Movies Released August 26, 2011

Friday, August 26

95 mins

Our Idiot Brother R

An idealist, hounded by his overbearing mother, crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition while also wreaking havoc.
Elizabeth Banks, Rashida Jones, Jesse Peretz, Paul Rudd, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, T.J. Miller, Zooey Deschanel
Comedy

Colombiana PG-13

"Columbiana" is set in Latin America and the U.S. Saldana would play a young woman who, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Robert Mark Kamen, Zoe Saldana, Luc Besson, Amandla Stenberg, Olivier Megaton, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Michael Vartan
Action Thriller

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark R

A young girl is sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend and discovers sinister creatures that live underneath the stairs.
Guillermo del Toro, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Troy Nixey, Mark Johnson, Matthew Robbins, Katie Holmes, Jack Thompson
Thriller Suspense Horror Supernatural
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157 mins

Transformers: Dark of the Moon PG-13

The follow-up to "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". No plot details are available yet.
Steven Spielberg, Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Ken Jeong, Patrick Dempsey, Michael Bay, Alex Kurtzman
Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Sci-Fi 3D Shot-In-3D
107 mins

Circumstance R

A wealthy family in Iran struggling to contain a teen's growing sexual rebellion.
Maryam Keshavarz, Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy
Drama
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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Suing The Devil

A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself and the trial of the century takes place.
Tom Sizemore, Corbin Bernsen, Timothy A. Chey, Malcolm McDowell, Rebecca St. James, Shannen Fields, Bart Bronson, Jeff Gannon
Drama Comedy Thriller
111 mins

Higher Ground R

Carolyn Briggs grew up with modest means in the Iowa heartland. Pregnant at seventeen, married a few months later, by the age of 18 she found herself living in a trailer with no plans beyond having more babies-until she found Jesus.
John Hawkes, Vera Farmiga, Tim Metcalfe, Taissa Farmiga, Bill Irwin, Joshua Leonard, Carly Hugo, Matt Parker
Drama Biography
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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BuzzKill

A struggling writer, Ray Wyatt, acquires fame when a notorious murderer steals his car and the newest draft of his script.
Steven Kampmann, Krysten Ritter, Darrell Hammond
Comedy

Rebirth

The nearly ten-year transformation of five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001.
James 'Jim' Whitaker
Documentary

The Caller R

Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman claiming that she's calling from the past.
Luis Guzman, Rachelle Lefevre, Matthew Parkhill, Stephen Moyer
Horror

Redemption Road

Two seemingly different men (Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson) embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn't about where you end up - it's how you get there that matters. Somewhere along the 900 miles between Austin, TX and Huntsville, AL the two men become unlikely friends.
Tom Skerritt, Kiele Sanchez, Taryn Manning, Mario Van Peebles, George Richards, Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson, Luke Perry
Drama

The Family Tree R

A troubled family gets a second chance at happiness when the mother suffers a memory loss and can't recall the last 15 years of her life.
Christina Hendricks, Madeline Zima, Max Thieriot, Keith Carradine, Chi McBride, Rachael Leigh Cook, J. Todd Harris, Hope Davis
Drama Comedy
95 mins

Special Treatment NR

A high class prostitute (Isabelle Huppert) and an eminent psychoanalyst discover that they share many things in common. They are both unhappy with their professions, seeking a way out that involves unique contact with each other's worlds.
Sabila Moussadek, Richard Debuisne, Jeanne Labrune, Isabelle Huppert, Bouli Lanners
Drama Comedy

Brighton Rock R

The story centers on a small-time gangster who kills a rival and finds his life in turmoil as he faces blackmail threats from a waitress (Andrea Riseborough) who knows about the murder.
John Hurt, Paul Webster, Andrea Riseborough, Rowan Joffe, Pete Postlethwaite, Andy Serkis, Sean Harris, Sam Riley
Drama

Chasing Madoff

The true-life tale of investigator Harry Markopolos' meticulous, decade-long fight to reveal Madoff's widely destructive Ponzi scheme.
Randy Manis, Jeff Prosserman
Documentary
90 mins

Shut Up Little Man NR

When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbours, they accidentally created one of the world’s first ‘viral’ pop-culture sensations.
Matthew Bate, Julie Byrne
Documentary

The Hedgehog NR

The timely story of Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic), a young girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father’s old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renée Michel (Josiane Balasko). When Paloma’s camera reveals the extensive secret library in Renée’s back room, and that the often gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath the prickliest of exteriors. As the unlikely friendship deepens, Paloma’s own coming of age becomes a much less pessimistic prospect.
Mona Achache, Togo Igawa, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Josiane Balasko, Ariane Ascaride
Drama
85 mins

Swinging with the Finkels R

Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman star as a bored suburban couple that decide to spice up their sex life by swinging.
Mandy Moore, Martin Freeman, Jonathan Silverman, Jerry Stiller, Jonathan Newman, Deepak Nayar, Melissa George, Thomas Augsberger
Comedy Romance

Friday, August 26