Best Movie December 2008

Best Movie December 2008

Coraline - Animation
Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
Based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book, “Coraline” is the story of a young girl (voiced by Fanning) who unlocks a mysterious door in her new home, and enters into an adventure in a parallel reality.

Timecrimes - Sci-Fi
Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga
A man who accidentally travels back into the past and meets himself. A naked girl in the middle of the forest. A mysterious stranger with his face wrapped in a pink bandage.

Punisher: War Zone - Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchinson, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw

The Day the Earth Stood Still - Sci-Fi, Thriller
Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates
Humanoid alien named Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by species watching from afar.

Defiance - Drama, War
Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner, Mark Feuerstein
The film revolves around Jewish brothers (Craig, Schreiber and Bell) living in Nazi-occupied Poland who escape into the Belarussian forest where they join Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis.

The Brothers Bloom - Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Robbie Coltrane
A con man (Brody) gets the tables turned on him by his girlfriend (Weisz), when he decides to perform one last con with his brother and their silent partner.

The Tale of Despereaux - Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Frank Langella, Christopher Lloyd
he tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle’s princess.

Yes Man - Comedy
Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John Michael Higgins, Terence Stamp
A man (Carrey) who finds himself very depressed, and is always saying no. When friends ask him out, he always says no, “Yes Man” will explore what happens when he decides to say YES to every thing that comes his way.

Marley & Me - Comedy, Family
Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Alan Arkin, Eric Dane
Marley is the yellow lab adopted by Grogan, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and his wife. Their idea was to give them a taste of parenthood, but the dog proved to be a hyperactive handful.

Will Eisner’s The Spirit - Action, Adventure
Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes
THE SPIRIT is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister FRANK MILLER (creator of 300 and SIN CITY). It is the story of a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the SPIRIT (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, the OCTOPUS (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission…

Valkyrie - Biography , Drama , History, Thriller
Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson,
Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

Bedtime Stories - Comedy , Family , Fantasy
Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Teresa Palmer
A family comedy about a hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Drama, Fantasy
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elle Fanning
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time.

Revolutionary Road - Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Shannon,
Adapted from the revealing novel by Richard Yates, “Revolutionary Road” is an incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank

Seven Pounds - Drama
Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Robinne Lee
Will Smith stars in the drama “Seven Pounds,” re-teaming with the director and producers of “The Pursuit of Happyness” for the emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers.

The Reader - The Reader
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Linda Bassett,
“The Reader” opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair.

Nothing Like the Holidays - Comedy, Drama
Luis Guzmán, Freddy Rodriguez, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, Jay Hernandez, Melonie Diaz,
Story follows a family reunion during the holidays in the Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt Park. Molina is the father who owns a bodega, and Hernandez plays a friend of the family who works there.

Gran Torino - Action, Drama
Clint Eastwood, Cory Hardrict, Brian Haley, Brian Howe, Dreama Walker, Christopher Carley
Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possesion: his 1972 Gran Torino.

Delgo - Action, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Freddy Prinze Jr., Val Kilmer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft
The land of Jhamora is torn apart by the mutual prejudice of two peoples—the winged Nohrin, masters of the skies, and the terrestrial Lockni, who harness the mystical powers of the land. When Delgo (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), …

Doubt - Drama
Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
John Patrick Shanley brings his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play to the screen as a gripping story about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction.

While She Was Out - Thriller
Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas, Jamie Starr, Leonard Wu, Luis Chávez, Craig Sheffer
A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive.

Adam Resurrected - Drama, War
Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer, Moritz Bleibtreu
“Adam Resurrected” follows former Berlin magician and circus impresario Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), an enthralling, enigmatic patient at the Seizling Institute, a remote Israeli rehabilitation outpost for Holocaust survivors.

$9.99 - Animation
Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Samuel Johnson, Claudia Karvan, Joel Edgerton
A jobless twenty eight year old residing in an apartment with his single father discovers the meaning of life for a bargain basement price in this stop motion animation film featuring the voices of Ben Mendelson, Barry Otto, Anthony LaPaglia, and Geoffrey Rush.

Cadillac Records - Drama
Adrien Brody, Beyonce Knowles, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Emmanuelle Chriqui,
The period piece follows the rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched the careers of such R&B greats as Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Chess, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987…

Frost/Nixon - Drama
Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell
Adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play based on a series of televised interviews that David Frost secured with former President Nixon in 1977.

The Black Balloon - Drama
Toni Collette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward,
When Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in. When his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) has to take things easy, his father Simon (Erik Thomson) puts him in charge of his autistic older brother Charlie (Luke Ford).

Nobel Son - Comedy, Drama
Shawn Hatosy, Alan Rickman, Mary Steenburgen
A son struggles to finish his thesis when his father wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry, making life all the more difficult for him and his mother, a well-known forensic.

TOKYO! - Drama
Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Denis Lavant, Jean-Francois Balmer
Triptych feature telling three separate tales set in Tokyo, Japan. “Shaking Tokyo” centers on a man who has lived for 10 years as a hikikomori, (a term used in Japan for people unable to adjust to society and so they never leave their homes) and what happens when he falls in love one day with a pizza delivery girl.

Ciao - Drama, Romance
Adam Neal Smith, Alessandro Calza, Ethel Lung, Chuck Blaum
A man dies very unexpectedly and leaves behind two men: Jeff, his best friend and Andrea, an Italian…

Let Them Chirp Awhile - Comedy
Justin Rice, Brendan Sexton III, Laura Breckenridge, Pepper Binkley
“Let Them Chirp Awhile” follows three twentysomething artists as they juggle their careers, relationships and emotions in New York City. Bobby (Rice) is a struggling screenwriter who tries to get romantically involved with a woman by agreeing to take care of her dog.

Resident Evil: Degeneration - Horror
Alyson Court, Paul Mercier, Christy Hall, Rick Marcus
The “Umbrella Incident” that took place in Raccoon City was ended with the eradication of the deadly virus by a missile attack ordered by the government. As its operations were suspended on a global scale, Umbrella Corporation stock plummeted. This serious blow to the business giant resulted in its complete dissolution.

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