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72 Tenants of Prosperity
Director: Eric Tsang
Jacky Cheung, Anita Yuen, Raymond Lam, Bosco Wong, Cholam Wong, Stephy Tang, Charmaine Sheh, Linda Chung
Past and present survival of the common man in the big city, ups and downs, laughters and tears...
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Contains mild coarse language, violence, sexual reference and drug reference
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Alice in Wonderland
Director: Tim Burton
Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Crispin Glover, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Mia Wasikowska
The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner.
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Fantasy violence and scary scenes
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(3D) Alice in Wonderland
Director: Tim Burton
Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Crispin Glover, Christopher Lee, Stephen Fry, Mia Wasikowska
The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner.
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Fantasy violence and scary scenes
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Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Wes Studi, Lola Herrera, Peter Mensah, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Laz Alonso, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Matt Gerald
Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.
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Contains violence
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(3D) Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Wes Studi, Lola Herrera, Peter Mensah, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Laz Alonso, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Matt Gerald
AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.
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Contains violence
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(B) 3 Idiots
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Madhavan, Boman Irani, Sharman Joshi
Two friends embark on a request for a lost buddy. On this journey they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control.
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Contains mature themes
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(B) Antardhwani/Kanchivaram
This Bollywood Film Festival double feature contains the following films:
Antardhwani
Kanchivaram
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(B) Black
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Shernaz Patel, Ayesha Kapoor, Dhritiman Chatterjee
An extraordinary story of an ordinary life.
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(B) Bunty Aur Babli
Director: Shaad Ali
Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee
Two mismatched characters go on a wild road trip in Uttar Pradesh and, while being dogged by a policeman, fall in love.
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(B) Chaturanga
Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay
Subrata Dutta, Rituparna Sengupta, Trina Nileena Banerjee
Chaturanga is the story of a love that is caught between conflicting worlds of ideas.
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(B) Dil Bole Hadippa
Director: Anurag Singh
Shahid Kapur, Rani Mukherjee, Anupam Kher, Dalip Tahil, Poonam Dhillon, Sherlyn Chopra, Rakhi Sawant, Tabu
A feisty cricket expert Punjabi girl enters the mens cricket team to play in the Cricket World Cup. However, she is in a predicament when she falls for her handsome cricket coach.
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(B) Dil Bole Hadippa Q/A
Director: Anurag Singh
Shahid Kapur, Rani Mukherjee, Anupam Kher, Dalip Tahil, Poonam Dhillon, Sherlyn Chopra, Rakhi Sawant, Tabu
This opening night session of this film also includes a Q & A with the star, Rani Mukherjee.
A feisty cricket expert Punjabi girl enters the mens cricket team to play in the Cricket World Cup. However, she is in a predicament when she falls for her handsome cricket coach.
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(B) Dostana
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Abhishek Bachchan , John Abraham, Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra
This is a story about two guys , a girl and an apartment. Sam and Kunal bump into each other while looking for an apartment to rent and coincidentally head towards the same apartment. However, they are both thrown out because the owner wants to rent the apartment to girls only since her niece stays in that apartment alone.
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Mild sexual references and infrequent coarse language
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(B) Ghajini
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Aamir Khan, Asin, Pradeep Singh Rawat
Mumbai-based wealthy Sanjay Singhania is the Chair of Air Voice, lives now as a semi-crazed recluse in Odyssey Apartments in Hiranandani Complex.
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(B) Hum Tum
Director: Kunal Kohli
Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee
Karan Kapoor and Rhea Prakash meet for the first time in a flight bound from Delhi to New York. They just cannot stand each other: Rhea is disgusted by Karan's flirtatious mannerisms and Karan is frustrated because of Rhea's overt seriousness. They have a massive fallout and part ways, vowing never to see each other's face again. Destiny brings them together again at Rhea's marriage ceremony three years later and the mars vs. venus war continues.
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(B) Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Director: Karan Johar
Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan
Dev lives in the United States of America and is a foot ball player. He is married to Riya, who works and models for a magazine. Dev fractures his leg, becomes handicapped and dependent on Riya. He stays at home all the time and broods on his ill-luck. He also starts suspecting his wife of having an affair with some other man.
