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."
John Malkovich, Diane Lane, Fred Thompson, Gordon Gray, A.J. Michalka, Graham McTavish, William Johnson, Randall Wallace
Drama Historical
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.
Zach Galifianakis, Keir Gilchrist, Lauren Graham, Jim Gaffigan, Patrick Baker, Pam Abdy, Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Drama Teen
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.
Emily Meade, Denzel Whitaker, Wes Craven, Iya Labunka, Anthony Katagas, Henry Lee Hopper, Shareeka Epps, Raul Esparza
Thriller Suspense Horror 3D Post-3D
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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, Greg Berlanti, Josh Lucas, Josh Duhamel, Ian Deitchman, Jean Smart, Norm Waitt, Scott Niemeyer
Drama Comedy Romance
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
87 mins

Nowhere Boy R

A biopic of a young John Lennon.
Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster, Sam Taylor Wood, Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Matt Greenhalgh, Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson
Drama
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 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.
Brian Cox, Jonathan Mossek, Andie MacDowell, Cary Elwes, Frank Whaley, Matt Dallas
Thriller
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, Dominic Cooper, Bill Camp, Stephen Frears, Alison Owen, Tracey Seaward, Moira Buffini, Gemma Arterton
Comedy
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.
Edward Norton, John Curran, Milla Jovovich, Frances Conroy, Angus MacLachlan, Robert De Niro
Drama Thriller Suspense
New York / Los Angeles
4 / 5
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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, Jeffrey Lurie, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
Documentary
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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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.
Alex Garland, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Keira Knightley, Tessa Ross, Mark Romanek, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich
Drama Adaptation
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, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg
Thriller Horror Remake

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