Movies Released August 6, 2004

Friday, August 6

82 mins

Stander R

Andre Stander was a smooth-talking jailbreaker, thrill addict and master of disguise. He was also a high-ranking officer in South Africa's Apartheid-era police force who became an outlaw hero when he launched a second career as a bank robber. Stander's sensationalized activities won him celebrity status by the time of his first arrest for twenty-six robberies. After he daringly escapes from prison and forms the Stander gang with fellow escapees Allan Heyl and Patrick Lee McCall, the three men set off to crumble the status quo and capitalize on the chaos.
Dexter Fletcher, Bronwen Hughes, Thomas Jane, David O'Hara, Deborah Kara Unger, Ken Friedman, Bima Stagg, Ashley Taylor
Drama
90 mins

Code 46 R

A love story set in an eerily possible near-future, where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have papelles, a special travel insurance. Outside of the cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens—people without papelles whose lives are severely restricted. William is a family man who works as an insurance investigator. When his company sends him to another city to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he knows she's been creating the forgeries, he falls completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his papelles: twenty-four hours. Back home, William is obsessed by the memory of Maria. He tries to see her, but is refused the necessary papers to travel. Desperate, he uses one of the fake papelles he kept from his investigation. He eventually tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of Code 46 violation.
Michael Winterbottom, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa, Andrew Eaton, Jeanne Balibar
Drama Fantasy Romance Sci-Fi
105 mins

Little Black Book PG-13

When her boyfriend leaves town on a trip, television producer Stacy raids his Palm Pilot and interviews all of his past girlfriends. The prying leads to public humiliation, though, when Stacy's friend puts all the prying on live television.
Nick Hurran, Rashida Jones, Kevin Sussman, Ron Livingston, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Deborah Schindler, William Sherak, Jason Shuman
Comedy Romance
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116 mins

Collateral R

Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.
Debi Mazar, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith, Javier Bardem, Michael Mann, Bruce McGill
Action Adventure Thriller Suspense

Friday, August 6