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All the Marbles

Genre: Action/Adventure and Drama
Release Date: 10/16/1981
Running Time: 113 mins
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Peter Falk, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Burt Young, Tracy Reed, Ursaline Bryant, Claudette Nevins, Richard Jaeckel, John Hancock and Lenny Montana
Producer: William Aldrich
Writer: Mel Frohman
Distributor: MGM

Australia

Dumb Australian epic pits the snooty English landlady of a cattle station (Nicole Kidman) and her studly hired hand (Hugh Jackman) against unforgiving nature, conniving ... More
Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance and Suspense/Thriller
Release Date: 11/26/2008
Running Time: 165 mins
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown
Producer: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Stuart Beattie, Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Beauty in Trouble (Kraska v nesnazich)

Marcela is an attractive wife and mother of two children. Her husband Jarda has a car shop where he transforms stolen cars to sumptuous ... More
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Cast: Anna Geislerova, Roman Luknar, Jana Brejchova, Jiri Schmitzer and Emilia Vasaryova
Producer: Daria Spackova
Writer: Petr Jarchovsky

Bolt

Disney CGI animation about a canine TV star (given voice by John Travolta) who gets separated from his little-girl owner (Miley Cyrus) and must find ... More
Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation and Comedy
Release Date: 11/15/2008
Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Chris Williams and Byron Howard
Cast: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Chloe Moretz, Greg Germann and Ronn Moss
Producer: Clark Spencer
Writer: Chris Sanders
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

Bolt in Disney Digital 3D

For super-dog Bolt, every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of ... More
Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation and Comedy
Release Date: 11/15/2008
Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Chris Williams and Byron Howard
Cast: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Chloe Moretz, Greg Germann and Ronn Moss
Producer: Clark Spencer
Writer: Chris Sanders
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Outlandishly pathetic child's-eye view of the Holocaust pushes every conceivable button, as eight-year-old Bruno (googly-eyed Asa Butterfield), unbelievably innocent son of a Nazi death camp ... More
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 12/05/2008
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Mark Herman
Cast: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Richard Johnson, Sheila Hancock, Jim Norton, David Heyman, Asa Butterfield, Cara Horgan and Amber Beattie
Writer: John Boyne and Mark Herman
Distributor: Miramax

Cadillac Records

Chicago's Chess Records and its legendary roster of '50s-'60s-era blues and soul music stars prompt a gritty, sexy, more than routinely violent biopic by writer-director ... More
Genre: Drama and Musical
Release Date: 12/05/2008
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Darnell Martin
Cast: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrien Brody, Gabrielle Union, Beyoncé Knowles, Mos Def, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Norman Reedus, Cedric the Entertainer and Tammy Blanchard
Producer: Andrew Lack
Writer: Darnell Martin
Distributor: Sony Pictures

Changeling

Angelina Jolie is genuinely good as Christine Collins, a Los Angeles single mother whose son disappears from home one day in 1928, while she’s at ... More
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Release Date: 10/24/2008
Running Time: 140 mins
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan and Michael Kelly
Producer: Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Cosmic Voyage

Morgan Freeman explains the universe to you in a 40-min IMAX documentary.
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 01/01/1996
Running Time: 40 mins
Director: Bayley Silleck
Cast: Morgan Freeman
Producer: Jeffrey Marvin and Bayley Silleck
Writer: Bayley Silleck

The Day the Earth Stood Still

In this contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic, renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson finds herself face to face with an alien called ... More
Genre: SciFi/Fantasy
Release Date: 12/12/2008
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Jaden Smith, Aaron Douglas, Jon Hamm, Alisen Down, Mousa Kraish and J.C. MacKenzie
Producer: Paul Harris Boardman, Gregory Goodman and Erwin Stoff
Writer: David Scarpa
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

The Day the Earth Stood Still: The IMAX Experience

"The Day The Earth Stood Still" has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX ... More
Genre: Drama and SciFi/Fantasy
Release Date: 12/12/2008
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Jaden Smith, Aaron Douglas, Jon Hamm, Alisen Down, Mousa Kraish and J.C. MacKenzie
Producer: Paul Harris Boardman, Gregory Goodman and Erwin Stoff
Writer: David Scarpa and Edmund H. North
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Dinosaurs Alive! 3D

"Dinosaurs Alive" is a global adventure of science and discovery--featuring the earliest dinosaurs of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous "reincarnated" ... More
Genre: Action/Adventure and Documentary
Release Date: 03/30/2007
Running Time: 40 mins
Director: David Clark and Bayley Silleck
Cast: Michael Douglas, Roy Chapman Andrews, Mike Novacek and Mark Norell
Producer: David Clark
Writer: David Clark and Bayley Silleck
Distributor: Giant Screen Films

Dostana

Two guys pretend to be gay in this blockbuster Bollywood comedy filmed in Miami, Florida. Written and directed by Tarun Mansukhani and starring John Abraham, ... More
Genre: Comedy and Romance
Release Date: 11/14/2008
Running Time: 141 mins
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Shilpa Shetty, Bobby Deol, Chris aka Trash Bright, Kiron Kher, Victoria Roman, Everlayn Borges and Monika Gaba
Producer: Hiroo Yash Johar and Karan Johar
Writer: Tarun Mansukhani
Distributor: Yash Raj Films

Four Christmases

Here's the only thing you really need to know about Four Christmases: it's 82 minutes long. This means it doesn't even qualify as a feature-length ... More
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 11/26/2008
Running Time: 82 mins
Director: Seth Gordon
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw, Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Voight and Sissy Spacek
Producer: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman
Writer: Matt Allen, Caleb Wilson, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
Distributor: New Line Cinema

Frost/Nixon

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for ... More
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 12/05/2008
Running Time: 122 mins
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell
Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
Writer: Peter Morgan
Distributor: Universal Pictures

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Action/Adventure 12
Animation 4
Comedy 16
Documentary 6
Drama 22
Family 1
Horror 3
Musical 2
Program 1
Romance 7
SciFi/Fantasy 3
Suspense/Thriller 5

BOX OFFICE LEADERS

1. The Day the Earth Stood Still - $30.5 million
2. Four Christmases - $13.1 million
3. Twilight - $8.0 million
4. Bolt - $7.5 million
5. Australia - $4.2 million
6. Quantum of Solace - $3.7 million
7. Nothing Like the Holidays - $3.5 million
8. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $3.2 million
9. Milk - $2.6 million
10. Transporter 3 - $2.4 million

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