvis Presley, whose character appears in the movie, albeit briefly, and the singing of the Blues.

Dakota Fanning, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jen Gatien, Cody Hanford, Robin Wright, Raye Dowell, Terry Leonard, Rebecca Cleary

R Drama

38% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

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The Duchess Poster

50%

4.5 / 5

(2)

The Duchess

A vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time is trapped in an unhappy triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt into a scandal.

Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Saul Dibb, Carolyn Marks-Blackwood, Francois Ivernel, Jeffrey Hatcher, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell

PG-13 Drama Adaptation

50% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

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Igor Poster

73%

2.8 / 5

(12)

Igor

A playfully irreverent comedy with a new twist to the classic monster genre, "Igor" is the story of a mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant who has big dreams of becoming a scientist in his own right and winning the coveted first place award at the annual Evil Science Fair.

John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Max Howard, Jennifer Coolidge, Sean Hayes, Tony Leondis, Chris McKenna

PG Comedy Animation 1 hr, 26 mins

73% WILL SEE

2.8 / 5

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Lakeview Terrace Poster

42%

4 / 5

(11)

Lakeview Terrace

In "Lakeview Terrace", a young couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of their interracial relationship. A stern, single father, this tightly wound LAPD officer (Samuel L. Jackson) has appointed himself the watchdog of the neighborhood. His nightly foot patrols and overly watchful eyes bring comfort to some, but he becomes increasingly harassing to the newlyweds. These persistent intrusions into their lives ultimately turn tragic when the couple decides to fight back.

Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Will Smith, Neil LaBute, Patrick Wilson, John Cameron, James Lassiter, David Loughery

PG-13 Thriller Suspense

42% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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Ghost Town Poster

75%

4 / 5

(5)

Ghost Town

In the comedy "Ghost Town," Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).

Kristen Wiig, Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, David Koepp, John Kamps, Téa Leoni

PG-13 Comedy Romance

75% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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Released Wednesday, September 24th

Fireproof Poster

100%

4.4 / 5

(10)

Fireproof

At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules. After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never married. Neither one understands the pressures the other faces--he as firefighter and she as the public relations director of a hospital. Regular arguments over jobs, finances, housework, and outside interests have readied them both to move on to something with more sparks. As the couple prepares to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's father challenges his son to commit to a 40-day experiment he calls "The Love Dare." Wondering if it's even worth the effort, Caleb agrees, but more for his father's sake more than for his marriage. When Caleb discovers the book's daily challenges are tied into his parents' newfound faith, his already limited interest is further dampened. While trying to stay true to his promise, Caleb becomes frustrated time and again. He finally asks his father, "How am I supposed to show love to somebody who constantly rejects me?" When his father explains that this is the love God shows to us, Caleb makes a life-changing commitment to love God. And--with God's help--he begins to understand what it means to truly love his wife. But is it too late to fireproof his marriage? His job is to rescue others. Now Caleb Holt is ready to face his toughest job ever--rescuing his wife's heart.

Alex Kendrick, David Nixon, Stephen Kendrick, Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel, Harris Malcom, Phyllis Malcom

PG Drama 2 hrs, 2 mins

100% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

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Released Friday, September 26th

Eagle Eye Poster

88%

4.2 / 5

(22)

Eagle Eye

"Eagle Eye" is a race-against-time thriller starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations – using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening – and more importantly, why.

Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Alex Kurtzman, Rosario Dawson, D.J. Caruso, Daniel McDermott

PG-13 Drama Thriller

88% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

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Miracle at St. Anna Poster

29%

3.4 / 5

(5)

Miracle at St. Anna

Four soldiers from the army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.

Derek Luke, Kerry Washington, Omar Benson Miller, John Turturro, Roberto Cicutto, John Leguizamo, Spike Lee, Luigi Musini

R Drama War 2 hrs, 40 mins

29% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

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Nights in Rodanthe Poster

75%

3.6 / 5

(5)

Nights in Rodanthe

Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane), a woman with her life in chaos, retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her—a wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teenaged daughter who resents her every decision. Almost as soon as Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, a major storm is forecast and Dr. Paul Flanner (Richard Gere) arrives. The only guest at the inn, Flanner is not on a weekend escape but rather is there to face his own crisis of conscience. Now, with the storm closing in, the two turn to each other for comfort and, in one magical weekend, set in motion a life-changing romance that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.

Dana Goldberg, Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, Doug Claybourne, Ann Peacock, Richard Gere, Christopher Meloni, George Wolfe

PG-13 Drama Romance

75% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

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67%

5 / 5

(1)

Forever Strong

A talented-but-troubled rugby player must play against the team his father coaches at the national championship.

Sean Astin, Neal McDonough, Gary Cole, David Pliler, Ryan Little, Sean Faris

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 52 mins

67% WILL SEE

5 / 5

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Choke Poster

10%

4 / 5

(1)

Choke

Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with "Choke", a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who "save" him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father's identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

Clark Gregg, Gary Ventimiglia, Joel Grey, Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng, Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly McDonald

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

10% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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The Lucky Ones Poster

50%

The Lucky Ones

When three very different U.S. soldiers find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America, they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of them has to real family. T.K. Poole, Colee Dunn and Fred Cheever arrive in New York from Germany only to find their connecting flights canceled due to a power outage. Anxious to get to their respective destinations, they agree to share a rented minivan to suburban St. Louis where Cheever is to reunite with his wife and teenage son. From there, the other two plan to fly to Las Vegas where the macho T.K. wants to make an important stop before seeing his fiancée and the tough yet naïve Colee plans to pay a visit to a fallen fellow-soldier's family. But, when Cheever's homecoming turns out to be a far cry from what he anticipated, the trio's one-day drive expands into an impromptu cross-country marathon. Along the way, they experience a string of surprising adventures ranging from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. As their interstate journey takes them from a barroom brawl to a high society dance to a bizarre Sunday morning church service, T.K., Colee and Cheever discover that home is not quite what they remembered and the unlikely companionship they've found in one another might be what matters most of all.

David Levien, Neil Burger, Rachel McAdams, Bill Block, Adam Merims, Rick Schwartz, Brian Koppelman, Dirk Wittenborn

R Drama 1 hr, 55 mins

50% WILL SEE

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Towelhead Poster

50%

Towelhead

Jasira wants something she can't define: attention, love, acceptance or a normal life. Unfortunately, she doesn't know the right way to find it. When Jasira's mother exiles her to Houston to live with her strict, quick-to-anger Lebanese father, she quickly learns what aspects of herself to suppress in front of him. In private, however, she conducts her sexual awakening with all the false confidence that pop culture and her neighbor's magazines have provided. The result is a funny, dark, bold and harrowing look at the confusion and misguided exploration of youth in America's track houses, public schools and suburban wastelands.

Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Alan Ball, Summer Bishil, Scott Rudin, Anne Carey, Peggy Rajski, Alicia Erian

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 55 mins

50% WILL SEE

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