Movies Released October 8, 2010

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Feb. 7, 2011

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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."

Scott Glenn, Mike Rich, Dylan Walsh, A.J. Michalka, James Cromwell, Otto Thorwarth, Nestor Serrano, Carissa Capobianco

PG Drama Historical 1 hr, 56 mins

84%

  • 4.3
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A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.

Viola Davis, Lauren Graham, Zoe Kravitz, Aasif Mandavi, Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts

PG-13 Drama Teen 1 hr, 41 mins

89%

  • 4.3
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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.

Henry Lee Hopper, Anthony Katagas, Emily Meade, Wes Craven, Iya Labunka, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Raul Esparza

R Thriller Suspense Horror 3D Post-3D 1 hr, 28 mins

85%

  • 3.3
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Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.

Katherine Heigl, Christina Hendricks, Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson, Josh Lucas, Jean Smart, Greg Berlanti, Paul Brooks

PG-13 Drama Comedy Romance 1 hr, 52 mins

85%

  • 4
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New York / Los Angeles

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.

Milla Jovovich, Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, John Curran, Angus MacLachlan, Frances Conroy

R Drama Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 45 mins

88%

  • 4.3
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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.

Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin, Ryan Reynolds, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling, Samantha Mathis

R Drama War 1 hr, 40 mins

83%

  • 3.8
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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.

Rodney Eastman, Steven R. Monroe, Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg

R Thriller Horror Remake 1 hr, 48 mins

84%

  • 4.2
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New York / Los Angeles

A biopic of a young John Lennon.

Thomas Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, Douglas Rae, Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Taylor Wood, Kevin Loader, Matt Greenhalgh

R Drama 1 hr, 27 mins

64%

  • 3.7
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New York

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

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 48 mins

75%

  • 4.3
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Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.

Cary Elwes, Brian Cox, Matt Dallas, Jonathan Mossek, Andie MacDowell, Frank Whaley

R Thriller

29%

  • 3.2
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The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

Stephen Frears, Bill Camp, Luke Evans, Alison Owen, Tracey Seaward, Moira Buffini, Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper

R Comedy 1 hr, 49 mins

61%

  • 3.3
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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.

Alex Garland, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins, Mark Romanek, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich

R Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 44 mins

71%

  • 3.2
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A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.

Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges

Comedy Horror 1 hr, 40 mins

27%

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New York / Los Angeles

A genre-bending portrait of a crime family.

Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill

R Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

25%

  • 4
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