Friday, October 8
Secretariat
Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."
John Malkovich, Diane Lane, Mike Rich, William Johnson, Margo Martindale, Kevin Connolly, Randall Wallace, Mark Ciardi
Drama Historical
It's Kind of a Funny Story
A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.
Lauren Graham, Zoe Kravitz, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Keir Gilchrist, Jim Gaffigan, Ryan Fleck
Drama Teen
Life As We Know It
Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.
Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl, Josh Lucas, Greg Berlanti, Paul Brooks, Barry Josephson, Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson
Drama Comedy Romance
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My Soul to Take
The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.
Henry Lee Hopper, Emily Meade, Iya Labunka, Anthony Katagas, Wes Craven, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Raul Esparza
Thriller Suspense Horror 3D Post-3D
Buried
Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.
Ryan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling, Samantha Mathis
Drama War
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Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.
Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy, Angus MacLachlan, Edward Norton, John Curran, Milla Jovovich
Drama Thriller Suspense
Inside Job
The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Lurie
Documentary
Nowhere Boy
A biopic of a young John Lennon.
Sam Taylor Wood, Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Matt Greenhalgh, Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Thomas Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff
Drama
As Good as Dead
Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.
Brian Cox, Cary Elwes, Jonathan Mossek, Andie MacDowell, Frank Whaley, Matt Dallas
Thriller
Never Let Me Go
As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.
Alex Garland, Sally Hawkins, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Mark Romanek, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Carey Mulligan
Drama Adaptation
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.
Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges
Comedy Horror
Tamara Drewe
The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.
Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Bill Camp, Luke Evans, Alison Owen, Stephen Frears, Tracey Seaward, Moira Buffini
Comedy
I Spit On Your Grave
A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
Steven R. Monroe, Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg
Thriller Horror Remake