Movies Released October 8, 2010

Friday, October 8

116 mins

Secretariat PG

Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."
James Cromwell, Otto Thorwarth, Graham McTavish, Gordon Gray, Diane Lane, A.J. Michalka, Nestor Serrano, Mike Rich
Drama Historical
112 mins

Life As We Know It PG-13

Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.
Christina Hendricks, Katherine Heigl, Josh Lucas, Paul Brooks, Jean Smart, Nancy Heigl, Norm Waitt, Scott Niemeyer
Drama Comedy Romance
88 mins

My Soul to Take R

The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.
Anthony Katagas, Wes Craven, Emily Meade, Raul Esparza, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Paulina Olszyinski, Iya Labunka
Thriller Suspense Horror 3D Post-3D
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101 mins

It's Kind of a Funny Story PG-13

A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.
Zoe Kravitz, Emma Roberts, Zach Galifianakis, Ryan Fleck, Viola Davis, Keir Gilchrist, Lauren Graham, Anna Boden
Drama Teen
87 mins

Nowhere Boy R

A biopic of a young John Lennon.
Douglas Rae, Ophelia Lovibond, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Sam Taylor Wood, Kevin Loader, Matt Greenhalgh
Drama
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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100 mins

Buried R

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, Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling, Samantha Mathis
Drama War
109 mins

Tamara Drewe R

The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.
Luke Evans, Tracey Seaward, Gemma Arterton, Tamsin Greig, Alison Owen, Bill Camp, Stephen Frears, Moira Buffini
Comedy
104 mins

Never Let Me Go R

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, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Allon Reich, Alex Garland, Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Macdonald, Sally Hawkins
Drama Adaptation
105 mins

Stone R

Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.
Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, Angus MacLachlan, Edward Norton, John Curran, Frances Conroy
Drama Thriller Suspense
New York / Los Angeles
4 / 5
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As Good as Dead R

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.
Cary Elwes, Brian Cox, Frank Whaley, Andie MacDowell, Jonathan Mossek, Matt Dallas
Thriller
108 mins

Inside Job PG-13

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Matt Damon, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Jeffrey Lurie
Documentary
100 mins

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.
Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges
Comedy Horror
108 mins

I Spit On Your Grave R

A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
Steven R. Monroe, Sarah Butler, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson
Thriller Horror Remake
89 mins

Down Terrace R

A genre-bending portrait of a crime family.
Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill
Comedy
New York / Los Angeles
4 / 5
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Friday, October 8