September 2010 Movies

The American

An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.

George Clooney, Violante Placido, Anne Carey, Anton Corbijn, Grant Heslov, Rowan Joffe, Thekla Reuten, Bruce Altman

My Dog Tulip

Based on the 1956 British novel by J.R. Ackerley, "My Dog Tulip" follows a 14-year friendship between Ackerley and his German Shepherd, Tulip, after the writer rescued the dog.

Paul Fierlinger, Isabella Rossellini, Christopher Plummer, Sandra Fierlinger, Norman Twain, Howard Kaminsky, Frank Pellegrino, Lynn Redgrave

Going the Distance

A couple tries to maintain a long-distance relationship while one lives in Chicago and the other resides in Los Angeles.

Jason Sudeikis, Richard Brener, Justin Long, Rob Riggle, Jennifer Gibgot, Charlie Day, Dave Neustadter, Adam Shankman

Machete

He looked like just another day laborer from the streets, and the perfect fall guy for a crooked political assassination. But he turned out to be Machete (Danny Trejo), a legendary ex-federale with a deadly attitude and the skills to match.

Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Don Johnson, Cheech Marin

White Wedding

Elvis sets off from Johannesburg to travel the 1800 kilometers that lie between him and his bride to be. They are to be married on Saturday. Firrst stop is Durban by Greyhound, but he misses the bus, misses his bachelor party and then things get worse.

Jann Turner

The Winning Season

Sam Rockwell plays a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run the local high school's girls basketball team. Emma Roberts is cast as a player he befriends, and Rob Corddry will play the school's principal.

Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry, Rooney Mara, Kara Baker, Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray, Daniela Lundberg Taplin, Sam Rockwell

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle ...

Wang is a gloomy and cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang's wife secretly goes out with Li, one of Wang's employees.

Yimou Zhang

We Are Family

Maya's life revolves around her three children, who think nothing less than the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, Maya has ensured that everything runs smoothly in her house, under her watch, and that they continue to remain a happy family unit. However, when Aman introduces his girlfriend, Shreya, a career oriented woman, who has a lot to learn about children, to the family, the situation immediately takes an unexpected turn.

Sidharth Malhotra

Clear Blue Tuesday

In the course of seven Tuesdays over seven tumultuous years, eleven New Yorkers are transformed by love, desire, art, ambition, fury, grief, faith, fear, hope and, ultimately, connection with each other in the rousing indie rock musical drama.

Last Train Home

A family embarks on an annual journey, along with 200 other million peasant workers, to reunite with their distant family.

Lixin Fan

Flipped

Two kids lock horns at age 7 and then go on to share their first kiss at 13.

Madeline Carroll, Rebecca De Mornay, Penelope Ann Miller, Anthony Edwards, Kevin Weisman, Cody Horn, David Siegel, Rob Reiner

Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D

Milla Jovovich will reprise her signature role as Alice in this fourth installment of the videogame franchise, which takes off where "Resident Evil: Extinction" ended in Japan.

Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Johnny Messner, Don Carmody, Paul W.S. Anderson, Boris Kodjoe, Wentworth Miller

Legendary

A teenager looking to reunite his family through high school wrestling, which previously tore his family apart due to a tragedy.

John Cena, Danny Glover, Madeleine Martin, Mel Damski, Patricia Clarkson, Devon Graye, Michael Pavone, David Calloway

The Romantics

Set on the eve of a wedding celebration, seven close friends gather to watch two of their friends get married, but the maid of honor and the bride have had a long rivalry over the groom.

Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Adam Brody, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Elijah Wood, Galt Niederhoffer, Suzanne Todd, Anna Paquin

I'm Still Here

A year in Phoenix's life after he publicly gave up acting and tried to establish himself as a hip hop musician.

Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck

Lovely, Still

Robert Malone, 78, has been alone his whole life. A week before Christmas a new mysterious woman moves in across the street and teaches him that love conquers all.

Elizabeth Banks, Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Adam Scott, Nicholas Fackler

Genius Within: The Inner Lif...

Documentary about the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

Michele Hozer, Peter Raymont

Bran Nue Dae

Loosely based on one of Australia's most beloved and popular musicals, "Bran Nue Dae" is a foot stomping tour-de-force centering on the romantic adventures of a young aboriginal couple set against the spectacularly beautiful Australian landscape.

Rachel Perkins, Reg Cribb, Jimmy Chi, Geoffrey Rush, Rocky McKenzie, Ernie Dingo

Hideaway

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives. After Louis fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house far from Paris and is soon joined in her refuge by Louis gay brother, Paul.

Francois Ozon

Heartbreaker

Alex and his sister run a business to break up relationships. A rich man hires them to break up the wedding of his daughter that is in one week.

Pascal Chaumeil

Never Let Me Go

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

Carey Mulligan, Alex Garland, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Mark Romanek, Keira Knightley, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich

I Am Comic

Through candid interviews and backstage access, this documentary on Stand-Up explores the world of the working comedian and reveals a funny psychological profile of its practitioners.

Jordan Brady

Kings of Pastry

Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best.

