Movies Released August 11, 2006

Friday, August 11

Step Up PG-13

Tyler Gage is a street smart juvenile delinquent, with a reckless streak that lands him in a world of trouble after he and his friends trash an auditorium at a high school for the performing arts. Sentenced to do community service at the school, he at first wants nothing to do with the students, until he meets a beautiful dancer who's willing to give him a shot. Against all expectations, Ty gets drawn into her world, and discovers his own talent for dance.
Channing Tatum, Heavy D, Anne Fletcher, Erik Feig, Rachel Griffiths, Adam Shankman, Duane Adler, Jennifer Gibgot
Drama Sequel Teen Music

Pulse R

Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can't be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they'll get in, you¹ll be infected and they¹ll be able to take from you what they don¹t have anymore - life.
Kristen Bell, Steve Talley, Wes Craven, Stephen Susco, Ray Wright, Rick Gonzalez, Joel Soisson, Vince Gilligan
Thriller Horror Remake Mystery

Conversations with Other Women R

Years after their divorce, an ex-couple (Aaron Eckhart, Helena Bonham Carter) reunite at a wedding.
Olivia Wilde, Aaron Eckhart, Thomas Lennon, Ram Bergman, Helena Bonham Carter, Brian Geraghty, Hans Canosa, Kerry Barden
Drama Comedy
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Zoom PG

Social outcast Summer Jones (Kate Mara) is ushered away by her mysterious father (Tim Allen) to a new school. She learns that her dad is secretly a superhero, and she's been brought to the academy where she, along with other kids, can develop her special talents. Soon into her training, Summer discovers that an enemy of the academy is plotting against the school ... and her.
Tim Allen, Courteney Cox Arquette, Kate Mara, Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd, Adam Rifkin, Michael Cassidy, Nick Osborne
Action Adventure Family Kids

World Trade Center PG-13

Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen—John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno—who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went in to help people escape. The film also follows their families as they try to find out what happened to them, as well as the rescuers who found them in the debris field and pulled them out. Their story shows how the best in people rose above the tragic events of that day.
Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Brad Weston, Oliver Stone, Michael Shamberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stacey Sher
Drama Historical
106 mins

Half Nelson R

Dan Dunne is an idealistic inner-city junior high school teacher. Although he can get it together in the classroom, he spends his time outside school on the edge of consciousness. He juggles his hangovers and his homework, keeping his lives precariously separated, until one of his troubled students, Drey, catches him in a compromising situation. From this awkward beginning, Dan and Drey stumble into an unexpected friendship that threatens either to undo them, or to provide the vital change they both need to move forward in their lives.
Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Collins Pennie, Ryan Fleck, Nicole Vicius, Tristan Wilds, Karen Chilton, Shareeka Epps
Drama

Friday, August 11