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(B) Kaminey
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amole Gupte
A story about identical twins, in early twenties, hoping to leave the squalor behind and move into a life of prosperity and dignity.
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Strong violence
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(B) Ladies Special/Harichandrachi Factory
This Bollywood Film Festival double feature contains the following films:
Ladies Special
Harichandrachi
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(B) Love Aaj Kal
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone
Love Aaj Kal is about the story of a "practical" couple who decide to part rather than maintaining a difficult long-distance relationship.
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(B) Luck by Chance
Director: Zoya Akhtar
Konkona Sen Sharma, Farhan Akhtar
A struggling actor comes from Delhi to Bombay and enters the Hindi film industry.
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(B) Mee Stretobhilashi
Director: Y. Eshwara Reddy
Rajendra Prasad, Naresh, Krishna Bhagavan, Raghu Babu, Raavi Kondala Rao
Professor Rajaji gives an interesting advertisement that anyone who became hopeless in their life could come and meet him. Ten members meet him and express their wish to commit suicide. Instead of stopping them from it, he expresses his wish to end his life too. He makes a plan.
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(B) Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai
Director: Krishnan Seshardi Gomatam
Anuja Iyer, C.P. Satyajit
Set in contemporary India, this multi-layered movie is about an obsessive film maker, Huggy, desperately trying to make his first feature film.
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(B) New York
Director: Kabir Khan
Neil Nitin Mukesh, Katrina Kaif, Irrfan Khan, Mirza Ali Quli, Dustin Kerns
Three friends ready to face the world... and then the world changed.
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(B) Paa
Director: R. Balki
Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan
A politician's relationship with his unusually developed son - the child suffers from a disease that causes him to age rapidly, rendering him an old man.
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(B) Paheli
Director: Amol Palekar
Shahrukh Khan, Anupam Kher
A folk tale - supernatural love story about a ghost who falls in love with a newlywed woman.
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(B) Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Director: Aditya Chopra
Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma
Have you ever stopped to think if the most ordinary, uninteresting, unobtrusive man you might see might have a love story to tell?
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Mild themes, Mild coarse language
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(B) Saathiya
Director: Shaad Ali
Rani Mukherjee, Vivek Oberoi
The tale of a young couple in love who elope and marry, but soon find that that marriage is not the bed of roses it is made out to be.
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(B) SF Program 1/ Kanchivaram
This Bollywood Film Festival double feature contains the following films:
Short Film Program 1
Kanchivaram
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(B) SF Program 2/Mee Sreyobhilashi
This Bollywood Film Festival double feature contains the following films:
Short Film Program 2
Mee Sreyobhilashi
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(B) Shob Choritro Kalponik
Director: Rituparno Ghosh
Bipasha Basu, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Jishu Sengupta, Sohag Sen
Indraneel's sudden death averts a possible divorce, and takes Radhika on a fantastic inward journey of discovery of her own roots through the language of poetry, and lost love.
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(B) Three of Us/Dostana
This Bollywood Film Festival double feature contains the following films:
Three of Us
Dostana
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(B) Vellapokkathil/Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai
This Bollywood Film Festival double feature contains the following films:
Vellapokkathil
Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai
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(B) Wake up Sid
Director: Ayaan Mukherji
Ranbir Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Rahul Khanna, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kainaz Motivala
This contemporary film is a coming of age story of a young boy in love with a older woman.
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Infrequent coarse language
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Ben 10 In Charms Way: The Trade Off
See Ben 10 as you have never seen him before, on the Big Screen at Hoyts.
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Mild animated violence
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Blind Side, The
Director: John Lee Hancock
Sandra Bullock, Kathy Bates, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Lily Collins, Ray McKinnon
The remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do family who help him fulfill his potential.
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Contains mild coarse language, infrequent violence and drug reference
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Bran Nue Dae
Director: Rachel Perkins
Geoffrey Rush, Magda Szubanski, Deborah Mailman, Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins, Jessica Mauboy, Tom Budge, Rocky McKenzie
The renowned Australian stage musical about young love and Aboriginal identity makes its exuberant and fun-filled way to the big screen.
