By Amy Renner Dec. 22, 2008
Friday, September 22
Running With Scissors
Based on Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoir, the story follows Deirdre Burroughs (Annette Bening), a 1970s poet with bipolar disorder. Her instability after a messy divorce leads her to send her 12-year-old son to live with an unusual psychiatrist and his eccentric family.
Brad Pitt, Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Joseph Fiennes, Annette Bening, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph Cross
Drama Biography
For Your Consideration
Three actors learn their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Larry Miller, Parker Posey, Karen Murphy, Christopher Guest
Comedy
Feast
One evening at a rural bar, a motley bunch of patrons struggle to survive a ravenous family of flying beasts bent on eating all of them.
Jason Mewes, John Gulager, Mike Leahy, Joel Soisson, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunston, Navi Rawat, Balthazar Getty
Thriller Suspense Horror
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All the King's Men
"All the King's Men" is a story of human nature, power, corruption, idealism, romance and betrayal. A uniquely American story, it is steeped in the atmosphere of the South during the 1940s and 50s, but its message is still timely and relevant today. "All the King's Men" uses politics as a framework to delve into the more profound dilemmas of human existence—sin, guilt and redemption. In its exploration of the corrupting aspects of power, the story focuses on a once just man who has lost his moral center and will use any means possible to achieve his goals.
Sean Penn, Mike Medavoy, Todd Phillips, Steven Zaillian, Kathy Baker, Glenn Morshower, James Carville, Kate Winslet
Drama Remake
Jackass Number Two
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the entire crew from the popular MTV franchise return in the most insane movie of the year, "jackass number two".
Tabrez Noorani, Johnny Knoxville, Ryan Dunn, Sean Cliver, Preston Lacy, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius
Comedy Sequel
