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This Week/NEW MOVIES
For theaters and show times, please refer to www.moviefone.com,
www.hollywood.com, LA
Weekly, or Los Angeles Times. Click on the underlined movie titles below to visit a movie's official Web
site.
Opening Friday, March 7:
The Bank Job
(R) Based on a real 1971 robbery of a
London bank vault from which millions of pounds in
safe-deposit boxes were stolen and nothing was recovered,
this Lionsgate thriller stars Jason Statham and is directed
by Roger Donaldson ("Thirteen Days"). It fictionalizes the
contents of some of the boxes to include information on
murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the royal
family. The cast also includes Saffron Burrows, Daniel Mays
and James Faulkner.
CJ7
(PG) A sci-fi comedy written and
directed by actor/filmmaker Stephen Chow ("Kung Fu Hustle"),
this Sony Pictures Classics release concerns a poor Chinese
laborer who learns important lessons when his son gets a
strange new toy. The cast includes Chow, Min Hun Fung, Chi
Chung Lam and Jiao Xu; in Mandarin with English subtitles.
College Road Trip
(G) In this family comedy from Walt Disney Pictures an
overachieving high school student (Raven-Symone) decides to
travel around the country to choose the perfect college, but
her overprotective cop father (Martin Lawrence) decides to
accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and
narrow. The cast includes Donny Osmond; the director is
Roger Kumble ("Just Friends").
Married Life (PG-13) An adulterous man plots his
wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation
of a divorce in this 1940s drama starring Pierce Brosnan,
Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams. The Sony
Pictures Classic release is based on a novel by John Bingham
and directed by Ira Sachs ("Forty Shades of Blue").
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
(PG-13) Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), a
middle-aged London governess, attempts to gain new
employment and enters the glamorous world of an American
actress and singer (Amy Adams) in this comedy-drama from
Focus Features. The cast also includes Mark Strong, Ciaran
Hinds, Lee Pace and Shirley Henderson; the director is
Bharat Nalluri.
Snow
Angels (R) Based on the novel by Stewart O'Nan, this
drama interweaves the life of a teenager, with his old baby
sitter, her estranged husband and their daughter. Kate
Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell star in the Warner Independent
Pictures release, written and directed by David Gordon Green
("Undertow"). The cast includes Michael Angarano, Jeannetta
Arnette, Griffin Dunne and Nicky Katt.
10,000 BC
(PG-13) A new film from director Roland Emmerich
("Independence Day"), this Warner Bros. epic adventure
focuses on a young hunter who forms a ragtag group to rescue
his lover who has been kidnapped by a band of warlords. On
their quest they encounter saber-toothed tigers, woolly
mammoths and a lost civilization. The cast includes Steven
Strait, Camilla Belle and Cliff Curtis. |
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