This Week/NEW MOVIES
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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.