Movies Released May 6, 2011

Friday, May 6

110 mins

Something Borrowed PG-13

A Manhattan attorney becomes involved with her best friend's fiance following her 30th birthday.
John Krasinski, Luke Greenfield, Broderick Johnson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Steve Howey, Hilary Swank, Molly Smith, Andrew A. Kosove
Comedy Romance

Thor PG-13

Story of the mythological hammer-throwing Thor, the son of the Norse god Odin.
Idris Elba, Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Kenneth Branagh, Colm Feore, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Anthony Hopkins
Action Adventure Superhero 3D Post-3D

Jumping the Broom PG-13

Two African-American families from divergent backgrounds come together for a wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.
Romeo Miller, Paula Patton, Angela Bassett, Salim Akil, Glendon Palmer, Curtis Wallace, T.D. Jakes, Mike Epps
Comedy
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Passion Play R

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Jonah Hirsch, Kelly Lynch, Bill Murray, Mitch Glazer, Daniel Dubiecki, Rebecca Wang
Drama Thriller
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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Daydream Nation R

A teenage girl moves to a small town, to find nothing in common with the stoner-hicks who populate her highschool. So she begins an affair with her teacher. But with a serial killer on the loose and townsfolk disappearing around them, their relationship takes a turn for the worse. She breaks off the relationship and the rejection makes her teacher crazy.
Josh Lucas, Andie MacDowell, Kat Dennings, Michael Goldbach, Scott Speedman, Reece Thompson
Drama Comedy Romance
New York / Los Angeles
4 / 5
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An Invisible Sign PG-13

"An Invisible Sign of My Own" is a coming-of-age drama based on Aimee Bender's quirky novel about a 20-year-old loner named Mona Gray (Alba) who as a child turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Gray now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Chris Messina, Marilyn Agrelo, Pam Falk, Mike Ellis, Jessica Alba, J.K. Simmons
Drama Comedy

Last Night R

A married couple is apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Scott Adsit, Sam Worthington, Guillaume Canet, Keira Knightley, Griffin Dunne, Massy Tadjedin, Nick Wechsler, Eva Mendes
Drama Romance

Whirligig

When a young man attempts to woo an older woman, he winds up befriending her adopted son.
Michael Amo, Gregory Smith, Chaz Thorne, Brian Downey, Fiona Highet
Drama Romance

Octubre

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found.
Daniel Vega Vidal, Diego Vega Vidal
Drama
143 mins

Haunted 3D

Rehan visits Glen Manor to complete its sale, which his father had initiated, but he realizes that certain mysterious occurrences in the manor may jeopardise the sale.
Vikram Bhatt
Horror

The Beaver PG-13

A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.
Mel Gibson, Jennifer Lawrence, Steve Golin, Jodie Foster, Michelle Ang, Keith Redmon, Anton Yelchin, Kyle Killen
Drama Comedy

Caterpillar

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a village woman is given the grueling task of looking after her quadruple-amputee husband, a decorated solider tortured by memories of his war crimes.
Kôji Wakamatsu
Drama

There Be Dragons PG-13

Tells the story of a Spanish journalist trying to mend his relationship with his dying father, a former fighter in the Spanish Civil War. He discovers his father was a close friend of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of the Catholic prelature Opus Dei.
Olga Kurylenko, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Roland Joffe, Guy J. Louthan, Ignacio Gomez Sancha, Ignacio Nunez, Charlie Cox
Drama Epic
90 mins

Forks Over Knives PG

Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.
Lee Fulkerson
Documentary
New York / Los Angeles
5 / 5
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97 mins

Vito Bonafacci

Vito Bonafacci is a successful businessman who enjoys his lifestyle and the riches he has accumulated, but all that changes when one night he dreams he is having a heart attack. In that dream his mother appears from her grave and pleads with him to abandon his pursuit of greed and materialism. When Vito wakes, he is deeply affected by this vision and this leads him on a soul-searching journey to understand his life’s purpose. In a series of encounters with family and friends, he questions and explores the meaning of faith and the role religion plays in tempering one’s soul.
John Martoccia
Drama

Hobo With a Shotgun

Based on one of the fake trailers Jason Eisener created for "Grindhouse," pic follows a homeless vigilante on a mission to clean up the city.
Jason Eisener, Gregory Smith, Rutger Hauer
Action Crime

Friday, May 6