Feast of Love

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Stana Katic, Billy Burke, Erika Marozsan
Directed by: Robert Benton
Screenplay by: Allison Burnett
Release Date: September 28th, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity and language.
Box Office: $3,497,046 (US total)
Studio: Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Tagline: A story for everyone with an appetite for love.

In a coffee shop in a tight-knit Oregon community a local professor and writer Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) witnesses love whipping up mischief among the town’s residents.

Among young and old, among both parents and lovers, among the sweet and the savage, among humans and even animals, Harry watches in awe as love mystifies, wounds, devastates, inspires, makes unreasonable demands and profoundly shapes the lives of everyone around him – including himself.

From the die-hard romantic coffee shop owner Bradley (Greg Kinnear) who has a serial habit of looking for love in all the wrong places, including with his current wife Kathyrn (Selma Blair); to the edgy real estate agent Diana (Radha Mitchell) who is caught up in an affair with a married man (Billy Burke) with whom she shares an ineffable connection; to the beautiful young newcomer Chloe (Alexa Davalos) who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar (Toby Hemingway); to Harry himself, whose adoring wife (Jane Alexander) is looking to break through his wall of grief after the wrenching loss of a loved one...

All of these strands intertwine into one epic love story in which no one can escape being bent, befuddled, delighted and ultimately redeemed by love’s inescapable spell.

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Fay Grim

Starring: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Thomas Jay Ryan, Saffron Burrows, Liam Aiken, Megan Gay, Leo Fitzpatrick, Jasmin Tabatabai, Chuck Montgomery
Directed by: Hal Hartley
Screenplay by: Hal Hartley
Release Date: May 18th, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexuality.
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Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Hal Hartley continues the story he began in "Henry Fool" ten years after, as Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromise the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them.

Fay Grim, a single Mom from Woodside, Queens, is afraid her 14 year old son, Ned, will grow up to be like his father, Henry, who has been missing for seven years. Fay's brother Simon is serving ten years in prison for aiding in Henry's escape from the law.

In the quiet of his cell, Simon has had time to think about the tumultuous years of Henry's presence among them. He has come to suspect that Henry was not the man he appeared to be. His suspicions are validated when the CIA asks Fay to travel to Paris to retrieve Henry's property. Her mission turns into a sprawling con-game, pitching Fay deep into a world of international espionage.

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon

Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Andre Braugher, Gonzalo Menendez, Laurence Fishburne
Directed by: Tim Story
Screenplay by: Mark Frost
Release Date: June 15th, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of action violence, some mild language and innuendo.
Box Office: $131,847.000 (US total)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Tagline: Rise.

The Fantastic Four meet their greatest challenge yet in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As he races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery before all hope is lost.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is the second installment of the live-action film series based on what fans around the globe know as “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine. “Fantastic Four" directed by Tim Story and released in the summer of 2005, had a worldwide theatrical gross of $330 million and became one of Twentieth Century Fox’s most successful DVD titles ever.

The Silver Surfer joins the returning family of superheroes from the Marvel Comics universe, including Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards, who can stretch and contort his body into any shape he can imagine and, as the group’s leader, is known as Mister Fantastic.

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The Ex (Fast Track) Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Donal Logue, Fred Armisen, Mia Farrow

Starring: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Donal Logue, Fred Armisen, Mia Farrow, Paul Rudd, Yul Vazquez
Directed by: Jesse Peretz
Screenplay by: David Guion, Michael Handelman
Release Date: May 11th, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, brief language and a drug experience.
Box Office: $3,072,732 (US total)
Studio: MGM, The Weinstein Company

Tagline: Nothing burns like an old flame.

Tom Reilly (Zach Braff) and his wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) are in for some major changes now that they have a newborn. As a lawyer, Sofia has always provided a comfortable living while Tom has contributed love, support and the occasional paycheck. When Sofia decides to be a stay-at-home mom all that changes.

Tom moves the family to Ohio to work for his father-in-law (Charles Grodin) as an ‘Assistant Associate Creative’ for “Sunburst Communications.” His boss Chip (Jason Bateman) happens to still carry a torch for Sofia from their high school days. Each time Tom gains some ground at the firm, Chip wheels in and steals his thunder. Dirty tricks and sabotage abound creating an atmosphere of fierce paranoia that eventually threatens Tom and Sofia’s relationship.

Chip will stop at nothing to see Tom defeated while no one but Tom can see Chip for the evil genius he is. Through it all Tom’s esteem is depleted, his manhood challenged (by a surprisingly large adversary) and he’s watching his family slip away.

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Evening Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy

Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Dame Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep
Directed by: Lajos Koltai
Screenplay by: Michael Cunningham, Susan Minot
Release Date: June 22rd, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some thematic elements, sexual material, a brief accident scene and language.
Box Office: $12,406,646 (US total)
Studio: Focus Features

Tagline: Her greatest secret was her greatest gift.

Evening unites a stellar cast, and is based on the beloved novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the screen by Ms. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours), under the direction of Lajos Koltai (Fateless), who was previously an Academy Award nominated cinematographer.

Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter – seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs of real-life mothers and daughters – Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer – portray, respectively, a mother and her daughter and the mother’s best friend at different stages in life.

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Even Money Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Nick Cannon, Jay Mohr, Forest Whitaker

Starring: Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Nick Cannon, Jay Mohr, Forest Whitaker, Carla Gugino, Ray Liotta, Tim Roth
Directed by: Mike Rydell
Screenplay by: Robert Tannen
Release Date: May 18th, 2007
MPAA Rating: R for language, violence and brief sexuality.
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Studio: Yari Film Group Releasing

Tagline: Life is a gamble. How much are you willing to risk?

Even Money is a ferociously compelling drama that follows the lives of nine individuals as their fates become increasingly entwined in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating at one critical moment where their lives will be lost or reclaimed.

In Even Money there are no safe places, no one is left untouched – gamblers are mothers, brothers, dreamers and lovers. As the narrative unravels, we come to understand that addiction has no loyalty to race, age or life circumstances. Addiction is random, wreaking havoc on those individuals who are drawn into its seductive world of quick fixes and escapism, to those unsuspecting souls who are caught in its devastating wake.

Under a moonless night, a body washes up on the shore. Across town, a desperate woman searches for a lucky one-armed bandit that will let her win back her and her husband’s life savings, while her unsuspecting family prepares dinner.

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Evan Almighty Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, Wanda Sykes

Starring: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, Wanda Sykes, John Michael Higgins, Jonah Hill
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
Screenplay by: Steve Oedekerk
Release Date: June 22nd, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG for mild rude humor and some peril.
Box Office: $100,038,805 (US total)
Studio: Universal Pictures

Tagline: God has a grand design... Guess who has to build it?

When Universal Pictures' comedy Bruce Almighty arrived at the summer box office on Memorial Day weekend in 2003, it blew audiences and box-office records away. Director/Producer Üom Shadyac had crafted yet another film that spoke to moviegoers' desires to suspend disbelief and spend time following extraordinarily funny people who were put in outlandish circumstances.

In the `90s, the talented filmmaker had made a household name out of Bruce Almighty's star, comedian Jim Carrey, with such comedy classics as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Liar Liar. Shadyac had also, along with comic actor Eddie Murphy, reintroduced a new generation to a lovable, unlucky college teacher known as Sherman Klump, a.k.a. The Nutty Professor.

Bruce Almighty would prove just as much a comic springboard for another man. The film was an explosive hit, earning almost one-half billion dollars in revenue at the global box office. In addition to the praise Carrey received, the world was quite enchanted by a polished, preening newscaster by the name of Evan Baxter.

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