Movies Released June 22, 2007

Friday, June 22

1408 PG-13

A man, who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, meets his match when he checks into the notorious room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel, where he encounters true terror.
Samuel L. Jackson, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Harvey Weinstein, Jake Myers, Mikael Hafstrom, Larry Karaszewski, Matt Greenberg, John Cusack
Fantasy Thriller Horror Sci-Fi

Broken English PG-13

In a startling mature and nuanced performance, Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes. Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey's (Drea De Matteo) "perfect marriage." It doesn't help that her overbearing mother (Gena Rowlands) takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she's still unattached. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living. Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes. She finds herself in Paris looking to break old patterns. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.
Zoe Cassavetes, Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Justin Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich
Comedy Romance

Black Sheep

There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand and only 4 million inhabitants. After a genetic experiment goes wrong, New Zealand's sheep start turning nasty, and it's the humans who begin bleating.
Mick Rose, Jonathan King, Matthew Chamberlain, Tammy Davis, Oliver Driver, Peter Feeney, Glenis Levestam, Danielle Mason
Drama
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A Mighty Heart R

On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.

In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
Angelina Jolie, Irfan Khan, Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Brad Pitt
Drama Crime Gangster
110 mins

September Dawn R

The Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it is known, occurred on Sept. 11, 1857, and was the first known act of religious terrorism on U.S. soil. A group of Mormons, many disguised as Paiute Indians slaughtered all but 17 small children on a wagon train of nearly 140 men, women and children traveling through Utah on its way to California. One man, the adopted son of Mormon leader Brigham Young, was eventually executed for the crime--20 years after the event. Hundreds of direct descendants of the massacre still assert that the iconic Brigham Young had complicity in the massacre, a view denied by the Mormon Church, even today.
Lolita Davidovich, Terrence Howard, Christopher Cain, Scott Duthie, Kevin Matossian, Jon Voight, Tamara Hope
Drama Western

Evan Almighty PG

Steve Carell, reprising his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter of "Bruce Almighty", is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy "Evan Almighty". Blockbuster comedy director Tom Shadyac returns behind the camera for this next episode of divine intervention. This time, however, his cast grows two-by-two.

Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...
Steve Carell, John Goodman, Gary Barber, Morgan Freeman, Tom Shadyac, Neal H. Moritz, Bobby Florsheim, Josh Stolberg
Comedy Sequel
93 mins

Slow Burn R

A politically ambitious DA, engaged in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader, is manipulated by a beautiful assistant DA and a dangerous stranger.
John M. Penotti, LL Cool J, Wayne Beach, Bonnie Timmermann, Sidney Kimmel, Tim Williams, Anthony Walton, Jolene Blalock
Drama Thriller Crime

You Kill Me R

Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle (Philip Baker Hall) sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Played with gruff charm by Kingsley, Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of guy. But he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor (played by Luke Wilson) and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel (Téa Leoni), a woman who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren't going well in Buffalo where an upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
Tea Leoni, Al Corley, Christopher Markus, Ben Kingsley, John Dahl, Carol Baum, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso
Comedy

Friday, June 22