Movies Released May 6, 2011

Friday, May 6

Thor PG-13

Story of the mythological hammer-throwing Thor, the son of the Norse god Odin.
Idris Elba, Rene Russo, Kenneth Branagh, Zack Stentz, Chris Hemsworth, Avi Arad, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman
Action Adventure Superhero 3D Post-3D
110 mins

Something Borrowed PG-13

A Manhattan attorney becomes involved with her best friend's fiance following her 30th birthday.
Luke Greenfield, Broderick Johnson, Steve Howey, Jennie Urman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Peyton List, Hilary Swank
Comedy Romance

Jumping the Broom PG-13

Two African-American families from divergent backgrounds come together for a wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.
Angela Bassett, Julie Bowen, Glendon Palmer, Curtis Wallace, Salim Akil, Tracey Edmonds, T.D. Jakes, Elizabeth Hunter
Comedy
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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.
J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Jessica Alba, Marilyn Agrelo, Pam Falk, Mike Ellis
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

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, Michael Goldbach, Andie MacDowell, Kat Dennings, Scott Speedman, Reece Thompson
Drama Comedy Romance
New York / Los Angeles
4 / 5
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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.
Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Scott Adsit, Nick Wechsler, Griffin Dunne, Eva Mendes, Massy Tadjedin, Guillaume Canet
Drama Romance

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, Bill Murray, Mitch Glazer, Daniel Dubiecki, Jonah Hirsch, Kelly Lynch, Rebecca Wang
Drama Thriller
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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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.
Anton Yelchin, Mel Gibson, Jennifer Lawrence, Steve Golin, Jodie Foster, Keith Redmon, Kyle Killen, Michelle Ang
Drama Comedy

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.
Wes Bentley, Olga Kurylenko, Derek Jacobi, Roland Joffe, Guy J. Louthan, Ignacio Gomez Sancha, Ignacio Nunez, Charlie Cox
Drama Epic

Whirligig

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

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
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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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.
Rutger Hauer, Jason Eisener, Gregory Smith
Action Crime

Friday, May 6