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Mild violence, sexual references and coarse language
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Coco Avant Chanel
Director: Anne Fontaine
Audrey Tatou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain
A film based on the fascinating life of the famous French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
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Mild coarse language and sexual references
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Director: P.J. Hogan
Isla Fischer, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, Hugh Dancy, Leslie Bibb, Kristin Scott Thomas, John Lithgow, Lynn Redgrave
A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. Based on the novel "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella.
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Mild coarse language
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Crazy Heart
Director: Scott Cooper
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Sarah Jane Morris
Bad Blake is a broken down, hard living country music singer who has had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times.
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Contains coarse language
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Daybreakers
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Vince Colosimo, Jay Laga'aia, Claudia Karvan, Isabel Lucas
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
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Blood and gore, Strong horror violence
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Dear John
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Scott Porter, Richard Jenkins
A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.
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Violence and sex scene
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Devil Wears Prada, The
Director: David Frankel
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier, Tracie Thoms, Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt
Based on the best-selling novel, The Devil Wears Prada stars Academy Award winner Meryl Streep as high powered fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, and Anne Hathaway, as Miranda's new assistant, a small town girl trying to survive her impossibly demanding new boss.
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Mild coarse language
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Edge of Darkness
Director: Martin Campbell
Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Shawn Roberts
As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.
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Contains strong violence and coarse language
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From Paris With Love
Director: Pierre Morel
John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
A young embassy worker and an American secret agent cross paths while working on a high-risk mission in Paris.
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Strong violence and coarse language
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Green Zone
Director: Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan
A thriller about a pair of CIA agents on the trail of certain Weapons of Mass Destruction and a foreign correspondent following their mission. Inspired by Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
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Mature themes, violence and coarse language
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Hurt Locker, The
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse
When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat.
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Strong themes, violence and coarse language
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Invictus
Director: Clint Eastwood
Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Scott Eastwood
A look at life for Nelson Mandela after the fall of apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president when campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup event as an opportunity to unite his countrymen.
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Infrequent coarse language
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It's Complicated
Director: Nancy Meyers
Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Lake Bell, Rita Wilson
Jane is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery and has, after a decade of divorce an amicable relationship with her exhusband, attorney Jake. But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for the college graduation of their son, things start to get complicated.
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Drug use and sexual references
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Law Abiding Citizen
Director: F. Gary Gray
Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb, Jamie Foxx, Michael Gambon, Regina Hall
An everyday guy decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family's killers free. His target: The district attorney who orchestrated the deal.
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Strong violence and coarse language
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Marie Antoinette
Director: Sofia Coppola
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne,
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen and ultimately the fall of Versailles
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Mild sexual references
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Men Who Stare at Goats
Director: Grant Heslov
George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Rebecca Mader, Terry Serpico
Two Strangers set off on a road trip, in war-torn Iraq, during which one recounts the story of his participation in the New Earth Army, a secret special forces US Military Team, trained to use paranormal powers during war. Based on the book of the same name by Jon Ronson.
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Contains drug use, violence, coarse language and brief nudity
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My Name Is Khan
Director: Karan Johan
Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Christopher B. Duncan, Tanay Chheda, Steffany Huckaby
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger syndrome. The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for "suspicious" behavior. Following his arrest, he meets Radha, a therapist who helps him deal with his situation and his affliction. Rizwan then begins a journey to meet US President Obama to clear his name.
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Contains mature themes & violence
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My One and Only
Director: Richard Loncraine
Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, Logan Lerman, Chris Noth
Inspired by the childhood experiences of actor George Hamilton, this bittersweet period comedy tells the tale of a mother and her attempt to find a new father for her two young boys after catching her husband with another woman.
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Infrequent coarse language
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Director: Susanna White
Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans
Academy Award winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns in the role of the magical nanny who appears when she is wanted the least and needed the most.
