Best Soundtracks Released November 2009
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
A fox uses its wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the fox and resort to a shock-and-awe offensive
Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Scott Rudin, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Jarvis Cocker, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
2012
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. "2012" is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Thandiwe Newton, Mark Gordon, Larry Franco, Oliver Platt, Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, Volker Engel, Marc Weigert
Amelia
The story centers on pilot Amelia Earhart in the early stages of her career and how she is chosen to be the first female pilot to attempt the daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Mia Wasikowska, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Cherry Jones, Mira Nair, Ted Waitt, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Kevin Hyman
Pirate Radio
Set in the 1960s, a band of rogue DJs captivate the British people and anger the British government by playing unheard before poptastic tunes.
Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Richard Curtis, Tim Bevan, Tom Sturridge, January Jones, Debra Hayward
Planet 51
The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.
Dwayne Johnson, Justin Long, Guy Collins, Jorge Blanco, Ignacio Pérez Dolset, Joe Stillman, John Cleese, Gary Oldman
Precious
In 1980s Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teenager who is abused by her parent and pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
Sherri Shepherd, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness, Lee Daniels, Damien Paul, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Amina Robinson
The Fourth Kind
A woman investigates an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances from one small town in Alaska.
Milla Jovovich, Joe Carnahan, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Corey Johnson, Paul Brooks, Terry Robbins, Elias Koteas, Enzo Cilenti
Surrogates
Set in the near future, humans live in isolation and interact vicariously through surrogate robots who are better-looking versions of themselves. A cop is forced to venture from his own home for the first time in years to solve a murder mystery.
Rosamund Pike, Bruce Willis, Elizabeth Banks, Radha Mitchell, Jonathan Mostow, Todd LIeberman, Ving Rhames, David Hoberman
The Princess and the Frog
A musical set in the greatest city of them all, New Orleans, "The Princess and the Frog" marks Disney's return to the timeless art form of traditional animation. The film teams Ron Clements and John Musker, creators of "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin," with Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman to tell the most beautiful love story ever told ... with frogs, voodoo, and a singing alligator.
Jenifer Lewis, John Musker, Peter Del Vecho, Greg Erb, Ron Clements, Rob Edwards, Jason Oremland, Anika Noni Rose
Zombieland
In a world overrun by zombies, a guy described as "the most frightened person on Earth" looks to find refuge a band of people to safety.
Ruben Fleischer, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Paul Wernick, Jesse Eisenberg, Gavin Polone, Rhett Reese, Woody Harrelson
A Serious Man
The new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?
Fred Melamed, Jack Swiler, Tim Bevan, Robert Graf, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff
Ninja Assassin
Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them...and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow, Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi, to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive...and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.
J. Michael Straczynski, Matthew Sand, James McTeigue, Joel Silver, Grant HIll, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Rain
Me and Orson Welles
Zac Efron will star as high school senior Richard Samuels—an age and grade level the actor knows well—who, while walking the streets of Manhattan one day, comes across Orson Welles' still unopened Mercury Theater, where the Shakespearean auteur, pre-Citizen Kane, is staging a production of Julius Caesar. Richard lands a bit part in the play and does a lot of growing up during his brief time under Welles' tutelage.
Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Richard Linklater, George Coulouris, James Tupper, Claire Danes
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