Movies Released February 3, 2006

Friday, February 3

127 mins

The World's Fastest Indian PG-13

After a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian motorcycle, Burt Munro sets off from the bottom of the world to test his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With all odds against him, he set a new speed record and captured the spirit of his times. Burt Munro's 1967 world record remains unbroken and his legend lives on today.
Anthony Hopkins, Roger Donaldson, Chris Lawford, Diane Ladd, Paul Rodriguez, Bruce Greenwood, Gary Hannam
Drama Action Adventure Biography

Manderlay

This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation.

Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. Grace's father and his army of villains had spent the entire winter seeking out new hunting grounds in vain, and now they were heading south in one last attempt to find a favourable location in which to take up residence.

By chance their cars stop in the state of Alabama in front of a large iron gate bearing a thick chain and a padlock. Beside the gate, a dead oak tree towers over a heavy boulder with Manderlay hewn in monumental letters into the granite.

Just as Grace, her father and his men are about to leave after a short break and a quick lunch, a young black woman runs up to the car. She knocks on Grace's window. She hammers at the glass in despair. Ignoring her father's advice to leave others to their own affairs, Grace follows the girl through the gates of Manderlay and there, she finds a group of people living as if slavery had not been abolished seventy years earlier, with white masters and black slaves...

Grace believes that she has a duty to make it up to the slaves for injustices they have suffered at the hands of her kind: 'we brought them here, we abused them and made them what they are', as she argues to her father; and she decides that having liberated Manderlay, she will remain at the plantation until she has seen them through their first harvest.

Her father grudgingly leaves her with four henchmen and a lawyer, warning Grace that he won't be there to pick up the pieces when her plans for the resurrection of Manderlay fall apart...
Isaach de Bankolé, John C. Reilly, Jeremy Davies, Lars Von Trier, Danny Glover, Bryce Howard Dallas, Stellan Skarsgard, Lauren Bacall
Drama Historical

The Tenants R

Set in New York, this is the story of a writer, "Harry Lesser" (Dylan McDermott), struggling to finish his third novel, which he believes will restore his literary reputation. In the nearly abandoned apartment building in which he lives, another writer, "Willie Spearmint" (Snoop Dogg), moves in as a squatter and begins to write his first novel with an unmatched fervor. The two develop a tenuous friendship until a woman (Rose Byrne) and their own demons come between them.
Dylan McDermott, Avi Lerner, Rose Byrne, Laz Alonso, Holly Wiersma, Aldis Hodge, Lati Grobman, Heidi Jo Markel
Drama Mystery
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Bandidas PG-13

A New York investigator (Steve Zahn) is sent to Mexico to check out a string of robberies but soon finds himself kidnapped by two beautiful crooks (Salma Hayek, Penélope Cruz).
Salma Hayek, Joachim Rønning, Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn, Audra Blaser, Dwight Yoakam
Comedy Western
94 mins

Factotum R

Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, this drama follows the author's fictional alter-ego, Henry Chinaski, as he moves from town to town looking for work and women in the 1940s.
Jim Stark, Bent Hamer, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Charles Bukowski, Matt Dillon, Fisher Stevens
Drama

Something New R

If love is an adventure, it's one yet to be embarked upon by Kenya Denise McQueen. A beautiful L.A. career woman, Kenya works as senior manager at a prestigious accounting firm, and is on the verge of making partner. But she has yet to find her own partner and a fulfilling personal life. It's not that she's stopped looking; her (mental) checklist is at the ready. After another Valentine's Day spent working late, Kenya agrees to a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscape architect who turns out to be not exactly what she'd pictured for herself. Then again, she does need the yard of her new house fixed up. Her girlfriends Cheryl, Suzzette, and Nedra are there for her with advice, while Cheryl's new beau Walter shares a male perspective with Brian. Kenya's socially prominent parents Joyce and Edmond and womanizing younger brother Nelsen also voice their own opinions. But it's when her perfect match, Mark, enters the picture that Kenya is truly thrown into confusion. Ultimately, Kenya has to decide for herself and follow her heart--no matter where it takes her.
Taraji P. Henson, Sanaa Hamri, Kasi Lemmons, Simon Baker, Golden Brooks, Mike Epps, Stephanie Allain, Lisa Jones
Drama Romance
87 mins

When a Stranger Calls PG-13

A high school student is traumatized during an evening of baby-sitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, "Have you checked the children lately?" After notifying the police, she is told that the calls are coming from inside the house.
Madeline Carroll, John Davis, Camilla Belle, Brian Geraghty, Molly Bryant, Jessica Helmer, Tessa Thompson, Simon West
Thriller Suspense Horror Remake
121 mins

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada R

A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
Luc Besson, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Fitzgerald, Barry Pepper, Guillermo Arriaga, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Julio Cedillo
Drama

A Good Woman PG

"A Good Woman" is a scandalous yet comic story set in New York and the Italian Riviera during the 1930s. Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is an audacious and well-known woman of a certain age with a reputation for entertaining wealthy, married men. Leaving her problems and unpaid bills in New York, she sets sail for Italy to pursue Meg (Scarlett Johansson) and Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), one of the most high profile couples in 1930s society. Once in Europe, she becomes embroiled in a family scandal which becomes an intriguing story of seduction, betrayal and, ultimately, surprising loyalty.
Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan English, Howard Himelstein, Helen Hunt, Alan Greenspan, Mark Albela, Steven Siebert, Oscar Wilde
Drama

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