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Director: Chris Columbus
Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Melina Kanakaredes, Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Catherine Keener, Rosario Dawson, Steve Coogan
A young boy discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods. Based on the book by Rick Riordan.
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Contains fantasy themes and violence
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Precious
Director: Lee Daniels
Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Paula Patton, MoNique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz
In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen pregnant with her second child is invited to enrol in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Selected to screen in 'Un Certain Regard' at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Strong themes and coarse language
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Remember Me
Director: Allen Coulter
Robert Pattinson, Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin
A drama centered on two lovers whose newfound relationship is threatened as they try to cope with their respective family tragedies.
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Mature themes, violence, sex scene and coarse language
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Separation City
Director: Paul Middleditch
Rhona Mitra, Thomas Kretschmann, Joel Edgerton, Danielle Cormack
Separation City is a bittersweet comedy drama about falling out of love for the very first time. A painful lesson about how unrequited love lasts forever and while requited love comes with a use-by date. A story about courtship, mateship and jumping ship. A film for anyone who has ever been in a relationship and woken up beside someone they once adored beyond measure and thought even fleetingly, is this it?
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Strong sex scenes and sexual references
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September Issue
Director: R.J.Cutler
Anna Wintour
R.J. Cutler's documentary look inside the production of the fashion world's annual bible, the September issue of Vogue. Editor Anna Wintour, the legendary fashion sphinx burlesqued in The Devil Wears Prada, granted Cutler and his crew amazing access throughout what's nearly a nine-month process.
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Infrequent coarse language
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Serious Man, A
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf, Sari Wagner, Jessica McManus, Adam Arkin
The story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him.
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Drug use, coarse language, sexual references and violence
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Shutter Island
Director: Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
Set in 1954 the film centres round an island in Boston's Outer Harbour that houses a federal institution for the criminally insane. Two U.S. marshals are dispatched to that facility to recapture a violent female escapee. They become stranded there as a major storm approaches and a series of dangerous mind games are being played on them.
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Strong themes and violence
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(OC) Shutter Island
Director: Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
This film contains open captions for the hearing impaired.
Set in 1954 the film centres round an island in Boston's Outer Harbour that houses a federal institution for the criminally insane. Two U.S. marshals are dispatched to that facility to recapture a violent female escapee. They become stranded there as a major storm approaches and a series of dangerous mind games are being played on them.
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Strong themes and violence
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Single Man, A
Director: Tom Ford
Colin Firth (Easy Virtue, Love Actually), Julianne Moore (Blindness, Children of Men), Matthew Goode (Brideshead Revisited, Match Point), Ginnifer Goodwin (Walk The Line)
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, a 52 year old British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.
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Contains mature themes
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Teen Patti
Director: Leena Yadav
Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, Madhavan
Set in India and England, starring tow acting legends of our times, Teen Patti is an emotionally reverting and razor sharp thriller about greed, deception and giant feats of imagination.
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Mature themes and violence
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Tooth Fairy
Director: Michael Lembeck
Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Billy Crystal, Brandon T. Jackson
A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.
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Up in the Air
Director: Jason Reitman
George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent traveler woman of his dreams.
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Coarse language, sexual references and brief nudity
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Valentines Day
Director: Garry Marshall
Taylor Lautner, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Garner, Emma Roberts, Taylor Swift, Topher Grace, Jamie Foxx, Patrick Dempsey, Queen Latifah, Eric Dane, Shirley MacLaine, George Lopez, Hector Elizondo
Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.
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Contains sexual references
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Valentino: The Last Emperor
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino.
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Mild coarse language and nudity
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Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Director: Paul Weitz
Josh Hutcherson, Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe, Ray Stevenson
The frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200 year old truce between two warring factions of vampires.
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Fantasy violence
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Wolfman, The
Director: Joe Johnston
Anthony Hopkins, Benecio del Toro, Emily Blunt
Inspired by the classic Universal Pictures film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman reclaims the myth of a man whose curse transforms him into something less human. Lawrence Talbot, a carefree Londoner, is lured back to his family estate after the disappearance of his brother. Reunited in crisis with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother...but discovers an even more horrifying destiny for himself.
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Contains strong horror violence
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