Alpha and Omega

What makes for the ultimate road trip? Hitchhiking, truck stops, angry bears, prickly porcupines and a golfing goose with a duck caddy. Just ask Kate and Humphrey, two wolves who are trying to get home after being taken by park rangers and shipped halfway across the country. Humphrey is an Omega wolf, whose days are about quick wit, snappy one-liners and hanging with his motley crew of fun-loving wolves and video-gaming squirrels. Kate is an Alpha: duty, discipline and sleek Lara Croft eye-popping moves fuel her fire. Humphrey’s motto – make ‘em laugh. Kate’s motto – I’m the boss. And they have a thousand miles to go. Back home rival wolf packs are on the march and conflict is brewing. Only Kate and Humphrey can restore the peace. But first, they have to survive each other.

Hayden Panettiere, Danny Glover, Justin Long, Christina Ricci, Dennis Hopper, Eric Price, Chris Carmack, Ben Gluck

The Town

Set in a Boston suburb, a high-tension love triangle forms between a female bank manager, a longtime thief who stole more than her heart and an equally smitten FBI agent trying to bust the crook and his gang before they can pull another big job.

Ben Affleck, Blake Lively, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Basil Iwanyk, Jon Hamm, Chris Cooper, David Crockett

Easy A

A good-natured high school student uses the school rumor mill to financial and personal advantage by pretending to be the school slut.

Will Gluck, Emma Stone, Thomas Haden Church, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, Amanda Bynes, Malcolm McDowell, Zanne Divine

Devil

No plot details have been announced.

Trish Hofmann, M. Night Shyamalan, Bojana Novakovic, Logan Marshall-Green, Sam Mercer, Matt Craven, Chris Messina, Bokeem Woodbine

Catfish

Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, has no idea what he's in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on Facebook, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby's family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby's attractive older sister, Megan, a musician and model. Prompted by some startling revelations about Megan, Nev and his buddies embark on a road trip in search of the truth.

Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Marc Smerling, Ryan Kavanaugh, Brett Ratner, Andrew Jarecki

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Documentary about the Chauvet caves in Southern France that contain the oldest known cave paintings.

Werner Herzog

Picture Me

A personal video diary charting model Sara Ziff’s rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards. The film considers the demand for adolescent models, the pressure to stay thin, the abuse of drugs and the persistence of sexual harassment.

Ole Schell, Sara Ziff

Leaves of Grass

Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord. Before Bill can flee, he's implicated in a murder, and his life has become completely unraveled, suggesting that no rational philosophy can protect us from life's twists and dangers.

Tim Blake Nelson, Edward Norton, Avi Lerner, Richard Dreyfuss, Boaz Davidson, John Langley, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short

Jack Goes Boating

A stoner limo driver embarks on such missions as cooking and swimming lessons, and developls an unlikely relationship with another lovable loser.

Marc Turtletaub, Amy Ryan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daphne Rubin-Vega, John Ortiz

The Wild Hunt

A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.

Alexandre Franchi

The Freebie

Darren (Dax Shepard) and Annie (Aselton) have an enviable relationship built on love, trust and communication-they still enjoy each other's company and laugh at each other's jokes. Unfortunately, they can't remember the last time they had sex. They begin to flirt with an idea for a way to spice things up. The deal: one night of freedom, no strings attached, no questions asked.

Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton, Dax Shepard, Bellamy Young, Sean Nelson

You Will Meet A Tall Dark St...

No plot details have been announced.

Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Woody Allen, Letty Aronson

You Again

Kristen Bell will play a girl who is horrified to find that her brother is marrying the very girl who made her life a living hell in high school.

Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Dave Johnson, Odette Yustman, John J. Strauss, Andy Fickman, Moe Jelline

Legend of the Guardians: The...

In a parallel universe, a cast of owls and magic transformations exists. The first book begins with a young barn owl being pushed out of his family's nest by his older brother and then being rescued by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls.

Abbie Cornish, Dana Goldberg, Zack Snyder, John Collee, Rachael Taylor, Emily Barclay, Emilie de Ravin, Lionel Wigram

Wall Street: Money Never Sle...

Being kept under wraps, but will again feature corporate raider Gordon Gekko.

Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Oliver Stone, Edward R. Pressman, Allan Loeb, Frank Langella

The Virginity Hit

Follows four friends exploiting their teen sexuality for Internet popularity.

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Huck Botko, Matt Bennett, Jacob Davich, Zack Pearlman

Buried

Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Ryan Reynolds, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling, Robert Paterson, Samantha Mathis, Warner Loughlin

Howl

A 1950s-era tale, focusing on the obscenity trial launched to censor Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking book-length poem.

Paul Rudd, James Franco, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Gus Van Sant, Rob Epstein

Waiting for Superman

"Waiting for Superman" examines the crisis of public education in the United States through multiple interlocking stories—from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system.

Davis Guggenheim, Lesley Chilcott, Billy Kimball

Tibet in Song

Director Ngawang Choephel, traveled to Tibet in 1995 to make a documentary about Tibetan folk music threatened by the Chinese occupation. While there, he was accused of being a spy by the Chinese and imprisoned for an 18-year sentence, of which he served seven years before he was released under international pressure.

Ngawang Choephel

Jack Goes Boating

A stoner limo driver embarks on such missions as cooking and swimming lessons, and developls an unlikely relationship with another lovable loser.

Marc Turtletaub, Amy Ryan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daphne Rubin-Vega, John Ortiz

Enter the Void

Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta star in a visceral journey set against the thumping, neon club scene of Tokyo, which hurls the viewer into an astonishing trip through life, death, and the universally wonderful and horrible moments between.

Gaspar Noe, Nathaniel Brown

Kings of Pastry

Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best.